Weight Shift in the Finesse Wedge

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This video is exploring the weight shift in the finesse wedge shot.

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So golfers often know that you're supposed to have most of your weight on the

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front foot

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for your finesse wedge shot.

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That helps you get more solid contact and allows you to get more extension

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through the

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ball to help create more of your shallow brushing and control height.

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But I often see golfers misapply it.

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So we're going to talk through it in this.

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There are three different ways we could shift weight, okay?

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So I'm standing here with my feet further apart than I would for a normal fines

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se wedge

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shot, just to exaggerate.

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So if I wanted to shift weight, I could shift weight from primarily the lower

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body.

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So there you see my upper body stayed in the middle of my stance here.

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This can be the one that gets us in trouble if we do this for our finesse wedge

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shot.

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And secondly, I could shift my upper body so I shifted enough that I could pick

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my foot

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up off the ground but my lower body stayed more in place.

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And then third, I could shift both.

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Now you'll see if I shift both, it's a little bit more subtle than if I did

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either of the

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first two because I'm moving more of my mass.

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Well the one that gets people in the most trouble is shifting the lower body.

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You'll see when I shift the lower body like this, this creates a bunch of axis

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tilt and

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my head actually lowers and gets closer to the ground.

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And when I'm tilted like this, this moves my low point backwards.

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So the way that we want to shift weight for the finesse wedge shot is a little

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bit more

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of a combination of the other two.

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So I'm going to feel like my upper body, my ribs have shifted a little bit onto

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my front

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foot, just kind of like this.

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So now, that also helps keep my shoulders more level.

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And then when I go to take my grip, that will accompany getting my upper body

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just a little

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bit rotated to the left or a little bit open.

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All of that helps get the bottom of the swing a little bit more forward of the

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golf ball.

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As opposed to if I was back here, I have to make some type of swing adjustment

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to move

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the low point forward.

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So we're going to get upper, our feet are close together.

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So that allows this to be a pretty subtle movement.

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Now I'm going to shift basically until I could pick up my right foot, hands

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will stay in front

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of my chest.

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And now I'm in a good kind of position over my front foot where now I can make

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a stroke

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and I can go into some extension on the way through, but still have the low

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point forward.

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Okay.

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So little demonstration, we're going to get set up, shift a little bit forward,

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and we

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can exaggerate with, or we can experiment with how much we're going to shift

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forward.

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I'm on a little bit of a downslope, so I might do it even a little bit extra.

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And then from there, I'm just going to do a nice, easy finesse wedge shot with

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that a

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little hard, but pretty good contact, pretty good trajectory.

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So here we're going to really kind of crank it, so I'm going to overdo it.

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And the more that I get my upper body shifted on top there and stay there, that

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's going

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to allow me to go on a nasty kick, but good distance on that shot.

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That's going to allow me to go into more extension on the way through, which is

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really going

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to help apply that smooth force as well as give me a really nice brushing

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location.

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It allows me to hit the shot, so we'll exaggerate, think here for a second.

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It allows me to hit the shot with more of a feeling of kind of quiet arms and

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active

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body as opposed to getting too much hit from the arms.

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So if you're struggling with too much hit from the arms, it's probably because

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you're

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using too much arms on the way through, and sometimes that can happen as a

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result of

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being too much tilted when you try to shift your weight forward for the finesse

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wedge.