Clock Drill with Fred Funk

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• Instructor: Fred Funk
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Short Game

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Alright guys, I want to show you the pitch shot. And obviously, there's a lot of different distances that you have to manage with this shot. And what I use is the concept of the clock. If I take it back to 9 o'clock, that's going to produce a certain distance. 10 o'clock, another distance. 8 o'clock, another distance. So, you've got to practice it a little bit, but once you get the concept down and you get the fundamentals down, it becomes a lot easier out on the golf course. So, what you really have to practice, first of all, is getting the setup proper. And what I do is put the ball in the middle of the stance, and I try to maintain, or think of maintaining, the loft on the club that is set already in the preset. Alright, for this first shot, I'm going to go back to about the 8:30 position, which is right about here, and then try to follow through, get good solid contact, and let the ball just pitch on out onto the green and roll up close to the hole. So, it's pretty easy. I just need to think of taking my hands back to 8:30, roll it out, and that was a perfect distance where it landed. And now, the longer one. It's another 15 yards. Now, I feel like I need to take the club back to about 10, 10:30, so I'm getting it a little bit higher. Do the same swing, same pace, and it should minimize my margin of error and allow that ball to get all the way up to the pin. So, I'm going to take a little practice swing, ball in the middle of my stance, take it back to about 10, 10:30, and…