Short Game
Perfect Pitching
Whether it is poor technique, poor thinking or a combination of both, the absolute bottom line is this:
If you are missing greens or giving yourself long putts with your short iron approaches, you’re in some serious trouble. You will have a birdie drought, guaranteed. Worse still, you’ll be scrambling for the entire day to make pars and bogeys and that gets incredibly tiresome!
It is essential that you understand the implications visualisation, correct ball position and correct weight distribution have on pitching.
Find your favourite pitching zone inside 100 yards:
This is probably one of the most effective strategies in the game of golf. Go to the range or practice ground with your wedges. For me that’s my pitching wedge (47 degrees), my gap wedge (54 degrees bent to 53 degrees) and my lob wedge (58 degrees bent to 59 degrees). As you can see I have 6 degrees between each wedge.
· With your first wedge I want you to hit 15 shots with a full swing and record the average distance they go.
· Then hit the same club with a three quarter swing and again record the average distance
· Lastly, a half swing and record the distance.
· Do the same with all three wedges,
By now you should have nine distances (three different swings with three different wedges). Now the next time you go onto the golf course and you find your ball to be any distance inside 100 yards to the green, you will have a shot that you know will go the required distance thereby giving you a short putt and a chance to make a birdie!
