Breaking 100/90/80

How to score with your sand wedge

By Bill Moretti
With Matthew Rudy
Photo By Darren Carroll
August 2008

Breaking 100

One of the major problems for the 100-shooter is hitting a bad drive and then compounding the mistake. If you're in trouble, you should have two goals. The first is to get out of trouble and back to the fairway with the least amount of risk. That usually means hitting a short iron out of the rough instead of trying to chop at it with a 5-wood or hybrid. Your second goal is to make solid contact on the shot you pick.

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Breaking 90

Many 90-shooters don't take advantage of scoring opportunities, because they struggle to hit full sand-wedge shots solidly. It often comes from dragging the grip end back on the takeaway. To hit good wedge shots, you need to let the clubface rotate open on the backswing, just like it would for any other full shot.

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Breaking 80

Hitting a 40- or 50-yard pitch shot is tricky business even for tour players. The only way to do it consistently is to have a long, shallow impact zone. Even good players have a tendency to come into these shots too steeply.

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Ranked among Golf Digest's 50 Greatest Teachers in America, Moretti runs the Academy of Golf Dynamics at The Hills of Lakeway Resort in Austin. He works with Fred Funk, Tom Purtzer and Joe Ogilvie, among other tour players.

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