Stork Turns for Finesse Wedge

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This drill is the finesse wedge stork turn.

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So the stork turn is any of the drills where we do single leg, especially on

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the lead leg.

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So for this one, we're going to work on our basic finesse shot and really

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focusing on

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the upper body pivot location compared to the lower body.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with their wedge play get too much tilt where the

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upper body

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gets tilted behind the lower body kind of more like this.

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That moves the low point backward, which requires some movement of the arms to

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move the low

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point forward, either pulling the arms in or kind of throwing them out or a

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little bit

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of a scoop.

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But that timing usually causes some consistency or some contact problems and it

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kind of limits

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the amount of spin you can create and some other shots.

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So for the finesse version of this, we're going to focus mostly on 9 to 3 and

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below.

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We're not going to do kind of bigger swings like we might do with the distance

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wedge.

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But what we're really going to focus on on this one is on the way through that

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the arms

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in the hands stay in front of the body.

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So there's basically no arm action.

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We're trying to hit this with our pivot more similar to kind of the classic

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chip shot rather

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than kind of using some wrist for some power like we might if we were trying to

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get a

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little bit more spin.

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So I'm going to set up here.

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As I make a backswing, I'm going to feel like I lean a little bit towards the

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target.

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And then as I go down, I'm going to feel like I rotate my upper body through.

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Now if I hit a good one, what I want to do is I want to sneak my back foot in

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place,

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my trail foot in place, and kind of feel where my body is in this finished

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position.

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A lot of golfers, if you're used to kind of hanging back, you're going to feel

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like your

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upper body is much more on top or almost in front of that lower body.

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So here we're going to do it one more time.

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We're just going to feel a nice connection and the upper body rotating through

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very little

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action from the arms.

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Those went about the same distance, kind of similar trajectory.

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If I bring this back, it feels very similar.

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I can use the club to kind of make sure and confirm that I'm stacked up.

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So one of the common issues I see when golfers are doing this is they'll start

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on the foot

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just like this, but then it becomes very much an arm swing.

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And the whole goal here is to learn how to blend the pivot and kind of work on

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the rhythm

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of the arms and the body working more together.

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So that's why I like to exaggerate the feeling of basically no arms and hitting

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this kind

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of more like a Steve Stricher style where I'm hitting this purely with the

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pivot because

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what you'll see is if you do start to add some risk, there I kind of fell back

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a little

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bit more, but I hit a pretty good shot.

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So I might give myself some positive reinforcement like hey, I did that right

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even though I was

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still training falling backward.

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So we're going to do more of the dead arm, dead risk Steve Stricher style just

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to kind

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of feel like we hit it with the pivot.

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That'll really help get this upper body staying on top of the lower body and

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work on the smoothness

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of the body rotation on the way through.

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Those are two of the key fundamentals for working on your finesse wedge game.

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So quick demonstration, we're going to have a little bit more tilt towards the

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target

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and then turn through is going to come out nice and low.

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If I feel like I'm doing this and I feel like it's too much of a cut, then I

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can feel like

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as I'm going through, there's a little bit more of the shoulder kind of going

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down.

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One of the keys to this is understanding the difference between axis tilt,

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which would

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be more like this, sorry, poor demonstration, axis tilt where my upper body is

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tilting behind

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versus side bend where I can do side bend and still have vertical centers or

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still have

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lined up centers.

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So if I'm getting a little bit too level with the shoulder plane, then even

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though I'm on

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the front foot, I can still feel a little bit of side bend and that'll help

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take out some

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of the cut span.

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So I highly recommend this for working on your basic chip shot and your overall

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comfort

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being more on top of the front foot that can help with contact as well as

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creating more

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spin if you're struggling with that shot.