Golf Tips: Easy Launch Angle Setup - Flight Your Pitches like a Tour Player!

Golf Tips: Easy Launch Angle Setup - Flight Your Pitches like a Tour Player!
Launching the ball at the correct angle is the foundation to a great wedge game. It forms part one of a Better Pitching Plan available at the Wedgematrix website by simply signing up for our newsletter.
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[@davehurley26]

Great video 👍

[@twistedbadger24]

Thanks for the video James. My smash is about 1.0 with a 54 deg wedge and reasonable launch (30-35 deg). Should I stick to this wedge and vary swing length (e.g. hip to hip, chest to chest, etc) or change wedges to have a range of options, albeit with different launch conditions?

[@laurencegilford5551]

Looking forward to trying to learn this at my lesson with you 3/10 at 1300!! In Rome for the Ryder Cup, very hot!

[@JamesRidyardGolf]

Hi Laurence, I’ve emailed you re lesson!

[@laurencegilford5551]

Confirmed !!

[@stephenscotney]

Are you saying that rather than change your natural release pattern to manufacture this shot, it is better to use different clubs; e.g. if you have a DJ style flexion extension release you shouldn't change it to hit to the classic tiger supination release that supports a trap draw?

[@JamesRidyardGolf]

For sure, only condition being that the spin rate remains functional. Which it should if the shots achieve the launch with premium balls from good lies.

[@olliehembrough403]

I know that pros hit it lower. But why do they? Are there tests that show it’s more optimal? Or is that they are conscious of getting too much backspin and a lower flight helps negate that?

[@JamesRidyardGolf]

Try throwing a ball underarm to a target and note the trajectory, most likely pretty flat. Then try and hit the same target launching it high, it's harder. I think there's a connection there.

[@olliehembrough403]

@@JamesRidyardGolf Might explain why a lot of decent players fly different irons and similar heights I guess.

[@dabdias]

@@JamesRidyardGolfI was going to ask the same question and I don’t see why comparing an underarm throw with a shot is useful. What should matter is repeatability and it should be equally easy to repeat a lower as a higher launch (without going to extremes, obviously). Spin loft choice should be the important variable, as that will determine how much a ball will roll after hitting the green. For a given desired spin loft there are many feasible launch angles, some easier to achieve than others. Where am I going wrong with this reasoning?

[@JamesRidyardGolf]

@danieldias4073 As spin loft seems to be the hot thing right now I'll address that part. Lower spin lofts produce more predictable spin rates as you move further away from potential slip. As such distance control becomes more consistent.
With regards to the throwing analogy why not test it out? Thinking that something that requires control of launch and touch has little relevance is a little closed minded.

[@dabdias]

@@JamesRidyardGolf thanks. I get the spin loft point you make, but how does that relate to optimal launch being around 30? On the throwing analogy, I have tried doing that and I find it equally easy to control distance with a high or low trajectory. My point is that with clubs with different lofts higher or lower trajectories are even easier because you can just do the same swing and change club. Going back to the optimality of launch, how about why is 35 or 25 not preferred to 30? Or why would 40 be bad? Should optimal launch be a function of distance?

[@jamesnewberry8872]

He boures you to death 😢

[@jamesgriffiths9107]

Boures 😂😂😂😂😂

[@JamesRidyardGolf]

And yet here you are, winning the spelling bee