Trajectory Control Overview

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Welcome back, golfers, here we are with goal number three in the finesse wedge

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building

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your stock finesse wedge shot program.

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So the third goal is trajectory control.

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So you'll see videos over on the right that help you understand how to vary the

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shot, how

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to play around with setup parameters as well as release styles or swing options

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In general, what's going to control trajectory is going to be your loft, your

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contact location

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as well as your angle of attack.

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So the combination of loft and angle of attack will give you spin loft.

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Those are going to have a big influence and then speed will also influence

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trajectory.

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But these are the kind of the big parameters if we assume speed is relatively

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constant.

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So with ball position, we're going to learn how to now have basically three

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different

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shots, your stock shot being more or less in the middle of your stance, your

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low shot

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being closer as well as further back, and then your high shot being further

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forward

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and further away.

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So the ball position is not going to be, I just move it straight back, it's

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going to

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be more on an angle kind of like this, I move it back and close and further in

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a way.

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So that means set up wise, let's say, a golf ball in place here.

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So let's say here is normal, if we were to then bring two more and I was to

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exaggerate

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it slightly, it would look more like this where the low shot is going to be not

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only ball

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back but closer, handle will be a little bit higher.

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And then when it goes further away, handle is going to come a little bit lower

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and I'm

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going to lower myself.

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Now when it does go further away like this, this is where I can get away with

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having a

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little bit more tilt, but for these two basic shots, we want to make sure that

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we've got

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more of that stacked center situation, which we see very nicely here where the

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upper body

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is very close to on top of the belt buckle or the pelvis.

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We can play around with face openness and understand that how shaft height also

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affects

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face openness, that's one of the ways I want you to be able to get used to

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where, how much

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when you open the club, how much it actually is pointing right or left, I find

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some of my more kind of club golfers, casual golfers will have a hard time

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making the same

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swing when the club face is looking open like this.

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So I'll have a station to help get used to that phenomenon.

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And then the more advanced way is making some swing changes, so controlling

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loft or shaft

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lean within the swing in order to drive some of these loft contact angle of

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attack parameters.

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This is ultimately I think the one of the most fun options to play around with

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once you

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get it, but I really want you to make sure you get through those first two

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goals first.

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You're kind of making solid contact pretty comfortably and you're doing it on a

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couple

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different length swings.

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Once you have that, at the very least you need a high and a low shot.

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At the most you can experiment with the release styles and sternum position to

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really dial

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in fine tuning.

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That'll make it easier when we move on to the next section of trying to be able

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to adjust

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for different slopes and different lives.