How Tiger Woods Hits a Wedge Shot
Watch as Tiger Woods walks Team TaylorMade through his thought process and feels for hitting a wedge shot with his 56-degree MG Wedge.
Chipping vs Pitching
Chipping Vs Pitching: What is the difference between chipping and pitching?
A Logical Chipping and Pitching Strategy I Bet You Never Thought of Before (Ep.107)
All things remaining equal, try to land your chips and pitches in low areas rather than high areas. This strategy alone will improve your results.
Golf Pitching Distance Control – Leap Frog Drill
This drill is very helpful in establishing rhythm, feel, and distance control with your lofted wedges. You’ll probably want to be on the driving range for this drill, as you’ll need some space and plenty of golf balls.
Using your sand…
Golf Pitching and Chipping Head Positioning Drill
This drill is designed to help players with pitching and chipping the ball, but can also be used in the full swing if necessary. When chipping and pitching the ball, it is normally our goal to minimize lateral motion to more reliably make…
Golf’s “L to L” Swing Drill
The L to L drill is an expansion of the 9:00 swing drill. It’s intended to help you feel the proper hinging of your wrists and positions of the club in a half length swing. It’s important that you become familiar with the correct 9:00 position…
The 9:00 Golf Swing Drill
Use this drill if you are a beginner learning the golf swing, or if you are employing a new grip, stance or set up position. The idea is that this is a miniature golf swing, focusing on the area through the hitting zone, that matters the most…
Greenside Flop Shots
A flop shot is an extreme version of the pitch shot, where we throw the ball very high into the air, allowing the ball to come down softly without rolling out. This shot should only be used in extreme circumstances when we are hitting…
Pitch Shot Distance Control
Controlling the distance of your pitch shots is so important that it warrants its own instructional article. As I’ve mentioned with all short game shots, we want to do our best to allow the length of our swing to correlate to the…
Pitch Shot Stance and Motion
Pitching the ball is when we are around the green and require the ball to fly higher in the air and stop more quickly. This is helpful for when we need to hit over something, such as a bunker or slope, or if the ball is sitting in heavier…
Short Irons and Wedges
The short irons and wedges present the most variability and room for creativity of all the clubs in your bag. With lots of loft on these clubs, we can open or close the club face, and move ball position forward and backward to produce a wide…