Golf Pitching Tips and Chipping Tips: Technique BasicsThese golf pitching tips will teach you the stance, grip, swing and wrist action for pitching. These golf basics will allow you to pitch the ball to the hole to save par or steal a birdie. Because pitching is very similar to chipping, some of the golf pitching tips below will sound similar to those in my golf chipping tip basics article. However, pitching brings into play the legs and hips because pitching occurs from more than 30 yards away and chipping from inside 30 yards. For tips on the full swing see the following articles:
Backswing
Downswing
Stance
Grip
Golf Pitching Tips BasicsTip 1 - Proper Stance: Assume a narrow, open, upright, comfortable, forward weighted stance. Pitching is not very demanding on your balance and is a short swing. Accordingly the typical stance for a full swing is not needed. A narrow open stance will help you pitch without body interference. An upright stance will raise the heel of the club off the ground to prevent the club from catching in the turf. A comfortable stance will allow you to have touch. Putting your weight forward help you have a descending blow for your pitch.Tip 2 - Square Your Clubface: Always square your club to the target at address. This does not mean that you cannot open your clubface to produce a higher lofted shot. However, if you do, make sure that you turn your stance more open until the club is square to the target again. Tips 3 - Longer Swing For Longer Pitches: Your backswing and follow through motions should increase with length of shot. Additionally, increase the amount you turn your hips, shoulders and arms and cock your wrist on the backswing, the greater the distance of the pitch shot. On the follow through, the club swings through further for longer pitch shots Tip 4 - Naturally Release Your Wrist: Increase wrist release for longer pitches. Unlike chipping, where you maintain your wrist cock through impact, the longer the pitch, the more you release your wrist through impact. The release should feel natural and not manufactured by flipping your wrist through impact. Further, this tip relates to tip 3 because when you take the club back too short you will try to unnaturally flip the wrist through impact to get the ball to reach its target. Tip 5 - Accelerate Through Impact: Accelerate through impact. It’s that simple. This tip is related to tip 3 because when you take the club back too far you will tend to decelerate through impact to stop the ball from overshooting it target. Tip 6 - Normal Grip: Unlike chipping the basic grip for pitching should be your normal full swing grip. Though, this tips can vary for some golfer's. No doubt, the further away you are the more this tip rings true. Tip 7 - Practice Your Pitching: Practice the above golf pitching tips to improve your short game golf basics. After all, the short game is where the scoring is. Look, better putting means better scores. Well, if you pitch it close or in, your putting improve a lot. |