[birdie_man]

For a bread and butter 40 yard pitch shot, does anyone find that the standard TGM pitch (max compression, no leakage, mashing it down, stop at both arms straight with flat left wrist, the ones you see Ben Doyle hitting a lot in his tape) produces too much compression which means ball doesn't stop on the green.

Brian talked about what he calls the 'Tour Pitch'. It has less backspin than the TGM pitch, but it bites a whole lot more because the ball is struck with less compression, so when it lands there is less momentum to carry to ball forwards (and off the green).

I just open the clubface (me=swinger, BTW).

You can change your posture (shoulder tilt away from the target) & ball position at address to make the ball go higher too.