This drill from Golf Digest Teaching Pro Josh Zander is one of the most unusual pitching drills I think I've ever seen. It's part of an article called Practice in the Rough , where Josh says practicing from the rough will really help your ball-striking.
The article itself focuses on maintaining connection and a grip that's organization enough to get strong contact. But this drill is simply loopy! Basically you are the use of a 6-iron to hit a flop shot...
Watch this on The Scene.
You'll recognize some of the techniques as those being used for certain sand shots -- opening the club face dramatically and lowering your hands much closer to the ground than usual. (Of course, this entails squatting down quite a bit as well.)But it is the wrist motion so that it will virtually get your attention. Josh desires you to "throw" the membership head at effect, getting the membership shaft in line with your trailing forearm. That places your hands WA-A-A-AY at the back of the ball while the membership head slides below the ball.
It seems very unorthodox however I can see how it would help you learn how to control the membership head better, to study the distinction among what it appears like while you want to apply the leading fringe of the only versus the bounce. It need to genuinely enhance your capacity to play flop pictures. This is the kind of shot Seve routinely practiced, and it genuinely helped him end up a real wizard around the veggies.
And if nothing else, you could provoke your friends together with your newly-won quick game prowess.
And just a head's-up: I'll be traveling during the weekend so the Saturday and Sunday posts may show up a bit early or a bit late, especially on Facebook. But the posts WILL be posted, one way or the other.
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