The Golf Pitching Tip
A golf pitching shot will help you over some sort of obstacle such as long grass, sand, or water between you and the hole.
You can use a pitching wedge, sand wedge, or a 9-iron each of which will fly the ball a different height and have a different amount of roll afterward. If you are able to use more than one club to hit a pitch shot, you certainly more chances to be successful.
Therefore, golf pitching shot is about using a golf club with the right loft at the correct time because many golfers tend to make the mistake of using the wrong loft at the wrong time.
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. During setting up, let your left foot moving backward from the target line. This will set your feet into an open position. The body line string is pointing well away from the target line. As you are aware, a full swing setup would see these two lines being parallel. However when hitting a pitch shot they are not.
Set your weight leaning a little bit more onto your left foot. This eliminates any unnecessary movement during the swing and will give you more consistency.
The ball should be placed right in between your heels when your feet are square. This is the middle of your stance.
At the same time, your hands should be slightly ahead of the ball which is also a strong impact position at your address position. To test whether your hand is in the right position, get into your final setup position and let go of your club. It should drop and hit the inside of your left leg. If your club falls between your legs, there is a good chance you will either hit behind the ball which is the scenario you want to avoid.
Having said this, a common mistake committed by many golfers in golf pitching shot is their tendency to ‘lift’ the ball up in the air even when making a pitch shot with a sand wedge.
When you are pitching over a bunker using a lofted club, (say 50 degrees of loft at least), just let the loft of the club do the work for you. Don’t try and lift the ball otherwise you’d end up either fluffing (A shot that flies substantially longer than desired) it or you’d hit it halfway up the ball, thinning the ball (the club often striking the ball near its equator) and flying over the green.
If you have got a seven iron in your hand and you try to pitch and roll the ball along the ground to keep it low, don’t flick your wrist and try to lift the ball up in the air because that’s not the idea of the shot. Many high handicapped golfers find they fluff it behind the ball because they try and lift it.
The idea is to keep the ball low and running, so you need to try and keep the club loft doing that work for you. Hence in all golf pitching shots never lift it up in the air since clubs are designed with the right degree of loft on them to do the work for you.
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