How To Pitch Like A Golf Pro – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
How To Pitch Like A Golf Pro – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will explain how pitching the golf ball like a tour professional will have a fundamentally positive impact on your overall golf game and scoring. By working on a correct L shape backswing which involves a 90° wrist hinge and setting of the golf club, then holding this L shape during the down swing phase to create a maximum amount of lag. Finally releasing the L shape wrist hinge and forming another L in the follow-through should help you create the best quality of strikes and improve your overall distance control to pitch like a tour pro.

This is one element of the tall pros game against the how much is a game that is vastly different and probably under rated least so and that the pitching at the definitely if you asked a lot of amateurs it bail on his driver instead of his went to get him the driver is obviously different and looks very much like McIlroy his 300 featgolfer hits it to 20 but don't forget the club golf a place of almost before to see the golf course is much shorter Yeah so the chances are the left with a roughly the same shot into a green. Yeah McIlroy is playing a 480 yards so he hits a big boom or you've got a distance in football players from near 0 hits a shorter drive but the police over this incident. Yeah so the big difference in people's game can be the wedge is these top pros do not miss greens with pitching. You know Pete they don't even miss the right hand of the green or sometimes even the quarter of the green that in the right quarter when they land there on the right level the right shelf they're in the right zone.

Meaning that part gets shorter and the 15 foot so most of our shot is in it as well Wade based on times quite happy with that yes yeah I think for the club golfer quite often hitting the green is the SAS not put in the houses on the phone call it in the front of the green but the top row is looking at zone in it to make the putt shorter so the technique that the club golfer can adapt should be transferable because it's not about spin you know clubhead speed on 30 miles an hour Michael receive a shot it's a relatively simple pitching technique so externally I definitely I think if we look to 2 things number one ball position. OK and another thing the swing runs so that we're going to try and create throughout the golf swing so a lot of people when I when I see people pitching in the struggling with the pitching we see Doc shots where the take a massive divots and the balls are they going hey you know we're probably experienced say ourselves and people watching when you've hit that beautiful drive you've got the 40 yard pitch and then it's. When you've got another 34 yards there's a lot of that now so a heavy shot went. Yeah travel further than the golf Yeah exactly and a lot of troubles I see that starts to stem from where the ball has been placed so far back in the stone think you're right what I need to get down and really get the ball 1st to match the angle of attack gets too steep is that coming down into the ball.

What I'd like to see a lot of people doing now is something where we have the ball slap bang in the middle of our stance and we have the weight slightly forwards and then from here what we'd be looking to do is get more of a shallow angle of attack and probably the mikes won't be picking it up that all I'm doing is just brushing your turf as I'm going for not taking a big gap also instead of hitting down and scraping the serve exactly a little bit shallower and it's allow me to deliver the last on the club pretty much the same all the time as I go through it as opposed to this to stay can change in the loft all the time on the club so having a ball position in the middle of the sounds pretty easy thing for most people you know are definitely all the way to the front side yeah it's the present Yeah I'd say 60 percent 70 percent in some occasion it depends on the shot you're trying to play but as a rule of thumb if we hovered around 60 percent we would say you know got a good set of those we go through it and the next thing you thought bam that was swinging loag how far back through that swing what he wishes with me you know it's it's a short shot and we see a lot of people creating these really long swings and then quitting on it is a calm down. It's you know like say if I was even only to pitch to the end of the practice tee hey it's 15 to 20 yards away and you know some people would see you be all the way up here and then quit on the way down the poor contact so if we could start off with where everyone could get a swing where they were comfortable let's call it chest height so my lead arm and my hand I'm going to think of this if I swing to just tight here I've got one swing that I can work with so if I did that with my I've got 50 a out here I know when I do that that for me goes 40 yards so we can start to work here and then see the same throw it's not fair. Yes and stop working almost like an 1 to 1 position as I'm hitting the shot for the length of the backswing should largely mine the length of the follow through when you have to on one side should be replicated on the other side you feel ideally.

Yeah there is going to be a accleration but we're not going to work on that too much we're just going to try and jolt what we say on the back swing into the phone for a good try and if only some guy sense a sensible position. And we can have a short backswing. Yeah hitting the follow through like the young man trying to pick the young balls yard line yeah should we won't see it down here obviously but it will just be about 40 yards yeah quality of strike is good which is impulse the body weight height on the left side holding the preposition on there was no leaning back if you bring in quickly I think that's something that I'd like most club goals go away and spend some time working on the starting off on a sort of 4050 yard pitch centralize the ball position get that body weight left sided and hold it there with some balance and then starts next moment with your swing length once you've got that which strike the skin and make long shields Yeah exactly yeah so like for me I have 3 positions I've worked so I've got Bell chest shoulder. All the got to work for me might be something different like clock faces can work for different people whatever it may say so if I were to go shoulder hair I know that this one would go 60 odd Sprint So again it but I'm still adopting the same set up all the right position where I. Get the same tempo as well you know it's just that once I was a little info it was a hefty was and I think about shows I lost one things about belt buckle the belt height so we had legal sale here and for me it's only just going to pop to the end of the take. Yes and again matching both swings up all the like through the 2 It got sensible position for all of those shots the body weight less all of those shots and then having a really good solid understanding of the different lengths of swing produced different lengths of shot some video different clubs to use as well in the one thing with the very commonly with good tall players if they're very adept at using all sorts of different clubs to goal so it's a different heights this makes it so spend some time on the driving range working on a good ball position good body weight position understanding the length of your swing to improve your pitching to tour pro standards.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will explain how pitching the golf ball like a tour professional will have a fundamentally positive impact on your overall golf game and scoring. By working on a correct L shape backswing which involves a 90° wrist hinge and setting of the golf club, then holding this L shape during the down swing phase to create a maximum amount of lag. Finally releasing the L shape wrist hinge and forming another L in the follow-through should help you create the best quality of strikes and improve your overall distance control to pitch like a tour pro.

