30 days ago I watched this video and I wanted to leave a nasty comment for “scooping tip”. I held back and went out and try it for myself. At first, it work ok but I was still fighting the old lead hand drag. After 15 mins I started to use my right hand to push forward like skipping a rock. After 3 days doing this, my buddy noticed I wasn’t chunking my chip. All my chip with a 52* was about 40 yards nice and high landed soft. For 3 years I tried to break 80 and for some reason...this crazy tip got me over the hump. I wish I found this tip 10 years ago, would have saved me years of practice. Sir, from the bottom of my heart thank you for this tip

I’m going over all this older material from Monte. Honestly after watching all of the instructors that you’ve been showing us over the years, Monte gives the best swing theories and mindset to me. Kinda wish you just would’ve stuck with Monte and let these lessons evolve a tad bit more. After working on the swing and trying different swings. I understand what he is teaching now. It’s a little mind boggling because it seems counterintuitive to what other instructors tell you, but what he says makes soooo much more sense now!

Best short game video I've ever watched! Thank you!

The hinge and hold from Phil's youtube video is what's made a great impact on my short game but I think I need to add this 50 yard flip to my game as well. Thanks.

Love the way you teach. I started using your ideas and my golf improved sooooooo much.

I discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and I'd have to say...these videos with Monte are awesome! I've learned more about the swing and short game than I ever thought I knew. The best thing about your videos are that I learned to play on those Long Beach tracts, so I know about those courses. It makes it that much more enjoyable! Please keep up the great work!

Out of frustration with this shot (short pitch) years ago, I gave up and just swung the clubhead, like Monte is showing here. Then I discovered it not only works for pitches, but a bunch of situations requiring very low punches (as in tree recoveries), short spinners, 3/4 knockdowns, greenside chipping, and even high flops. And it can be learned in literally a couple minutes, because you already know how, subconsciously. After that you're just fine tuning feel for the varied shot selections, lies, distances, etc. That, well yes that, will take some time...

Had a lesson last night with my pro on this very same thing. Previous technique was open, back in stance and ultimately steep. This seems so much easier and low maintenance. Will need some time to grove in, thanks for taking the time to make the vid

these videos are awesome guys, keep em comin! Watched this over and over!

Great instruction!!! This really works! There is so much good items to learn here.

I revisited this video a I have been struggling with pitches. It is a phenomenal short game lesson. Monte keeps it simple.

This natural releasing of the right wrist throught the shot is also perfect for driving the ball with your driver, it encourages a good release and allows you to hit up on the ball through impact(key for big drives), just watch David Duval's right wrist post impact with the driver. Duval actually says to improve his driving he practices his pitching action, just the same way Monte is describing in this video.

Some have hinted at doing chips/short pitches with R hand and arm in line with shaft, but glad to see some additional details here to make it possible to incorporate after a load of upcoming practice tnx

YOU are the best teacher I have ever seen or heard - And I seen MUCH

This video explains this Much better and will really help your short game bebettergolf.weebly.com/pitchingrx

This is great instruction as usual from Monte. I've been following you for years and this "flipping" at the ball has allowed me to kick my buddies @$$ now. I've incorporated this in my full swing all the way to the driver and my release is incredible and distance has improved as well. Awesome stuff and yes i do owe you some money for these lessons. Trying to flip the club from the top somehow causes the hips to naturally move out of the way...crazy but it works.

I do this naturally. It's just the proper way to pitch. Holding it off like hinge and hold tends to be manipulated and forced. One thing is the "flip" isn't a flip, it's a release. Actually, you have shaft lean on a proper pitch, but afterwards it releases because of the clubhead's weight, not because you "flip" it. Short game is all feel. Get feel down along with basic technique and you'll be fine

Great channel an love Monte's instruction.

I'd put another like to this vid!! Great stuff

Very helpful tips thanks very much!

