Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about the back swing in your pitch shots. To set the club or not to set the club what are the differences. Well you know a lot of people say I have a lot of success when I pitching the golf ball like Steve Stricker not setting the club. Other people say you know what if I hinge the club it gives me a little bit of protection I increase my angle attack nip the golf ball bit more and I feel like I'm pretty safe here. That's fine too all you need to understand when you pitch the golf ball is changing the amount of wrist hinge change or angle of attack. If I stand up here like I do normally and I add wrist hinge I'm going to come down a little bit steeper I'm going to deloft the club move my shaft forward and use more of the leading edge. That's when you get that little nip tight divot and the ball comes off a little bit lower usually happens when people try to spin the ball.
The other flip side of the coin is when people take it back long and low very shallow so a club comes in kind of like this and like Steve Stricker. What that tends to do is return the club shaft back to neutral not forward leaning so much that they're going to give us a little bit height and it's going to come down a little bit softer this way. So we are using less spin and more landing angle to stop the ball and also using the more balance. So here you know whether you hinge the club or whether you take it long and low it's really up to you and it also determines you know what type of shot you're going to play more of a pincher or more of a kind of floater. So experiment with both styles because you're going to need to use both and you'll find one that you're better off using more often not but always have the other in your back pocket.
2019-04-26 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about the back swing in your pitch shots. To set the club or not to set the club what are the differences. Well you know a lot of people say I have a lot of success when I pitching the golf ball like Steve Stricker not setting the club. Other people say you know what if I hinge the club it gives me a little bit of protection I increase my angle attack nip the golf ball bit more and I feel like I'm pretty safe here. That's fine too all you need to understand when you pitch the golf ball is changing the amount of wrist hinge change or angle of attack. If I stand up here like I do normally and I add wrist hinge I'm going to come down a little bit steeper I'm going to deloft the club move my shaft forward and use more of the leading edge. That's when you get that little nip tight divot and the ball comes off a little bit lower usually happens when people try to spin the ball.
The other flip side of the coin is when people take it back long and low very shallow so a club comes in kind of like this and like Steve Stricker. What that tends to do is return the club shaft back to neutral not forward leaning so much that they're going to give us a little bit height and it's going to come down a little bit softer this way. So we are using less spin and more landing angle to stop the ball and also using the more balance. So here you know whether you hinge the club or whether you take it long and low it's really up to you and it also determines you know what type of shot you're going to play more of a pincher or more of a kind of floater. So experiment with both styles because you're going to need to use both and you'll find one that you're better off using more often not but always have the other in your back pocket.
