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I recently went through my last rounds of golf shot by shot . Trying to see if there was an obvious area to improve on where there was an obvious weakness. The conclusion I came to was that I was not good enough from the 35 to 60 yard partial pitch area. I swing my chips and pitches and on fullish pitches I am quite good but to partial pitches I had poor distance control and tended to pull the ball left. If the ball ended up close it really was more down to luck than skill. I went out to the course with 12 practice balls and worked on this for 3 hours last night . My swinging partial pitch shot pattern was very poor . I continued with a shoulder turn takeaway swinging motion where I was trying to keep on plane but found in the downtroke I had a tendency to pull the ball. Controlling distance by pivot speed seemed difficult and inconsistent and tended to lead to me pulling the shot . I though about this thread and went back in my mind's eye to the hitting lesson Yoda gave me at Canton and started working on hitting these partial pitches by controlling the takeaway with the right arm and hitting the partial pitches. My accuracy distance wise improved and the pulled shot disappeared. Furthermore I felt confident . On full pitches the hitting motion was not as accurate as my natural swinging motion in my case but from now on I am going to be hitting my partial pitches. One area here I am very strong is the cut shot and lob shot. I put this down to the video of Yoda and vj that is posted on this website. Once I knew exactly what I should be doing I got the shot down quickly. I would really like to see Yoda, Ted and vj produce a short game video as I know this would greatly help my short game. I think there would be considerable interest in such a DVD. I look forward to seeing V.J. Trolio's Hands Plane for short Pitches technique at some point.
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