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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the low spinning wedge

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shot.

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So here we've got two examples, Jordan Spieth on the right and Steve Stryker on

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the left.

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And it's going to be very similar to what we talk about in the distance wedge

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shot, where

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we'll see as they approach impact, we will tend to see more of an arm and upper

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body

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hit, less of a lower body hit, and we'll see that based on the lower body

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facing the golf

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ball, facing the chest, there's not a lot of drive from the lower body.

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What we'll see is as they come through, you'll tend to see from just before

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impact.

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So the arms are kind of powering that early part of transition.

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And then just before impact, the upper body is going to continue rotating past

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the lower

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body, which takes the hands up and left.

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We'll see from the face on view that even though they will have a fair amount

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of shaft

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lean, they're not going to take a steep divot because of that upper body

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rotating.

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So we'll see a similar pattern with Jordan, where the hands work more or less

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up that shaft

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plane working up and left from that upper body rotating, not so much from the

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arm movement.

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So now looking at Jordan over here on the right, we can see the arms kind of

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power that

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swing.

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There is some lower body movement, but it's not really driving the rotational

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movement.

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And here we can see as he approaches impact, he has a fair amount of shaft lean

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, but you'll

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see only a tiny little divot go flying right there.

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You'll tend to see that the club is just going to skim the ground, brush the

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ground, even

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though there's a fair amount of shaft lean, and that's because the upper body

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is going

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to continue rotating and support this early arm movement.

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We'll see it even easier from Steve Stricker over here on the left.

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We won't be able to see how much shaft lean he has, but we can see, given where

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his hands

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are in relationship to his body and the fact that the ball was more in the

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middle of his

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stance, we know that there is a fair amount of shaft lean, but you'll see just

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the gentle

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brushing of the ground.

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And as he comes through on this lower check running pitch shot, you will tend

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to see that

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the relationship of the hands to the body stays relatively the same, and it's

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that body rotating

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that has controlled the path of the club from impact through the follow through

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So here we have two more examples, and I'll scrub these through so we can

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actually see

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the way that the shots land.

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And then we'll discuss a little bit of what they do to make that happen.

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So as they replay the shot, you'll see there's kind of that one bounce and then

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it'll really

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grind to a halt.

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Now over on the left, we have Phil Mickelson from a few years back, and you'll

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see it

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take kind of one hop and then it's very fast green so it doesn't grind to a

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halt, but you'll

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see that it kind of checks up right in there.

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So now as we look at the technique, you'll tend to see that even for this

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shorter shot,

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it's very hard to hit this shot to have enough spin if you don't get your hands

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at least

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to about waist height.

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The ones that really just take one hop and stop are typically going to be

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closer to lead

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arm parallel, which we saw with Mateo's shot over here.

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So you'll tend to see a backswing length right about there where the left arm

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is parallel

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for the ones that one hop stop, and that'll typically be somewhere in the 50/60

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.

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If you can really control your tempo, you can bring it down to about 40 yards.

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Phil is doing it from about waist height, which is pretty much as low as you

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can get,

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and that's why it doesn't fully grind to a halt.

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But again, we'll see this pattern of those hands rotating left, and I like this

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camera

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angle for being able to see how little wrist action he has through this shot.

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It's a lot more of a trail elbow straightening, because you can see when he

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gets into that

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follow through position, he hasn't fully released his left wrist or that trail

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wrist.

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It's a little harder to see on this view because of the frame rate and the blur

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, but I wanted

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you to be able to see the length of backswing.

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Now here are two good examples that we can look at to see this continued upper

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body rotation

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through the shot, which is one of the really big keys to being able to pull off

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shaft lean

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with having a shallow angled attack.

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So over on the left, we have Jason Duffner, and as he approaches impact, you

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can kind

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of see the speed of his upper body rotating, and then as he goes through

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between impact

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and towards that follow through, you can see that rate of rotation continue or

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even look

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like it possibly increases.

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So basically what you'll see is it takes some training and some practice to be

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able

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to extend that right elbow without flipping that right wrist.

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When you flip that right wrist, you're going to tend to hit it higher on the

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face, which

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isn't going to put in part much spin and it's going to increase your launch

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angle typically.

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So these guys have figured out how to hit this as more of a body shot, which

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they tend

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to like because it holds up a little bit better when you get nervous and more

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of the blood

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flow is in your body than in your hands.

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So here, you can see the flag.

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So it's kind of in that 4D yard range and you can see that he's doing a good

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job of getting

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the club all the way up to about lead arm parallel, and then you'll really be

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able

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to see that right wrist through the ball or that trail wrist through the ball,

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not really

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flip over.

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It's more of that body rotation.

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So here we can see a certain amount of his back and then you'll see through

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that shot,

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basically the amount of his body rotation is going to match the angular

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distance or about

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how much that club has worked around the circle.

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So that hit through the shot is going to be a lot more from that trail elbow,

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not so

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much the wrist, and you have to make sure that your body continues rotating

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through

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the shot in order to hit that low spinning wedge.

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So we'll look at one more set of examples over on the right.

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We have one of the best at this shot, Lee Trevino, and he was really big on

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promoting that lead

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wrist staying inflection, trail wrist kind of extension through the hit.

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I remember him using a drill where he would put a pen or pencil up against that

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left arm

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to learn how to get that impact without having those wrist flip, and you can

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see that trail

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wrist through the shot maintains some of its extension all the way as he goes

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through.

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Now this is obviously very late in his career and his body pivot action isn't

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as good as

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it once was, but knowing the technique, he's still able to pull off this shot

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because he

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has really good rate of that trail arm extending without letting the wrist bend

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and then continued

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body rotation through the shot.

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Over here on the left, we have another great view of Jordan's speed in the

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super slow-mo.

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We can see we knew that from the face on view, he's got a bit of shaft lane and

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we can see

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a little bit of a divot, but not very much considering how much shaft lane he

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has for hitting

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the shot.

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And then you'll see that as his body or as he goes into that follow through,

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you'll tend

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to see a lot more of the body rotation and shoulder movement or elbow movement,

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however

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you want to reference it, but not a ton of wrist flip.

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If you tend to have a lot of wrist flip and wrist roll, the low spinning wedge

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shot is

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going to be very, very difficult to hit, so you've got to learn how to hit this

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shot using

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more of your body, hopefully we can help you with the drills we have within the

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other

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videos in this site.