When you ready to hit, lift your right foot up to ground and kick your right toe in the ground behind your left heel. From here you can swing up and down. This practice drill keeps you from the tendency turning your upper body and tilt back during downswing . The proper way is if the balance of your body is on your left foot. In this case your right hand will move to down and you would be able to chop the ball properly.
2. Learn One Backswing at a Time
Practice one club at a time. Start with the club with the most loft and use it until you have perfected it. For example with your lob wedge you should practice the 8 o’clock backswing (and down) for several times, then the 10 o’clock backswing and finally the 12 o’clock backswing. After that you can take your sand wedge and practice the same three backswings until you have perfected it.
3. Chop but Don’t Stop
The main thing during the downswing of the pitching is to chop the ball with the leading edge of the golf club. You should pay attention not to turn through your wrist before the impact of the ball. Another common mistake is chopping the ground and stopping. After the chopping into the ground with the leading edge you must continue the movement through the ball.
4. Record distance matrix
Make a record about your pitching distances. Take your lob wedge and hit 5-5 balls all the three backswing (8, 10 and 12 o’clock). Put it the distances in a table like this one below. Record the distances with the other wedge clubs, too. You can count also averages of the distances. This will help you on the course to select the most proper club and make the correct backswing for the given distance.
