A move brilliant players make around the greens
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Welcome to Strokes shaving, a series of golf.com where the brightest games of the game share their tips to help you, well, stroke shaving! Today Golf Top 100 Teacher to see Parker McLachlin shares a drill to help you around the greens.
Developing a brief strong game is one of the best ways to Reduce your results. Not only will you have more confidence in yourself staying on those high -pressure shots, but you will also have more confidence in your approaches knowing that if you miss green, your stellar wedge It will help you avoid a pair – or worse.
If you hope to clear your short game this season, a great place to get started is with your configuration, more specifically your attitude. Many amateurs are accustomed to put their weight forward and keep it forward when hitting shorter shots with touch but Whiz with short game Parker McLachlin Says this may actually be holding back on your wedge game.
“The tendency I see most people do when that pressure is on their front leg is to remove that lead leg,” McLachlin says. “Where does that pressure go? On the rear leg. Then all of a sudden you chop it. “
Instead, McLachlin says you are actually better to make a natural change of pressure and not limit yourself while hitting the goal, as shown by Lydia Ko in the clip below.
“Even in these pitch shots, the pressure must enter the foot of the trail, so it gives you the opportunity to push and get your center of mass at the top of the ball or in front of it,” says McLachlin.
Think of it as a smaller version of the pressure switch you do in your full activity. Try making some practical shakes as you feel the change of your pressure slightly from the front foot on the lead side of your foot track. McLachlin says you can use a drilling drill to make sure you have subtracted it.
Try this toe of the foot for perfect pressure
Put on a ball with your feet quite close together. Then, return the club. Once you have reached the top of your back, stop. Raise your toe and make a little tap. Then, go. Hit the shooting as normal and you should notice that your contact improves.
“This (tap) gives you awareness that you haven’t accumulated all that pressure forward,” McLachlin says.
Once you own the TOE TAP training, you will find out that there are many benefits. McLachlin says it is not just a move to perfect the pressure shift around the greens, but that he has also found it to cure chipping yips and other short game problems.
“Kind it’s a kind of your little mind,” says McLachlin, “if you are really fighting with your weight transfer, or get in your way mentally, it’s a nice way to remove your mind to hit the ball.”
