This is a really short post, but this is something I've used before and hearing Rickie say he uses the same tip convinced me to pass it on. It's from a new Golf Digest article on how Rickie has improved his wedge play this season.
The tip is on playing those partial distances you often end up with when you have a wedge into the green -- but it's not for the pitches and chips. Rather, it's how Rickie adjusts his distance on a full wedge shot. He says quite a bit about his technique, but check this out:
Now think your complete gap wedge is going one hundred ten yards and also you?Ve got 104 to the hole. To make that wedge fly six yards shorter, a variety of amateurs swing softer. They try and gradual down a hair at impact, but that regularly causes them to cling lower back and turn their palms. Forget distance manipulate?Now they?Re lucky if the ball gets in the air. A higher technique is to set your fingers lower at the grip, then swing at regular speed. For me, gripping down an inch takes to the air five yards. Sometimes I?Ll go down the complete length of the grip to take as an awful lot as 20 yards off a wedge.Now it's quite possible that your numbers will differ from Rickie's -- after all, he hits the ball a fairly long way with his wedges. (The article says he hits a 62° lob wedge 90 yards.) But his rule of thumb here -- Gripping down an inch takes off around five yards of distance, and gripping all the manner down takes to the air around 20 -- is pretty close to what I've found, and I'm not nearly as long as Rickie.
So this little tip could give you an clean way to enhance your wedge play. And cannot all of us stand to hit our wedges a little stiffer?
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