Perfect Technique To Make The Golf Ball Check (Video) - by Pete Styles
Perfect Technique To Make The Golf Ball Check (Video) - by Pete Styles

If we now discuss the perfect technique to hit one of these checking pit shots, we’ve talked about the idea that we’re going to hold the club face open but there’s a bit more to it than just that. We’re going to have to set up in a position that allows us to make the perfect swing and the perfect pitch technique that’s going to land the ball 50 yards away into a green and get it to stop.

As we set up to the ball, yes, we’re going to keep the club face nice and open and set up. We definitely don’t want to have the club face closed down aiming left, it has two little loft on it in this position. So, the club face aiming straight or slightly right for the right-handed golfer, the body then aiming slightly to the left for the right-handed golfer. Again, opening the stance allows me to get away with opening the face. We then have the body weight slightly on to the left-hand side. So about 60%, maybe even 65% leaning on that left side. That’s going to encourage a nice steep angle of attack, a nice approach into the golf ball where I’m going to hit the ball first before I hit the turf. If I’m leaning back and I hit the turf first, that’s going to ruin everything that I’ve worked so hard to produce. So leaning into the left-hand side at set up, getting my body weight forwards, a nice even tempo and actually hitting this with quite a lot of body and a little bit of hands. It isn’t just a case of leaning back and flicking with the fingers and the wrist, that’s not going to really work for me particularly as I overuse my fingers and my wrist on the way down. I’m going to be closing the club face. And we talked a lot about keeping that face open and hitting through the ball to maximize spin. So I turn around to this side now. I’m going to hit through the golf ball, hitting them, trying to maximize spin on the shot. Nice, big deep then it all flies high, lands by the sign with lots and lots of spin. And, again, if I turn around carefully, you can see how I keep that club face open. My hands and arms hit down and through but I didn’t rotate that club face down. Any rotation of the face through the golf ball is going to impart a less backspin than what I wanted to see the ball when it lands on the green spinning back. So it’s slightly left-sided set up, slightly open, nice shoulders steep down into the ball and the killer move is to hold that face open to get that ball landing and spinning when it lands on the green. 2016-08-17

If we now discuss the perfect technique to hit one of these checking pit shots, we’ve talked about the idea that we’re going to hold the club face open but there’s a bit more to it than just that. We’re going to have to set up in a position that allows us to make the perfect swing and the perfect pitch technique that’s going to land the ball 50 yards away into a green and get it to stop.

As we set up to the ball, yes, we’re going to keep the club face nice and open and set up. We definitely don’t want to have the club face closed down aiming left, it has two little loft on it in this position. So, the club face aiming straight or slightly right for the right-handed golfer, the body then aiming slightly to the left for the right-handed golfer. Again, opening the stance allows me to get away with opening the face.

We then have the body weight slightly on to the left-hand side. So about 60%, maybe even 65% leaning on that left side. That’s going to encourage a nice steep angle of attack, a nice approach into the golf ball where I’m going to hit the ball first before I hit the turf. If I’m leaning back and I hit the turf first, that’s going to ruin everything that I’ve worked so hard to produce. So leaning into the left-hand side at set up, getting my body weight forwards, a nice even tempo and actually hitting this with quite a lot of body and a little bit of hands.

It isn’t just a case of leaning back and flicking with the fingers and the wrist, that’s not going to really work for me particularly as I overuse my fingers and my wrist on the way down. I’m going to be closing the club face. And we talked a lot about keeping that face open and hitting through the ball to maximize spin. So I turn around to this side now. I’m going to hit through the golf ball, hitting them, trying to maximize spin on the shot.

Nice, big deep then it all flies high, lands by the sign with lots and lots of spin. And, again, if I turn around carefully, you can see how I keep that club face open. My hands and arms hit down and through but I didn’t rotate that club face down. Any rotation of the face through the golf ball is going to impart a less backspin than what I wanted to see the ball when it lands on the green spinning back. So it’s slightly left-sided set up, slightly open, nice shoulders steep down into the ball and the killer move is to hold that face open to get that ball landing and spinning when it lands on the green.