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How to Shallow Your Arms for Better Wedge Shots

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify how to position your arms for a shallower wedge swing
  • Feel the correct upper body alignment for better impact with the ball
  • Understand the relationship between arm movement and club path for distance wedges

Learn how to keep your arms moving left during your wedge swings to achieve a shallower angle of attack. This adjustment will help you improve your distance control and overall shot consistency.

Video Transcript
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This drill video is arms going left to shallow your distance wedge swing.

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So I like to think of it as just arms left.

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And just like we did in the finesse wedge swing, anytime that your upper body

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is going

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to be closer to vertical and more on top of your lower body and on top of the

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golf ball,

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you're going to have to create the shallowness from somewhere else.

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So with the full swing, we create a shallowness because of this tilt of the

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00:00:31.180 --> 00:00:31.940
body, the delaying

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the arms, and the arms end up working up and left.

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With the wedges, or sorry, the arms end up working up and right.

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With the distance wedges, because you're more on top of the golf ball, the arms

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have to

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work a little bit more in and left.

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So I'll demonstrate in two different directions.

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If I'm facing this way, and this stick is roughly on top of the grip, what you

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'll see

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is because I'm more on top of the golf ball, when I'm going through impact,

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instead of

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letting the grip and my hands extend out like so, they will tend to go much

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more left.

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The movement that I measure is more this angle of the left shoulder, dropping

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down like so.

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So it goes across just like so.

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When I'm on top of it, it ends up looking like that.

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Now, just because my hands are going left, the club can continue to work

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slightly more

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toward the target if I let my hands extend in neutral.

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So if I let my hands just kind of extend out as they're going left, it doesn't

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make the

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club go quite as left as my hands are doing.

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So from the face on view, it ends up looking pretty normal, right?

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There's no real appearance that my body is going left or that my arms are

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working more

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away from the golf ball.

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But that's what's happening and it has to happen because my upper body is ahead

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of

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00:02:01.660 --> 00:02:02.660
the golf ball.

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And if I kept my arms moving into out, I would tend to expose a lot more bounce

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00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:08.260
and tend to

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hit a little bit more too much behind the golf ball with too much shaft lean.

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00:02:12.860 --> 00:02:17.700
So it could be fine on fairways like this, but on wet grass, really tight fair

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00:02:17.700 --> 00:02:18.260
ways, it

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would be no bueno.

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So make sure that through the release, the arms are working down and in and

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that will

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help you shallow out your swing in a more effective way for the distance wedges

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than if

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00:02:32.140 --> 00:02:34.380
you were to do it from the lower body and from axis tilt.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

How to Shallow Your Arms for Better Wedge Shots

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify how to position your arms for a shallower wedge swing
  • Feel the correct upper body alignment for better impact with the ball
  • Understand the relationship between arm movement and club path for distance wedges

Learn how to keep your arms moving left during your wedge swings to achieve a shallower angle of attack. This adjustment will help you improve your distance control and overall shot consistency.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.340
This drill video is arms going left to shallow your distance wedge swing.

2
00:00:05.340 --> 00:00:07.860
So I like to think of it as just arms left.

3
00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:13.160
And just like we did in the finesse wedge swing, anytime that your upper body

4
00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:13.740
is going

5
00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:20.110
to be closer to vertical and more on top of your lower body and on top of the

6
00:00:20.110 --> 00:00:21.500
golf ball,

7
00:00:21.500 --> 00:00:25.820
you're going to have to create the shallowness from somewhere else.

8
00:00:25.820 --> 00:00:31.180
So with the full swing, we create a shallowness because of this tilt of the

9
00:00:31.180 --> 00:00:31.940
body, the delaying

10
00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:36.060
the arms, and the arms end up working up and left.

11
00:00:36.060 --> 00:00:39.980
With the wedges, or sorry, the arms end up working up and right.

12
00:00:39.980 --> 00:00:43.550
With the distance wedges, because you're more on top of the golf ball, the arms

13
00:00:43.550 --> 00:00:43.980
have to

14
00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:46.900
work a little bit more in and left.

15
00:00:46.900 --> 00:00:49.580
So I'll demonstrate in two different directions.

16
00:00:49.580 --> 00:00:53.860
If I'm facing this way, and this stick is roughly on top of the grip, what you

17
00:00:53.860 --> 00:00:54.340
'll see

18
00:00:54.340 --> 00:00:59.780
is because I'm more on top of the golf ball, when I'm going through impact,

19
00:00:59.780 --> 00:01:00.660
instead of

20
00:01:00.660 --> 00:01:06.590
letting the grip and my hands extend out like so, they will tend to go much

21
00:01:06.590 --> 00:01:07.820
more left.

22
00:01:07.820 --> 00:01:11.530
The movement that I measure is more this angle of the left shoulder, dropping

23
00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:13.780
down like so.

24
00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:18.840
So it goes across just like so.

25
00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.060
When I'm on top of it, it ends up looking like that.

26
00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:27.590
Now, just because my hands are going left, the club can continue to work

27
00:01:27.590 --> 00:01:28.580
slightly more

28
00:01:28.580 --> 00:01:33.420
toward the target if I let my hands extend in neutral.

29
00:01:33.420 --> 00:01:39.720
So if I let my hands just kind of extend out as they're going left, it doesn't

30
00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:40.300
make the

31
00:01:40.300 --> 00:01:44.740
club go quite as left as my hands are doing.

32
00:01:44.740 --> 00:01:51.740
So from the face on view, it ends up looking pretty normal, right?

33
00:01:51.740 --> 00:01:55.310
There's no real appearance that my body is going left or that my arms are

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00:01:55.310 --> 00:01:56.060
working more

35
00:01:56.060 --> 00:01:57.940
away from the golf ball.

36
00:01:57.940 --> 00:02:01.510
But that's what's happening and it has to happen because my upper body is ahead

37
00:02:01.510 --> 00:02:01.660
of

38
00:02:01.660 --> 00:02:02.660
the golf ball.

39
00:02:02.660 --> 00:02:07.730
And if I kept my arms moving into out, I would tend to expose a lot more bounce

40
00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:08.260
and tend to

41
00:02:08.260 --> 00:02:12.860
hit a little bit more too much behind the golf ball with too much shaft lean.

42
00:02:12.860 --> 00:02:17.700
So it could be fine on fairways like this, but on wet grass, really tight fair

43
00:02:17.700 --> 00:02:18.260
ways, it

44
00:02:18.260 --> 00:02:20.500
would be no bueno.

45
00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:26.510
So make sure that through the release, the arms are working down and in and

46
00:02:26.510 --> 00:02:27.340
that will

47
00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:31.680
help you shallow out your swing in a more effective way for the distance wedges

48
00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:32.140
than if

49
00:02:32.140 --> 00:02:34.380
you were to do it from the lower body and from axis tilt.

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