Video Analysis - General Overview

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All right, golfers, welcome back.

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This is the video to teach you how to analyze your own swing here in the Fines

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se wedge program.

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So, we're going to look at your video to be able to assess the three main wedge

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goals

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of stack centers, constant radius, and smooth force, and then we're going to

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break it down

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to how do you assess your video if you're working on just solid contact or

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distance control

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or trajectory.

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So, here in the video analysis, we're going to primarily look at two different

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views,

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the face on view and the down the line view.

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So, the face on view is when you've got the camera basically perpendicular to

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the target,

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and then the down the line is when you are taking a picture down the target

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line with

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the target on the other side.

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So, this is down the line, and then that one's face on.

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You'd be surprised, but most golfers love to look at the down the line.

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With the Finesse wedge, you're going to get more information from the face on

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than the

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down the line, but we're going to look at both.

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From the face on view, it's really the best view for looking at whether you

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have your

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stack centers.

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It's also the best view for looking at the constant radius, and it's the best

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view for

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looking at the length of swing.

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It's a great view for looking at how smooth your force is.

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You can also look at how well the club is brushing along the ground, and you

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can look

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at the coasting movement, or one of the really big keys, which is the follow-

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through spine

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extension.

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Now, from the down line, we can look at swing plane.

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We can look at the torso plane, so the angle that your body is rotating around,

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that can

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have a huge impact on your brushing, as well as in your smooth force.

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We can look at the arms-to-body relationship pretty easily, and we can look at

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that shoulder

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plane in the follow-through, what I call the follow-through tilt.

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You can also look at what's going on with the pelvis a little bit better from

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this view,

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so we are going to look at both, but in general, face-on is going to give us a

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little bit more

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information.

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When we're looking at the swing, we're not going to have 10 different positions

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like we

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did in the full swing, but we're going to basically look at setup, top of the

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movement

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or top of swing, transition, impact, and follow-through.

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With setup, we can look at your overall alignments, again, looking from your

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forearms to your

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shoulders to your ribs to your pelvis to your knees to your feet, typically as

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you get further

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away from the ball, it gets less important, so your shoulders and your forearms

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are much

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more important than where your feet are pointing, but they're all relevant.

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We can also look at kind of the amount of spine bend versus knee bend and

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weight distributions.

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You can see if you're kind of too much on your toes or if you're sitting way

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back on

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your heels.

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You want to be relatively balanced for this shot.

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Then from the face-on view, we can look at what I call the wedge play box, so

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if we basically

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draw a box around your setup, so your shoulders fit in it, your feet fit in it,

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your head fits

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in it, kind of like this, sometimes I'll extend it down towards the or below

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the golf ball,

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but it's just to give you a reference as far as where we are during the swing.

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In general, wherever we set up, we don't want to shift a whole lot off the ball

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, so this

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is a great way for looking at your stack centers.

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We want to stay more towards the target side of this box, and we want to be

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moving up through

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the box rather than kind of diving down, so a lot of bad wedge players will

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either fall

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backwards, so then their upper body is towards the back half of the box, they

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could even fall

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backward with their lower body, kind of do a reverse pivot type thing, or they

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will tend

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to kind of dive down as opposed to finishing forward but finishing tall or

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finishing with

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good spine extension.

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We can also look at ball position, that's going to be important when we're

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looking at trajectory

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control, and we can look at weight distribution, so are you more over your

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right foot, more

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over your left foot.

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Now, one of the advantages of having the classic feet very close together is

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the weight distribution

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becomes less important because your base of support is so small that if you're

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a little

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bit on the right or a little bit on the left, the upper body and the lower body

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don't move

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around too much.

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If you have a wider stance, then it is much more important to have your weight

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all the

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way onto the front foot, but with a weight distribution or a set up position

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that's a

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little bit more classic, you can be 60, 40, 70, 30, 80, 20, and still probably

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get away

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with some good shots.

