Half the loft

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This trajectory drill is half the loft, so one of the hallmarks of good wedge

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players

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is they get the ball to launch on a lower trajectory, a good guideline is about

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half

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the loft, so if you're hitting your 60 degree wedge that would be 30 or less,

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so what I

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like to do is create a little visual to help you see what 30 degrees might look

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like.

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So what you're going to do is you're going to look up your irons on whatever

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company's

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website, so for me my Callaway 6 iron is 30 degrees of loft, so I could just

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take the

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club, put it down, so this is the 58 degree wedge, I could put it down and just

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try to

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kind of estimate, but I find that it's a lot easier to do it this way, so I'm

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going to

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take my 6 iron and I'm going to step on it just so that the face is flat to the

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ground,

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which would be right about there, okay, so once that's flat to the ground we'll

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stick

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the alignment stick in so that it pretty much matches it, I'll get that down

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pretty close,

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oh it's pretty close, and you know if you're trying to get really precise with

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this you're

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going to need a launch monitor or you can set up the trajectory gate, but this

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is more

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of just a visual, because if I were to get set up, looks like it's a little

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high, alright,

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so if I were to get set up, you could see that the loft on the sand wedge is

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way higher

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than this, so if you're not used to this type of trajectory, you're going to

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feel like,

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holy cow I'm going to have to do something to lower this loft and get the ball

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to launch

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a lot lower closer to the stick.

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The main things that you're going to look for when you're checking on video is

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you want

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to look for your upper body being stacked slightly ahead of the golf ball, you

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want

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to make sure that your hands are heads ahead, so you've got some shaft lean at

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impact, and

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then you want to make sure that you're not hitting it too deep, or that the

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depth of the

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bottom of your swing isn't too low into the ground, so one of the hallmarks or

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one of

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the tricks is being able to get some of this shaft lean, but be controlling

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your level

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so you're not dropping down too much, so that even though you've got that shaft

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lean,

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the bottom of the swing is relatively shallow and the club is just kind of sk

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imming the

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ground.

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Angle attack can be high, but because the bottom of the swing isn't too deep

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into the

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ground, you're not going to take a massive divot.

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So this is just a quick setup station that I'll use for helping golfers just

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kind of

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visualize it.

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It's a little less sensitive than if you're doing the trajectory gate, so it's

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a quicker

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setup and I find more people are willing to do this one if you're not willing

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to go

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the full nine yards and set up the trajectory gate.

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So now we're going to try, and regardless of the length of the shot that we're

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going

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to hit, we want it to take off pretty close to this trajectory window, so it

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would go

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up and then kind of come out of it depending on how far we're hitting it.

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So again, if you are struggling with it, you're going to look for the major

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things of either

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the shaft being too vertical, that would cause the club or the ball to pop up

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much higher.

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You can look for your weight distribution being too far back or the center of

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your upper body

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being too far back.

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So if you're back here, that will also tend to make it pop up.

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And then if you're in a good position, but you hit it too high on the club, if

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you tend

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to hit kind of really deep, you'll see I hit that plenty fat, which will often

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happen

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when you're getting it pretty deep like that.

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And the ball would actually pop up higher than the stick, usually on the lower

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spin side.

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Now this one is not as crucial.

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The trajectory gate, you kind of have to hit it from dead in line with this one

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because

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we're just trying to match this angle.

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You can continue moving further back and just try to be parallel to the stick

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as it's taking

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off.

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You don't have to actually have it dead in line, check on video and make sure

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that it's

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launching at the exact same angle.

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Okay.

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So a little demo.

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So remember, if you are really trying to get this low launch and higher spin,

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you've got

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to make sure that the face is pretty clean.

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This is already getting a little bit dirty, but it's still a good visual setup

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station.

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So without kind of lunging too far forward, set up with my upper body, a little

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bit more

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stacked, and then just try to get a good one there.

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So bottom of the swing, far enough forward, we'll have to check on video to see

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how close

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that was.

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But that felt like that was on the lower side, good amount of spin, good

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contact, I'd be

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really happy with that.

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So it's a really simple station.

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If you don't want to set up the full gate or you don't have access to a launch

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monitor,

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just take a 60 or your six iron or seven iron, look at the loft online because

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different

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sets, different set makeups will have different lofts and then get it as close

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to that 30 degree

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angle as you can.

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That'll just give you a visual as far as where you want that loft at impact.

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You have an alignment or a loft magnet, or you can just take a T and put it on

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the club.

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I want you to try and model where you would need to be at impact in order to

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get that back

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on.

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In order to get the stick kind of matching, you'll feel like you're going to be

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much more

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forward, your hands forward, as long as you do that wall controlling depth, you

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too will

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get a lower launching shot which will help you with your overall distance

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consistency.