Build Your Practice Plan

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All right, golfers, welcome back.

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Let's go through a real quick summary of what we're trying to accomplish here

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in the

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Building Your Stock Distance Wedge Swing Program.

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We're going after solid contact, distance control, trajectory, and spin.

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Usually, I invert those and we're going after trajectory, second and distance

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control third.

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The three traits of good distance wedge swings are having a stack centered,

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constant radius,

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and more of a smooth force.

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When you are building your training plan, you want to use some of the general

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approaches

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that we talk about in building any of the practice programs.

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So the beginning of the practice is going to be dialing in your mechanics,

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typically with

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whether it's lead leg only or some type of rhythm swing, more of an impact or

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follow

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through check points, some type of drill in order to dial in your mechanics as

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well as

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your trajectory control.

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This could also be the trajectory gate is a good beginning to your distance

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wedge program.

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Then the second phase would be looking at stock distances, either your body

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part and

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swing length, or some students prefer having a few stock numbers that they

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practice.

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By always practicing 50 yards, 75 yards, 90 yards, they have kind of three

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different

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shots that they can adjust off of, so working on a few stock distances, either

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with length

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of swing or just stock distance fields.

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And then doing some type of game working on random distances, so whether it's

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using

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a random number generator, free apps all over the app store, or working on l

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adders and reverse

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ladders.

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So can I hit 40 yards, 50 yards, 60 yards, 70 yards, 80 yards, 90 yards, work

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on 10

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or five yard increments if you're feeling really good, or work our way

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backwards.

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And then start mixing in some leapfrog where you're jumping more than one

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number, so you

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might have randomly going from 40 to 60 to 80 back to 50 working around that

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way.

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Your goal is to get somewhere within tour range we're trying to get to about

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two yards.

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So if I called out hit at 68 yards, an acceptable shot would be anywhere from

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66 to 70.

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With amateurs, I try to give five yards on each side, so trying to hit more of

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a 10-yard

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window.

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If you can hit that, you'll probably, when you're tracking your stats, distance

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wedge

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shots will not be the thing that is holding you back.

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This also becomes important strategy-wise, because if you drive it in trouble,

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I see

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lots of amateurs have no plan of what would be plan B.

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If you drive it in trouble and you can't take a shot at the green, then you're

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ideally

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trying to lay up to one of your stock distances.

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Oftentimes on par fours, that means you're only going to be hitting at 100

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yards or maybe

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a little bit more, and that's doable for a lot of recovery shots.

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So we'll talk about that more in how to play, but when we're just looking at

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how these distance

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wedges affect strategy, it's where you want to lay up when you drive it in

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trouble, or

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where you want to lay up on your par fives if you can't get to a green in two,

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but the

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hole is short enough that you can choose what number to go to.

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So distance wedge can be a very satisfying part of the game, because it's where

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a lot

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of par saves and birdies, you can attack par fives and save par on long par

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fours, and

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that can potentially really keep the momentum of the ground going.

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So in the next program, we're going to take a look at bunker, which is another

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way to

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keep momentum going whenever you miss a green, potentially in the wrong spot.