Short pitching and chipping 10-3-C

[Doug]

If you struggle with short pitch shots and chipping, check out 10-3-C.

The technique is the road to short game improvement.

I was first introduced to this by the Marietta Golf crew, Yoda, Ted, and Steve one rainy afternoon.

Here is the short version.

Using zero pivot, keep the ball between right hand and right elbow.

Keep frozen right hand, #1, and # 3 pressure points in place.

Your elbow does not fan open like a normal shot.

Your right elbow moves immediately up the plane. and pushes down.

If contact sounds like you have hit a stone, you've got it

[JohnThomas1]

I have been looking for a post such as this for ages. Chipping and light pitching simplified. What would be your extra keys for when the small pitch became a larger one? I am figuring a bit more pivot controlled by the hands and a bit more pickup and fold of the right elbow?

Thanks
John

[giantsuckingsound]

EC showed me this too. It's deadly! The cool thing about this method is that you get to go ahead and HIT the ball. When this was introduced to me, I couldn't believe how solid impact felt. The compression felt so good that I thought "I just blasted that one across the green." But nope! The ball just comes out spinning and soft.

I'm to the point now where I just chip and pitch mostly with Lob Wedge or SW. Reason being because you can go ahead and be aggressive, but the shots are easier to control.

Another cool thing about this is you can really learn to hit bunches shots doing this. Give 'em a little horizontal hinge and they're off and running. Angled hinge and you get mid high checkers. And the vertical hinge gives the soft dead shots.

TGM rocks on the full swing. But to me it's even better with short game shots. Plus around the green you can really drill down on your "impact hands." My office is now just up the road from the local muni. When the weather gets better . . . Lunch = ham sandwich, Cheerwine, and the chipping green.

[Doug]

I have been looking for a post such as this for ages. Chipping and light pitching simplified. What would be your extra keys for when the small pitch became a larger one? I am figuring a bit more pivot controlled by the hands and a bit more pickup and fold of the right elbow?

Thanks
John

John

For longer shots...longer club.

You can add a lot of thrust with a short club and the distance will not increase very much.

The action is a super yip control.

A friend recently told me that my short game went from the outhouse to the penthouse.

[Doug]

EC showed me this too. It's deadly! The cool thing about this method is that you get to go ahead and HIT the ball. When this was introduced to me, I couldn't believe how solid impact felt. The compression felt so good that I thought "I just blasted that one across the green." But nope! The ball just comes out spinning and soft.

I'm to the point now where I just chip and pitch mostly with Lob Wedge or SW. Reason being because you can go ahead and be aggressive, but the shots are easier to control.

Another cool thing about this is you can really learn to hit bunches shots doing this. Give 'em a little horizontal hinge and they're off and running. Angled hinge and you get mid high checkers. And the vertical hinge gives the soft dead shots.

TGM rocks on the full swing. But to me it's even better with short game shots. Plus around the green you can really drill down on your "impact hands." My office is now just up the road from the local muni. When the weather gets better . . . Lunch = ham sandwich, Cheerwine, and the chipping green.

GSS

Thank You for adding to it.

The action is so easy that it almost hurts to think how much time that I have wasted in the past using an inferior method.

This truly is what The Golfing Machine is all about.

Simple and precise.

[giantsuckingsound]

Doug,

No problem man! Thanks for getting this started. I feel exactly the same. The greatest thing to me about TGM is with the proper alignments you can be aggressive.

EC pointed this out to me early on. He said that with all the compensations you end up playing the game "defensively." In the long game I wouldn't hit it hard for fear of the dreaded "snipe." In the short game if I hit it hard, I had zero distance control.

If I could have learned to chip this way 5 years ago, I know I could post better numbers.

Oh and another thing . . . Yoda advised me to hit about the first 30 balls with just the Right Forearm Flying Wedge using paddle wheel motion. Not for distance, just to get the feel of the structure and control. The on-plane paddle wheel motion was huge for me because my right forearm was too high causing the low left shot. No better place to get this down than on the chipping green.

As you can tell I'm geeked on this topic. Thanks for getting it going!

R

[tgmer]

In doing the pushing down, will the club face be delofted? and the clubface will hit the ball first downward to the grass?

[JohnThomas1]

It seems as tho we start adress with a trail elbow position similar to the Golden Bears when putting?

[ohgolfer]

Doug:

Thanks for posting this. I was goofing around the practice green while on vacation when I experimented with this. I don't know what lead me to it other than it just felt good and compact. I could not believe the results I was getting. I thought to myself, could it be this easy. I thought that maybe I was just in a relaxed mood or just had a good feel that day. But I moved around the green and just kept hitting the ball close to the hole. I liken it to a flying elbow going back and a piston like motion through the ball. Is this similar to what you feel?

[Doug]

It seems as tho we start adress with a trail elbow position similar to the Golden Bears when putting?

JT

Right on with JN elbow position. I feel bent over more at address than usual.

Experiment with elbow pointed slightly right of target and directly at it.