Motorcycle for Distance Wedge

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This is the motorcycle for the distance wedge.

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So with the distance wedge, it's kind of a blend from the finesse wedge or if

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we had

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a spectrum of we've got the finesse wedge on one end and the driver swing on

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the other,

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it's closer to the finesse wedge, but it does have a lot of the full swing

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elements,

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one in which is it does have some of the motorcycle movement.

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In fact, it tends to have almost the same amount as the full iron swing.

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Tends to have a little less of the forearm supination on the way through, but

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it tends

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to feel like you're still getting some of this motorcycle, still getting some

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of that

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lead wrist flex.

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The timing tends to be a little bit more blended instead of really dynamic in

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transition.

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So for the distance wedge, I tend to see more of the motorcycle happening at

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the top of the

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swing and then just kind of maintaining it, at least until down during the

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release, as

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opposed to dynamically moving into it in transition.

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That dynamic movement tends to add power, but adds a little bit more timing,

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and I just

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don't see that quite as often on the 3D.

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It doesn't mean you can't make it work, but I would say the general pattern is

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a little

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bit more dialed back or blended rate of the motorcycle.

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So what I want you to do, if you look at yourself on video and you have a

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tendency to have the

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wrist kind of more straight up and down, you tend to have really high launching

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kind of

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wedge shots more like that, we're lacking the shaft lean and if you've ruled

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out that it's

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not from the body, then the place where you most likely are going to have to

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look is at

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the wrist and the shoulders, and this motorcycle move is one of the key ways to

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get a little

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bit more shaft lean from the arms.

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You can see when I do that, that moves my hands slightly ahead.

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If I do that movement during the backswing, and then I hit it more with my body

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turn,

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you'll see that that comes out a whole lot lower, and I tend to err on getting

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more of

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a picked contact or more kind of thin.

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It allows me to then be a little bit more aggressive with my shoulder tilt on

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the way

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through, but again, you'll see that launched a little bit lower compared to

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that first

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one where I had more of that wrist extension kind of like that.

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If you struggle with more of your trajectory, fat shots, thin shots, clean

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contact and getting

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a little bit of this motorcycle is going to be really helpful for getting that

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shaft lean.

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Timing of when you're going to do it is more up at the top of the swing.

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From there, you're going to feel like you just keep that motorcycle until about

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here.

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When you're feeling like that ulnar deviation and that cast pattern is really

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starting

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to kick in, and then that combination will help give you that shallow, but

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solid contact

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and give you a little bit more of that shaft lean and that lower flight.

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Let's do a couple of demonstrations on this motorcycle idea, so we're going to

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go up to

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the top of the swing, preset a little bit of that motorcycle, and now we're

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just going

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to feel like we hit this mostly with our body pivot, it wasn't too bad, maybe a

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little

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extra lower body on that.

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Now second progression, we're going to go up to the top of the swing, preset

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the motorcycle,

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and now we're going to feel like as we rotate down, we have just a little bit

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of that cast

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pattern and you'll see I get a little bit more clean contact that way, and even

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though

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there's a little bit of a cast, I still have the feeling of everything coming

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through.

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In this drill, in this shorter shot, I'm going to feel like I kind of keep that

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motorcycle

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all the way through to there, but in reality, if during the release, as I'm

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getting some

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of this kind of unhinged, I lose it, that's going to be perfectly fine because

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my hands

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are going to be far enough ahead that I'm going to get good clean ball contact

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first.

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Now we'll do the last one where we try to put it in dynamically, so we're going

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to have

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just kind of a little blending of it up towards the top and then feeling like

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we keep a little

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bit of that motorcycle with a good pivot and that good shallow arm movement.

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So if you're struggling with contact, or more so if you're struggling with

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trajectory,

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look at the motorcycle to help with quality of contact as well as controlling

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loft and

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shaft lean, those will have a big impact on solid contact as well as trajectory

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for

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your distance wedges.