Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Pitch Shot "Cheat" Deletes Chunks and Thins"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover a super simple "cheat" to controlling the low point of your club with your pitches...

...which will make your ground contact super consistent.

Watch now and you'll virtually end your chunks and thin pitches for good!

You'll be amazed at how much easier it is to get up and down when you're striking your pitches solid every time!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:38

Video Transcription:

Now if you can keep this string tight in your pit shots, you're gonna be a pretty dag on good pitcher of the golf ball. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna go ahead and put that on my grip. I'm gonna have a little bit of tension on this string, and then I'm gonna keep that tension the entire way back and through.

Now you see the reason this is so important is whenever my arm bends, so my right elbow starts to bend, notice what that does to the club face. It pulls it way up off the ground or extends it way down into the ground. And when you start changing that angle, one swing, you're gonna thin it. The next swing, you're gonna chunk it.

So a great solution to that is go ahead and set up, just tie a normal string around one of the shirt buttons on your shirt and then you're gonna pull that a little bit tight and kind of tuck it under your, your left thumb just so you can hold onto it or you know, just hold onto it wherever you want to under your fingers.

Doesn't really matter how you hold the string on there, but I just want a little slight bit of tension on there. So you can see this is kind of pulling my shirt slightly. And then as I go back, I'm gonna feel like I keep that tension. What I don't wanna do is bend these arms and all of a sudden this goes slack.

[00:01:00] Imagine this is my low point control. If I can keep the same amount of tension on this the entire time, that's gonna control my low point, and I'll be able to hit really clean chips and pitches. It'll be super easy. So the great thing about that is if I can control this and I have great feedback, I'll hit the ground consistently.

And if I hit the ground consistently, that's really the name of the game. When you hit your bad chips and pitches, it's not because you missed it 10 feet to the right. How often do you just hit one 20 feet to the right of the hole? That was nice and cleanly struck. It just never happens. It's all about distance control, and that's mostly about hitting it solid.

If I chunk one, it goes nowhere and I got a long putt. If I thin it, it shoots past the hole. That's the name of the game. So instead of getting worried about all kinds of things, let's master this and it's easy. All right, so the first thing is, how do I keep that right arm straight? Well, if my shoulders don't move, let's say that my hips and my shoulders stay perfectly still, I'm gonna try to keep this arm straight, but I can only go to about [00:02:00] right here.

And then my arms have to bend to keep the club moving. You see, cuz my shoulders moving is what allows me to keep that right arm straight. So lemme go ahead and grab this string again. Okay. So from here, if my shoulders rotate now all of a sudden, I can go back as far as I want and still keep that arm pretty straight.

And again, that's gonna control my low point. So let's start from the ground up and talk about how we do that. A wide stance is a big no-no. Here. When I have a wider stance, I'm gonna tend to lock my knees, lock my hips, and then I start using all arms, changing that angle again. I wanna put my heels really, I'd love to have 'em closer together, the better.

For some players. I'd even recommend starting out with your heels touching. So your ankles are touching. Let your front foot open up a little bit and what that allows you to do again is it allows you to rotate your knees and your body to allow your shoulders and your hips to rotate, to allow that right arm to stay.

Still. The left foot being [00:03:00] open just helps you to pivot through it a little bit more. Imagine a pitch is like tossing a golf ball to the screen where your knees pivot and your feet are opening up. Make that easier. Same thing with my belt buckle. I'm imagining that turning back and through. As I'm hitting this pit shot, I don't wanna lock this in.

Sure, you could do that for a little bump and run shot, but anything with any kind of distance at all, you look at the pros, they're gonna be pivoting those knees, they're gonna be pivoting those hips, so that belt buckle's gonna be moving. Now from there, now that I have everything moving, my shoulders are gonna be moving, and I can almost imagine, like if I had a big pill of water, a heavy bucket of water, that's how I'd swing that I'd be letting.

Everything in my body kind of moved that back and through. I wouldn't be moving that heavy bucket like this with just my hands and arms. So feet close together, left foot open, let my knees pivot, my belt buckle, pivot. My shoulders are gonna rotate. And then from there I can go ahead and just keep a little bit of tension and this string, and [00:04:00] that's gonna allow me to have really great low point control.

So now I can hit the ground at the same point every time. And it's not unless I bend this arm and this string goes slack or I throw the arm and the string really gets tighter, that I'm gonna have struggle with that low point control. So here again, let's go ahead and hit a nice little pitch and it's just easy to hit it clean.

Let's have my radar lined up a little awkward, a little sideways. Cause I hit that right dead in the center of the screen there. But that was an easy, nice, clean shot. Now the last piece here is you can have a little bit of flow. I don't wanna be dead armed. With my wrist. I don't wanna feel like this is locked in no wrist movement whatsoever, and I'm just going back and forth like that.

I do want to have a little bit of flow, almost like I'm tossing the club, tossing a golf ball. So if you imagine if you had the golf ball in your hand and you're gonna go ahead and let this kind of lag behind and just toss it toward the target, your wrist would be loose. You'd be letting that go this way.

You wouldn't be [00:05:00] just trying to muscle it through with your hand and arm locked. You can go ahead and have a little flow to it. That's the same thing that's happening here when you're hitting these pit shots. Let the wrist have a little bit of flow, almost imagine it like a little gate, and it's going back and forth this way, but it's not necessarily rolling over a ton.

Opening and closing, just kind of back and forth. Just like if you're tossing a golf ball toward the target. So it's not doing a bunch of different angles, it's just swinging back and through, which keeps the face nice and square. So keep intention on this keeps your low point in control. Having that wrist be nice and soft and loose, helps you get a feel for how hard to hit it and be able to be, you know, have a lot of touch around the greens.

Let's try another one out. There we go. Really nice and solid again, right in the dead center of the screen. Couldn't hit any cleaner than that. Now from here, we're hitting it more solid, but how do we get those longer distances? So you see the pros from 30, 40, 50, 60 yards, which is a little bit longer than a pitch, making a little bit bigger [00:06:00] swing.

How do they seem to get those numbers dialed in time, after time, after time? Well, I like to teach a system in my top speed golf system in the short game section, which is, most people call it a clock swing, that I really don't even like to call it that because it's different. And you see if you can control the length of your backswing and the length of your follow through, that helps you to dial in those distances.

But if you're not missing another piece to it, if you don't do the other piece, You could hit a lot of different distances. Even if you're doing that, once you get this rhythm and timing piece that I'm gonna show you in those videos, you get that down pat. It's really easy to dial in your numbers. In fact, when I used to do this, when I first learned it, I would really hone in on my wedges and I would know within a few yards if I was 60 yards out, I knew that was a sandwich we, and I could get it to land within a couple yards every single time after I hone this in.

Now a few weeks earlier when I hadn't learned this method. It. I was always hitting it 10 yards too [00:07:00] far. Maybe it's right at the flag, but I got a 30 footer cuz it's all the way in the back of the green, or maybe it's right at the flag. I think it's a pretty good shot and then it barely gets on the front of the green.

Once I learned this, it's like, okay, now I got the method down. It was as simple as understanding what the distance was and then it's going and hitting it that far. So let me show you exactly what that is. Head on over the top speed golf system. If you're a member, if you're an all access member, click on the top speed golf system, the short game section, and then pay particular attention to the videos where I talk about how to dial in those distances back and through.

And I teach you the secret rhythm that makes it a lot easier. Best of luck. Let's go and get started.