30 Yard Reference

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This wedge video is 30 yard reference so I have a number of students who

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struggle with

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kind of that 30/40 yard shot and one thing that I found has helped a lot of

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golfers is

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having some idea of a reference of about how big of a swing you should take.

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So we'll go through, we'll look at a bunch of or a handful of Torpo 3D files

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and what

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you'll see is that there's kind of this zone where most of these Torpo's have

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figured out

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they need to take their backswing back to about this far in order to hit it 30

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yards.

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What I tend to see is that the amateurs who struggle with this area tend to be

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too short.

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I have seen a couple who will tend to take it a little bit too far but most of

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the time

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these golfers will bring it back to about here and then try to really create

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speed and have

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kind of a big wild acceleration on the way through.

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In order to have more of a consistent acceleration on the way through, most Tor

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p golfers for this

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30 yard shot are going to bring their hands to about belly button height or the

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shaft somewhere

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kind of in this zone here somewhere around shaft about 45.

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That tends to give you enough speed to hit a 30 yard shot without having a

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massive acceleration.

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So by being able to swing a little bit more in rhythm or feeling like you're

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swinging

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at kind of a more constant speed you'll probably have a better chance of

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controlling your distance

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for these 30 yard shots because you won't have to manage how fast you're going

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to accelerate.

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You can just accelerate smoothly all the way through the shot.

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So with the finesse wedges I like to have a couple different swings just like

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we do in

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the distance wedge so I'll have a lot of golfers do one where they bring it

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back to about

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the club head at about knee height kind of right there and then one to about

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hip height

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and then that 30 yard shot at the hands coming to about belly button height and

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as if you

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only had one reference other than your little green side chip shot I would like

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to build

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that 30 yard reference because I think that you can always feel like you swing

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a little

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shorter or a little harder and once you get to about 50 yards 60 yards usually

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it feels

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close enough to a mini full swing that it's no longer a problem.

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It's really for that kind of nebulous 30 40 yard shot that a lot of golfers

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struggle with

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and I find that if you build a reference about how far back you're going to

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take keeping

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your tempo consistency it really helps with dialing in your distance.

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Okay so that 30 yard distance taking it back to about belly button height kind

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of like that

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and then just having a relatively smooth acceleration on the way through the

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two if you're looking

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at yourself on video I'd recommend doing this one from a face on camera and

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what I want

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you to look for is if you're doing if it's kind of a short shot and then you're

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trying

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to speed it up you'll see I did that with a lot of leg or arm action or

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occasionally

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for golfers you get really steep they'll on this 30 yard shot pick it up and

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almost do

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like a full swing and then try to really flip it on the way down.

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So if you're going to have more of a smooth consistent tempo than as a

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reference I'd recommend

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this kind of this checkpoint here of the club at about a 40 degree angle 45

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degree angle

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with the hands at about belly button height a little higher launch but good

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distance.

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Last little point this can be a great distance to coordinate with your tempo of

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a one two

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kind of smooth acceleration rate on the way through and then training yourself

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to just

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keep the tempo the same and just adjust your distance to hit it a little

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further or a little

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shorter.