Contact Face Spray

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This distance wedge video is using face spray for your distance wedges.

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So when you're practicing off mats, one of the common questions I'll get is, "

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Hey,

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how can I work on my wedge play when I'm on mats?"

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Because I often tell my students that one of the most important things for

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training your

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distance wedges is kind of how the club interacts with the ground.

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We're trying to get really kind of skimmy, shallow bottom of the swing, even

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though having

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a steep angle of attack.

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That comes from controlling the radius and your stack centers, because that

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helps you

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control the height or the depth.

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Oftentimes, poor wedge players, the bottom of their swing kind of varies a lot

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height

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to height.

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And so when you're practicing off mats, you don't get a solid feedback.

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So that's where I would recommend using some face spray.

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So we'll spray a little bit there.

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And then what we're going to look for is not just consistency, but also

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location, trying

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to get it lower on the face, but also pretty consistent as far as where our

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contact is.

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So we'll show you after each shot.

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So if I just kind of baseline it, that was a little closer to the center.

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So maybe just a touch higher up on the next one, I'm going to see if I can get

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that just

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a tiny bit lower by feeling like my right hip stays just a touch higher.

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And you'll see just slightly lower, about half a groove, but not much.

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But now what I want you to see is, oftentimes on mats, it's hard to get it all

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the way down

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to the bottom, but that can be a good challenge.

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So before I show the bad one, let's see if I can get one where I just

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absolutely kind

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of pick the bottom.

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So there, you'll see those were the first two.

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And then that last one right there, it wasn't bladed, it was on the bottom of

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the club.

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You can see I just got it below.

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So when you're working on depth control and you're working on controlling your

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height,

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face spray is one of the best ways to work on kind of calibrating your feel of

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the club

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face and the turf interaction, that can help you carry it over to the course.

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What some of you will do is if you have a little bit more kind of height drops

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or radius changes,

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then if I hit a little bit kind of, it wasn't so much that I hit that fat, I

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actually hit

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that decent, but I hit it deep.

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You might not have heard it on the video because it was ball first contact.

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But you can see if you look at the face location, I would be thrown off if I

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was just practicing

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by myself because I felt like I hit that pretty well.

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I hit a quality shot, but you can see how high up on the club I hit.

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What that means is that basically I had some decent angle of attack in shaft

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lean, but the

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club continued to travel way down as opposed to if I had more of controlling my

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height,

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a little bit more of my extension on the way through like I did on the one

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where I picked

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it clean, then I would better have better height location.

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So I have a lot of students who kind of complain like, Tyler, I can't get, you

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know, there's

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no grass driving range within 20 miles or something like that.

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This is one of my favorite ways to work on distance wedges when you're

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practicing off

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mat.

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Getting not just consistent contact, but low on the face and seeing how well

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you can

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almost pick the ball.

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It seems to have a really strong carryover for controlling low point as well as

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the swing

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depth.

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And those are two of the hallmarks I see with really good distance wedge

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players.

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So challenge yourself when you're practicing on the mats, use it to your

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advantage because

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it's a lot easier to use face spray off of mats than it does off of turf.

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Off turf, you hit it once or twice and it's a mess and you have to clean it and

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respray

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off mats, you can spray it every five to 10 balls or so and you get really good

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feedback.

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So use hitting off mats to your advantage instead of a liability.

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All right, so for fun, let's do kind of like a spinner off the toe.

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See how right there low on the toe, that was pretty good as far as that low

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spinning wedge

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shot.