Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
So go on the Internet and it's a wash with ideas of how to control the length of your pitches. Obviously you'll see a lot about the clock face swinging to different points on the clock face. You might want to go to eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock you may want to use body parts as a reference. Some players find it easier to if they think to hip height to chest height to shoulder height and what this is really doing is compound combining two motions. Remember when you pitch or swing a golf club it's a good combination of turning the body and swinging the arms, but to be successful at pitching those two things have to happen in tandem and what you're not trying to do is create a lot of torque. It's not a distance shot you're not going to wind the shoulders against the lower body through create this ballistic swing. We really that in the hip shoulders and our swing together and you've got to get a feel for how far those go back and through.
Now one little tip I'm going to give you like all the shark's fin tip and that's imagining if you had a shark's fin on the front of your body I'm just using this book here how far I turn my fin is going to determine how far my body turns and how far my arm swing back. If I'm playing a small shot the fin only goes from here to here. If I'm playing a bigger shot the thing's going to turn all the way around so once you can create this feeling of just putting both hands together think about this motion this is really going to give you a load of connection synchronizing the turn of your body with the swinging of your arms and the club. So the arms are getting independent the body is not dominating you synchronizing both the swings things together. So think of the sharks fin control the pace and the de-rotation of this and you're going to start to get a feel for how far back and through you can go. So in simple terms I have just apply that and then I play a smaller one so turn my fin a short distance was going to go twenty yards. If I turn that fin a lot further all of a sudden it's gone fifty yards. So think of the sharks fin that's really going to help you with your distance control.
2018-11-19 Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
So go on the Internet and it's a wash with ideas of how to control the length of your pitches. Obviously you'll see a lot about the clock face swinging to different points on the clock face. You might want to go to eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock you may want to use body parts as a reference. Some players find it easier to if they think to hip height to chest height to shoulder height and what this is really doing is compound combining two motions. Remember when you pitch or swing a golf club it's a good combination of turning the body and swinging the arms, but to be successful at pitching those two things have to happen in tandem and what you're not trying to do is create a lot of torque. It's not a distance shot you're not going to wind the shoulders against the lower body through create this ballistic swing. We really that in the hip shoulders and our swing together and you've got to get a feel for how far those go back and through.
Now one little tip I'm going to give you like all the shark's fin tip and that's imagining if you had a shark's fin on the front of your body I'm just using this book here how far I turn my fin is going to determine how far my body turns and how far my arm swing back. If I'm playing a small shot the fin only goes from here to here. If I'm playing a bigger shot the thing's going to turn all the way around so once you can create this feeling of just putting both hands together think about this motion this is really going to give you a load of connection synchronizing the turn of your body with the swinging of your arms and the club. So the arms are getting independent the body is not dominating you synchronizing both the swings things together. So think of the sharks fin control the pace and the de-rotation of this and you're going to start to get a feel for how far back and through you can go. So in simple terms I have just apply that and then I play a smaller one so turn my fin a short distance was going to go twenty yards. If I turn that fin a lot further all of a sudden it's gone fifty yards. So think of the sharks fin that's really going to help you with your distance control.
