Goal 2: Trajectory Control Overview

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Hey golfers, welcome back to the second goal working on your trajectory and we

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can combo

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in that working on spin.

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The goal with your wedge shot is to get the ball with your distance wedge shot

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is to get

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the ball to launch through a window somewhere around 30 degrees or less and to

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have a high

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amount of spin.

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So one of the interesting things is for distance control it seems to be really

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helpful to come

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out and kind of be consistently hitting that same window regardless of whether

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it's a

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40 yard, 50 yard, 80 yard shot.

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So in order to get that trajectory we need to have some shaft lean, we need to

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have your

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impact line pretty good where your upper body is stacked on top of your lower

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body and we

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need to then be powering it more from the body compared to the arms which

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involves going

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into more extension of the rib cage and upper back through the ball rather than

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staying flexed.

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So in order to get this to launch low enough I need to have the handle forward

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but if I

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had the handle forward and was hitting it with the arms or the body was back

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which would

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cause it to kick like this you could see how not only would the loft change but

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the height

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of the club would change.

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It would be going down into the ground too much which would encourage you

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hitting it

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higher on the club which would give you less spin as well as potentially cause

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a launch

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angle to get too high.

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So instead we want to have the body kind of bringing the club on more of a

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sweeping motion

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through.

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In order to do that the spine will be going into more of an extension position

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so that

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everything can stay stacked up.

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Basically if I was rounded like this then what will happen is if I was rounded

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then

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as I turned through my upper body would tend to move too far forward.

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So what most people do is if they are rounded like this then their lower body

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moves forward

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which keeps this more in line but creates too much tilt which actually moves

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the low

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point backward.

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Instead what we want to have is a blend of rotation with extension.

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That extension move helps brings the arms through where when you stay more flex

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ed you

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will have to have more of this really big change in the arm radius so the

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shoulders will be

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going more like that.

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So in this section we will give you drills to kind of work on the four key

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components

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there of getting trajectory control.

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But if you just want to kind of go through trial and error you can always make

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the classic

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30 degree setup so over here we have got the standard 30 60 90 triangle so you

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have the

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opposite side the height of the gate is going to be at whatever height we are

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going to call

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that X.

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So if you use an alignment stick this would be kind of the alignment stick

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height and then

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you would put the golf ball one point seven three one one and three quarters

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alignment

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sticks from yourself to the golf ball or about two alignment sticks from the

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golf ball to

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the top of the stick in a straight line so that gives you just kind of a rough

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window

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if you are using some alignment sticks or pool noodles if you want to get real

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fancy

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you can use some PVC pipe to create a little bit of a gate.

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But that will help us with our trajectory window.

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If you just set up that you will start to see man I have got to get some shaft

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lean and

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if you do that in a bad way you will get higher launch or you will get really

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diggy

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divots and you will not necessarily get the right spin.

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So to get that shaft lean in keep everything coming through you are going to

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have to have

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the body pivot working really good.

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So again the trajectory control comes down to the loft of the club the contact

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location

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as well as the angle of the attack.

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We can influence these with our ball position and then we can start to get

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risky with a

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changing club face angle.

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You do not see a ton of that on the distance wedges it is a lot more of a

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variable we use

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in the finesse wedge shots but if you recall changing the launch angle which

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the loft will

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have an influence on has a big impact on distance.

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So I see some golfers who maybe they are stock distance wedge at like let's say

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a vertical

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shaft goes about 60 yards and then they are like I am going to increase the

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face angle

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open it up just a little bit and now it only goes 40 yards and they missed the

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green.

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So I think there are better ways to play around with trajectory rather than

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just opening

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the club.

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So we talk about that in this section as well as the release styles of how you

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get more

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of a release with your body and your arms and less of a big release from your

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shoulder

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blades that messes up our contact as well as our contact location.

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So this is big skill number two working on trajectory control sets you up for

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then working

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on distance control which is what we are covering in the next section.

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If you have already done either the putting or the finesse wedge you probably

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have a good

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idea of how we are going to control distance but it is hard to control distance

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if you

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do not learn how to control trajectory and spin first and this section is going

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to really

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help you understand at a deep level how to influence those variables.