Wedge play benchmarks

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All right, golfers, in this video, we're going to take a look at the wedge shot

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benchmark.

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So basically, our wedge shots from inside of 100 yards.

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So the simplest stat is the up and down percentage.

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If I missed the green, was I able to save par on that shot?

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5% of the time at 100 golf, 2/3 at pro.

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But again, that factors in-- if I'm a really good putter, that can artificially

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hit it.

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If I'm a bad putter, that artificially makes it lower.

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So let's separate putting in wedge play.

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To do that, we're going to look at that proximity or how much was the leave.

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How long was my put after my wedge shot?

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So a leave distance goal, we're going to break it down into a couple different

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benchmarks

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here, or less than 30 or 30 to 100.

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Or inside 30 yards, our goal is to get it inside 8 feet, more in this 4 to 8

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foot zone, especially

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when you start getting into like 10 yards from the pin.

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You'll see that it just gradually increases up until we get to the 100.

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So I usually give most people that target of that 4 to 8 foot zone from less

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than 30

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yards, from 30 to 100.

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We know from the iron play that 100 is 16 feet, so that gives us kind of that

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30, that 10

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to 16 foot zone.

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You'll see when we start getting up towards 100, now there's a much bigger

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difference,

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because at 100 yards, the higher handicap golfers were at about 45 feet, it was

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rounded

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up to 50 to keep it nice and easy for most golfers to remember where you're

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targeting.

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So what we'll see from the putting videos is that if you're not inside 16 feet,

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20 feet,

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whatever it may be, you have a very low chance of actually making the putt,

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even if you hit

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a good putt.

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So then the other way that I kind of, this is easier if you're keeping stats

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like I showed

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on that Excel spreadsheet in the iron play, but if you're just kind of

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benchmarking mentally,

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I usually do 20 yards, 50 yards, 100 yards, because they're pretty easy numbers

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to remember

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for toward range, you got 6 feet, 12 feet, 16 feet.

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So 6 feet double, and then 16 feet we know from the iron play.

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If you wanted to figure out the exact percentage, 20 to 60 yards is about 12%,

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60 to 100 yards

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is about 8%.

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So obviously the closer you get, the harder it is to get the percentage really

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low.

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So that's why these numbers go up, but it gives us this window.

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If you get most of your wedge shots inside that four to eight foot zone, or

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your distance

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wedge is inside that 15 foot zone, you're doing really well.

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But again, pick the numbers that are one step ahead of where you're at.

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And ultimately, because this takes a little less athleticism, it can be more

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frustrating.

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There are techniques that make this easier, and that's what we'll cover in the

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next slide.

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But if you struggle with it, don't think that just because it's shorter, it's

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an easier

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shot.

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In some ways, it's just different skills than, say, hitting a golf ball really

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long.

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Okay, so the technique that relates to wedges, I explain it that to me there

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are three really

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big keys for wedge play, and if you want to get better at wedge play, you want

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to work

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on one or all of these three keys.

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So the centers being stacked is basically your upper body and your lower body

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being more

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on top of each other.

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This one helps with contact location and low point.

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A lot of bad wedge players get too much tilt this way or slide everything too

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far forward

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past the ball that way.

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So centers being stacked pretty much on top of the golf ball, maybe slightly

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ahead.

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On radius is looking at the distance between the grip in your chest or your

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body.

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So you can still have some wrist involved, but I don't want to see the arms

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working way

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around your sides kind of like this, and I don't want to see a lot of kind of

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reaching

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and diving or bending down like lots of level changes and width changes tend to

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create really

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poor low point control.

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And the last one is smoothly applied force.

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Most bad wedge players, especially when we look at distance control, tend to

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either speed

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it up a lot in transition or they tend to speed it up on the way through.

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Usually when you speed it up, that changes the constant radius.

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So you start getting two or three of these things out of position.

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And often when you speed it up, if you lengthen the radius, that causes you to

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tilt back.

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So now we've got all three problems of speed control as well as contact.

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So if you're struggling, you can look at the wedge videos and the wedge program

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Otherwise, when you're looking at your video, you want to look at it from the

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perspective

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of these three keys.

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It's more about contact than I would focus mostly on these two.

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And if it's more about distance control, I'd focus mostly on smoothly applied

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force.

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Or another way of thinking that is you're going to first try to get solid

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contact and

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then you're going to work on loft and speed control to really dial in your

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distance control.

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So in the next video, we'll dive into the last of the four core scoring skills,

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which

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is putting.

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You're almost there, one step closer to being your own best golf coach.