Once you start opening up the face you have to be at the top of your game to judge/control distance, and your usually under the most pressure when you try this shot! The 60 deg wedge whilst hard to master vastly reduces the need for open face shots which is why a lot of big hitting pros have a reasonable short game

I love Monte's simplicity. It's basically feel golf. I see more and more teachers going this route and I'm glad. We've all been wasting so much time with technical mechanics. We need to get back the old ways of the old days. Technology is great but it has invented a new game called "aesthetically pleasing swing". We need to get back to "get the ball in the hole in the least amount of shots".

That's ok. I bought Monte's videos and they are FANTASTIC!

monte, this works perfect for me, all last year i was doing hinge and hold with a lot of success but it felt too mechanical and rigid. now i'm just swinging my arms and the hands and club seem to work correctly w/o trying to manipulate. it's like take stance, look at ball and target, swing arms with relaxed hands and bang! a nice chip or pitch. thnx monte...i.o.u. one

This is obviously almost 3 years old, but I have been massively struggling to control my distance and contact on the 20-100 yard shots. Just went to the range and am amazed how well this technique works. Cant wait for my tourney tomorrow! Monte is the best.

Totally the best ever. works like a charm

Thanks for all the great tips.

This is great advice! I have struggled a lot in the past year with long and short game, the problem was being too steep (holding the lag) with every club in the bag , I'm pretty sure it came from trying to hinge and hold on pitch shots and as a result it destroyed my game. It was very gradual at first I noticed a loss in distance then eventually I was hitting fat, thin and shanks! Now I just work on being shallow with everything it is so much more consistent. The key is don't manipulate!

I really like this video and thank you. This should help me become more consistent with my pitching distances. I have always been very steep with my wedges and never know how far they will go ie. 50 yards or 5 yards? The only problem I am having with your new technique is I tend to blade a lot of shots like low line drives? What am I doing wrong? I have ball position off forward heel. I try to take a 90 degree wrist cock but still sculling them? Maybe I am swinging to hard or not watching the ball? Not sure? Thanks!!

loved it!

Is that hold off the Phil mickelson “hinge and hold” move? Also sounds like you don’t like Bobby Clampett and I get that but for bad players like I was, his point to aim to the left of the ball and focus on impact and contact was helpful at the time.

tried it, it works after a while. I had to feel right arm was going to the left through impact? don't know if this is just a feel for me,? but great contact.

Related to what monte says about steep, There are a few trackman vids on how to spin wedges more and they talk about an in to out path to avoid digging.

When golfers learn to ignore all the crap the main stream PGA pros are telling them and just feel the weight of the club with a light grip and their own natural swing movement, the result will automatically be what you are teaching here. This goes for putting all the way to a full swing. Good job here, golfers will do very well to listen to you and apply this technique everywhere in their golf game.

Monte, this swing thought helped me. See if you agree: both arms come down at the same speed. The tendency is for the right arm to speed past the left hand. When I think of both arms going the same speed through impact, my contact is much more consistent. The left arm stays in front of the right arm, because both arms go the same speed.

for pitch shots i like to use the pressure of my lead foot, (left foot for right handed) to determine how far to pitch it. Monte, how active do you use foot pressure for pitch shots?

I was lucky enough to have a lesson with Dan Grieve (coach to Charley Hull) a few weeks ago. I have never been too good with pitches - 6 hcap - and I know it's where I can make a big difference. Monte's explanation is spot on and the technique he describes is the same as Dan taught me. It's taking some time to bed in, but like Brendan, I've been doing it wrong for too long. Shallow hit with a "minivan" acceleration is key for me. I think Andrew Rice recommends a smash factor as close to 1.0 for these type of shots. Perhaps Trackman/Flightscope should rename smash factor speeds as "minivan", "SUV", "sports car" etc!Looking forward to many more videos with Monte :)

Ah the hinge and hold question answered. Yes I find that action very tough. Tiger does it and many others but I always like the Steve Stricker method- very smooth.

What loft wedge are you using in that 50 to 60 range?

Love your channel !