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I would err on having more weight forward rather than back, that's going to

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help with

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low point brush contact and quality of strike.

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Okay, so now at the top of the backswing, it's going to be a different length

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depending

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on the different shots that you might be hitting.

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We're going to primarily look at the shoulder tilt angle, so I've got this kind

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of red line

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going down from, if we go back to that first, going from the setup, from the

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shoulder tilt

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down to golf ball, moved a little bit, I kind of zoomed in, so it's a little

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bit higher

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up, but that's kind of on that same angle.

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Ideally, you want the shoulders to work more or less along that line.

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We can also look at kind of the amount of hip rotation.

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We want to have a little bit more torso rotation.

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We don't want to have a huge lower body movement.

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We kind of want the upper body to dominate more of this shot.

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We can also look at the club head to hands.

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In general, looking for it to be relatively neutral if the camera is pretty

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good.

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I actually set this camera up a tiny bit on the closed, so you can see that the

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club is

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matching closer to my stance line, but I also do err on getting it a little bit

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more inside

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and getting a little bit more shallow.

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But in general, having the club relatively in line with the hands.

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You can also look at the club face angle.

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On this one, unless you're hitting a lower running shot, I would err on having

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the club

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face more vertical or more on the open side, but there are some very good wedge

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players

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who do get the club face a little bit shut there, and then it allows you to do

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extra body

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shallowing on the downswing, which can be very helpful for utilizing the bounce

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That is kind of an option that we can play around with, but as a baseline to

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compare to,

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the club pointing straight up and down is pretty neutral there, especially if

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you have

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a more neutral or weak grip.

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From the face on view, making sure that you haven't swayed off the ball.

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So wherever we started in that wedge play box, we want to shift a little bit

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more towards

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the front of that or the target side of that wedge play box.

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You'll also tend to see if you have a good shoulder tilt angle there, you'll

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tend to

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see the left arm or the left shoulder or the lead shoulder, in my case, the

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left one being

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more down rather than kind of getting all the way over that right foot.

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And then the trail arm straightness, so we talked about the constant radius.

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One of the common places where people break down is kind of pulling the arms

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too far

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behind.

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When you do that, you'll typically see a really narrow looking right arm.

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So a lot of really good wedge players have a look of that right arm staying a

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little bit

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more straight into the top of the backswing.

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So that's a great place for looking at the radius during the backswing.

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The other place we'll be looking at those arms on the way through to see if it

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kind

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of mirrors that.

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And then lastly, looking at the length of backswing, that'll be helpful for

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looking at distance

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control.

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Okay, so transition is kind of somewhere between the top of the swing and

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impact.

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And basically looking for a couple kind of key power source triggers, are you

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spinning

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too much and kind of getting the club well outside, kind of like this?

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Are your shoulders turning more level, or are they working down the plane or

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down that

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shoulder tilt angle?

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And from the face on view, has the upper body lunged in front, that's not the

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worst one

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for these shots, or has the legs kind of driven towards the target.

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That one can be a real problematic one, because it usually causes the upper

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body to get tilted

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behind, losing the stack centers and losing the low point control.

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So looking at the shoulder tilt angle, looking at the plane being on the little

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bit on the

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shallow side, and looking at the club face, not having a huge amount of

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twisting like

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we do in the full swing, but staying a little bit more neutral to the path.

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From the face on view, looking for really, this can be one place where we'll

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start to

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see the radius change, and you get too much of the power source coming from

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your shoulders.

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And we can also look for kind of too much sways and turns and not enough turn

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and tilt.

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So looking at the plane that we're coming down.

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As we get to impact, one of the first things that I look at over here on the

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down the line

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view is kind of the shoulder alignment.

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So we'll see from a lot of these guys that the shoulders starting here and that

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at impact,

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you'll see a bit of side bend, but you won't see a lot of axis tilt.

