Distance Wedge Overview

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Hey golfers, welcome to the Distance Wedge Play program.

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So here we're going to build our stock shot for shots between about 40 and 100

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yards.

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So when it's less than a full swing, but more than your finesse wedge shot.

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So in general, we're going to have the same three big goals.

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We're still trying to keep a relatively constant radius, but we're going to

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have a

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little more bending from the arms as we approach the top of the swing.

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So there's a little bit more change, but down at the bottom, we're hoping to

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keep it

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more in that constant radius pattern.

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We still want to have our stacked centers to help with low point control.

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And we still want to have more or less a smooth force.

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This will now have a little bit more sequencing.

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So there will be a feeling of a little bit more, kind of snap down at the

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bottom.

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So a little less of the coasting feeling, but still more of a smooth swing

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rather than

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kind of the sequence and snap that we might feel with our full swing.

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I remember Tiger describing, if the driver is more of a 10 out of 10 swing, the

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wedge

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field, the smooth force is more out of a four out of 10, something like that.

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Now we are going to have a couple different goals.

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With the club goals here, we're trying to control loft, which will allow us to

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get our

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shaft lean, which will allow us to get our launch angle in the high 20s,

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preferably, or

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maybe even up to the low 30s.

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The shorter the shot, you can get away with it being a little bit higher, but

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one of the

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neat things to see is that for most of these shots, you would think that a 40

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yard shot

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might not go quite as high as the 80 yard shot.

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What you'll end up finding is the launch angle ends up being about the same.

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The max height is different because the speed that you're putting into the ball

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, but the

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launch angle tends to be pretty consistent for a lot of these shots.

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So we want to get some shaft lean hands ahead so that we can kind of minimize

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the turf interaction

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with the ball or before the ball, keep friction high, that helps us get high

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spin.

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And then we want to have an angle of attack somewhere in the five to 15 down

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range at

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the very high end, but somewhere give or take around 10 works out pretty well

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if you're

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going for this lower launch, higher spin speed.

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We'd still have to have to control speed, so it has a little bit more of a cast

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pattern

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compared to your full swing.

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And it definitely has more of the everything coming through together, but maybe

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not quite

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as exaggerated as the finesse wedge.

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So this is kind of the bridge between the finesse wedge and your short iron

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swing.

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So when we start looking at the basics of building our shape or building our

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stock distance

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wedge swing, the basic shape is controlled by the centers being stacked.

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You can see upper body on top of lower body and upper body on top of lower body

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, more

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on top of the left foot rather than on top of the right foot, so a little bit

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of a left

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foot base bias.

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The shoulder plane is going to be a little bit steeper than your driver swing

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or so because

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we're standing closer to the golf ball.

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So it's going to have a little bit more of a feeling of kind of being stacked

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and centered

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rather than shifting off the ball.

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In fact, on 3D we'll see the upper body shift a little bit towards the target

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during both

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the back swing and then the down swing.

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You will tend to see a little bit more of this arm connection, arm width swing,

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whether

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it's kind of rulers or towels under the armpits.

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You see a lot more work on the connection of the shoulder.

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We've got some videos that help you work on the arm width consistency.

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One of the things that helps with the arm width consistency is having a little

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bit of

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the shoulder or arm rotation.

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So a little bit of the arms kind of rotating this way, not as much as you can

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but a little

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bit kind of working with the pivot.

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That helps flatten things out and expose the bounce.

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It has a big impact on your turf interaction as well as some of your timing.

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The cast transition, like I said, it's a little bit more of a cast than the

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full swing but

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less of a cast than the finesse wedge shot.

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So there is a little bit of a tendency of the arms to move kind of with the

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body or the

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arms to move a little bit earlier.

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It has less of a really dynamic feel of the lower body movement.

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Typically, you're going to feel more of that lower body kind of working through

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the ball

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compared to the full swing but it's not quite as aggressive in transition.

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That helps with the cast versus brace kind of metaphor that I use or a coast

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versus brace

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I should say, which is with the full swing kind of having a little bit of this

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bracing

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in that front leg or that firm left side, this has a little bit more of just

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kind of

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a feeling of being posted and vertical as we're going through.

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So the three goals for this program are we're going to still start with solid

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contact.

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That's one of the most important parameters for controlling distance.

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But then you'll see it's inverted.

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The second goal here is actually trajectory control before we get to distance

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control.

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If you struggle, if you have more of a flippy release, lack of shaft lean and

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you get some

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balls that launch high and some balls that launch low, that's going to have a

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bigger impact

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on distance than if you just change your speed a little bit.

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And that's flipped compared to the full swing.

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With the full swing, you're not going to have nearly as much kind of loft

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change.

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You're typically going to have more speed issues or ball speed issues from

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contact that

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affects your distance where in this, with this distance wedge shot, the loft

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control

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and the trajectory control has a bigger impact on your distance control.

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So we're going to work on that first.

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So in the next slide, or in the next video, we're going to take a look at the

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components

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for solid contact.