Use the stack and tilt method to hit perfect wedge shots from 50-125 yards

When your brief sport is great, your scores shall be decrease. However discovering the golden contact together with your wedges from 50-125 yards will be troublesome, with many amateurs struggling to seek out any kind of consistency.

However Parker McLachlin, aka “Short Game Chef,” is right here to share the substances to enhance your wedge sport.

Within the video above, McLachlin focuses on the stack and tilt technique when hitting a wedge shot between 50-125 yards, saying it’s excellent for distances like this as a result of it will get “your strain ahead,” making it supreme for hitting down on the ball.

“As your weight place bought ahead, it means that you can hit down on that ball, permitting that ball to return out low,” he says. “All the very best wedge gamers on the earth hit their wedges low; particularly from 50-125 yards. So we need to flight our wedges down, most likely decrease than you’ll think about.”

So as to do that, McLachlin says all of it goes again to one thing easy: The setup.

“We need to get our weight place barely ahead at deal with. That is going to match up with a ball place that’s barely ahead,” he says. “That is going to permit for that good downward assault angle, it’s going to permit me good ball contact, and it’s going to assist me flight this ball low.”

By following the following tips, McLachlin says you’ll keep away from hitting these greater wedge pictures from 50-125 yards — which are likely to sail on a participant, and threat flying the inexperienced. In addition they don’t enable a participant to have a ton of management like a lower-flighted shot does.

“I don’t need to see a 70-yard shot actually, actually excessive,” he says. “We wish to have the ability to management this factor, so we would like it to return out low, and it’s going to have some spin on it.”

So attempt giving the stack and tilt technique a go throughout your subsequent spherical. You gained’t solely have a greater angle of assault to hit the ball extra pure, however you’ll even have higher management, leaving you with nearer putts to complete off the opening with.

For extra ideas from the Brief Sport Chef, check out McLachlin’s website.

Nick Dimengo

Golf.com Editor