Brilliant! the weight of the club controls the wrist back and through, the wrist does not control the clubhead. Accelerate like a minivan, not a Ferrari. Accelerate leisurely and you will get a consistent ball flight.

this reminds me of Phil Rodger's technique which I took out to the range, and was amazed at the consistency of impact out of the rough. I'm curious as to what Monte feels about Trevinio's approach.

What Monte is talking about is something Phil Rodgers talks about. A great way to hit pitch shots

Monte . i am a 75-90 golfer.great lesson.didnt hear much about ball position.Am i correct that you recommend a more forward ball position,like under my armpit,to get the club face to come in shallow at contact to also promote a higher trajectory?thanks

What I like about this pitching philosophy is that you're in essence doing a "mini" full swing - which means when you're working on your pitch shots, you're also working on your full swing which is great! If I'm interpretating this right....

It’s not flipping , after impact it’s flowing through with momentum , when you toss the ball your flipping without thought , the club is creating a flip through inertia , this is gold Monty 👍 through impact it is solid and down through the ball , not steep using the bounce

and check the A swing from david leadbetter same release technique as this on all shots

This is where it's at as far as short game is concerned. This, together with Monte's "Toss" video. Also worth checking out Shawn Clement re momentum and being target-focused

What Monty is showing is just how its done. I was at the 2016 PGA on the range watching Danny Willett. He was working on finishing the shot just like Monty shows at 14:36. He would hold the finish and then check his post shot position. He had a camera recording this and went back to view how it looked.

this is pitching with the bounce of the club, which has more margin of error. You will get softer and higher shots. This shots should not produce much of a divot either, you are just trying to clip the grass (or as they mentioned - feel like you are hitting up on it). If you add some speed from 40+ yards out, you can really get some zip on this shot. Shorter shots will release a little more. The other method referred to is chipping with the leading edge of the club. It requires the ball be back in your stance and you squeeze the ball against the ground. The shot comes out lower. I also find that it requires less room for error on longer shots. Around the green for chipping is okay, but not ideal for longer shots as compared to using the bounce.

Def agree with hit up

This will help just about anyone. It's a great way to play these shots. The key is to keep the right arm moving thru out the shot. Great video!

I'm a right-handed in life but leftie in golf. When I'm trying this it feels more natural to use my right (front) arm. When I throw a ball or flip a stone over a sea surface my right arm is a bit better than the left . However when I slapshoot in hockey feels is more natural to have the club on my left. I feel awkward using my left (rear hand) in your pitch drill. Do you have any suggestion to me on how I should drill in "The short game secret" regarding left and right.

This is similar to malaska right? Use the momentum of the club

It’s funny because the Steve Stricker/Jason Day approach has helped my short game more than anything. I much prefer to feel no hinge and just rock my shoulders like a putt. Just allow the bounce of the club to do the rest. You can even hit 1-2 inches behind it with that method and still be ok because the wedge slides underneath it. It’s incredible. But I do agree that ball in back of stance and trying to trap it is wrong approach. And fwiw I use Cleveland CBX2s.

Is this a smaller version of the “no turn cast drill”?

Having started golf on pitchnputt the best drill are 1 Towell under Arms 2 right arm only 3 split hands

So let me get this right. This is for pitching only?? Cheers bois, great vid

Monte's short game video was the best $25 I have spent on golf in a long time.

Brendon is there a video on bunker play?

0:24 so funny how you mumbled at the end

check out pete cowens chipping technique its this method exactly with the reason why it works

Every time my short game falls apart I come back and watch this video and it's fixed just from reunderstanding the concept

Signed up for Scheining up my shitcap game in Tacoma WA in August baby

great technique in general but it doesn't really help me on the course i play unless i happen to land on decent grass, we have a lot of loose dirt that gets in the way of the clubface and ball so the bounce technique doesn't really work unless you want to catch it inconsistant alot.

