C3i Wedge - 40 to 60 Yard Pitch Shots By Autopilot Golf

Hi Arron beholder here for the c3i wedge, we're talking 40, 50 and 60-yard shots. We've got a great green behind us here that at Talking Stick, Golf, Club they've. Let us use. We appreciate that from those guys letting us use this wonderful facility at the back of the range so 40 50 60 yard golf shots. It's an it's part of the game, that's probably I'd, say the most difficult for the average amateur. The average 10 20 handicappers and you guys are gonna- have a lot of these shots because some of you can't reach certain par fours or certain par 5s into for sure and when you miss hit a shot or your second shot, or you have to pitch out from the trees.

This is usually the shot that you're going to leave yourself with. Is this 40 50 60 yard, shot to the green? So I want to give you guys some tips on how you can play these shots? Now we have set up here out. You could see the green flags at 40. The orange flag to the right is at 50, and I'd say: call it pinkish chartreuse. Maybe that's at 60 yards all right, so each one is a distance that I think that it's difficult and understanding your swing and what to do in with your swings at each distance is important.

So, let's talk about the fundamentals of hitting a shot like this all right, so the fundamentals that I'd, like you guys to have you got to remember, first and foremost, that it's still a golf swing, and it's a bit it's a miniature golf swing, and this is the hardest part- is understanding the timing with this and understanding that you're not trying to create speed you're trying to let the speed happen. Much like you would in a full golf swing, you're trying to let the speed build as you bring the club down to impact you're, not trying to help the club to the ball. Alright and what I mean by that is I see a lot of people on this shot, in particular when they get their ball, everything's good. They get to the ball position right. They get middle.

The stance to just maybe one ball up from middle of the stance: they're they're 50/50, ?, 6040, I'm, okay, with 50/50 on this shot. I'd still like to see you guys, maybe 55, 45 or 6040, but everything's good and setup hands are at the ball ? just ahead of the ball. They get the club back to their wherever they're. If they use a clock, what I recommend people using a clock system they get back to that, and they go. Oh, no I need to create more speed, and then they end up throwing the club at the ball.

What that happens, is you throw you break down? You either hit the ball fat. You come up. Furthermore, you hit the ball thin. The ball launch is way over the green, or you dump it into a front bunker or dump it short of the green, rather than just letting the club fall onto the ball and maintaining that angle, like I, like I've, talked about that in for pitching the ball and SOMA. It's so important in golf to maintain this angle.

How you address the ball. I cannot stress it enough. How you address the ball is pretty much how you want to impact the ball when you're at impact address impact should mimic address. It shouldn't be back here at impact. It shouldn't be way here at impact.

Furthermore, it should be right where you put it. So if you put your hands here, that's exactly where they should be. When you come to impact okay, that's going to be really important for this shot, because once again creating proper loft, effective loft at the ball. Okay versus D, lofting, the club or adding loft of the club creating consistent, effective loft at the ball is going to give you consistent trajectory, which is going to give you consistent. Distance control and distance control is so crucial on this shot being right and left fine being short and long depending on the green I'd say not good, but you want to be right and left is fine, but short and long.

That's where you can get in trouble because then you're guessing well do I need to hit the next one harder. Do I need to hit the next one softer with consistent trajectory, control and consistent? The way you come into the ball consistently, it's time, that's! What's going to give you the consistent distance control that you need over and over and over again, okay, so for a 40-yard shot here at the green one, all right, we'll start with that, one, how I want you to get into the shot. So a lot of people want to stand at this shot like this flat-footed there, they kind of square up to it like a regular golf shot. I want you to do with something a little different I want you two to almost make this a big chip shot to a certain extent. Okay, open this open the hips up a little it and why I want that is because it's easier for the hips on a shorter shot to get out of the way quicker when they're already slightly open or open the feet up, so that when you open the feet up that allows the hips to get around just a little that much quicker.

So you can get the club through. Okay, if you get to square and stand to square to it, it's harder to move your hips around, and it's easier to get the club stuck, bury it in the ground. Leave the club face open way to the right, and then you're guessing on how you have to get to the ball. When you try to square up too much, it's a harder shot to hit that way, open the feet up, okay, which allows you to get the hips out of the way a little easier. So you can get through the shot more like a normal golf shot.

