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The most critical position in the golf swing is the impact position. The impact position is similar with all great golfers. However, higher handicap golfers al-most always have poor impact positions. Everything you do to improve your golf swing must revolve around a better or more consistent impact position. The best way to develop a good impact position is to develop the skill of hitting a pitch shot. Specific to the pitch shot is the degree of hinge between the club shaft and the left wrist position. The wrist acts like the hinge between two levers (the lead arm and the club shaft). The distance you will swing the club back will depend on how far you need to hit the golf ball. Imagine the face of a clock and you are in the middle of the clock. The starting position of your left arm would be 6 o’clock. In learning this technique, we want you to take the club back until your left arm (for right handed golfer), is close to the 8 o’clock po-sition and in the forward swing the left and right arm are in the 3 o’clock position. In the 8 o’clock position we also want the toe of your sand wedge to point up to the sky, “toe up.” The shaft of the club in the 8 o’clock position will vary depending on the require-ments of the shot. The variance in the shaft position is directly attributed to the degree of hinge in the left wrist. For all pitch shots, you would rarely ever need to hinge the club more than 90 degrees. In the 3 o’clock position we also want the toe of your club to point up to the sky, “toe up” with the shaft parallel to the ground. Keep the majority of your weight forward throughout the pitch shot. You do not want to shift back and forward during the swing. This will cause inconsistency in your impact position. Swing the triangle. The left arm, right arm and shoulders form the triangle. When you are swinging the club from the 8 o’clock position to the 3 o’clock position, keep the triangle together by rotating your chest slightly on the back swing and rotate your chest so your sternum is facing the target on the for-ward swing.
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