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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at visualizing bounce.

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So I think a lot of students are confused about what should happen with the

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finesse wedge

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and how the club should contact the ground.

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So I've got a few or a handful of TorPro and amateur versions

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where we're just going to look at how the club interacts with the ground.

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I'd say the most common approach I see beginners or amateurs come in with

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is that ballback hands forward and they want to make sure that they're hitting

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down on the golf ball.

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And what you'll see is in order to use the bounce effectively and give yourself

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a margin of error,

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the goal was really to get a long kind of flat brushing spot on the ground.

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So as you can watch, this is a Graham McDowell hitting just kind of a standard

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little chip shot.

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You'll see that the club contacts the ground at least an inch or so behind the

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ball.

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And then as it goes through, you'll see there's very little change in loft,

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there's very little change in face rotation, and there's very little change in

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the height of the golf club to the ground.

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It's just sliding along the ground.

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And now we've got a close-up of Justin Rose.

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So not quite as clear on the club face, but again you'll see contact with the

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ground just behind the golf ball.

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And then you'll see how long the club slides along the ground.

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This is Justin Rose over the last 15 years or so has been statistically one of

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the better guys with wedges and finesse wedges.

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So this is a good example. That ball checked up on him a little bit.

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So you can see that he caught it a little bit cleaner as far as didn't hit

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quite as far behind,

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as say Graham McDowell in that first example, but again you'll see this long

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flat spot.

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That's essentially our goal for any of the finesse wedges swings to get the

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club to just slide along the ground,

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which is proper usage of the bounce.

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Here we have Tiger Woods at the British Open hitting a little more of a pitch

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shot.

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But again we're going to see this common trait.

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So even if there's a little, the camera angle is not perfectly square to his

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stance.

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But even if you have shaft lean, as long as you get the club to slide along the

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ground,

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and this is I think one of the best illustrations, typically on the firmer

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ground,

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you'll be able to hit a little bit behind it as long as you're using the bounce

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properly,

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and you'll be able to really slide the club along the ground as Tiger is

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demonstrating here.

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So one way to monitor and track your progress when you're practicing your wedge

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play

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is to work on how long of a brush spot can you get with your chipping and

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pitching.

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Alright, so now we got Patrick Reed.

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I wish that this was a little bit zoomed out, but because we can't quite

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exactly see where the club,

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the height of the club, but you can see that it's on the ground here, close to

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on the ground,

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well behind the ball, and then he even takes a little leading edge divot just

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past the ball.

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That can happen while still using the bounce. They're not mutually exclusive.

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But again, you'll be able to see that he's able to get the club to slide along

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the ground.

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I usually challenge my students to give me at least four to six inches of club

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sliding along the ground.

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I think it's a good kind of rough ballpark that'll give you a big enough margin

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of error

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that even your bad shots will end up alright, which is really the goal of this,

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is to build a technique that allows you to not have to be perfect.

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Most golfers who struggle with this have the club too high coming into the golf

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ball

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and then tend to pull up quickly.

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That can either happen from getting too much lag or getting a little steep with

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the shoulders

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or then it will come up from using too much wrist and not enough body on the

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way through.

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If you get the good pattern of casting in transition and then coasting through

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impact,

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you too can get this good long brush location.

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Now we've got an amateur over here on the right.

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We're going to see one of his earlier shots.

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You'll see the club contacts the ground.

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It was coming in on a nice shallow angle, but it contacted the ground and then

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skipped up into the ball.

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That wasn't on the ground for a very long period of time.

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Now the golfer complained both of blading the shot and hitting behind it.

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Over here on the left, you'll see the club still contacts the ground well

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before the golf ball.

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Maybe a little bit closer to the golf ball, but not dramatically.

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But then what you'll see is he's able to keep it lower to the ground from the

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little setup and concept change.

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This ended up being an okay shot.

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The two questions I always get are what about out of the rough and what about

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if I'm hitting a low running shot?

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Should I still contact it behind the golf ball?

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First, we've got Tiger demonstrating more of a low running shot.

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You'll see that he's got a fair amount of shaft lean in that club is coming in

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from a higher position.

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But you'll still see that that gets close to striking the ground if not

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striking the ground just before the ball.

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But it's definitely much closer to where the ball was hit or where the ball's

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lying.

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And it's done with a fair amount more shaft lean.

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Now even though he has shaft lean because he has this long flatter bottom of

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the swing, not quite as long and flat as when he did the pitch shot from the

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brutish open.

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But you'll still see the club stay low to the ground for a long period of time.

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It's not coming up very quickly.

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So he's essentially shifted that flat spot a little bit more forward.

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But not so much that he's hitting kind of the middle of the ball down on a very

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steep angle.

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Which I think is the image that a lot of amateurs have in their mind.

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You'll see that he does something similar with the shot out of the rough.

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Which is the club is definitely coming more down in towards the golf ball.

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But just watch how low the club head stays through this zone through here.

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Again our goal is to get at least a four to six inch kind of window where the

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club is about the same height just kind of sliding along the ground.

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And you do that by having a proper blend of pivot and not a whole lot of wrist

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flip on the way through.

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Now for fun I thought we'd look at a member of the website who was complaining

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about struggling a little bit with his chipping.

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And I had him do a little shadow drill of hitting right arm only, left arm only

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, trying to keep the opposite hand in the same bubble.

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And he said that his right hand feels more comfortable but is more inconsistent

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Well I want you to see if you can identify why.

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So if we're looking at the way that the club contacts the ground, we can see it

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's contacting the ground before the ball.

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And it's coming up a little quickly so I wouldn't say that that's a really

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large flat spot.

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Now let's compare that to the left hand.

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So if we look at the left hand you can see how much lower and flatter that is

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on the way through.

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So I said if we were going to match one of the hands I would probably want to

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match the way the club is swinging more from the left hand.

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Even though the right hand feels more comfortable I think that the overall low

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point control pattern you can see a little different pattern of how the club is

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sliding along the ground.

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If you use the way the bounce works and how the club is sliding along the

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ground as kind of the ultimate barometer of whether or not you're making

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progress with your finesse wedge technique it'll help make some of the

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decisions of what you need to work on a little bit clearer.

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Do I need to get the club lower to the ground or do I need to get the club

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sliding longer on the way through?

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By working on those two skills you should develop a pretty predictable level of

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consistency with your finesse wedge game.