Pitch Shot | Wayne DeFrancesco

The Two Main Elite Level Pitching Techniques Demonstrated

I have a question for you: Do you track your ball-striking stats either manually or with an app? If your answer to this question is “no” and you’re serious about lowering your scores you should consider changing that approach. Now think about these two questions: How many greens in regulation do you hit on average? When you miss the green how often do you get up and down for par? Even if you’re one of the best ball-strikers on the planet hitting approximately 75% of your greens in regulation you’ll still have to get up and down every fourth hole.…

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Basement Tapes: Master These Two Main Pitching Techniques

By Wayne | Videos: Basement Tapes

Some of the best ball-strikers in the world average in the neighborhood of 75% greens in regulation, that means they have to get up-and-down for par every fourth hole. If you’re hitting 2/3rds of your greens in regulation you need to get up-and-down every third hole, 50% and you need to get up-and-down every other hole. In this third Basement Tapes lecture video “Master These Two Main Pitching Techniques” I compare and demonstrate how to perform the two main pitching techniques which are essential to scoring well when you miss the green.

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Rickie Fowler Demonstrating Leading Edge Pitch

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

This is a nice shot of Rickie Fowler pulling off a difficult pitch from a tight lie to a tucked pin. He needs to land the ball just over a bunker well left of the pin with medium-high trajectory as it will hit firmly and kick hard right. He chooses a leading- edge pitch where he contacts the ball before the ground with a descending blow, which is obvious from the way the wedge hits the ground and the divot that results. We can guess that he felt like he was dealing with very firm ground and grain running against…

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Swing Analysis: Pitch Shots from the Match Play Championship

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

I thought I would do a compilation of different pitch shots the players hit at Austin CC in the recent Match Play championship. here has been some debate recently about “using the bounce” versus “using the leading edge”, and here we see that good players have to have both techniques in their arsenal and must be able to call them into play when needed.

Swing Analysis: Hunter Mahan at the Ryder Cup: Anatomy of a Pitch Shot Under Pressure

By Wayne | Videos: Swing Analysis

This video looks at the execution of a simple pitch shot, made anything but simple by the extreme pressure of the moment. It is the 17th hole of the last match of the Ryder Cup. The outcome of the entire affair rests on this last 2-ball. Hunter Mahan is two-down, and needs an up-and-down to possibly extend the match, as it is certain that Graeme McDowell will make no worse than bogey, and being already two- up, win the match if Mahan makes bogey. Mahan has just hit an exceptional pitch on the previous hole, one more difficult than this…

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Faults and Fixes: Chunking Short Pitches

By Wayne | Videos: Faults, Fixes and Drills

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Pivot Compression Golf Swing: 33. Standard Pitch Shots 10 Yards and In

By Wayne | Videos: PCGS lesson series

Here we have another standard play around the green, as we are close to the green but in enough proximity to the pin to require the ball to fly up in the air and land without rolling a great distance. The variations here from the longer pitch shots with the 58 degree wedge are the slightly extra open face and limited use of arm swing in the backswing.

Pivot Compression Golf Swing: 29. Pitch Shot Over A Bunker

By Wayne | Videos: PCGS lesson series

It is my firm belief that a forward leaning, downward strike is preferable when pitching to any sort of “using the bounce” technique. Here we look at a pitch over a bunker from a tight lie. With the tight pin it is obvious that extra height is needed to have the ball stop close to the pin.

Pivot Compression Golf Swing: 27. Low Pitch Shot Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: PCGS lesson series

Here we get a better view of the actual low pitch flying and rolling out to the pin. The ability to visualize the shot fly, land, and roll to the hole depends first on your ability to contact the ball the same correct way every time.

Pivot Compression Golf Swing: 26. Low Pitch Shot Part 1

By Wayne | Videos: PCGS lesson series

Here we switch clubs to produce a lower ball flight and thus a shot that carries less and rolls more. This is an advantage in situations where there is plenty of green to work with in that it requires less swing to produce the required distance, and it is almost 100% true that less swing means less chance to screw up.

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