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Absolutely the Simplest Way to Pitch the Golf Ball | Hinge And Hold
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There literally may be 10,000 different ways that people will teach you to chip some people say on the back swing we want to make sure that the club head gets outside the hands some people say it’s on the hands some people say to go ahead and release your wrist to be able
To use the bounce or Engage The Bounce you’ll see open-faced pitching methods and chipping methods you’ll see squareface pitching methods and chipping methods that address you get all this information and you’re like how in the heck do I know what’s going on well
There may be a lot of ways to do it but there’s one way that I feel like is the absolute simplest way and it’s very similar to what we talk about or what you’ve heard Phil Mickelson talk about with the hinge and hold method I don’t
Really like the idea of hold I like to think of it being a straight line as we’re coming through so let me go over what I mean by this if I set up to this little pitch shot here when I come through impact I want to make sure that
My hands don’t overtake my my or my club head doesn’t overtake my hands I don’t want my left wrist really breaking down a ton as it’s happening it’s not saying when you watch PJ tour players you’ll see sometimes that they do these shots where they’re really talking about
Engaging the bounce and all engaging the bounce means is this angle on the bottom of the club if I open the face it creates More Bounce and as I release the hands it creates More Bounce this gets the ball to slide on the turf very
Easily and when you watch a lot of PJ tour players that’s exactly what they’re doing you don’t always see them with a lot of shaft Lan and keeping that angle coming all the way on through the reason is PJ tour greens are lightning fast and they’re firm so if you’re hitting a
Normal flighted shot that comes out at a normal trajectory and it has a normal amount of spin on it it’s going to be hard to get it to stop on those Lightning Fast screens especially when the pins are tucked and a lot of times you’ll see them short-sided meaning that
They don’t have very much green to stop it on well the reason they’re doing that that type of shot that they’re trying to say Engage The Bounce use the bounce all that kind of stuff is because the greens are lightning fast and they’re firm and they’re shortsighted so when you have
That kind of situation you have to open the face a lot you have to go ahead and engage the bounce and let these hands release to get the ball to launch higher so if I’m doing a shot kind of similar to that I’m going to launch this ball a lot
Higher and didn’t pick it up on my my flight scope here because it’s too short of a shot but I’m going to launch the ball a lot higher meaning that if I’m hitting this ball from here when it hit the screen it was way up here somewhere
So I’m really not getting that Leading Edge toward the turf um throwing the wrist a little bit I’m engaging the bounce I’m getting these really high soft spin shots now that’s perfectly good there’s nothing wrong with that technique and when you see Pros do that
On TV you think wow I mean a lot of those shots they they land up there and have a ton of spin on them and it’s all good and great if you’re on a perfectly tight Lie from the Fairway and you’re shortsighted and you have to get it up
High and have a ton of spin on it I’d recommend doing that unfortunately it’s a heck of a lot tougher than just a standard pitch and Chip Shot technique you see that’s an advanced technique these are some really good players and I’ll tell you what if you open the face
Release the hands and you happen to be a little too high on the ball that ball is going to skull right across the green you’re going to make an absolute fool out of yourself or if you chunk it a little bit it’s going to be an absolute disaster and because I’m releasing the
Club it makes it a little easier for a lot of players to start chunking the ball when they’re doing that so you hear all this talk about Engage The Bounce use the hands get that lofted up there again fantastic shot if you’re playing on the PJ tour this week you might want
To turn off this video and go practice but but that’s a perfectly good shot for you for the recreational golfer for the guys that’s going out this weekend and just doesn’t want to chunk them just wants to hit them consistent that is not the easiest way to do it the easiest way
To to do it in my opinion is to set up this shot get a little bit of wrist hinge in the back swing so I don’t mind if you go Fairly straight back or you get a little bit of hinge but I’m getting a little bit of wrist set and
Then as I come through I’m rotating and I’m not letting this club shaft overtake my hand so if I take a a line for my lead arm and draw it down there I don’t want to see the club on this side of my arms I want it to be in a dead straight
Line I also don’t want to see it way back here like this held off see if I hold off then I’m leaning the shaft forward I’m getting this Leading Edge closer to the ground and it’s easy to chunk so if I’m trying to do this and I’m thinking hinge
And hold like that that’s going to make it easy to chunk and the balls are going to come out very low and hot tough to get your distance right tough to keep from chunking it that’s a real low Nipper type shot not your standard not the easiest if I’m doing this like we
Just talked about and I’m letting it fold back up and now my left arm to the club is like that great if you’re shortsighted you have to H High with a lot of spin great if you’re on tour but for the regular golfer that’s a tough
One to get down too the best way to do it is to Simply go back and keep your momentum going forward so that your left arm and the club shaft are straight and align together now the right way to do this with the technique or the easiest
