What the heck?

[wannabe]

So after 6 lessons, my full swing is better than ever, and it's all I've practiced for the last few months.

After playing a round the other day, I noticed my partial swing short game within 80 yards or so, otherwise known as pitches, weren't too good.

I went to the range specifically to work pitching, and I was terrible! Could only make decent contact 15%-20% of the time.

Weird thing is, before my lessons & full swing practicing, I would've said my pitching was one of my strong points.

What gives? I'm gonna burn at least one lesson with my pro on this, but wanted to know y'all's thoughts also.

My typical miss on the full swing is thin; with the pitches, the misses were thin, fat, and shanked off to the right.

[BallStriker]

So after 6 lessons, my full swing is better than ever, and it's all I've practiced for the last few months.

The key to hitting good pitches (at least for me) is setting the wrists early in the backswing and holding the angle through impact. In other words, your hands need to be ahead of ball at impact and your hands should not be turning over.

The biggest mistake I see people make is trying to roll the hands at impact, which just makes it impossible to be consistent. Good luck.

[wannabe]

hmm. you may be right. i think i'm trying to take too much of my full swing technique into the pitching technique. the hands turning over points to that and makes sense.

thanks.

[TN94z]

I agree. Don't try to steer the short shots. Let the hands lead the club and let the club do the work. Also, good chest turn. I see this a lot with the guys I play with. They have very little chest turn on the short shots.

[Chipper]

if you have a netflix account i implore you to check out the few short game dvds that are available (there is even a play it now video on a nuclear core swing video which is good for your full swing too).