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So side bend can happen from tilting at the pelvis or the hips, kind of like

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this where

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my spine didn't move, or I could get side bend more from my spine kind of like

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this

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where the shoulders get low, but my upper body is stacked on top of my lower

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body.

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That's the method that we're looking for here in the short game.

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And impact is a great place to see if we're using that by kind of looking at

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the crunch

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and looking at the location of that right shoulder there at impact.

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You can also look at the body alignments.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with the short game will tend to be very high and

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on top

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of the ball, kind of like this high and really open.

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Or some will be a little bit more back and close, but that one tends to be a

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rarer occurrence.

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You'll typically see the shoulders turning to level similar to what we might

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see in putting.

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And then looking at the shaft angle, sometimes if you get more of that on top,

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the shaft

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will get really down, and that can cause some diggy contact.

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So looking for the shaft and the forearms to be roughly in line, a little bit

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down is

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fine.

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That can help create more of a narrow radius, but if it's dramatically

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decreasing on the

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way through impact, that usually causes diggy contact.

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So from the wedge play box, we want to be towards the front half of the box.

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We can look at the grip or the shaft lean to look at trajectory.

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So as we'll see later, further forward is going to tend to be a little bit

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lower, more

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straight up and down is going to be tend to be a little bit higher, somewhere

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kind of

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even with the left thigh is a good kind of neutral place for your stock shot.

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And then this is a place where we'll start to see the coasting versus bracing.

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It's a little bit easier to see dynamically if we look at the movement instead

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of just

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looking at still photos, but basically seeing that the spine is going into

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extension as

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it's rotating through, rather than just staying flexed forward and turning like

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this.

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That's one of the movements that helps use the bounce as well as helps create

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that smooth

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force that gives us distance control.

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So then arguably the most important picture to look at would be the finish

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position.

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This tells us a lot, you can really see the side crunch if the shoulders are

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kind of angled

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more down towards the golf ball.

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You can see if the hips have turned more level or if there has been an

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excessive amount of

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side bend, that would usually show up in too much of a slide.

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But looking for the hip levelness compared to the shoulders will give you the

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idea of

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that side crunch in that shoulder plane.

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You can also look at the club face rotation, oftentimes golfers will, if they

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're overly

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dominant with the arms, will tend to have more of a throwing of the arms and

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the kind

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of a rapid closing of the club face.

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So you'll see more like that, which is similar or we look for more of that in

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the full swing.

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That's kind of some of the motorcycle movement where a good wedge play will

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tend to have

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more the club face doing a lot less rotation twisting this way.

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It's just rotating as it's coming around with the body rotation.

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You can look from the face on view at the club staying in front of the chest.

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And this is a great place to see the constant radius, if you're going from

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impact to here,

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you basically want the distance between the grip and the body to stay about the

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same.

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Whether that's arms fully straight or arms a little bit closer, you want that

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distance

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to stay more constant.

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You don't want to have a big lengthening of that radius on the way through.

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Looking at the coasting versus bracing, you'll typically see a good amount of

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spine extension

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as the golfers are rotating through on this angle.

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And sometimes you'll see that accompanied more with some hip extension.

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So because the stance is so narrow, often the dominant force pattern is going

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to be more

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of a vertical movement rather than a lot of side to side that we might see in

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some of

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the longer clubs and some of the longer swings.

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So on the way through, if we're using more of this vertical pattern, that helps

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keep your

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upper body stacked on top of your lower body.

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And it acts as a shallowing movement and controls the depth.

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So that helps you from using the leading edge too much.

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It helps really create this kind of brushing motion down at the bottom of the

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swing.

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And it allows you to have the upper body ahead of the golf ball so you'll be

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more towards

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the front of this wedge play box.

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So if you're towards the front of the box, you can get more of that spine

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extension.

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If you're towards the back of the box, typically you'll stay rounded in more of

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a steep pattern.

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And that usually causes some diggy leading edge contact.

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So those are kind of the real general boxes that we're going to look at when we

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're assessing

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our video.

