Brushing The Bounce - Finesse Wedge

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This drill video is brushing the bounce.

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So one of the important concepts for getting consistent with your wedge play is

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building

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a margin of air and part of that is using the bounce properly.

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So the coasting on the way through is part of what helps you get the club to

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just slide

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along the ground.

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You basically want the back edge of the club to slide along the ground for as

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long as possible

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or I'd say minimum couple inches, maximum six inches.

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The goal I give my students is usually about four to six inches of just getting

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the club

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to slide along the ground.

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And there are a couple of different ways that I'll get students to feel the

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club sliding

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along the ground for the first time.

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If they're used to kind of having more of a leading edge or kind of really

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hitting down

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on the ball, we'll do what I call brushing through bounce in order to get the

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club to

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slide along the ground.

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So there's a couple of different ways that I'll do it.

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First version, we'll grab, we'll do one golf ball and we'll just start similar

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to like

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we would do with the three wood or flat spot drill in the full swing.

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We're going to start a couple inches behind the golf ball and then we're just

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going to

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slide through feeling the body or the chest rotation bring the club through.

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So once I have that feeling, then I'm going to try and duplicate that feeling

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with the

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ball there.

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So just sliding the club along the ground.

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So then the second option is I'm going to do it in more of a rhythm drill and

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there's

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two common ways that I'll use that.

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So one would be I get the club brushing back and forth and then while the club

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is brushing,

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I just walk myself in so I can get a sense of what it would be like to brush

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and make

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contact with the golf ball.

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And then similar to what we do in the full swing when we're working on these

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rhythm drills

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is we'll line up a few golf balls and we'll just try to get the club to brush

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along the

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ground on each swing.

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One of the things about hitting multiple golf balls is it's really hard to do

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that with

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just the hands.

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So here I'm getting it brush, getting it brush, getting it brush.

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Just like that.

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Ideally, they'll come off with somewhat similar trajectories, they'll come off

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with somewhat

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similar contact.

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Then the last step would be just trying to do the brush a few times and when I

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'm brushing

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back and forth, I'm feeling it swing back as well as through.

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What I'll end up doing is then I'll set up to the golf ball and I'll imagine

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that I brushed

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it through and then I'll start it when I would feel it swing back and then I'll

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just kind

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of ride it and bring it through to get it to brush again.

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So these are a couple of different ways to really focus on the club, brushing

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the ground

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or hitting the bounce side of the club on the ground.

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If I was to do this with the leading edge, it would tend to literally bounce up

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or come

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up off the ground very quickly.

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So if you find that you hit a lot of chunk shots where you just kind of lay sod

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over

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it or if you hit a lot of thin shots, you may be uncomfortable with how the

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club is hitting

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the ground and doing this little rhythm drill, getting more acquainted with

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bounce and getting

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more consistent with your ground contact can ultimately elevate your level of

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consistency.

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So quick demonstration.

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Regardless of whatever technique I decide to use as long as I get the club to

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slide along

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the ground for that period of time before the golf ball and a little bit after

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it, I'm

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probably going to hit an okay shot.