Golf Pitching Tips for Any SituationThese golf pitching tips will help you become more consistent then you thought possible. A Still Head A still head is absolutely critical to your improvement with pitching the ball. Take a look at any good short game player and you will notice how still the head is in these shots. Golf Pitching Tips-length of your swing 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. Golf Pitching Tips- gain confidence in getting the ball airborne 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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