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Let's take a look at how the pros look when they're doing this movement a

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little better

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than me.

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Okay, so here we have Steve Stryker.

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And we can just quickly look at the face on movements.

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And we can see, okay, from the face on movement, we'll see he's erring more

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towards the front

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half of the box.

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He's finishing in this extension position and the club is staying out in front

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of his chest.

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And you'll see that the club is staying out in front of his chest more or less

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the entire

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swing.

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And you'll see that the right arm kind of maintains its straightness.

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You'll see that he finishes a little bit taller.

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I think I forgot to mention that one, but that's one of the keys is if we're

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getting

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the spine extension, then what will happen is your head will finish a little

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bit taller

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than where it was at impact.

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So he's one of the best around the greens and here we can quickly see why.

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If we look at it from the down the line, you'll see he's a little bit more

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neutral in terms

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of the club in line with his hands.

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That's pretty textbook right there.

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But you'll see he's still not a lot, even though the club is a tiny bit more

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closed than

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mine was there.

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You can see that as he comes through that club face stays in a pretty neutral

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position.

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And here we can see the levelness of the hips compared to the shoulders, that

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right shoulder

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down.

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There's a good amount of right side bend.

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But as we saw from this view, the right shoulder is still past the hip.

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So it wasn't right side bend by falling backward.

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It was right side bend with rotation and extension to get you through into this

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good kind of follow

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through position.

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Okay, so that's the general overview.

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Now let's bias our overview for the specific skills of either solid contact,

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distance control

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or trajectory.

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All right.

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So if we're looking at solid contact, it's the alignment of these centers in

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the upper

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body and the constant radius that really has the big impact.

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Really it's hard to have that relationship.

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If you don't have your pivot working on a pretty good plane, you'll tend to

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have too

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much arm extension.

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So it breaks down the constant radius and it will be hard to have the smooth

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force if

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you're not hitting it mostly with your pivot.

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So if we're looking from face on view, we're looking for this shirt button to

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zipper kind

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of alignment towards the front half of the box.

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And you'll see that the arms stayed about the same distance and orientation on

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the way

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through there.

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There's a feeling of the arms working a little bit in transition to kind of

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cast the club

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and get the momentum going of that kind of a little shallower move or the arms

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getting

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the club down in that older deviation pattern.

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But then through impact, there's more feeling of the arms and especially the

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wrist being

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a little bit more stiff.

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The shoulders will be a little bit more stiff and the wrist will be fairly

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stiff because

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they're going to stay more constant as we're hitting this more with the pivot.

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Here's Stan Utley.

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We'll use him a bunch because he sent me some videos.

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So here we can see, again, he has everything a little bit closer so he uses a

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little bit

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more wrist, but you'll see that the overall spacing stays the same compared to

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a Steve

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Stricker or what we saw there was Justin Rose.

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He was kind of in the middle.

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It's not too important whether it's a wide radius or a narrow radius.

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The more important thing is that the radius stays pretty constant.

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So shirt buttons on top of zipper going into some extension, club staying in

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front for

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constant radius, and club staying in front is a sign that there was smooth

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force.

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Typically golfers will tend to either over hit if they're applying force

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rapidly on the

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way through or they can potentially kind of lift up and apply a rapid force

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there.

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But if you're applying the force more with the body, if the arms were early and

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then

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the body was coasting late, they'll tend to have this smooth force and get into

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a follow

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through position that looks very similar to that.

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Steve Stricker, again, getting into those classic alignments.

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He has a wider radius, but you see that everything still matches up.

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Adam Scott, you can see a little bit steeper shoulder plane, which I like, and

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a little

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bit more wrist set, but on the way through you'll see everything kind of

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matching up.

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Weight extension, shirt buttons over zipper, finishing a little bit taller than

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where

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he was at impact, hand staying in front, radius staying pretty constant.

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He checks all the boxes.

