Golf Pitching Tips for Any SituationThese golf pitching tips will help you become more consistent then you thought possible. Pitching shots are not difficult, provided you allow the loft of the club to do the work for you. Most golfers struggle to rely on this concept. You will discover that golf is a game of opposites to your logic. Like all short shots it is crucial to try and make good contact with the ball and club face. What will definitely help is if you lean on the left foot a little more when playing these shots. Your ball position should be more in the middle of your stance and not towards the right foot as in chipping. Once your have the weight on the left foot is should not move off that position during the swing, in other word there is no weight shift on a 10 to 25 yard pitch shot. Very little lower body action is employed. You need to keep the clubface as square as possible through the shot. What can help you achieve this is making sure the V formed by your right thumb and first finger points to your chin rather than to the right shoulder. Take practice swings through the ball with a square clubface and check to see if it is still square after impact. Keep A Still Head A still head is absolutely critical to your improvement with pitching the ball, or playing any short shot. Take a look at any good short game player and you will notice how still the head is in these shots. Golf Pitching Tips- Swing Length! Gauge the distance you hit your pitch shots by the length of swing you need. This applies not only to the back swing but the through swing as well. Following through the same distance as the back swing. The reason I say this is because the majority of golfers decelerate on these shots causing duffed and skulled shots which results from the left wrist breaking down at impact. The back of the left wrist needs to straighten out at impact and stay that way through the ball. A feeling of the back of your left hand facing the target at impact is good. The best way to judge the swing length you require is by how far you swing the hands. For example a half swing will need the hands to swing back to the same height as the right hip. A three quarter swing will require the hands to be swung back level with your chest.You can choose any area you like on your body as a checkpoint but I have found the hips and chest to be excellent measures of a half and three quarter swing. A little practice in this area will assist you enormously with judging how much to swing. One last but important point is to have the weight favouring the left side when you are faced with any less than full swing, and allow the chest to move with the hand swing. The best way to learn or improve your pitching is to practice hitting balls from a slight upslope with your pitching and sand wedge. No need to do full swings, rather practice the less than full swings. The upslope gives you a physcological advantage of the ball getting airborne. Swing with the slope with the weight even on both feet. Golf Pitching Tips- pitching from deep rough The biggest problem we all faced with in these shots is hitting the grass first before impact because the ball is lying in the grass. This eliminates the desired spin we need to control the ball. We need to deliver the club head to the ball with a steep descent, or downward blow. Keeping the weight on the left side with the ball position favouring the middle of the stance will ensure a steep downswing. Grip the club with an open club face and hold the last three fingers of the left hand a little tighter than usual this will prevent the club face from closing as it makes contact with the grass. The hosel has a tendency to wrap itself around the grass closing the clubface. We want the clubface to go through impact in the open position it was at address. The back of the left hand faces the sky and not the target after impact.
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