I do this with shots all the way up to sometimes a hundred yards, depending on, if I'm, hitting a full shot or a half shot or a three-quarter shot. So, and these are all 3/4 shots, okay, so the next thing is now you've got to find what your baseline swing is. What's your baseline swing for a 40-yard shot? Okay, so you've got your stance.60/40 you get you set up properly, just like you would a normal golf swing so now, what's your baseline swing, that's where the clock comes in, so you want to picture this arc, you're on as a clock. Here's nine o'clock, here's three o'clock, twelve o'clock, six o'clock: how far? Where do you take it to hit it? Forty yards? Okay? What's going to be a 40-yard shot for you all right now, landing at 40 yards is one thing landing at 35 yards and letting it roll to 40 yards is a completely other thing. So you have to take that in consideration.

How firm is the green? How fast is the green soft so on and so forth? You go an uphill downhill with the shot. There's a lot of factors involved. So for this shot you want to make sure that you definitely get the height you need. We don't have a lot of green to work with, so we got to get the ball kind of high in the air fairly quickly, and we've got to get the ball spinning just a little to get it to stop. Okay, but I'm not going to try to make it spin I'm gonna, do it with contact, and I'm going to do it with trajectory to get the ball to stop, so I put the ball a little farther up in my stance, because I don't have a lot of green to work with to get the trajectory my hands at the ball, and 40 yards feels like about right here.

Almost 9 o'clock about 8:30 or so alright sit okay, a little too far, so now I've got to adjust. This is all figuring out being as consistent as you possibly can, with your way. You do the way you get into the shot. Okay same thing, ball position just slightly up of Center feet, open whoa, lift it out there we go much better crisper, spun a little more okay. So now we figured out that, if I go here about right there, eight o'clock, 8:30 and lead and let the hands let the hands do what they're supposed to do and let the club fall.

It's another thing: don't let don't try to create the speed? That's what I mean on this shot? A lot of people try to help the ball, don't help the ball. Let the ball fall, but I should excuse me. Let the club fall on the ball and one of the biggest problems. I also think that people have us. Are they lose their levels on this shot? They take the club back, they come up out of the posture, and they end up sculling it, or they end up hitting it fat.

They don't they don't come up enough and correct enough, and they end up sticking it in the ground. One of the biggest things I think with this shot is to maintain your levels, which is itbeing hard to do, and it takes practice, but the softer the swing I think the softer the swing and the more you let the club do. The work more you're going to understand your feel. So, if I, just if I just drop the club on the ball, if I really try to keep my head still and take the club back, hands nice and low, let the arms hang naturally, okay, let the arms hang naturally, and then let the club fall. Let the club head fall on the back of the ball.

Alright I need a little more with that one wasn't bad, though that was exactly what I wanted to do. I'm, not trying to do anything more very, like grip pressure, very, very light, grip pressure, no tension, not a lot of tension in my arms at all; okay, banged it off the flag again, so you can see that much like my full golf swing. I am staying in posture through the shot I'm, not coming up vertical I'm staying in posture and allowing my body to rotate it's a miniature golf swing, you're just getting you're just trying to get much like a regular golf swing, you're using your lower body to clear the to clear the club and to clear your body to get to present the club properly to the ball. You're, not it's! It's just a softer shorter version of your full swing with the same club. Alright, one more all right! Now, there's nothing tricky about that.

Once you understand the 40-yard shot, there's nothing tricky at all about a 50 or 60-yard shot. Now you just adjust your clock, so now you just go okay! Well, if 40 is eight, thirty is eight thirty, maybe eight forty-five. Then 50 has got to be nine o'clock. Nine 15 right, which is how the logic goes. So 10 yards equals about a half hour, maybe 45 minutes depending on the swing, maybe even an hour.

It just depends on okay, on what you're trying to do so now we're going to the orange flag and my 50-yard swing. I have changed, nothing changed, absolutely nothing.60 yard, shot! I, might change something we'll get to that when we get to the 60-yard shot, but my stance is still pretty narrow. Okay and all I'm trying to do is let the speed build in my golf swing: I'm, not trying to help it all right, maintaining good posture, okay, good space between the ball. Okay, maybe my stance, maybe I dropped the ball back a ball. Maybe a ball and a half in my stance to drive the ball.

A little more I've got more green to work with. Okay, maybe I, take it to nine o'clock and let the club fall. I am NOT forcing it I am just letting the club do the work, and that's the wonderful thing about this c3i wedge is that you don't have to worry about hitting it fat and if you don't have to worry about hitting it fat, you don't have to worry about, hitting it thin because one eliminates then the other so again set up good posture. Arms hang. Naturally, soft grip pressure, no tension in the arms, no tension in the shoulders up to nine o'clock.

Okay can give it I could give it a little more. It was a little soft on that one all you're trying to do is mimic your full golf swing in a miniature fashion. Same footwork, ? same footwork principles apply, you know. If you take it back, you want to get it on the instep. You don't want to get outside your right foot, which looks like this.

