Unlike a chip shot, the pitch shot truly indicates it purpose. To hit high and land soft. It’s played from 100 yards and in on the golf course. Do you know that the pitch shot is a smaller type swing than our full swing? There should be 3 clubs for this shot pitching wedge, sand wedge and lob wedge. Again your feet should not be that far apart, will say shoulder width. Ball placement should be somewhere around your heart or at a logo on your shirt.

Now comes the fun part hitting the golf ball. Picture a clock around your body, we start at 6, hinge up 9 or hip area of the body, back to 6 and finish at 3. Here are some helpful hints that may help you, place a towel under your armpits and then tee up some golf balls. Make some swings to where you are hitting the tee and golf ball at the same time. Remeber as well that there is some type of body shift or at least your back foot coming off the ground.

So far I have written about the short game, it is a great way to start with golf and makes up for alot of poor swings on the golf course. Hoping that this and everything else I’ve written has helped. Look forward to more of your responses soon.

Chipping the the ball, some people are confused by this. Does mean we hit the ball in the air or hit closer to the ground. The answer should be closer to the ground. Begin with the following visual, take two small cones and separate them about 3 feet. Then place a golf shaft or broom handle on top.

You want to picture the golf ball going underneath the shaft or handle. How do we get to this point, first separate your feet about 5 inches apart. Then drop your left foot back halfway of your right foot. This will encourage you to put 6o% of your weight on your front leg or leaning toward the target. Carefully place the golf ball inside your back foot. With the golf club in your hands put the “toe” of the club in the ground so the “heel” comes up a bit. Lean the shaft toward your front pocket, then swing the club back about ankle high,hit the ball and finish with the head of the golf club outside your front foot.

Start practicing with a pitching wedge then a eight iron and so on. Try not to use one club all the time to chip with, if you play at alot of public golf courses the greens are slow and a bit hilly. If you have questions on this or anything else please contact me at the Four Seasons Golf Center.

All the good bunker players on both the PGA and LPGA Tours get out of the “Bunker” 60 percent of the time. Are you having the following problems getting out?? Hitting the lip of the bunker, leaving the ball in the bunker, and skulling it over the green.

Here are some of your answers, not splashing the sand, trying to help the ball up by scooping, not placing the golf ball in the right position and not making a complete back swing. The bunker should be a “easy” shot to achieve when playing golf. Like most I had trouble hitting this shot until I made the following changes. First, I got my feet shoulder width apart like I was going to hit a driver off the tee.

That made me play the ball inside my left instep or heel. Third, you want to make a big backswing as though you are ready to hit a full an complete iron shot. Finally, you want to open your club face so it is pointing toward the sky or you can support a wine glass on the face of your sand wedge or lob wedge. This brings the “bounce” of the golf club into play, this is how the ball comes out.

After you practice the following, now get in the bunker and build a pile of sand with a ball on top and try to “splash the sand”. Remember if anything the sand should come out of the bunker onto the putting green. “Build a sand castle”. Thank you for reviewing this and the other articles. Happy golfing and good luck in improving you golf game.

You may not think about but your posture is very important in all aspects of the golf game. It may help you with your putting and get your golf club on the correct “plane”.

For putting as a golf instructor we like to have golfers with their eyes on the inside of the golf ball or directly over the ball. In terms of the full swing have someone push you from behind if your weight goes toward your toes and off balance no good.

You are either straight legged or bent too far forward from your hips. When watching other sports look at the following, running backs, middle linebackers, infielders for baseball and basketball players.

Golfers try starting from the following postion, get your feet shoulder width apart. Then stick your butt back (3~4) inches behind your heels. Flex your knees over your shoelaces and tilt forward from your hips. That’s it, if you have a mirror at home try it out. You should see that your shoulders are just outside your knees, now have someone try to push you, are you stable??