Playing accurate pitch shots to the distance you want can be challenging for a lot of players. A player will do the correct preparation prior to playing the shot in that they laser an exact yardage, check their lie, wind and elevation change, but then guess at how long to swing the club to produce the required distance. Then they wonder why they are unable to pitch the ball close to hole on a regular basis. There is a better way.
I have been teaching my players a pitching distance drill that’s made a huge difference to their ability to regularly get the ball close to the hole with a pitch shot. It is a system that I copied from Dave Pelz, it is simple to understand and learn, as well as implement on the golf course.
The feedback from my players after learning the distance drill is that this transforms their ability to pitch the ball close to the hole. As they set up to a shot there is no guesswork as to how long the swing should be or which club they should use. All the guessing is taken away and you are free to execute quality pitch shots. It will do the same for you also.
Many golfers imagine the downswing is simply a mirror image of the backswing… but when we actually compare the 2 we will see that is not the case at all!
In reality, the arms, legs, and club should be in a very different position going back and coming down.
Understanding this dynamic will help your golf swing in a number of ways: – encourage more rotation through the ball – help deliver the club from the inside – lead to more solid contact – shallow the club in transition
In today’s video Zach will show you a great drill to help you feel the proper positions.
Hitting the ball with a fairway wood off the deck can be tough but with the right tips and drills you can hit the golf ball with great accuracy and consistency.
Blair O’Neal and Martin Hall go over several drills to improve your game with Fairway Woods!
Touring Pro Ryan Carter, talks about the best putting lesson he ever had. Ryan is the holder of 6 course records and has played golf on tours all over the world for the last 12 years.
Basically you set 3 balls up in a perfectly straight line and you get over one on the end and adjust your stance until the line looks straight to you. Ryan painted a 16 foot straight line in his garage and used to stand over it every night just getting the feel of where he had to be to feel like the line was straight.
Ryan also told me that Ben Crane used to stand over balls in this straight line arrangement for LONG periods every day and would not go play until the line looked straight. Ben is one of the best putters on tour.
Hitting the driver both further and straighter is something most golfer would welcome. In this video Adam Bazalgette shows you some great tips to help you hit your driver longer, straighter and more consistently every single time.
As of 2019, new golf rules apply worldwide. It is the most major revision of the rules for more than 30 years.
HERE IS A Summary of the 10 most important rules changes for 2019.
This easy-to-understand video gives you a clear overview of the changes so that you can benefit from all the simplifications and new relief procedures.
Your wrists move in three specific ways during the downswing. Your wrist can hinge up or it can hinge down. Hinging up is radial deviation and hinging down his ulnar deviation. The second way my wrists work is called a flexion and extension or bow and cupped. The last movement of it is really part of my arm as well, which is pronation when the back of the hand is up towards the sky and supination is palm up towards the sky.
In a stock golf swing, if we get ourselves down to the last parallel position, let’s assume that my left wrist in this portion is flat. To get my wrists from there in my downswing to the golf ball I am unhinging or ulnar deviating and I am supinating or rotating my forearm. . Then I unhinge my wrist to get the club from up in the air to down to the ground. As I’m doing that I’m turning and I’m also adding some supination. At impact, my left wrist is completely unhinged down. And with that, by the time I get to impact, if I have a neutral grip, it has rotated all the way back to, towards the target.
Now let’s talk about from the top of your backswing. Let’s assume at the top of the backswing your left wrist is flat. Some players will have a flat left wrist and they maintain their flat left wrist. Some players have a flat left wrist and they go into extension. We would prefer you to go from flat left wrist and keep your left wrist flat, or to go from a flat left wrist into some form of a flexion.
So it’s adding flexion, adding supination and unhinging to get the club down to the ball. Those are the three main movements.
Flexion or bow and supination go along together. When you add some flexion, you get some supination for free. If you add extension or you cup your left wrist, you’re in big time trouble because that goes with pronation or against supination.
The point of this video is to explain there are three wrist movements. They’re happening simultaneously as you go. It’s not as though you’re making a downswing and saying, okay, I’m going to do this first and then I’m going to unhinge and then I’m going to supinate. They’re not broken apart. You’re doing them simultaneously. Just like if I walk, I’m doing a bunch of things simultaneously, like any other activity you would do.
The point of this is just information. So one more time, assuming I have a flat wrist at last parallel, the two main motions from here to impact are I’m adding supination or left arm rotation and I’m also unhinging. I’m unhinging with some supination to get the club down to the ball. Ideally I have a flat left wrist and I’m maintaining it. If not flat, I’d rather it be bowed or arched back from here. You can do that from the top. You can do that towards the bottom, or you can do that into the golf ball.
How would you like to get more distance in golf? How do we generate power? For those looking to crush the ball, this video on Get Distance With backswing width is for you.
Keeping the width in your takeaway simply means that when you start the backswing, your right arm and elbow stop breaking away which will create a wider swing arc……..you want to maintain that same distance or width throughout the entire golf swing….backswing and finish.
