Lessons with Butch Harmon
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How To Pitch From A Buried Lie

Try Butch Harmon's simple plan for hitting a basic pitch.

Released on 10/21/2016

Transcript

00:00
Don't you hate it when this happens,
00:01
you've just missed the green
00:02
and the ball is sitting way down in the grass
00:05
and you've only got about 30 or 40 feet to pitch this ball.
00:08
Let me show you how to get ball up in the air
00:10
and land on the green softly.
00:12
First of all I want you to open your club face,
00:14
take your most lofted wedge, play the ball
00:17
about the middle of your stance,
00:19
and what we're gonna do different here
00:20
is we can't take a normal back swing cause we would
00:22
run into the grass here.
00:24
I have to make an exaggerated wrist cock,
00:27
come straight down on the grass behind the ball
00:29
keeping the face of the club open.
00:31
This is what looks like,
00:33
ball about the middle of my stance,
00:35
club face open, pick it straight up,
00:39
no follow through.
00:40
If you place this shot around the green like this,
00:43
you're gonna have a lot more success.
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