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Do you struggle with those in-between yardages, 30 to 60 yard pitch shots, taking shorter than full swings that you have no idea how to time? Do you want to be able to take out the driver more on those short par fours because you know you can hit 50 yard shots with the best of them? Then don’t go anywhere, we have the perfect lesson for you today. Hello friends, it’s Chippin’ Chewsday, innit? If you’ve struggled with those long pitch shots or half swing wedges, one thing I think is very important to understand is where most of your swing speed comes from throughout your swing. The move that adds the most speed and centrifugal force to our club head is this move right here. It’s that release and whip through the impact zone caused by the lever in your wrists. I can get a ton of swing speed just bringing my hands back a few inches if I have a big enough hinge and release. The second very important thing to understand is why these shots are so hard for most of us. In my professional opinion, and I actually I think most instructors share my thoughts on this, the hardest part about these shots is just the timing of their shorter swings. Because most of us, we just take a shorter version of our full swing without thinking about the timing, end up with a short version of our full swing that takes a fraction of the time as our full swing to complete. You have to figure out the timing of that shot without any practice of it on any of the previous holes and yeah, no wonder people hate this shot so damn much. We’re making it so much harder than it needs to be. If you want to take distance off of your swing without taking a much shorter swing, taking away our wrists and our hinge is one great way to make the timing of these shots much easier, mostly because you don’t need to make your swing that much shorter. You’re taking a ton of swing speed and thereby a ton of distance by not hinging your wrists. You can make a much bigger swing than you would if you had your natural wrist hinge. Please, take this technique to the range and practice it before you try it on the course. Find your distances, practice the timing with this method, but i promise they can make your short wedge shots and those long pitches much much easier and let me show you. My full swing, 58 degree wedge here, we’ll see how far that goes. 98 yards. Now let me try to take as full a swing as I can here. I’m going to try to keep my wrists as quiet as possible. Let’s see what that does for my distance. See how much distance that took off there? And that swing, I promise, is much, much easier to time up the closer we can make it to our actual full backswing. Be sure to like and subscribe for the next tip next Chewsday. We’ll see you on the course!