Stock Distances

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This drill is finesse wedge stock distances, so it's always helpful when

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you're trying to build touch to build a couple of references. We do that in the

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wedges where you're working on you know whether it's nine o'clock or ten o'

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clock

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swings and how far they go. With your full swing you dial in your full swing

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distance and then you make references off that. With putting I like to do the

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same thing so it only makes sense that we would do something similar with fines

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se

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wedges. So there's a couple different I put the finesse wedge in the you know

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less than 40 yard category and so it's very helpful to have a stock kind of

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more short shot where it's seven to ten yards somewhere in that zone and then

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having more of a medium length pitch of about 20 yards and then ultimately

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maybe a 30 yarder. One of the common data sets that a buddy of mine collects on

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tour pros is 30 yard shots and if you look at them it's it's eerily similar

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how all of them take their swing for their 30 yard shot back to about belly

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button height with the club somewhere up around 40 or even close the vertical.

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So for their 30 yard shots it's got to look kind of like that. Well I imagine

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if

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we had the data we'd start to see some similarities for even the shorter shots.

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So I like to calibrate one where it's just below the corner. I talk about the

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corner as being one of the hard spots so just below the corner and then I like

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to do one that's just above the corner and those typically coincide with

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somewhere just less than ten yards maybe about seven and somewhere around 20

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yards and if I practice those two distances or those two swings then I'm

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typically going to have an easier time adjusting my diff my distance on the

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course because I can I have this stock shot that I can either take less loft

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and

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make it run I can add more loft to take away some distance but I have this

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basic

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shot that I can adjust rather than having to kind of invent a brand new shot

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for

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every single shot that I'm facing. So we'll go through just a little session

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where we'll try to hit we can either do a handful going at the first one and

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then a handful going at the second or we can do ladders going back and forth

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then trying to ultimately fill in the gaps playing a little leapfrog game. So

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variety of ways you could do it but I would start with at least two baselines

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inside of 30 yards I highly recommend somewhere in the seven to ten yards and

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somewhere around 20 yards as good baselines. Okay so we'll do just short of

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the corner and we're just going to pay attention to about how far so that's

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landing pretty close to my you know eight nine yard carry distance so that was

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too pretty close and you can see that those are rolling you know within a yard

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or so of each other so that would be one baseline next one we'll do just past

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the corner and for some people just past the corner is a little bit harder and

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for other people's just short of the corner is a little bit harder.

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So that was good that was pretty close to trajectory and distance that I wanted

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Went the right distance not quite the trajectory that I wanted so now I can

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experiment with let's say halfway in between which would be either I'm gonna

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do the short shot and add a little bit more speed to it or I could do just

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short

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of the long shot or I could do the long shot a little bit slower so those were

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two different ways two different kind of trajectories for getting to let's say

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a 15 pace carry distance but it was easier for me to do that because I had

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the reference of my short shot and my long shot to go off of so if you don't

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have any references you're gonna have a hard time getting really precise with

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your carry distance control so I highly recommend calibrating a few and then

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again playing either leapfrog filling in the gaps or just learning how to

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adjust those carry distances for specific adjustments like taking off five

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yards

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adding five yards etc now we'll do the tough one for me which is the really

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short one good