WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.240
This finesse wedge drill is alignment stick surfing. So we're going to use an

2
00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:09.760
alignment

3
00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.380
stick to help us engage the bounce and get the club to slide along the ground

4
00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:14.880
for a longer

5
00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:20.340
period of time giving us some more margin of air. So what we're going to do

6
00:00:20.340 --> 00:00:21.120
here is we're

7
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.590
going to walk through a couple different progressions of here of this. But

8
00:00:24.590 --> 00:00:25.960
basically if I'm quiet

9
00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:33.020
you'll hear if the club slides along the stick you'll hear kind of a soft kind

10
00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:33.640
of whooshing

11
00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:39.370
sound as opposed to if I was to hit the stick pretty aggressively down you'll

12
00:00:39.370 --> 00:00:40.200
hear it's

13
00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:47.300
a little bit sharper it's higher higher pitched. So this would be trying to get

14
00:00:47.300 --> 00:00:48.280
the club to

15
00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:55.100
just slide along the ground versus stabbing the ground or hitting it a little

16
00:00:55.100 --> 00:00:56.240
bit too hard.

17
00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.870
And you'll notice when it hits it it's a the club hits the stick and then

18
00:00:59.870 --> 00:01:00.680
bounces right

19
00:01:00.680 --> 00:01:05.550
back off of it. To give ourselves a little bit more margin of air for the fines

20
00:01:05.550 --> 00:01:06.080
se wedge

21
00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:11.290
shot we're trying to get the club to slide along the ground and be kind of

22
00:01:11.290 --> 00:01:11.840
hovering at

23
00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.400
the height of the golf ball for a longer period of time giving us some margin

24
00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:16.320
of air. So two

25
00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:20.720
different ways I'll use it first I'll just kind of get the feeling of sliding

26
00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:21.400
the bottom

27
00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:26.060
of the club along the stick and then I'll try to do it sliding the club along

28
00:01:26.060 --> 00:01:26.880
the ground.

29
00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:30.730
Now you have to be careful if you have grainy grass like I have right there

30
00:01:30.730 --> 00:01:31.480
this is a better

31
00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.540
one to do kind of either neutral grain or down grain into the grain this will

32
00:01:35.540 --> 00:01:35.960
feel a

33
00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:41.170
little weird. So then the first step is I'm going to hit a ball just sliding

34
00:01:41.170 --> 00:01:41.760
the club

35
00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.110
along the ground. So I'm going to put the club back a couple feet and I'm just

36
00:01:45.110 --> 00:01:45.400
going

37
00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:52.720
to slide it through the golf ball. So so feel a little weird slide it through

38
00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:53.160
the golf ball.

39
00:01:53.160 --> 00:01:59.360
Now I want to do my best to avoid really bad mechanics it's hard to do this

40
00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:00.240
with perfect

41
00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:04.850
mechanics. But the thing that I most want to watch out for is a lot of people

42
00:02:04.850 --> 00:02:05.480
will tend

43
00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:10.990
to kind of lunge forward or keep that upper body pointing downward like that in

44
00:02:10.990 --> 00:02:11.480
order

45
00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:17.140
to keep the club low along the ground as opposed to doing it more with a

46
00:02:17.140 --> 00:02:18.840
combination of rotation

47
00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.760
side bend while maintaining that stack center. Okay so first version we've got

48
00:02:22.760 --> 00:02:24.360
dragging along

49
00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:29.980
the ground and then second version we're now going to try and get to get the

50
00:02:29.980 --> 00:02:31.800
club to slide

51
00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:37.480
along the stick but in a more rhythmic or dynamic fashion kind of like that.

52
00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:38.060
Then we're

53
00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:44.350
going to try to get the same thing with the grass kind of like that. And now we

54
00:02:44.350 --> 00:02:44.540
're going

55
00:02:44.540 --> 00:02:50.740
to try to get the club to contact the ground and the ball so it's going to

56
00:02:50.740 --> 00:02:52.240
contact either

57
00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:57.450
right at the ball or just a little bit before it. I tend to air on a little bit

58
00:02:57.450 --> 00:02:58.240
more before

59
00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.490
it you can still get some pretty good check and low launching shots like that

60
00:03:02.490 --> 00:03:03.140
as long as

61
00:03:03.140 --> 00:03:11.930
you keep the hands ahead as the body is moving kind of like that. So I find

62
00:03:11.930 --> 00:03:12.880
that this can

63
00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:18.940
be really helpful for people who have too much of a low point that is too

64
00:03:18.940 --> 00:03:20.080
aggressive

65
00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.380
or too deep. It's not so much getting steep but it's really kind of like coming

66
00:03:24.380 --> 00:03:24.840
down at

67
00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.310
the golf ball and having a bottomless wing that's a couple inches behind the

68
00:03:28.310 --> 00:03:28.920
stick will

69
00:03:28.920 --> 00:03:34.290
give you a lot of really clear feedback. So it can help you kind of control the

70
00:03:34.290 --> 00:03:34.780
depth

71
00:03:34.780 --> 00:03:38.540
of the swing, shallow it out a little bit and get a little bit more bounce

72
00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:39.500
engagement.

73
00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:42.060
All of those things will help give you a bigger margin of air for hitting your

74
00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:42.340
basic

75
00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:43.300
chip shot around the green.