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You’ll learn to adjust your setup and swing in ways that will boost your speed and, more importantly, transfer that speed to the ball for longer drives. WATCH MICHAEL BREED’S NEW VIDEO SERIES ON POWER
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MAINTAIN SOME HINGE INTO THE BALL
ball into the air. Like the trail elbow, that wrist should still have a little hinge at impact. One wrinkle in pitching: You have to control what the ball does in the air and on the ground, and the trail arm helps with both. It lets you deliver predictable clubface loft and make a solid strike, which imparts consistent spin on the ball so it rolls out as you expect. Hit some pitches where you straighten your trail arm before impact, then hit some where you let it straighten after the strike. You’ll become a believer real fast!
The pitch swing is smaller and slower than a full-swing iron, but the same concept applies. With pitch shots, the big issue is loft – the loft on the clubface when you strike the ball and the resulting trajectory of the shot. Creating predictable loft is the key: Too little loft, and the ball comes out hot; too much, and you don’t reach your target. Again, let the trail elbow bend going back and then straighten through impact (above). In pitching, the trail wrist also plays a pivotal role because golfers tend to flip the wrist to try to lift the
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