Single Arm Swings - Finesse Wedge

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This drill video, we're going to explore the single arm releases for the fines

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se wedge.

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So I'm a huge fan of breaking apart the release to kind of see what the brain

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wants to do

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with each arm.

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So whether it's full swing, putting, I like to split them apart.

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So when we're looking at the finesse wedge version, we want to keep these three

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big parameters

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or these three big goals in our mind of constant radius, smooth, force, and

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stack centers.

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So we're taking care of the stack centers with our setup.

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When we're training the arms, we're going to focus a lot on this constant

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radius.

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So I want to keep the hand basically, we'll start with the trail arm.

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So as always, whenever you're doing a single arm drill, you're going to take

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your normal

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setup and then let go of the opposite hand.

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Sometimes I find golfers just grip it at the end of the club and that puts you

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a little

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bit too far away from the golf ball.

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Still doable but just not ideal.

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So we're going to take our normal grip, take the trail hand or the lead hand

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off.

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Now what we're going to feel is we're going to feel like the arm basically

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stays in front

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of our chest so it doesn't have a lot of movement this way.

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And there's a little bit of rotation in the forearm to bring the club back just

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kind of

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like this so that we get to about that toe up position while staying nice and

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stacked.

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Now from there, we're really going to focus on swinging through with our body

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and the

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arm is going to have very little rotation.

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It's going to feel like it just kind of gently lowers the club kind of more

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back in this

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direction or straight in front of your chest as opposed to throwing across your

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body.

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So that would look little rotation and then keep the body moving in the club

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staying in

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front of the chest or not passing the body.

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So we'll go a little bit back, a little bit through just kind of like that.

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And then with all the single arms, I like to put both hands on at the finish

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and kind

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of feel okay, yes, that hit my good follow through checkpoints where the club

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was straight

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out in front of my chest, body was in a good position.

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All that's we'll say solid A on that one.

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So trail and little rotation, little bit of unhinging, but staying mostly in

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front of

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the chest.

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Okay, now for the lead hand, we're basically going to mirror that.

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So with the lead hand, we're going to keep a little bit of extension here and

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we're going

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to focus on keeping the same distance, and there's going to be a little bit of

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forearm

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rotation as well.

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The wrist is going to stay mostly in that cup unless we were deliberately

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hitting a

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really low shot.

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But for the basic shot, we're going to keep that extension in the wrist.

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And then similarly, as we're starting down, we're going to feel like it gets

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just a little

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bit wider as we're turning through just like that.

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And it should mirror where we're getting to in the finish position.

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So in the finish position, compared to the full swing, we might feel like the

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arm is

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a little bit more close and a little bit more kind of riding the body.

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Okay, so we're going to bring this back with a little bit of rotation and then

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turn and

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check.

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And we'll see it's pretty much the same spot where we were for the trail arm.

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So I recommend if you're struggling with one, take a look at it on video.

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The most common things that I'll see are on this one, the right arm is the

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dominant

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energy source.

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You can still hit solid shots that way, but what will happen is you'll have a

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hard time

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flighting it.

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You'll have a really high launch.

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The bigger problem is usually the left arm kind of pulling across more like

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this.

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And sometimes going down kind of like that and really getting wide to the point

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where

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there's no way that I could have coasted on the way through.

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So if you're struggling with them, double check them on video or you can

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experiment

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with stopping at different points, like if your right arm is really good, then

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you could

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make a right arm backswing, switch hands and compare.

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When you do your left arm only, what happened oftentimes that left arm will

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pull in kind

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of like this enclosed and then drift away.

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Sometimes this right arm will disconnect and then kind of scoot back like this.

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So you can use these single arms for getting a good sense of the club staying

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more in front

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of your body and you can also figure out which of your arms is more of the

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dominant

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arm that you can use when you're actually hitting the shots on the course and

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which

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of the arm is the arm that you have to be careful for sabotaging your efforts.

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Once you've got them working together, you can try close.

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You can try and apply the same feelings to your stock shot.