| Re: how is this for a short game description & cure by PELZ
Whilst searching through golf web pages last night, I read something on pitching which seems to fit with Brian's theory of altering swing length rather than gripping up or down on the shaft to control pitching length.
The advice was to master 7,8 and 9 to become a better "pitcher"...
Meaning that if you were to look at yourself in a mirror whilst pitching, and imagine your left arm as the "big hand" on a clock face, you take your left arm back to either 7, 8 or 9 o'clock in order to vary the length of the shot. In each case, the suggestion is that your left arm should go right through to 3 o'clock. This ensures you are accelerating the club head through the shot.
In each case, tempo is the same and weight should mostly stay on the front leg.
Go out on the range and hit as many balls as you need to with each of your wedges so you get to know your 7, 8 and 9 o'clock lengths for each club. You could also experiment with adding in some wrist cock or not. The author was suggesting that you do add it in as this enhances the ability to strike "down crisply" with your pitch shots.
I know I'll be trying it...
Cheers
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