7 Tips for Your Perfect Pitch shot
7 Tips for Your Perfect Pitch shot
7 Tips for Your Perfect Pitch shot
Pitching is a skill and an art that can get you out of a lot of trouble. We know that pitching can be a scary affair, because a miss is usually a big miss. But, it can also be a lot of fun. My golf tips for pitching will help turn that fear into excitement.
We will play this shot from 1 yard to 20 yards off the green. The situation will dictate what kind of pitch we will have to play. You will have to choose how to pitch the ball to get it close to the hole. Generally a pitch shot will have to fly over some sort of obstacle. Imagine yourself with long grass, sand, or water between you and the hole.
A pitching wedge, sand wedge, gap wedge, lob wedge or 9-iron will help you finish the pitching shot. (Titleist MB 710 Irons) If you are able to use more than one club to hit a pitch shot, you certainly give yourself more options to be successful.
The pitch shot is really just a longer chip shot on the backswing, with a little more body turn on the downswing and follow through. My Golf Tips For Pitching will take you through the shot step by step and provide some drills to help you save those tough shots around the green. This could turn a good score into a great score.
How do we hit the Pitch shot?
1. Proper Stance: Assume a narrow, open, upright, comfortable, forward weighted stance. Pitching is not very demanding on your balance and is a short swing. Accordingly the typical stance for a full swing is not needed. A narrow open stance will help you pitch without body interference. An upright stance will raise the heel of the club off the ground to prevent the club from catching in the turf. (Titleist Scotty Cameron Limited Edition Napa Putter) A comfortable stance will allow you to have touch. Putting your weight forward help you have a descending blow for your pitch.
2. Square Your Clubface: Always square your club to the target at address. This does not mean that you cannot open your clubface to produce a higher lofted shot. However, if you do, make sure that you turn your stance more open until the club is square to the target again.
3. Longer Swing For Longer Pitches: Your backswing and follow through motions should increase with length of shot. Additionally, increase the amount you turn your hips, shoulders and arms and cock your wrist on the backswing, the greater the distance of the pitch shot. On the follow through, the club swings through further for longer pitch shots
4. Naturally Release Your Wrist: Increase wrist release for longer pitches. Unlike chipping, where you maintain your wrist cock through impact, the longer the pitch, the more you release your wrist through impact. The release should feel natural and not manufactured by flipping your wrist through impact. (Titleist 775 CB Iron Set) Further, this tip relates to tip 3 because when you take the club back too short you will try to unnaturally flip the wrist through impact to get the ball to reach its target.
5. Accelerate Through Impact: Accelerate through impact. It's that simple. This tip is related to tip 3 because when you take the club back too far you will tend to decelerate through impact to stop the ball from overshooting it target.
6. Normal Grip: Unlike chipping the basic grip for pitching should be your normal full swing grip. Though, this tips can vary for some golfer's. No doubt, the further away you are the more this tip rings true.
7. Practice Your Pitching: Practice the above golf pitching tips to improve your short game golf basics. After all, the short game is where the scoring is. Look, better putting means better scores. Well, if you pitch it close or in, your putting improve a lot.
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