This video will help you improve your chip short shots around the putting green.
Many golfers duff their chip shots and struggle to get distance control. In this weeks golf lesson you will learn a simple practice drill that will really help you improve your short game and chipping technique.
HOW DO YOU RELEASE THE GOLF CLUB IN THE DOWNSWING? Let’s take a look in this weeks video!! This is a great drill that will make a huge difference to your game!
Playing a draw on the ball is a very important skill to learn if you want to be a good golfer. Work the path from the inside out.
Two things create a draw: swing/club path and clubface angle at impact. In order to produce a draw, the club path needs to be of the inside-out variety. Set up so that your stance is in a closed position relative to the target. This will promote an inside-out club path. The clubface should point at the target at address. This clubface angle will promote a clubface that is closed to the swing path, and help produce a draw.
Draw shots travel a little lower and travel a bit further than perfectly straight shots. This is due to the fact that a closed clubface reduces the effective loft of the club at impact.
You don’t have to be Tiger Woods to have a great short game you just have to put in a little practice and do a few drills.
Ted Frick and Stefany King of the Classic Swing Golf School at Legends Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C. demonstrate a more modern approach to chip shots.
Pitching Club Selection and Loft !
Golf lesson and golf tips on understanding club selection and loft whenever facing a pitch shot.
Club Selection and Loft Pitching Tips – Video Golf Lesson Summary
It is not necessary to hit all pitches using the most lofted club possible, sending the ball on the highest ball flight every time. Instead try to take note of the loft angle for every one of your wedges and the ball flight each produces.
Generally speaking, each degree changes the distance a wedge can produce by around 4 yards. Ideally you will want to limit the gap between the loft of your clubs at 4 degrees. That would create a space of around 16 yards (4 x 4 = 16) in between your clubs.
For example, let’s say a 48 degree (PW) pitching wedge would reach 115 yards. A 52 degree (GW) gap wedge would travel 100 yards. A 56 degree (SW) sand wedge would travel 85 yards. And finally a 60 degree (LW) lob wedge would travel 70 yards.
For pitch shots, practice with every wedge in your bag and take note of the flight path and distance you reach with each. Generally speaking, the higher the loft the higher the ball flight and the less the ball will roll upon landing on the green. But higher lofted clubs tend to be harder to hit from tight lies that are generally found whenever pitching shots.
Therefore, you may find it easier to use a lower lofted club that will travel lower, roll more onto the green but is easier to hit reliably than your flop shot using your lob wedge.
Club Head Speed
1 mile an hour of club head speed is equal to 2 1/2 yards of distance so for every 4 miles an hour your gaining 10 yards and shortening the golf course by 350-360 yards every time you play…
Follow these club head swing tips from “Hank Haney” Tiger Woods original coach back when Tiger was breaking every record in the world!
It’s all about your wrist hinge and your swing arc.
Once you get it you won’t believe your eyes… You’ll be crushing every shot.
Coming over the top in your golf swing simply means not following the correct club path on your downswing… Instead of swinging down and delivering the club from the inside, your club falls outside of your swing plane, and you end up losing power and/or hitting a nasty slice.
The main reason you’re coming over the top is due to overuse of your body, and the sequence of motion in your swing is off.
The first step to fixing this is taking a look at the initial move away from the ball…
In the video you’ll see a simple way to insure that your initial move away gets you into position for an on-plane swing that avoids the over the top move.
Next, we’ll take a look at your downswing and how to use your arms in your swing and get your club to fall down on plane so you can hit more solid shots with better accuracy, more distance.
The weight shift is discussed many times in golf books and video golf instruction segments, but very few golf analysts discuss the differences between pros and amateurs when it comes to shifting weight correctly.
The PGA and LPGA pros who play golf on tour do it very differently to amateur golfers and in this golf instruction video PGA golf instructor Lawrie Montague will show you the difference between the weight shift of amateur golfers and tour professionals and how to adopt their technique to hit longer and more consistent golf shots.
