Goal 3: Distance Control Overview

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Welcome back, golfers, here we are with our third goal, a little typo there.

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Our third goal in the distance wedge section is learning how to control

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distance.

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So if we've built this stock swing where we're getting really solid contact and

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launching

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it through the trajectory, then we have to figure out how we're going to

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influence our

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distance.

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I have up here that I want your three-quarter swing to be your baseline.

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So with all your wedges, your three-quarter swing kind of right up about chest

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height,

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kind of the hands, even with the shoulder or something like that, that's going

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to tend

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to have more of your kind of one hop and stop.

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It has to be it's one of the more like easy or classic kind of ideal loft

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delivery spin

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as well as spin, where when you do a little shorter, you have a tendency to not

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get enough

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spin and the ball rolls out.

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When you do a little bit longer, not only does your contact get a little bit

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worse, you tend

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to have a little bit harder time with trajectory control, and if you do have

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good trajectory,

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you tend to have a little bit harder time controlling spin.

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So the three-quarter is going to be the baseline distance, and then you're

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going to have your

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nine to three, which is more of your low spin option, or your half swing, which

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is more

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of your low spin option.

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This is great either into the wind, or if you have a lot of green landing it

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towards

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the front and releasing it to the back, then we have our default option.

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This will tend to be a little bit more of a hit and hop and stop, or hit and

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just kind

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of barely release, and then the full swing option will tend to be our higher

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spin option.

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So this would be maybe if we have to bring the ball back, if we have enough

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club head

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speed, or if we just need the ball to hit and stop, say carry a bunker and land

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soft

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or something like that, we may default to the higher swing.

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Now I caution a lot of my students that swinging hard at wedges rarely gives

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you more distance,

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so if you do have to have more distance in your elite level player, you

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probably want

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to figure out how to develop a little bit more of a draw swing, or almost like

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a hook

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release style.

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That's how we'll get our maximum distance if you ever need to squeeze an extra

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five yards

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or so out of your full swing wedge shots.

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With all of these, this is focusing primarily on length.

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The other two variables would be looking at contact location and loft,

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hopefully we've

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taken that out of the equation because of the first two systems, so then the

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last one

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is going to be working on more rhythm swings in tempo.

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So with all of these shots, when you're looking at controlling distance, the

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length of swing

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as well as the tempo or your biggest influences, and we want to have tempo

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become more standardized,

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you might have two different options, but for the most part we want tempo to be

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pretty

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standardized, and then the major influence of how you're going to hit the ball

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further

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is by controlling the length of the swing.

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I'll show you how to do that as well as some games you can practice to kind of

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dial in

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the swing here in this section.

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So in the next session, we will cover analyzing your swing on video.