Bucket Drill

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This is the distance wedge bucket drill.

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So in this drill, we're going to work on the constant radius.

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So if you recall, the big goals for creating consistency in solid contact are

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working on

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having the stacked centers and working on constant radius.

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The constant radius is basically maintaining a similar distance of the grip of

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the club

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from your body.

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And that's mostly going to happen from controlling the shoulder blade.

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So if you don't have a bucket, just a range bucket or a small waste bucket, you

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'll see

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why I prefer it, then exercise ball works pretty well as well.

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But our goal is to connect the arms and the chest into kind of one unit.

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So we'll toss this off to the side here for now and we'll do it with the way I

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prefer.

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The reason I like the bucket is it has this nice flat edge, so I can have the

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flat edge

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up against my chest and then I can have my arms follow the taper of the bucket

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so that

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they can still get together.

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So now, this exaggerates some feels, obviously.

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But it does a great job of forcing you to feel like the arms stay straight,

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especially

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the two places where the shoulders tend to collapse would be once you get past

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parallel.

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So when you go into your longer kind of distance wedge shots, when you go from

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the kind of

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takeaway phase more into setting the club, that's when the arm can kind of get

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behind

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or the lead arm can really pull across your chest, this prevents that.

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As well as in transition, if you get too aggressive with your body and your

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arms get stuck behind

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you, then that will cause some more flip down to the bottom and radius change,

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it'll also

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cause when you have that flip, you have a rapid acceleration, if we recall our

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goal with

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these wedge shots is smooth application of force.

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So here we've got the bucket we're holding in between the biceps, but we're

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also staying

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connected with the chest.

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Now depending on the size of the bucket, like this one forces me to reach a

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little bit.

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So I might only do a handful of these just really focusing on getting this

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feeling of

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more body turn and width at the top.

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So there we have a decent feel, kind of like that, where we're going to feel

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everything's

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working a little bit more together at the top of the swing and in transition.

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It's going to feel wider and hopefully it's going to feel a bit smoother.

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So let's do one more of those, holding the bucket in place, staying nice and

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stacked

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and then feeling some width, just kind of like that.

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And you'll see you get a little limited in how big of a swing you can take, but

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on the

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next one, I'm going to try to push it a little bit.

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And that's one of the ways that I like to use this drill is I'm going to try,

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that was

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my comfortable length, kind of doing more of like a larger nine to three.

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But now if I try to take a bigger swing, I feel that right around there, I

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wanted to

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pull that arm a little bit behind, but the bucket restricted me.

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So it gives me more of a feel of using my core and my ribcage.

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You can hear me quoted a bunch, but I remember reading somewhere that Sam Snead

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described

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hitting his wedge shots with his obliques, that's one of your ab muscles.

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And when you use your arms a lot, you're probably not going to be using your ob

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liques

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as the main engine.

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So once we have a feel with the bucket, then we can try to recreate it with no

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object.

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But I'll show you why I prefer the bucket to the ball.

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At least the ball that I have is quite small and in order to get it all the way

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up against

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the chest and kind of compress it, it feels like my arms are maybe even a

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little bit artificially

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close or rounded to get into that position.

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Usually when I'm using the ball, it's more down in the forearms and holding it

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just in

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the forearms doesn't necessarily prevent the arm getting behind you.

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So this is not a bad alternative, you just have to be a little bit more careful

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when

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you're using it.

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So once we have this feel of more of the width from the bucket, then we can try

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and apply

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that feel kind of like that on your various distance wedge, whether it's hip

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height, chest

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height, shoulder height, this will help you with your constant radius and

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overall solid

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contact.

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You'll notice that most of those had a pretty good trajectory and you can

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barely tell where

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I was hitting because I took nice shallow divots, that's part of the benefit of

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having

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this constant radius.