Stork Turn for Distance Wedges

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This drill is the Stork Turn Distance Wedge.

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So one of the old classic distance wedge drills or just wedge drills was

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hitting shots standing

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on your front leg.

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What that did was if you put all of your weight on your front leg, it forces

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you to keep your

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upper body in line with your lower body.

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So it prevents you from shifting too much off the ball or sliding too much on

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the way

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through.

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Both of those create too much tilt for wedge shots, which often results in

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really poor

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contact or timing or poor spin.

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So the distance wedge version of this drill, I like to do kind of above 9 to 3,

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closer

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to 10 to 2, learning to hit the shot with your pivot and not rely on just an

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arm throw.

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So I find that the tricky, there's two parts to this drill that I find they're

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tricky for

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most golfers and when you figure them out, they really help with your

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consistency of

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contact and trajectory.

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One is during the backswing, feeling like there's a little bit more extension

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in order

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to stay centered over this front foot.

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So I'm not just staying bent over and turning because that would move me off

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the golf wall

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and have my shoulder plane be a little bit too level.

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I'm going to try and get a little bit of extension like that.

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I feel a lot more pressure or weight in my front hip when I do that.

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So backswing wise, that's going to look more like this.

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Sometimes when I make a backswing, it's hard to stop from completing the drill.

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Okay, so the second part of the drill is on the way through.

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If you have a lot of effort, if you have a lot of arm hit in the shot and not a

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lot of

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hit from the core, then what'll often happen is your upper body will tend to go

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down and

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kind of round as you're really firing the chest muscles and the arm muscles

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like that.

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So what'll happen is as you go through, you'll have a hard time maintaining

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your balance.

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Good wedge players get a nice blend of rotation and extension, which helps keep

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the upper

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body in line with the front foot kind of more like this or more in line with

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the low point.

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So we're going to try to get some extension on both sides, extension in the

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backswing,

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and then extension while keeping those arms straight into the follow through.

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I do find going into the follow through can be a little bit more difficult,

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especially

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if you're getting into a full finish.

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And especially if you have any kind of balance issues, really tight hips, big

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weaknesses

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in that left glute.

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So I'm in this position, we're going to do this store turn one more.

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So kind of a nice and smooth.

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And what I'm going to do on this wrap is I felt like that was a really good one

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.

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Now I'm going to try to sneak that back foot in place and I'm going to get a

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feeling of

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where I want to be at the end of my swing.

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So I can play around with where that foot is, but I'm really feeling like I'm a

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little

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bit more in this hip.

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And to me, right now it feels like my upper body is a little bit more covered,

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as opposed

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to a lot of golfers might feel like they're a little bit more back like this.

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You can see there's no way I could be back and get into that full finish and

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hold the

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position.

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So the Stork drill is a really good, kind of sneaky drill at cleaning up a

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couple major

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issues for your wedge pivot.

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I recommend using it with both finesse wedges as well as the distance wedge.

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If you're struggling with contact, especially from shifting off the ball, this

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should be

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a big part of your normal practice routine.

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Okay so now let's do a little demo.

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So extension on both sides, try not to hit it with the arms.

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That was a really good nine to three.

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And if I find that I do one good or do one well, I should say, I'm going to put

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that

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trail foot in place and feel where is my weight distribution really feels like

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I'm in

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this front hip.

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Now I'm going to try the inverse of that.

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I'm going to start with the feet normal.

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I'm going to do hopefully about that same length and then I'm going to put the

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foot back.

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Okay that feels about the same, means that I'm doing about the same pivot with

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one foot

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as well as two.

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There's a really good drill for cleaning up the axis tilt and your ability to

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keep those

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stack centers, one of the number one keys for getting consistent contact with

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your wedge