The Clock Method in Short Game
Master the delicate art of the short game with PGA Professional Randy Chang as he unveils his essential chipping techniques. This insightful lesson from GolfLife.com is designed to help golfers of all skill levels improve their consistency and control around the greens. Randy breaks down the fundam…
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- Instructor: Randy Chang
- Category: Lessons
- Topic: Short Game
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Hi, my name is Randy Chang, director of instruction here at The Beautiful Journey at Pachanga Casino and Resort. Today I'd like to talk about how to control your pitch shots, how to be more consistent with ball striking and like the touring pros, most of 'em are practicing every single day. They use one club and they learn five to 10 different techniques in different swings. I like to just to teach you one technique. Use different clubs to do the same thing. We call it our clock method. I want you to imagine your body As a face of a clock and your arm's, the hands of the clock. With that, when we do our L to L swing, we go from nine o'clock here to three o'clock. So that would be say our half swing. We are now gonna go eight o'clock club a little bit past parallel to the ground, and I'm gonna match it back up again to four o'clock. Now, the key to this is the tempo. This is something that will help you right now. Your instincts are gonna want to go from one position to the other, and you're gonna try to accelerate like what we've been told, right? That acceleration also creates inconsistency of grip pressure and a lot of the mishits that we see, fat, thinner topping it. So when you get to your eight o'clock to four o'clock with the club, I have here say a 56 degree or sandwich here. I want to feel like I want, the speed that goes back is the same speed I go through, right? So with that shot, with this club, if I just do an eight o'clock to four o'clock, whatever that distance is, I gotta record that. The next one…