Never Blade It Over The Green Again…
I’ve just hit a perfect drive on a relatively short par four…
The kind of ball where everything feels good and the ball just seems to hang in the air…
The kind of ball you’ll spend the rest of the day hoping to feel a swing and contact like that again…
Now, I’m 40 yards out… it should be a simple pitch shot for a birdie putt.
BUT… You already know how this ends…
Naturally, I blade it well over the green… and it’s DEAD back there…
I proceed to chunk the return pitch just 2 feet in front of me…
Finally, I make clean contact and roll a putt to save bogey… that could have been a birdie.
We’ve all been there…
If you struggle with pitching…
Leaving it short because you always catch it fat…
Or finding the leading edge on the back of the ball for a screamer over the green…
Especially, when you’re on an upslope…
The fix is simple…
Pitch shots by definition are less than a full swing…
The shorter the shot, the more likely you are to move into your backswing but forget to shift through the ball, rotating and relocating on your front side.
Which means our weight gets stuck behind the ball…
Causing you to hit behind the ball…
Or make a last second adjustment and catch it thin.
But you can cheat by starting with your weight forward and not shifting in your backswing.
Pre-load your front side and keep your weight forward so you are already “through” the ball.
The result is consistently good contact EVERY TIME.
The next time you have a short pitch shot, pre-load your front side, keep your weight on your front leg and enjoy that birdie putt… You earned it.
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I have been working on my swing and determined through trial and error, that if I stay "on plane" and exaggerate my follow through while not trying to hit the ball, I get much better results. This seems to essentially what you are doing in this video. I am 67 and gave fairly good mobility. Unfortunately I am trying to undo 25 years of bad golf.
I would suggest that retraining ourselves out of bad swings for decades is the real problem with most golfers.
I have spent the last 2 years trying to shed years of bad golf. it takes more time to do that then to develop a totally new golf pro assisted swing.
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- Improved Technique - This includes leveraging the physics of the body and the club, which depends heavily on timing and tempo. Milliseconds matter, which is why this is something even pros are constantly working on, hoping to find some "hidden" speed. Frequently, overload and underload swing training can help you feel where you are out of sync and intuitively help you get more speed back. I'm a big fan of the Whoosh Drill.
- Improved Joint Health - I look at joint health as 3-Dimensional: Range, Strength, and Speed. This goes for all the major joints in the body: ankles, knees, hips, spine, shoulders, elbows, and wrists. Most people only focus on strength. Popular exercise movements like Yoga and Pilates focus on range and strength. Very few people look at or work on speed as part of joint health. I promote practicing a fast, explosive contraction, and a slow eccentric release, ie. in a pushup, we'd go fast up, slow on the way down.
How do I get it via emails or is something sent.
I live in Holland and what costs will be added.
I am 73 years old.
Greetings Alfred.