Understand the theory, but you're not necessarily going to be steep just because your stance is open. You're going to _tend_ to be steep if your hips are as open as your feet, and especially if your shoulders are wide open. But that doesn't follow just from an "open stance." People don't understand the point of an open stance in the short irons and short game in the first place. It's really a matter of pre-setting the lower body more like where it would be if the swing were fuller or the club longer and the swing slightly flatter. In other words, it's a pre-clearing of the legs, and for some people, to a lesser extent, a square-to-slightly open pre-clearing of the hips, so you don't have to make a big move with the lower body on the shorter shots. You should _not_ have feet, hips, and shoulders all pointing radically left. Ideally, at impact you'd have the lower body slightly open and the upper body squarish (slightly open or slighly closed is OK). But if everything is aiming way left at address, and you play the ball well back, then yeah, you're going to tend to hack downward at it, in part because you're hitting it behind yourself.

I really do like thse videos...but, I feel they are just a bit too wordy..and not enough instruction!...

pete cowan has some good videos on this also which is basically the same thign as above

In fact he tossing motion is way more technical than instinctive ! What did Newton said ?

He gave you a hint = to go down you have to go up ! Opposites and equal forces Newton's third Law ! That's only one third of the secret because don't forget that the clubhead has to go down ; out and forward meaning that you have to "conteract all these motions !!! Search for the opposites my friend and you will see that i am not hacking you but wants to help !!

I got the "use the bounce" video by monte which is a awesome way to play chips and pitchs, he left so much out tho in this video... But still love this channel keep on posting course blogs bro

Monty is right on here. Try to thump the ground with the sole of the club under the ball.

Like a mini van...not a Ferrari. Gold

My 16yo son is a +1.5 and self taught- weird grip even- and he releases his right hand this way on full swings and pitches. He hits driver 285 carry and has great hands. Sadly, he finds tournaments tedious and lonely all day affairs so he won’t play in college even though he could easily excel in division 1. Anyway like the combo of you and monte. Keep the vids coming thanks!

Around 11:20 it looks like he’s wearing a skirt. Really nice. Your tip is wonderful btw.

8:17. >This one’s that far away, and *that* far away, and **that** far away.” (Man I feel stupid for over-thinking the CRAP out of everything.

do you flip at the ball or after you hit the ball

Like a mini van, not a ferrari-good analogy.

And the no1 set up fault is having the ball too far back

watch mike malaksa lessons

the problem with this is that its fine with the right hand. however a lateral swipe with the left hand is the temptation and that is not right. It took me a long time to cock the left hand in the correct way. Monty knows the golf swing. That guy is lucky to have one on ones.

More example less talk please.

Monte is a no rubbish golf instructor

This is some sage advice that makes sense!

I think you are not fighting the "momentum" of the golf club, not the inertia.

Bobby Clampett does not teach a 50-yard pitch anything like you just demonstrated. He encourages shaft lean, which every great short game player has. You can have shaft lean and still be shallow.

What a huge basket...

"The weight of the club CONTROLS the wrist....the wrist does NOT control the clubhead. How different is that!?

Why do you need 18 minutes video when you could have easily said it in 2?????

"but"

I hate when someone says "if you knew anything about _____ you would have done x". As if the only thing between a bogey golfer and a tour player is knowelge and practice! WRONG. There is a thing callled talent and most don't have it. Having said that many touring pros would be horrible teaching pros! People need to understand the diffrence...Monte is probably ten times better teaching golf than playing championship golf...so what!

Stop flipping cameras

good videos, but you just talk too much. You can skip the whole video and gi to the the last 2 minutes.

Don't bother trying to do all these fancy wegdge shots. Just punch it in, with a hybrid using the hip/pivot motion.

In sand or thick grass, the hands should follow through. Shorten backswing and accelerate through. Phil Michelson said that.

WOW... way too much talking and not enough instructions of how to do it.... 18 min of talking and 20 seconds of example...

Too much emphasis on skill and feeling ! Avoiding the Singularity as usual ! You CANNOT "control your right wrist motion" it is just IMPOSSIBLE to be constant ! Another Monty lesson not pinpointing the real deal