Rhymth Swings For Distance Wedges

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This is the distance wedge rhythm swings, so I tend to use rhythm swings to

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help sync

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things up.

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One of the beauties of the rhythm swing is that if you have to make multiple

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swings

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back and forth, then what's going to happen is I'm going to have to stay pretty

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balanced

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and rotate this motion from here.

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If I was to just fire my arms, what'll happen is I might be able to hit it once

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that way,

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but I'm going to be out of position to start decelerating the club, and so it's

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going to

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take a pretty big effort to reset.

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If I'm used to just firing my arms, then what will happen is I will fire, kind

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of stop and

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come back, where in these rhythm swings, if I'm using more of my core, I can

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smoothly

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get the club swinging back and forth, not just through the ball.

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With the rhythm swing, I like to do three or four balls here, I've just got

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some divots

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from another video, so we're going to do three balls instead of four, and then

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I'll show

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you one alternative that we can do.

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On this, I'm trying to stay stacked, I'm looking at the ground contact, and I'm

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trying to get

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this feeling of my body and arms coming through together once I feel like I

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have a good sense

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of it, and I'm going to go a little bit.

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You'll notice on the distance wedge version, I actually try to go a little bit

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bigger each

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swing rather than just purely duplicating it.

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With the full swing version, I usually do this in kind of nine to threes for a

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slightly

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different purpose, and I'll usually keep it where we're doing the same length

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swing.

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I think that by taking the different length back swings, it kind of challenges

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you and

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helps you connect or isolate the rhythm from the length of swing, and helps you

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feel that

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transition feels a little bit smoother and slower, and the follow through feels

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a little

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bit more blended.

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The other option that we can do is, so option one was the three balls where I

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get it going

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nice and wide and feel my body, especially my core and my abs, bringing my arms

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and club

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through while my shoulders stay pretty connected and the club in just a little

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bit of motorcycle

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or shaft lean.

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The other alternative is I can do more of a pre-setting impact.

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I use this one more for when golfers tend to get really out of position with

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their lower

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body, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pre-set impact, so there's a

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little bit

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of turn and side bend, but I'm still nicely stacked up, hands are slightly

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ahead, got

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a little reach like this, and now I'm going to get some rhythm, kind of going

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back and

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forth here, and then when I'm comfortable, I'm going to take one step forward

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and feel

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like I, again, hit it with my core, hit it with my abs, and I keep the same

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rhythm.

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If you have a hit tendency, that's going to tend, depending on where it comes,

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it's

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going to cause problems in one or two different ways, either because you don't

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have smooth

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force, it's going to be really hard to control speed, and two, most of the hit

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tendencies

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come from the arms, and when they come from the arms, you're going to tend to

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have trouble

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regulating loft and shaft lean, and so even if you swing at about the same

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speed, if you

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change the loft five, six degrees, the distance may be quite dramatic.

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You could come up 20 yards short or go 10 yards over the green.

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So I highly recommend trying to smooth out the force so that we can control

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loft, and

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the best way I've figured out to do that is by being more stacked and hitting

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with your

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core.

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So if you struggle with more of this hit tendency, then I highly recommend

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adding some rhythm

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movements into your technical training.

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A, oftentimes the rhythm movements become really good playing thoughts when you

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go to the course,

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because they're a little less technical, less mechanical, and B, they help

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integrate using

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your body with whatever you're doing with your centerness, a pivot, or your

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width control,

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or your swing playing, whatever you're working on, adding some rhythm to it can

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help unify

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it into a little bit more of an athletic feel, which can take you out of

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feeling a little

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bit too technical.

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So I'm a big fan of using rhythm swings with wedges, putting iron play as well.

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This is how I like to do it distance wedge, either the four in a row where you

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're gradually

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increasing the length each shot, but keeping the same tempo, or getting used to

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your lower

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body being a little bit more stacked underneath your lower body and the rhythm

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of your core

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in your body connecting to where the club hits the ground.

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Try that to improve your distance wedges.