Leap Frog

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This distance wedge drill is leapfrog, so one of the things that I want you to

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work

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on when you're practicing your distance wedge is different lengths of shots or

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different

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lengths of swings.

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Now I like my students to have kind of stock shots, especially the fewer, the

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less amount

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of time you have to practice, the more I just want you having one or two

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standard distances.

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Say you're 3/4 with your 60 degree wedge or 58 degree wedge is 50 yards,

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practice that

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a bunch.

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And then let's say with the sand wedge it's 70 or 80 yards, practice that a

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bunch.

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And then when you're on the course you can kind of try to take a little off or

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a little

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over your chest height or your 3/4 swing.

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But if you have a little bit more time and you can practice your wedges, let's

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say at

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minimum once a week, from talking with other coaches, I think pros practice

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their distance

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wedges, let's say 3 hours a week, kind of sounds like it's a decent average.

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So if you can do it once a week then I want you to do some type of game.

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So leapfrog would be basically trying to hit the ball different distances each

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shot until

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you get to your furthest away and then kind of moon walking or working the

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distance backward.

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It's kind of like a combo scale, ultimately it comes down to controlling loft

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and the

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speed of the club and the quality of contact.

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But I want you to ideally use kind of the length of swing as your big regulator

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where

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you're going to focus on getting the same impact conditions, the same tempo,

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just different

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lengths of swings to hit the different distances.

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So there's no right or wrong way to do this.

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One way that I like to do it is try to land the ball where the last one

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finished, if you

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have a flat range this works pretty well.

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So let's try.

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So we hit that one, it landed at about 40 and then it rolled to 50.

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So now my next shot I'm going to try and hit it 50.

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So I'm going to try to take this back a little bit further.

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For me that's going to feel let's say an extra six inches or so and that landed

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at about

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53 and that rolled close to 60.

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So now we're getting closer to my 3/4, but again there's no a race button

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wherever it

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ends up.

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That's where I'm going to try to land the next one until I get to the furthest

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distance

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I can hit.

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Oh we killed it.

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That landed 65.

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It rolled to about 70.

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So now we're getting close to my upper limit here with my distance wedge for my

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58.

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Well it's a tiny bit high but I think that's going to be pretty good.

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Hey that was my best one that landed looked like a yard or less from the other

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golf ball.

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But now we're going to have to start, we either go back to the beginning and

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start over or

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we start working it backward.

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If you're working it backward then your goal is to get it to finish where the

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last ball

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stopped.

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So now I have to try to land this a little bit shorter.

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Problem is at the high end they land and stop pretty much where they land and

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stop.

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There's not much release.

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So I'm just going to back this up to about the 60 yard shot and then play

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backward from

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there.

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So 60 yard shot.

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And the reason, you'll see that's a little pull, 62, 63.

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Not too bad but pulled offline.

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Some golfers I find have a hard time speeding it up and some golfers have a

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hard time slowing

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it down.

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So that's why I recommend the leapfrog because you'll see which kind of inflic

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ts you more.

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Do you start to, some people, once they've taken bigger swings then as you

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start trying

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to throttle it back, they start slowing down their tempo and maybe get a little

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bit lazy

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with their pivot.

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So I find doing the leapfrog game reveals some issues and helps you train

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distance control.

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Those are two very good, useful skills to practice until you get really

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proficient with

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your distance wedges.

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And then like I said, I think you could practice it if you're competitive gol

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fer at least once

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a week.

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If you're more of a casual golfer once a month is probably good enough.

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Otherwise just dial in a couple numbers because it's not just about hitting it

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solid, you've

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got to control distance, comes down to loft, speed, and speed is built into the

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length

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of swing as well as the consistency of tempo.

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We can train all of those with this leapfrog game to kind of the low spinner.

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Not too low, the face is getting dirty and I got a little slide.

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Let's get extra stacked, there we go, call out a number.