When your short game is great, your score will be lower. But finding the golden touch for your 50- to 125-yard pegs can be challenging, with many amateurs struggling to find any kind of consistency.
But Parker McLachin, aka “Short game chef” Here to share the ingredients to improve your peg game.
In the video above, McLachlin focuses on the stacking and tilting method when hitting a wedge ball between 50-125 yards, saying it’s ideal for distances like this because it “pushes you forward,” making it ideal for hitting a wedge ball.
“As your weight goes forward, it allows you to hit that ball, allowing that ball to come out lower,” he says. “All the best wedge players in the world hit low wedges; especially from 50-125 yards. So we want to smash our wedges, maybe lower than you can imagine.”
In order to do that, McLachlin says it all comes down to something simple: preparation.
“We want to bring our weight a little bit forward in the heading. This will match the position of the ball a little bit forward,” he says. “It’s going to allow for a nice downward attacking angle, it’s going to allow me to make good contact with the ball, and it’s going to help me get that ball lower.”
By following these tips, McLachlin says you’ll avoid hitting those higher-profile wedge shots from 50 to 125 yards—which tend to sail on a player, and risk flying into the green. It also does not allow the player to have as much control as a low-flying shot.
“I don’t want to see a shot from 70 yards that’s really high,” he says. “We want to be able to control this thing, so we want it to come out low, and it’s going to have some spin.”
So try the stack-and-tilt method during the next round. Not only will you have a better angle of attack to hit the ball more cleanly, but you’ll also have better control, leaving you with closer shots to finish the hole with.
For more tips from Short Game Chef, visit Check out McLachlin’s website.