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He's got a really underrated short game, I think.

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He's a very good wedge player.

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Okay.

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So now if we're looking at distance control, it really comes down to if we're

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keeping the

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ball off the same and using one of our stock shots, then it comes down to the

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tempo and

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the length of backswing.

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The easiest one to see on video is length of backswing.

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You can see how the backswing and the follow through position kind of match in

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terms of

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the length.

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A lot of bad wedge players or wedge players who struggle with distance control

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either

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have a short swing to kind of a long movement, so they won't be smooth and they

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won't match,

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or they'll have a really short follow through because they're kind of hitting

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at the ball

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instead of swinging through it.

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They'll typically have more of a lengthening radius because they're hitting it

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with the

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shoulders and with the arms.

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As opposed to if you're hitting it with your body, it will tend to be smooth

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and matched

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on both sides.

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So here again, parallel to parallel, parallel to parallel, a little bit shorter

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parallel

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to a little bit shorter parallel, again, he has a longer radius, arms or stra

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ighter, but

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it stays pretty constant.

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So this was me demonstrating what I talked about in the distance control

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section where

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talk about three different length swings.

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Now you'll see if I was nitpicking, my hip height and my belly button height

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are fairly

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close, but I get a little bit more wrist set, so I get a little bit more power

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in this belly

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button height.

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So my distance control, the distance, the difference between these two is about

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10 yards, but as

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I'm looking at it, this might be something that I want to try to make a little

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bit more

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graduate.

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It looks like I kind of have a little bit of a blind spot there where I get

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them close

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to the same length, but my knee height is pretty good on both sides for the

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short, which is

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usually for me about eight to 10 yard shot, and then the 20, 30 yards, they

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look like they're

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blending together.

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But this is kind of the overall goal of getting to a pretty similar stacked

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spine position

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just with a little bit longer movement, rather than trying to increase the

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effort or increase

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how hard I'm trying to hit it.

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I'm simply trying to keep tempo the same and swing a little bit bigger to

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control distance.

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Okay so for the last one where we're looking at trajectory control, we're now

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looking at

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the handle location compared to impact.

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We still want to have stack centers.

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We still want to have this good brushing on the way through or bracing or sorry

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coasting

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on the way through.

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But now we're looking at ball position and we're looking at shaft angle to

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figure out

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how much loft we're going to be presenting.

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We can also look at setup to see how much we're setting up with the club face

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open or close.

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So the loft, the shaft angle, and the ball position are going to have a big

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impact on

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our trajectory control.

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Here's stand up hitting two different shots.

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You'll see a similar length backswing, but this is kind of more of his standard

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shot

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over here where the hands get kind of into the mid thigh and it stays pretty

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much the

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same through there.

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This one is a little bit more wristy, the club is more up and down.

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We'll see if this play is good.

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So you'll see, we'll play this a couple times, the one over here on the right

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is the higher

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shot and the one over there on the left is his stock shot.

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So if we pause it there at impact, we can see he's released the club more here.

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The hands were a little bit further ahead there.

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And if we take it a little bit further on the way through, because he's hit

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this more with

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the hands, you can see that his body actually stayed a little bit flexed longer

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where when

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he's hitting it more with this coasting action, you'll see that the body has

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gone into extension

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a little bit quicker.

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But the big thing having the impact on the trajectory was that shaft angle and

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the amount

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of loft.

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If we look back at one more piece, so we can see that at the top of his regular

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swing that

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left wrist is a little bit flat and then when he's going for the higher shot,

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that left

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wrist gets a bit more cupped.

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He actually rolls the club face open and then releases a little bit more that

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helps create

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the dynamic loft or that helps create the floatiness and the loft of it.

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So let's see it.

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One last time come through similar follow through positions, but little

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different engine here.

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Okay, so in general, when we're looking at trajectory, we want to look at ball

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position.

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Is it more towards the back half or the more towards the front?

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So we can see a little bit more forward.

