Hit From The Top - Finesse

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This finesse wedge drill is hit from the top. So hit from the top is a great

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tempo drill and it can also be used to work on your sequencing. So just like in

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the full swing a hit from the top is basically I'm going to take a back

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swing and I'm going to freeze count to two and then I'm going to start down and

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allows me to really focus on what is changing direction first, what is

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powering the swing, what's moving last, etc. So for the finesse wedge whether I

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'm

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doing a single arm release or I'm just hitting normal shots working on distance

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control and tempo, I'm going to take my back swing hold for a two count and

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then

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instead of like in the full swing we're in the full swing I'm going to really

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focus on starting with my body first. In the finesse wedge my lower body is

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going to just barely start first but it's going to move slower so everything is

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going to kind of move together. So in from this hit from the top I'm going to

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tend to feel like that club is going to change direction first and initiate

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even though my lower body is just barely starting. So it'll feel like it all

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goes

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down together. So whether I'm doing one or two arms I can make my back swing

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focusing on all my good backswing pivot ideas and then from here I'm just going

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to extend and let my body kind of turn and support. I'm going to release those

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arms and let my body support it on the way through. This is a great drill for

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working on your tempo which will help a lot with distance control and then what

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you can do is you can transition that into taking normal shots and focusing

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on having the transition be as slow as humanly possible. So like get it to

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where you stop for only one second and then half a second and then you know

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that just little pause which is one of the good kind of thoughts for a lot of

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players for taking their mechanical practice on to the course. So for that

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one it felt like I almost paused. I kind of tried to make that transition as

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long as possible and that transition of letting those arms kind of cast out a

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little bit tends to help with controlling using the bounce adding a

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shallow because if I use my body I tend to get you'll tend to get a little bit

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steep hit leading edge. So if you're having bottom ground contact if you're

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having sequencing issues if you're having distance control issues with the

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finesse wedge try this great tempo drill hit from the top.