Cast Pivot for Distance Wedges

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This drill is looking at the cast pivot for wedges specifically we're going to

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talk about

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distance wedges in this video. Now the cast pivot does relate to the finesse

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wedge but we're

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specifically going to talk about the the pivot for distance wedges which are

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typically between

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about 40 yards and 100 yards for most golfers. We know that we want to have

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more of a kind of

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coasting kind of supported slower movement of the body when we get into the

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distance wedges.

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What I see on 3D is that typically good wedge players show more of a cast

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pattern and I've

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I've talked a bit about the cast pattern being an early movement of the arms

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and more of a

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stabilizing unit of the body but I want to get into a little bit more detail

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because we've had a few

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questions recently about how do I control distance with my distance wedge? How

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do I you know control

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my low point? Basically what's the difference between the distance wedge and

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the stock full swing?

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So with the distance wedge we're going to talk about this cast pivot. The cast

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pivot involves a

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couple movements that you might not think would work well with a good pivot but

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let's start by

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looking at what are the problematic moves right? With a distance wedge we're

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trying to get the

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bottom of the swing right at the golf ball. We're very close to the golf ball.

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With the full swing

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we're trying to get the bottom of the swing well out in front of the golf ball.

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With the

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distance wedge we're trying to launch it low with high amount of spin. With the

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full swing we're

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trying to launch it higher with low spin so we can see that we're starting to

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come up against

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some opposite objectives even though we've got a similar looking golf club. The

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other thing is with

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the steeper lie angle and shorter club that naturally changes the steep shallow

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balance and

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makes it a little bit steeper. So with the pivot for the distance wedge to a

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company or to satisfy

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all these factors the pivot is going to be a little bit more of the upper body

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going up and the upper

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body going forward primarily during the early part of the downswing. So I feel

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like the trigger

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is a little bit more vertical like I'm pushing against the ground almost like I

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'm trying to stand

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up and turn like so and by doing that when I start putting more of that

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vertical movement in

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that's going to help my arms cast and get the club low to the ground which will

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help create low

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point right at the golf ball or just in front of the golf ball. Compare that to

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the full swing where

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I'm going to have a little bit more of that drop so that my body can rotate

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there I'm pushing a lot

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more laterally so that I can pull on the handle and create some good lag and

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shaft lean so that

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then when I extend my arms the bottom of the swing is well out in front of the

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golf ball.

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So again for distance wedge I'm going to feel a little bit more of an up and

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forward pattern

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so that I finish in a good tall everything facing the golf ball pattern as

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opposed to a

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really good hip slightly ahead of my lower body or hip slightly ahead of my

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upper body

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in a good bracing pattern. So we'll demonstrate just the pivot movement I'm

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going to take my

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arms place them across my shoulders I'm going to make a little backswing while

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shifting just slightly

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towards the target and then I'm going to focus on this upper body going up I'm

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going to focus on

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my right shoulder kind of staying high it's going through just like that. So in

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full speed

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kind of like that where basically it's feeling like that right shoulder stays

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high as it rotates.

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Now you'll see from the down the line that that's subtle but it's subtle

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compared to the drop

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that you'll see a little bit more when I'm hitting shots with a 7 iron or lower

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. So what we'll do

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is we'll then combine that cast release pattern where basically I'm just

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letting those arms extend

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and I'm going to use the body working a little bit more vertically to help

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trigger those arms

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extending to help control the bottom of the swing and I'll use the rate of my

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body rotating

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to help control the distance. So then from down the line you it will look very

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subtle but it shows up

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pretty clear on 3D that there's a good amount of lift and a good amount of

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moving slightly away

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from the golf ball during the downswing. So it's a little bit of a stand-up

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movement which I put

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more in the cast pattern. So if I did let's say the hip height position would

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look something

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like that and then if I went into my 3/4 it would look a little bit. Now I kind

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of ratcheted up

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my acceleration rate so that wasn't the greatest shot but you could see the

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overall pattern.

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That will help me with the solid contact and really that'll help a lot with the

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turf contact

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and by making solid contact both with the turf and the golf ball that'll allow

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my brain the

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ability to develop feel. Now from the face-on we're going to have a little bit

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more or you'll be able

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to see a little bit of that upper body staying taller is what a lot of guys

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describe it as or

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the right shoulder staying high but what is really happening is the upper body

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is moving a little

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bit more forward and up to help trigger the arm extending.

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Kind of like that. If you compare that to a little bit more of the full swing

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pivot where I have a

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bunch of lag you'll see that that movement is a little bit more quiet passive

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but definitely more

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vertical as opposed to linear or horizontal.