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This is just past the impact.

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It was a little on the forward.

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This was a little bit on the lower side.

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Hands ahead, again, this was Rory hitting more of a bump and run style.

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So we had the ball back hands well forward.

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This is a little bit more of a neutral pitch and Adam Scott was hitting a

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little bit more

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high over there.

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So you can use the ball position or your swing elements to affect the

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trajectory.

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We teach that in the trajectory section how you can make those adjustments.

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So last few, kind of ball position a little bit more back.

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Hands are a little bit more back.

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That'll produce more low.

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00:25:42.520 --> 00:25:44.080
Here we've got shaft more vertical.

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This is a little on the higher and then he's pretty neutral, middle ball

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position, middle

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handle location.

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That's going to be more of kind of his neutral stock shot.

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Okay, so the quick recap, we're going for three main goals.

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Stack center is probably the most important goal, constant radius, slightly

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less important,

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but also very important.

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And then smooth force, that's the least important, but ties the other two

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together into kind

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of a rhythm and more of a pattern that makes it really repeatable.

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From the face on view, we get most of the information.

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We're able to see stack centers, constant radius, length of swing, smooth force

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.

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If you zoom in, you can look at how well the club is brushing or using the

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bounce.

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And you can look at that key follow through spine extension piece, which we see

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Jason

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doing right over there.

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That's one of the big keys for tying everything together into that really good

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follow through.

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00:26:39.840 --> 00:26:43.380
From the down the line, the most important thing we can look at is the shoulder

556
00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:43.760
plane

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with the club plane or the swing plane being a close second.

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We can also see how well the arms stay in front of the body.

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And we can look at how well the hips are turning versus having any kind of buck

560
00:26:58.520 --> 00:26:59.280
ling or sliding

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or things like that.

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So this gives us kind of the general picture of the big buckets that we're

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going to look

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for when we're assessing our video.

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00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:13.960
So again, solid contact, distance control, the length of swing.

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So solid contact looking at the stack centers and the radius, distance control

567
00:27:17.750 --> 00:27:18.320
looking at

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the length of the swing and the smoothness of the acceleration and then

569
00:27:21.710 --> 00:27:22.800
trajectory looking

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a lot at what's happening with ball position and shaft lean and loft down to

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the bottom

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of the swing.

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Stack centers, concert radius, smooth force.

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If you nail those three, you'll typically have all the tools for being able to

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have

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00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:42.760
the elite level wedge play.

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Here's one of my favorites right now.

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You'll see how well he does that spine extension and that coasting on the way

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through.

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If you're not sure if you're good at this or not, then always refer back to the

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benchmarks.

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00:28:00.080 --> 00:28:04.080
Remember for the pro level, our goal is about two thirds up and down.

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If you're trying to get the scratch, it's about 50%.

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00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:10.760
If you're trying to break 80, I like one in four as a good goal.

585
00:28:10.760 --> 00:28:16.040
You'll see from less than 30 yards, they're relatively close.

586
00:28:16.040 --> 00:28:21.530
So from 20 yards, the difference between a pro and somebody shoots around 80

587
00:28:21.530 --> 00:28:22.160
isn't that

588
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.160
dramatic, but as you start getting into 50 yards and 100 yards, you'll see how

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much better

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00:28:27.320 --> 00:28:28.320
they get.

591
00:28:28.320 --> 00:28:31.480
So that's a little bit more of the distance wedge than the finesse wedge.

592
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:38.090
But as a rough guard, I say from 100 yards aiming for about 16 feet and then

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for 50 yards

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and in, I pretty much say 10 feet.

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And when you're 20 yards and in, my goal is two club lengths or six feet.

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00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.940
If you're hitting those numbers a lot, then your wedge play is in great shape

597
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and you

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probably want to prioritize either driver, iron play or putting.

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But at least this will give you a way to assess where your game is at and how

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you can

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get better if you're struggling with your finesse wedges.