Many people will try to 'hit the cover' off the ball from the tee box, thinking that that is the best way to improve their score. Actually, a few minutes spent practicing with the wedges and short irons will more often than not yield FAR better results! Also, its a lot less stenuous to preactice for long periods, and often times will bring more admiring looks from your playing partners (and opponents!) than a long drive - and lets face it, length isn't always the answer!
With wedge play the strike itself is really very important. Remember you’re using a club, just like with pitching, that has got lots of loft on so we’re not trying to lift the ball. Golfers who haven’t been playing a long time have trouble getting the ball in the air, because they thin it or hit the odd one fat and behind the ball, or hit a bit of turf behind the ball. Chances are they’re trying to lift the ball up in the air.
Remember, loft gives you height and the golf club is doing that. That’s its job! You just swing the club and get the club under the ball and the ball will go up in the air. Your job is to swing the club, the golf club’s job is to get the ball up in the air with the loft that’s provided by the face of the club. If I gave you a three iron and tried to get you to hit a wedge shot in to the green and make it stop on its second bounce, you’d look at me as if I was an idiot! You’ve got a wedge in your hand that is going to do that job, so make sure you let it do the job it was designed to do.
Swing the club and make sure you strike the ball first. Put the ball in position slightly behind the middle of your stance, just a tiny bit behind, because this way you’re going to make sure you hit the ball first then the turf. Keep the stance slightly open, just a little bit, which just helps you keep that left hip out of the way so we don’t have to do as much body action. Probably if it’s not a full shot we’re trying to do a little bit more hands and arms for a tighter more compact swing. Strike down on the ball. If the ball is in the right position in your stance you’re going to hit the ball first, remembering to turn your body through the ball because we don’t want to just hit down and then keep on digging. We’re not digging for coal! So hit down at the ball and let the body rotate as you go through i.e. turn the body through. Once you’ve struck the golf ball you’ll hear that nice sound, the nice click and you’ll feel the nice strong hit. When it comes down, the ball will come down, bounce once, spin and you’ve got control then.
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