Orange Whip Distance Wedge

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This drill is the Orange Whip Distance Wedge.

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So the Orange Whip Wedge can be really helpful for rhythm golfers.

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If you feel like you kind of get bogged down with positions, then just kind of

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feeling

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the extreme flex of the shaft can help you find a rhythm that tends to help.

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Now most of the time, when your rhythm gets off, it's mostly because your upper

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body is

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too active and you're not using your core enough.

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Usually your centers aren't stacked as well, but most of the time if your tempo

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gets really

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off, it's because the arms are too active, especially the shoulders, and the

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core or

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the body is not active enough.

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So when we're doing the Distance Wedge version, so this is the Utley Orange

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Whip Wedge, our

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goal here, we're going to do kind of our 10 to 2 or more of our shoulder height

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swing,

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our goal here is that transition feels really smooth.

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What I'm trying to feel is I'm trying to feel that the club loads and then it's

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unloading

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kind of early in transition and I'm matching it so that it doesn't kick all the

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way and

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get like this at impact.

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It will, but that will be because of what my body is doing, not because of what

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my hands

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are doing.

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Alternatively, if I get up to the top and I really pull down, what I feel is

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the club

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kind of lags behind a bunch, the club goes behind me like this as I'm pulling

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down and

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then it feels really awkward to try to kind of time it down at the bottom.

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So we're going to demonstrate a few here and the main goal, we're going to do a

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couple

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of different length swings, but the main goal here is to feel like transition

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is really

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smooth and surpy and I'm doing that because I'm not pulling too hard with my

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arms, my

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arms are saying more or less connected, keeping that constant radius and then

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getting more

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of the power from my core.

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Kind of like that and you will notice from the down the line video, if you

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match it up

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and you get a little bit of the motorcycle to help with shaft lean, you will

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get it to

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go pretty straight.

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If on the other hand, I get up to the top and I swing really hard, you'll see

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that the

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face, so I pull down a lot harder on that and what ended up happening was the

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face ended

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up staying behind because I hit it with too much lag and that lag happened

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because of

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the flexible shaft and me not giving the club head a little bit momentum there

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in transition.

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So now we'll do a fuller swing, so you see it's not just effort but masking or

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kind of

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making sure that you get the smoothest and the proper technique.

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Now we'll do a bigger swing and that launches nice and straight and that felt

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like I had

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to have a much smoother transition.

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So if you're, I'm not a huge fan of training aids for the sole fact that oft

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entimes they're

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something that I want you to only use for 15 minutes or so to kind of get a

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feel and

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then apply that feel.

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But the orange whip wedge is one that I do think can help you get reconnected

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like it's

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one that you can go back on multiple times and so it's one that I tend to like.

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I use it occasionally myself and pretty frequently with some of the students

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who tend to be more

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rhythm focused instead of kind of position or feel focused.

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So let's do one more, stack it up nice and smooth, wait for it in transition,

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pretty

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good one there.

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So you can use the orange whip wedge to help work on the smooth force component

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of your

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distance wedge pattern.