Distance Control Overview

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Welcome back, golfers.

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Let's dig into how to control distance for our stock finesse wedge shot.

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So goal number two is taking that concept of solid contact where we built a

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relatively

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stable or consistent impact position and consistent impact.

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And now we're going to try to do the same thing with a couple different length

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of swings.

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I think at minimum, you need two.

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We could say one is about, I'll usually describe it as the corner.

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So the corner would be like 90 degrees.

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This is where the club goes from going backwards to traveling more upward.

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And on a lot of the 3D graphs, that's where some changes take place.

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So having one distance where you're a little bit below the corner and one where

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you're

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above can be enough, especially if you're just a weekend golfer.

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But I think if you're really trying to reach your potential, you probably want

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three different

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shots or three different length shots.

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So one would be in the backswing, bringing the club up to about belly button

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height,

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or sorry, to knee height, bringing the club kind of right about there.

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About shaft 45 degrees or on the clock surface, taking it to about 10.30.

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Shot number two would be bringing it up to about hip height or about nine o'

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clock.

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And this can be either the club head or you could feel with the hands if you're

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not really

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good at feeling the club head.

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And then lastly would be bringing it up to about belly button height or chest

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height,

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which would be closer to about a 45 degree angle cut like that.

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So with all of the swings, when it comes to distance control, we want to

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understand that

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there are a couple of different keys.

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In order to control distance, we have to control the loft or contact and then

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we have to control

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the rate of acceleration or the tempo and we have to control the length of

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swing.

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Ideally, we're going to get tempo where it's pretty consistent shot to shot and

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then the

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majority of your distance control is going to come down to the length of the

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swing.

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So you really have to practice those two different skills, tempo drills that

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help you work on

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controlling the rate that we're accelerating and then kind of length or swing

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distance

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drills in order to control how big of a swing you're taking.

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And then lastly, we have kind of ways to practice.

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So the most common ways to practice distance are either having some type of

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systematic

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or I'm going to hit it 10 yards typically with a lot of my students with kind

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of a normal

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tempo, let's say normal average build, knee height is going to be about 10

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yards, hip

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height is going to be about 20 yards, belly button height is going to be about

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30 yards.

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So that's why I like setting up some cones and doing 10, 20, 30 or 30, 20, 10

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or then

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throwing random numbers and calibrating where the club or where the ball is

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landing.

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But the basic here, like I said, stroke length and then tempo drills, you'll

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find a couple

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of those for each of them over on the right and then stations you can set up to

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really

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start calibrating your distance.

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Once you've established this, I do think it's easier to maintain than say you

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're full

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swing, it takes maybe one or two practices a week to kind of keep it, but at

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first you

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might have to put in a little bit more work to build it.

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So in the next club or sorry in the next class, we're going to discuss

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trajectory control

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and how do we vary our stock swing with the stock distances.