You don't want to get out here on your right foot, because then you got to make an extra move back. Furthermore, you want to stay centered turn your body slightly into that instep and then let your hips move through the target. Okay, just like you, would in your full golf swing. Only this is a miniaturized version, so I'm not trying I'm, not forcing it I'm not trying to do anything out of the norm. All I'm doing is maintaining my posture and moving my body around my head moving my body around my head.

That's the heads I think the heads a key thing in this shot. You don't want a lot of movement in the head. You don't want a lot of movement when you're ball-striking in your head. When your ball striking a lot anyways. Now the heads going to move a little, obviously, but there's no excessive movement, there's no swinging off the ball.

I mean the head stays right there, and then you just swing around that swing around the head. The head controls everything you dive, you're, going to change the radius, your golf swing, which means you're going to shorten it or lengthen the radius, or have to do that. Just because you've changed your position from the ball. Okay, so if you keep your head still or as still as you possibly can and maintain your levels, this shot is not a hard shot hands ahead. Don't let them go backhands at the ball too, ahead of the ball.

So this one now this one I've talked to you about in pitching where I want you to finish here. This one I don't care if you give it a little release, because this is a fuller shot. So if you release and that the net club heads out here, 90 degrees through the finish, that's fine I've got no problem with that. It depends on the shot you're playing if the shot that I'm playing here is just a standard one. The club head is going to release a little more, not a big deal.

Okay, all right! Now, let's go to the sixty to sixty-yard shot. So now the 60-yard shot one little thing might change again: I, don't think you're, going to change your you're, not gonna change! Your ball position from you're. Only changing your ball position, literally a ball you're, going further back from where you were on the 40 yard, shot because you didn't have you needed more height for the 40-yard shot because you didn't have a lot of green to work with, and this shot changes based on how much green you have to work with. Obviously, if you got more green, you can play it lowered, and you might not even be able to have to play an of 59 or a 60 degree wedge. You might be able to or a 65 degree wedge if you're using the c3i, 55 60 65 degree, you could use a 56 or a 55 or a 54 degree if you've got more green to work with land, it shorts and run it up.

So again you got to read the situation to understand what you have to work with, with the 60-yard shot the only thing that I would change with you guys widen your stance. Just a little give yourself a little wider base because as this as the swing lengthens to get that distance, that you need you're going to need the stability in your stance, you're, going to need the stability to move through the ball, so you're, not you're, not wobbling, all over the place or getting on your toes so widen your stance. Maybe a half a foot so go from here to maybe here and make sure that you have the stability to get through the ball with a bigger swing, okay and again, 60 yards- think about it on your clock. Think about it on your clock! So if 50 yards is at 9 o'clock, then 60 yards is probably 9:30 9:45. Let's give it a shot, so we'll try to go to 9:30 or 9:45.

That was perfect. If I had any spin on it. Good contact clean, crisp, nice divot, staying shallow is key with these shots. You want to maintain your width through the shot, maintain that radius a consistent radius. There we go.

These greens are firm, and the balls aren't spinning as much, so I've got to land them. A little shorter, usually when you've got real, firm, turf, real, tight turf with a good tour ball from 60 yards I should be able to land this ball about five paces short on the fly at at at the least five paces short, maybe even three paces short with the right trajectory and that thing should come in one. Take one hop stop, and if you really nip it right, it might even come back a little, but it's okay to send it up there with some release on it too. If that's the type of ball you play and those are the type of conditions you play in just got to understand what your ball does. Okay, so here we go a little wider stance, we'll go to nine o'clock, nine thirty and let the club fall I'm, not trying to create the speed I'm, letting the speed happen.

So what I want you guys to understand when you're doing when you're working on your 40 50 60-yard shots is the length of the swing so take a good look at how long the swings are. This is the is a 40 yard swing. Okay, 40 yard swings gonna, look like this little narrower stance; okay, that's a 40 yard swing; okay, almost ?, almost ? arm ? parallel, which would be 9 o'clock, but not quite ok. This is going to be a 50 yard swing. Okay again, that aren't that arm got to parallel that time, and then you're going to have the 60 yard swing and then from there ball goes a little further back in my stance.

Maybe one ball stance widens out a bit I'm still 6040 with the weight. Okay and now I. Take it back a little past nine o'clock. There's your 40 50 and 60 yard swings work on those remember same thing: you do in your full swing. You do in your 40, 50 60 yard swings make sure the stance is open and make sure you use the clock.

The clock is going to help you guys a big time in determining how far each ball goes.

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