How To Learn Good Touch In Golf

With everybody focusing on chipping & putting, pitching is becoming an underappreciated section of your game. Short hitters that don't make it to greens & long hitters that get wild must use pitching to save par.

The very best players at pitching have created a "feel" for being able to control distance as a result of their strong fundamentals. I've worked pretty hard in order to improve, and here are my 2 major pitching keys. Take a long shoulder turn back & through, so your large muscles are controlling everything, & let my arms stay soft.

I can not put enough stress on the importance of having a still head when regarding good ball-striking & precise iron play. However, you additionally have to know when you can let your head to move toward the target.

Average golfers have the tendency to move their heads up & down or to the side while swinging. A pulled or pushed iron shot will often result from having too much side movement, as they are an inability to precisely bring back the head to where it was at address. Vertical movement, despite when done merely fractionally, will often create fat or thin shots since your respective distance to the golf ball increases or decreases.

I always attempt to hold my head motionless on my backswing and downswing. It moves down a little as I strike the golf ball, but not sideways. Then I let it go toward the target line after impact so it doesn't inhibit your follow-through.

I typically prefer to use a 9-iron instead of my sand wedge on bunker shots of between forty to 50 yards. I'm likely to either hit underneath the golf ball & land it short or hit the golf ball in the middle & knock it beyond the green to create that much distance with the higher-lofted club choice. By utilizing the bounce on the bottom of your club to slide through the sand and with more room for error, I can reach my target using a nine-iron.

I normally like to swing the way that I would with my sand wedge shot. I start opening my stance & club to my target area & gripping down on the handle.Then I move my club back along my stance line and then follow through on an out-to-in path. My left arm is stiff when connecting - which keeps me from letting my hands go.

The golf ball goes fairly low, so you should leave the space for some extra room for roll.