I observed this little video on chipping/pitching over at golfing.Com. (You can use this hyperlink in case the video underneath might not run.) In it, instructor Brady Riggs is teaching a "new" pitching technique with a fifty two-degree wedge that replaces the "antique" chipping method with a lob wedge most people were taught.
It sounds incredibly just like the "putt with a 7/8/9-iron" method I've endorsed in past posts but, since it makes use of a wedge, this version teaches you how to use the leap of the club. That's certainly some thing you want to examine!
Why does he call this a pitch in place of a chip? It's due to the fact (1) this technique uses greater wrist action than we generally partner with a chip, (2) the ball is airborne longer than with maximum chips, and (three) you are not hitting down on the ball quite as tons, which gets rid of a number of the "chunking" that could take place whilst the front edge of the wedge digs into the floor.
He accomplishes this by leaning the membership shaft in the direction of the target much less than with a traditional chip. (If you have been the use of my tip of setting up so the ball is under your arms, you are already doing this.) Then he allows the pinnacle of the membership to pass his fingers after he hits the ball. (Not all that in contrast to my proposal that this stroke feels some thing like a placing movement. His action in the video surely reminds me of a long placing stroke.)
Note that he is the use of this method off shorter grass; both his approach and my approach paintings well there. But if you discover your self in deeper grass, visit a sand wedge with greater jump and use Brady's technique. You'll get something more like a quick sand shot that way, that is an awful lot extra effective from thicker lies.
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