This pitching drill and quick tip will help prevent fluffed pitch shots. It stops you from decelerating through the ball and promotes a solid, crisp strike.

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This pitching drill and quick tip will help prevent fluffed pitch shots. It stops you from decelerating through the ball and promotes a solid, crisp strike. Decelerating through the ball is a common issue and I think it often occurs because the backswing becomes too long…

From a long backswing you can feel like you have too much power and that you’re going to fly the ball through the back of the green – especially if you catch it a bit thin.

You unconsciously decelerate during the downswing to try and compensate but because the club head is quite heavy, it overtakes the hands causing a scooping action. The result? A fat or thin contact.

The solution is to take a shorter backswing and focus on really accelerating through the ball.

Golf Pitching Drill

• Keep your backswing relatively compact and short – less than you think you need for the distance of the shot.
• Really accelerate through the ball to generate the correct power and distance for the shot.
• A good rule of thumb is a one third backswing, two thirds follow through (i.e. so your follow through is twice the length of your backswing).
• You can watch a video here.