How to hit A 30 Yard Pitch Shot
How to Hit Pitch Shots From 30 Yards and In | Pitch Tips | Coaching Anna | Golfing World
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golfing worlds Ana Whitely is constantly
picking up tips from players and coaches
around the world trying to improve her
own game and hopefully yours as well
today she's back at her home course
Burwood Lakes in England with Simon
Holmes and working on her short game
right this I mean we've covered the
tricky little distance of 60 yards into
the green but we're a little bit closer
now we're 30 yards away what's the
difference with this shot okay well I
think as we walk up here I think what
you're trying to do is use your pitching
style more you know 30 yards I'd like to
be really precise with how I get the
ball to come in to again what club to
use it's not always just your sand wedge
sometimes you want that ball to come in
a bit lower and then release all right
so if we saw some Park ourselves right
about here 30 yards okay it would be
very much such selection back pins I'd
perhaps want to pitch the middle of the
green and let it release up front pins I
maybe need to come in a bit higher so
definitely shot selection so I'm gonna
go with my 56 for this one front flag
this really is the danger zone you can
be here in two and end up on the green
in five yeah you know this is where you
don't want to sort of have your short
game cause you'll cost you shots we've
probably all of us spend too much time
thrashing drivers but this is where you
can save yeah are your shots okay what
I'd be doing here again a little bit of
a narrower stance so I'm sort of have
their idea that I'm rotating around a
fixed point okay again I want to be
really precise I want to make sure that
my left sides loaded kind of all the
weights stacked on my left side once it
stays the starts there it doesn't shift
okay so wait shift kills you okay and
again I'm looking for sort of one engine
so again maybe grip down a little bit
and here is going to be really where I'm
not going to use my arms so my address
position is going to be a replication a
replica of what I want to do at impact
okay so at impact I want to have my
hands just slightly leaning forward of
the ball alright so I make sure that I
catch it nicely off the bounce
okay and once I've set that I'm not
going to change it so I don't want any
wrist set
and I don't want to be sort of having
the feeling I'm pulling the club down so
that's my impact position and my engine
is just my chest and arms working as a
unit okay so my finished position really
should be the same as I was in a dress
but more rotated through of my chest
okay
okay so I'll show you one and then you
can have a go so wait a little bit more
on that left side once it's started
there it stays there chest and arms as a
unit
lovely
almost at the pin yeah and there I'll
play a really precise shot you know
quite difficult to picture on the front
of green but I've only got one moving
part okay okay one moving parts so you
know when you're practicing this and I
use different clubs you know that didn't
roll very much it stopped pretty quickly
right might be other situations where
we'd like to pitch the middle agree and
let it release so you use different
clubs the one technique and then lots of
options sort of this is the science bit
yeah and then the art of the art of
playing all of these is endless
experimentation okay so wait am I left
wait on the left really feel your arms
on your chest there and your arms and
chest as one unit okay little smoother
than that yeah let's have the brush on
the ground keep your chest down there we
go okay so I think that finished
position Anna is going to be a little
bit shorter on this you look like you're
sort of got a full follow-through okay
okay so just one more where you really
feel like it's there so that shafts
point is sort of at the hole there we go
back there got it all right let's go for
it
ah perfect not bad at all that's
excellent so it's a really compact
action yeah right you're trying to have
the fewest moving parts possible okay
really make it very very stable and then
use the different clubs so that you can
get different clubs to give you
different shots different amounts of
roll when it hits on the green but
always one stable action wonderful okay
together very simple doesn't have to be
complicated complicated is no good thank
you very much
