Pitching Wedge A Handy Tool For Many Shots, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Pitching Wedge A Handy Tool For Many Shots, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

Here’s a little quick guide to a pitching wedge for you, pitching wedge is probably one of the most versatile clubs that you could have in your bag between 45 and 50 degrees of loft. My golf club has 48 degrees of loft here and I use it a lot on the golf course. If I play it back in my stance punch down with my hands ahead, I can actually keep the flight quite low forcing it in which is great for chipping and pitching, particularly on windy days. So rather than launching the ball up in the air and swirling around above the trees with a lob wedge or gap wedge you can force it down that nice and low, still generates a lot of backspin takes one bounce and comes to a stance quite nicely.

I can get quite a lot of distance out of this maybe short power 3, 130 yards a big pitching wedge might get me up on to the green or even from just round the side of the green if I just want a little tickle over some fluffy grass and then get it on the putting surface I can hit this just from a yard of the green. So from 130 yards out, a yard off the green or even a windy days, pitching wedge is a very versatile club. If you make friends with your pitching wedge, you have got a good chance.

The other shot that you might not think of a pitching wedge would be a long bunker shot, if you are playing a long bunker shots let’s say it’s 40, 45 yards, the sand wedge might be the natural choice in bunkers but because the loft and bounce on the sand wedge, you might feel you got underneath the ball a little bit too much, gives a lot of heights and lots of spin but it doesn’t allow the ball to release down towards the flag. If you play that with the pitching wedge, particularly if the sand is a little bit firmer you could chip the ball out nicely, get it landing about half way to the hole and just getting it to release out because it won’t spin the ball quite as much as your sand wedge.

So if you can practice with the pitching wedge you have just taken the ball nicely out of the long green side bunkers over the short fairway bunkers, 45, 50 yard bunker shots there. The pitching wedge is a really versatile club. So it get to using it from around the side of the green for the little short ones hitting it a little bit low with still with plenty of spins to hit under the wind from 130 yards out, or just a little green side bunker shots that need a little bit more release on them. And if you are good friends with your pitching wedge, your short games scores will improve nicely.

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Here’s a little quick guide to a pitching wedge for you, pitching wedge is probably one of the most versatile clubs that you could have in your bag between 45 and 50 degrees of loft. My golf club has 48 degrees of loft here and I use it a lot on the golf course. If I play it back in my stance punch down with my hands ahead, I can actually keep the flight quite low forcing it in which is great for chipping and pitching, particularly on windy days. So rather than launching the ball up in the air and swirling around above the trees with a lob wedge or gap wedge you can force it down that nice and low, still generates a lot of backspin takes one bounce and comes to a stance quite nicely.

I can get quite a lot of distance out of this maybe short power 3, 130 yards a big pitching wedge might get me up on to the green or even from just round the side of the green if I just want a little tickle over some fluffy grass and then get it on the putting surface I can hit this just from a yard of the green. So from 130 yards out, a yard off the green or even a windy days, pitching wedge is a very versatile club. If you make friends with your pitching wedge, you have got a good chance.

The other shot that you might not think of a pitching wedge would be a long bunker shot, if you are playing a long bunker shots let’s say it’s 40, 45 yards, the sand wedge might be the natural choice in bunkers but because the loft and bounce on the sand wedge, you might feel you got underneath the ball a little bit too much, gives a lot of heights and lots of spin but it doesn’t allow the ball to release down towards the flag. If you play that with the pitching wedge, particularly if the sand is a little bit firmer you could chip the ball out nicely, get it landing about half way to the hole and just getting it to release out because it won’t spin the ball quite as much as your sand wedge.

So if you can practice with the pitching wedge you have just taken the ball nicely out of the long green side bunkers over the short fairway bunkers, 45, 50 yard bunker shots there. The pitching wedge is a really versatile club. So it get to using it from around the side of the green for the little short ones hitting it a little bit low with still with plenty of spins to hit under the wind from 130 yards out, or just a little green side bunker shots that need a little bit more release on them. And if you are good friends with your pitching wedge, your short games scores will improve nicely.