Master the bread and butter TGM pitch shot with a 52 degree wedge (between pitch and sand wedge). It's a mid-trajectory, with mid-high spin type of shot. You can use it from 20-60, in the rough, out the bunker, almost anywhere. And all the fancy stuff (e.g. lob shot, opening clubface, etc.) will be a piece of cake once you've mastered this.
Master the bread and butter TGM pitch shot with a 52 degree wedge (between pitch and sand wedge). It's a mid-trajectory, with mid-high spin type of shot. You can use it from 20-60, in the rough, out the bunker, almost anywhere. And all the fancy stuff (e.g. lob shot, opening clubface, etc.) will be a piece of cake once you've mastered this.
Is the "bread and butter TGM pitch" and aquired motion type action swinging to right arm parallel to ground on the backswing to both arms straight on the follow through?
Is the "bread and butter TGM pitch" and aquired motion type action swinging to right arm parallel to ground on the backswing with to both arms straight on the follow through?
Yes it is.
Once you master that, you can make it shorter/longer is easy.
Master the bread and butter TGM pitch shot with a 52 degree wedge (between pitch and sand wedge). It's a mid-trajectory, with mid-high spin type of shot. You can use it from 20-60, in the rough, out the bunker, almost anywhere. And all the fancy stuff (e.g. lob shot, opening clubface, etc.) will be a piece of cake once you've mastered this.
Hey Tongzilla,
Can you explain this a little more? Ive been reading this site for a little while, but am still very much so a beginner.
From stage one- two feet back and through with a LW, SW, GW, PW and 9I...5I and vary the ball position from your back shoudler, sternum and lead shoulder.
Couple other hints, aim the clubshaft at your lead shoulder/hinge and make one-lever motions. This will keep you busy for a while!
Keep up the great play Mr. Knoll! Remember to see it before you hit it!
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i think what he is trying to tell you that by using a wedge from this distance you will learn rythym and the key ingredient lag pressure.learning lag pressure makes all these little feely touchy shots so much easier. here is a good drill to learn lag pressure. take your wedge and hit your full shot and with the next ball try and hit it 5 yards shorter. keep doing this until the last ball you hit is 10 feet in front of you. this is a great drill and once you can-do this with a wedge try a different club. eventually you will be able to do this with any club in the bag. i practice this all the time, great for developing feel through mechanics.
Lag pressure is so, so, so important with wedge shots. Forget changing your backstroke length (or your follow-though length, as was recently expoused on The Golf Channel by someone who should know better!) and instead focus on lag pressure.
I'll come back to a great analogy that Lynn once used: an outfielder in baseball. He doesn't try to vary the length of his "backstroke" motion when he throws to second base versus to home plate. Instead, his Computer instantly adjusts and exerts the correct amount of force onto the baseball to make it travel a given distance. The same applies to golf - change lag pressure to change the distance you hit it. After enough practice, it'll become second nature. You see the shot and instantly dial in the amount of pressure you need to hit it that distance.
Birdie_man...I know you know about clearkeys. Sometime, try going to the course and going on full automatic with your clearkey whenever you have a wedge shot inside of 100 yards. Trust me, you'll be extremely surprised at how well your Computer automatically makes you hit the ball more or less the correct distance!
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