Accurate pitching reduces your golf handicap. Turning three strokes into two by pitching close to the pin cuts strokes from your scores. Cut enough strokes and youll lower your handicap significantly. Learning to pitch accurately from the fairway is crucial to improving your game.
Pitching accurately from the fairway, as I mention in my golf lessons, requires good distance control. Thats not easy to achieve. The tendency is for your swing to be either too long, in which case the clubhead decelerates through impact, or too short, in which case the clubhead is jerked through impact. Either way costs you strokes, inflating your golf scores and your golf handicap.
Learning to pitch accurately from the fairway is a two-stage process. One stage involves building better technique. You can work on technique in golf lessons and on the practice range whenever you go. The second stage involves learning how to judge distances. While you cant learn to judge distances simply from taking golf lessons or reading golf tips, they can facilitate the learning process.
Here are 6 keys to building better technique:
1.Make changes at address
2.Open the stance