You will want an open stance with your feet closer together

You will want an open stance with your feet closer together.  The ball should be positioned in the center of the stance.  Your body turn will be determined by the size of the swing.  Focus about 70 percent of your weight on your lead foot.

You will have to modify your backswing according to the distance you have to go to the hole.  It can be waist high, shoulder high, or a full swing.  Just don’t put too much power into it or you will overshoot the green.  Let your legs and body turn slightly through the shot.

As with any shot, your aim should be to present the clubface perfectly square to the target. But this is even more important with the pitch, as any minor deviations will be magnified by such an intense shot. Aim for a ball then turf contact. If you are regularly thinning the ball when attempting this shot, you are probably not accelerating into it.

Once on the green, you’ll want to putt effectively.  There’s nothing more frustrating than taking more putts than what you need to.

PUTTING

Again, many golfers have trouble with their putting.  I know of one experienced golfer who can consistently drive the ball 250 to 300 yards only to get on the green and three putt.  Nothing frustrates him more, but putting is an important part of your golf game – possibly THE most important part.

Stroking the ball is only one part of putting.  To putt effectively, you first need to know how to read a green.  That means looking at the trajectory your ball will travel and compensate for any dips, hills, or anything else that could cause your ball to move a specific way. 

Good green reading comes with experience. After hitting enough putts over enough different types of terrain and grass, you develop a sixth sense of how the ball will roll. As you walk onto a green, whether you realize it or not, you take in all sorts of subtle information.

If the green appears light, you know you're putting against the grain; if it's dark you're down grain. If the green is set on a high area of the course and you feel a breeze as you step onto it, you sense that




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