Golf: Drawing with a Pitching Wedge

Video Transcript

"Okay, we're going to try to show you how to draw the pitching wedge. The pitching wedge, you're normally going to be hitting this club, let's say, ninety to a hundred and ten or a hundred and twenty yards. With a draw, which is a controlled hook, a lot of time you could get a little extra distance because the ball is going to roll a little farther. So you have to account for that in your calculations of where you want to put the ball and what club you want to use. So normally if you might use a nine iron for a club, a shot, if you're going to hook it a little bit, you actually maybe can use the pitching wedge. So it adds a little bit of distance to your, to your shot. And it's a good wind cheater depending on which way the wind's going, and so on and so forth. But how you're going to hit this draw, which is really a controlled hook, the ball's going to start out to the right, and then it goes to the left because we're going to put a little different side spin on it. Now keep in mind that the higher the loft of the club or the shorter irons are going to get more backspin because they have a lot of loft on them. So you're not going to get as much side spin as you would on a three iron. But, so what you want to do is, I'm now lined up straight to hit the ball, but now I'm going to aim to the right. So you see how I shift. So now I'm aiming to the right a bit. But then I close the club face. So I take it like that and turn it. So this will produce more side spin and should produce a nice, gentle, controlled hook, I hope. Okay, so that is how you draw the ball. It takes a lot of practice to get this shot down precisely, but there's a lot of good uses for it."