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This concept video is adjusting your finesse wedge for the rough. So one of the

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common questions is how do we adjust our basic technique or our basic finesse

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wedge for the rough? And one thing I'm going to give you before we even get

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into

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any technique is more of a real concept which is especially I'd say my 15

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handicap

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students somewhere kind of in that zone. I see a lot of them when I put them in

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the rough they take their practice wings where the club just brushes the

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grass but does not hit all the way down to the ground and simply getting them

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to

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focus on I still want the club to hit the ground not just the grass feel how

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much more the rough grabs it and then take a shot where they're basically

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getting the club to slide along the ground can change the way that they

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approach shots out of the rough. But that's not everything so let's talk a

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little bit about how we can adjust the technique. In general the grass

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conditions you want to read the lie so you want to evaluate how thick the

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rough is how much the ball is sitting up versus down because those all

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influence what you can do and what you can get away with. In general the rough

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is going to slow down the club head so I'm going to need a little bit more

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speed.

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To give myself a little bit more margin of error I'm going to open the face so

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I have more bounce so that I can slide the club along the ground easier and so

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that when I add more speed it doesn't cause the ball to go shooting off. The

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other thing is because I'm typically going to get less spin I need to increase

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the loft or it's helpful for me to increase the loft to help get the ball

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to stop in a reasonable amount of time. So I need more speed more bounce more

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loft. So in order to accommodate this I'm going to try and get a little bit

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steeper while keeping the club face open. So I'm going to take my normal grip

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and

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then I'm going to open the face and take my grip. I'm not going to sorry take

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my

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grip and then turn my hands I'm going to turn the club in my hands and then

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take

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my normal grip. That's how we set up with an open club face. Now because the

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club

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face is more open I might be aiming a little bit more left you want to

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experiment with how much the ball shoots off to the right for your given style

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and technique. Some people it shoots off a lot others doesn't shoot off to the

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right very much at all and they can aim pretty much square. Okay so now we've

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got the club face and the bounce taken care of. Now how do we steepen things?

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There are three ways that I coach trying to steepen things out of the rough.

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One

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would be leaning a little bit more left. You could also rotate a little bit

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more

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open but I think that one is a little bit risky because it's going to tend to

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take away some of the bounce. So I'm going to lean my shoulders just a little

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bit

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more left. That helps get the club leaning slightly forward with steepens

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things. Two you can see what I did instinctively is I'm going to choke up

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a little bit more. By having a more narrow club the circle is naturally coming

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down steeper to reach the same low point. So just by choking up a bit it makes

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it

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so that the club is going to travel steeper. So lean left choke up and then

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the third is somewhat optional depending on the grass and how much you have to

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really steepen things and how much extra speed you're going to need. And that

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would be adding a bit more wrists as your power source. So hinging it up a

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little bit quicker and then casting it on the normal period but hinging it up

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just a little bit quicker. So if I lean left I open the face I choke up and I

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hinge it up then the club will tend to come down into the rough slide along the

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ground pop the ball up and I'll learn to gauge about how much distance I need

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to

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allocate or how much the ball is going to roll a little bit differently. If the

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ball is sitting up perfectly then I can probably get away with just focusing on

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my normal wedge technique but you can see how much that ball ran compared to

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the one where I open the face and use more the rough technique. The other thing

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that I would say is when you're evaluating the lies you can play

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around with ball position. So two different options would be if I play the

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ball back that's going to help steepen things. So it's going to come out with a

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little or less. Oh made one. So it's going to come out with a little less

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spin especially if the grass is really thick that can be quite helpful. The

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other

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option is to move the ball forward which is going to start to get into more

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of a flop shot style technique. I still want to hit the ground I may even open

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the face a little bit more to give myself more freedom and because I'm

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hitting with more loft I'm probably going to need a little bit more speed. So

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if I

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have it forward I can basically hit the ground took a lot more speed pop the

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ball

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way up in the air landed close to the pin. Depending on how much you have to

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carry that can be the safer method as well. So experimenting with ball forward

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ball back that's kind of a variable but I would recommend more open club face

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in

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general leaning a little bit more left and choking up and using a little bit

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more risk as adjustments for making your stock finesse wedge swing more

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friendly out of the rough.