Finesse Wedge Set Up

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This drill is looking at the set up for the finesse wedge so the two major

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components to set up are going to be our body posture and then our grip and

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arm posture. So the set up as far as the body goes is fairly simple. You're

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gonna

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want to put your feet about a club head width apart. We don't really need a

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whole

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lot of weight shift in this swing so we're going to bring our feet together to

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help our body control low point. By having the feet together you're not

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going to have the same kind of desire to create any real lateral movement. That

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'll

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help us create more vertical movement which will help with the cast release

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pattern. So feet about shoulder width apart and then the spine is going to be

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fairly vertical. So with the full swing we tend to get a little bit of access

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till especially as we start to get into the longer clubs just a bit but we

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always want to keep that spine relatively stable or relatively neutral and have

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more of the pelvis control. Well for this shot we want to be relatively

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vertical and we want to be just slightly open. One of the one of the dangers

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for

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wedge play is getting too much inside or too shallow and frequently that

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happens

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from having the shoulders too closed. Now a big influence on that is going to

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be

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the grip but we'll get to that in a second. So with setup we've got the

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feet shoulder width apart. Weight is fairly neutral to slightly favoring the

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front leg. It's not going to be 100% on the front leg because when most people

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try to get 100% on the front leg they're going to lean their body forward like

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this. Instead what we do is by having just a little bit of rotation compared

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to the lower body. That's going to position more of the weight on the front

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foot but

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not by shifting your lower body. Lower body and upper body are pretty much

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stacked where the upper body is more or less on top of the lower body. Now as

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far

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as the grip goes we are intentionally trying to be weak with this shot and

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we're trying to have the bottom of the swing pretty close to the golf ball. We

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're

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trying to use the bounce. These are three things that we don't really do with

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the

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full swing so we're going to adapt our grip slightly. With the normal grip

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where

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the hands are rotated a little bit more on the right side of the body you can

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see

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that bias is me to put my right shoulder low and that bias is me to want to

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have

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some shaft lean so the face isn't too closed. This makes it hard to then have

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that normal grip and get in the body position that I talked about because if

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I get in that body position with my normal grip that club face is about 20

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degrees closed. You can see it's pointing way over there. So what we're going

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to

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do is we're going to use a weaker grip especially with the trail hand where the

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trail hand is more on top. That trail hand getting on top helps with that

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getting

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the lead shoulder to be a little bit more closed kind of like this. So I'll

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exaggerate it. There's my stance kind of like that and now that sets me up for

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all the movement you know the kind of more of the stacked backswing and the

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cast pattern where the upper body tends to stay in that T position and just

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kind

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of go forward and up and the arms are going to cast but we get into that in

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some of the other drill videos. For this video all we're looking at is set up

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so

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we've got the feet shoulder width apart. Pretty neutral spine but slightly

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rotated and weaker grip where the right hand especially is more on top of the

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club instead of towards the side like your full swing. If you do that that's

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going to make it a whole lot easier to control low point. Use the bounce make

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solid contact which allows you to then dial in your distance for these finesse

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wedges. So exaggerating everything's pretty stacked just going to rotate a

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little bit right hand is more on top so that my shoulders are level instead of

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if they were stronger that tends to make them rotate the other way and then

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I'm just going to make my normal little finesse wedge swing. So that'll help

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you

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with your distance control around the greens. It all starts with a good finesse

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wedge setup.