27 Around The Green Pitch Shots

Описание: This video will teach you how Touring Pros get up and down with their wedges around the green.
Front pin requires a lob shot. Open the face and find the bottom of the swing arc right below your logo.
Pitch and run is another option. Take our 7 iron. Play the ball well back in your stance. Weight is to the left. Feel the pacing of your arms to feel the distance.
When hitting to a back pin, we can throw the ball to the hole with our sand wedge by letting our wrists hinge naturally and get our legs slightly involved. There is no need to accelerate, pace your arms back and through the shot.
We can play a pitch and run, with a pitching wedge. Ball is back. Weight is left. Club face and shoulders are square. Pace and hold a low finish.
Pitching up hill, requires you to resist gravity with your lower body to establish your foundation. Next, adjust your shoulders to match the slope. Because the hill adds loft to your club, you can change from your sand wedge to a 9 iron.
Pitching down hill is the most awkward shot in golf. Anchor your lower body by resisting the hill. Match your shoulders to the slope and use 2 to 3 clubs less than normal (from a 9 to a sand wedge). Aim the club face at the pin and aim your body line left of the pin. Always swing down your body line.
Hitting pitch shots with the ball below your feet, adjust the club face to the left. Next, we need to get on our heels, by backing into the slope, to establish our foundation. Next, adjust your shoulders forward, over the ball, so the club face will come in square to our target and the bottom of the club will match the down slope. Aim our club face at the pin and our body line left. Weight left. Rehearse. Set up with the ball off of the toe of the club, because the club will have a tendency to move away from you, causing a shank.
Pitch shot with the ball above your feet will fly and roll to the left. Imagine bouncing a tennis ball off of a board on the hill. Aim to the right. Get up on your toes. Establish your base. Choke down on the club. Stand nice and tall. Rehearse your one lever stroke with a square club face. Land the ball 5 feet on the green and watch it roll from right to left into the hole.
When challenged by a down hill side hill lie, with the ball above your feet, aim right. Choke down on the club. Lean into the hill and match your shoulders to the slope.
With deep rough pitch shots, open the face because the long grass will grab the hosel and close the club face. Aim your body line left and the club face at your target. Focus on the grass behind the ball. The depth of the grass determines how much grass to pinch between the ball and your club face. The goal of this shot is to spank the flange of the club (flat bottom) on the ground underneath your golf ball, with an open stance and club face.
For pitch shots buried in deep rough, open the face and your stance to create a steep angle into the grass just behind the ball. The steep swing will pop the ball up in the air.
The lob shot is a very low percentage shot, but necessary in certain situations. Open the club face. Open our body line. Weight is left. Pace your arms. There is no acceleration with your hands. Ball position is just under the logo of your shirt. See it. Feel it. Trust it. Practice short and long lob shots, so you will know and trust how far to swing your arms.