This is one element of the tall pros game against the how much is a game that is vastly different and probably under rated least so and that the pitching at the definitely if you asked a lot of amateurs it bail on his driver instead of his went to get him the driver is obviously different and looks very much like McIlroy his 300 featgolfer hits it to 20 but don't forget the club golf a place of almost before to see the golf course is much shorter Yeah so the chances are the left with a roughly the same shot into a green. Yeah McIlroy is playing a 480 yards so he hits a big boom or you've got a distance in football players from near 0 hits a shorter drive but the police over this incident. Yeah so the big difference in people's game can be the wedge is these top pros do not miss greens with pitching. You know Pete they don't even miss the right hand of the green or sometimes even the quarter of the green that in the right quarter when they land there on the right level the right shelf they're in the right zone.

Meaning that part gets shorter and the 15 foot so most of our shot is in it as well Wade based on times quite happy with that yes yeah I think for the club golfer quite often hitting the green is the SAS not put in the houses on the phone call it in the front of the green but the top row is looking at zone in it to make the putt shorter so the technique that the club golfer can adapt should be transferable because it's not about spin you know clubhead speed on 30 miles an hour Michael receive a shot it's a relatively simple pitching technique so externally I definitely I think if we look to 2 things number one ball position. OK and another thing the swing runs so that we're going to try and create throughout the golf swing so a lot of people when I when I see people pitching in the struggling with the pitching we see Doc shots where the take a massive divots and the balls are they going hey you know we're probably experienced say ourselves and people watching when you've hit that beautiful drive you've got the 40 yard pitch and then it's. When you've got another 34 yards there's a lot of that now so a heavy shot went. Yeah travel further than the golf Yeah exactly and a lot of troubles I see that starts to stem from where the ball has been placed so far back in the stone think you're right what I need to get down and really get the ball 1st to match the angle of attack gets too steep is that coming down into the ball.

What I'd like to see a lot of people doing now is something where we have the ball slap bang in the middle of our stance and we have the weight slightly forwards and then from here what we'd be looking to do is get more of a shallow angle of attack and probably the mikes won't be picking it up that all I'm doing is just brushing your turf as I'm going for not taking a big gap also instead of hitting down and scraping the serve exactly a little bit shallower and it's allow me to deliver the last on the club pretty much the same all the time as I go through it as opposed to this to stay can change in the loft all the time on the club so having a ball position in the middle of the sounds pretty easy thing for most people you know are definitely all the way to the front side yeah it's the present Yeah I'd say 60 percent 70 percent in some occasion it depends on the shot you're trying to play but as a rule of thumb if we hovered around 60 percent we would say you know got a good set of those we go through it and the next thing you thought bam that was swinging loag how far back through that swing what he wishes with me you know it's it's a short shot and we see a lot of people creating these really long swings and then quitting on it is a calm down. It's you know like say if I was even only to pitch to the end of the practice tee hey it's 15 to 20 yards away and you know some people would see you be all the way up here and then quit on the way down the poor contact so if we could start off with where everyone could get a swing where they were comfortable let's call it chest height so my lead arm and my hand I'm going to think of this if I swing to just tight here I've got one swing that I can work with so if I did that with my I've got 50 a out here I know when I do that that for me goes 40 yards so we can start to work here and then see the same throw it's not fair. Yes and stop working almost like an 1 to 1 position as I'm hitting the shot for the length of the backswing should largely mine the length of the follow through when you have to on one side should be replicated on the other side you feel ideally.

Yeah there is going to be a accleration but we're not going to work on that too much we're just going to try and jolt what we say on the back swing into the phone for a good try and if only some guy sense a sensible position. And we can have a short backswing. Yeah hitting the follow through like the young man trying to pick the young balls yard line yeah should we won't see it down here obviously but it will just be about 40 yards yeah quality of strike is good which is impulse the body weight height on the left side holding the preposition on there was no leaning back if you bring in quickly I think that's something that I'd like most club goals go away and spend some time working on the starting off on a sort of 4050 yard pitch centralize the ball position get that body weight left sided and hold it there with some balance and then starts next moment with your swing length once you've got that which strike the skin and make long shields Yeah exactly yeah so like for me I have 3 positions I've worked so I've got Bell chest shoulder. All the got to work for me might be something different like clock faces can work for different people whatever it may say so if I were to go shoulder hair I know that this one would go 60 odd Sprint So again it but I'm still adopting the same set up all the right position where I. Get the same tempo as well you know it's just that once I was a little info it was a hefty was and I think about shows I lost one things about belt buckle the belt height so we had legal sale here and for me it's only just going to pop to the end of the take. Yes and again matching both swings up all the like through the 2 It got sensible position for all of those shots the body weight less all of those shots and then having a really good solid understanding of the different lengths of swing produced different lengths of shot some video different clubs to use as well in the one thing with the very commonly with good tall players if they're very adept at using all sorts of different clubs to goal so it's a different heights this makes it so spend some time on the driving range working on a good ball position good body weight position understanding the length of your swing to improve your pitching to tour pro standards.