Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today in pitching I want to talk to you about a forgotten fundamental. The one thing people forget about and it's the most important thing to be pitching the golf ball be good quality alignments as well as hitting the ball solid, and that is the control of the rear shoulder. When we set up to pitch the golf ball whether the ball is forward middle or back we always have to keep our pivot moving our rear shoulder continues to cover the ball. If the rear shoulder was down or what's going to happen is the head is going to fall back that moves our low point behind the golf ball and that means we hit a lot of fat and thin shots because we're trying to make up for that faulty pivot motion.
The key is to feel your right shoulder cover the golf ball. So we're going to put the ball our normal set up condition for most of our shots ball in the center hands and weight forward. The only thing I'm going to do is make sure that I cover the golf ball a little bit more with my right shoulder so I can take this hand action out, and when I finish notice how the rear shoulder is more forward I'm balanced I'm not finishing like this. So if the weight stays forward and you cover with the rear shoulder you're going to maintain lag pressure on the club shaft and are going to hit it more solid with better alignments and you're going to be able to control your trajectory your spin your distance on the pitch shots.
2019-04-26 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today in pitching I want to talk to you about a forgotten fundamental. The one thing people forget about and it's the most important thing to be pitching the golf ball be good quality alignments as well as hitting the ball solid, and that is the control of the rear shoulder. When we set up to pitch the golf ball whether the ball is forward middle or back we always have to keep our pivot moving our rear shoulder continues to cover the ball. If the rear shoulder was down or what's going to happen is the head is going to fall back that moves our low point behind the golf ball and that means we hit a lot of fat and thin shots because we're trying to make up for that faulty pivot motion.
The key is to feel your right shoulder cover the golf ball. So we're going to put the ball our normal set up condition for most of our shots ball in the center hands and weight forward. The only thing I'm going to do is make sure that I cover the golf ball a little bit more with my right shoulder so I can take this hand action out, and when I finish notice how the rear shoulder is more forward I'm balanced I'm not finishing like this. So if the weight stays forward and you cover with the rear shoulder you're going to maintain lag pressure on the club shaft and are going to hit it more solid with better alignments and you're going to be able to control your trajectory your spin your distance on the pitch shots.