Way mistake I see is people get their stance way too wide and now we start moving around on it I like to go ahead and get the ankles together if I put both feet square you’ll see that golf ball is on my Lead Foot now all I’m
Going to do is I’m going to keep the heel of my lead foot on the ground and I’m going to rotate this lead foot open a little bit so you’ll see it looks like there’s 6 in between my feet but if you look at my heels there’s about an inch
Between them that’s a great little way to set up for a basic pitch shot now from there let’s make it as easy as possible let’s get a little bit of Bounce we don’t want that Leading Edge digging in the ground so let’s open the face a few degrees so just like this few
Degrees open now when you open the face like that if I swing straight and do nothing else the ball’s going to go slightly to the right if you cut your pitch shots a little bit meaning that I’m coming slightly across the ball that makes it even easier to be consistent
With my contact that’s why you’re hearing like we talked about in the very beginning of this video people are talking about getting the club head outside your hands you see what I find sometimes we’ve been taught to keep this club set out outside of our hands but we
Don’t realize that these Pros are cutting the ball ball slightly when they use that technique if I go outside my hands and I try to draw the ball or I try to hit it straight all of a sudden it’s like a lot of rerouting a lot of
Manipulation so my hand my club head’s going to be slightly outside my hands but just realize that I’m cutting it slightly as I’m doing that and then as I set up to here again I don’t mind if you set the club a little on the way back I
Don’t mind if you keep it fairly straight like Steve Stricker whatever technique you want to do I’m okay I haven’t found that that makes a ton of difference there’s great pitchers that have a little set there’s great pitchers that are fairly wide with the club head personally I like to stay fairly wide
And then as I come through all I’m doing is rotating my body together to keep this in a straight line if my body stops so if I come to here and I’m trying to go all rock the shoulders upper body what ends up happening is I can only get
To about here and then I have to fold up so it looks something more like this right if I rotate the body now I can keep this in a straight line so ball off the lead ankle little open with the foot I’m playing a very slight cut shot here
So my club will be outside my hands and then I’m just finishing with that in a straight line and man it is easy to H nice clean little pit shots notice when I’m doing this I’m keeping my weight roughly on this lead ankle the entire time so I’m not feeling like I’m
Getting big weight shift I’m not feeling like weight on right foot foot I’m just over that lead foot and it’s almost like this is my Pivot Point and I’m just rotating around that single pivot so if I keep my weight in the same spot it
Keeps my low point in the same spot and man does it make things a lot easier there we go in my opinion the easiest way to pitch a golf ball one last time here I want you to hold your finish check that left arm to make sure it’s a nice straight
Line there we go that looks perfect I hit that really nice and solid now you may be wondering that’s great for the technique but how are Pros getting it to go 30 yards right on the button and then 40 50 60 how do they get those distances
Down well I like to teach a back swing system that’s going to automatically ingrain you how to get the right distances so if I want to hit at 30 yards it’s going to go 30 if I want to hit at 70 it’s going to go 70 or 50 or
Whatever the number is the trick with this is that most people teach the position to get in but but they don’t teach the the missing piece here which I’ll go over in this video so I’m going to play a preview of that video here in
A second just go ahead and click on it on your screen click on the card click on the the video that you see over here and I’m going to show you that video so that you can see the real technique what we should be doing to be able to nail in
Those distances best of luck let’s go a and get started well I used to actually practice a lot in high school this is one of my favorite things to do I had a a strip mow down the back of my yard where I took the lawn mower my parents
Probably hated cuz I mow it down to like half inch Turf in the back of the yard cuz we lived on a farm and I would set buckets or towels along this and I would try to set them at those distances that I knew and maybe I I knew my my 56
Degree went right at 65 yards I’d set a bucket 65 yards away and I would go ahead and do my 9:00 swing and I would try to fly it right into the bucket and I’d be get to where I could I could tell for sure if I was going to be a couple
Yards short or a couple yards long just because it gets so ingrained when you you get the Rhythm and the finish the same every time we can use different length back swings to control the distance of our wed shots so for example if we imagine that I’m a clock and 6:00
Is directly down my wedge would be at 6:00 or my my arms would be at 6:00 I can go back to a 730 swing and I can have the same finish and hit it a certain distance or I can go back to N9 or 10:30 and swing through to the same
Distance and that’s going to control or the same finish point and that’s going to control the distance that my wedge shots are going to fly in the air and I’ve got to keep that R Rhythm and that Tempo very very consistent if I vary my tempos I can hit it all kinds of
Different distances so for example I could have a real quick Tempo 730 swing and probably hit this 90 yards I could have a maybe not really that far probably 50 or 60 yards I could have a very slow slow tempo 730 swing and hit half that distance so I’ve got to get my
Distance the same I’ve got to get my rhythm the same that’s the real key to it and the second piece on there
