00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000
The Stural Video is brushing the bounce.

00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:11,000
So one of the important concepts for getting consistent with your wedge play is building

00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000
a margin of error and part of that is using the bounce properly.

00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000
So the coasting on the way through is part of what helps you get the club to just slide

00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000
along the ground.

00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,000
You basically want the back edge of the club to slide along the ground for as long as possible.

00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000
I would say minimum couple inches, maximum six inches.

00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,000
The goal I give my students is usually about four to six inches of just getting the club

00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000
to slide along the ground.

00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,000
And there are a couple different ways that I'll get students to feel the club sliding along

00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000
the ground for the first time.

00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,000
If they're used to having more of a leading edge or kind of really hitting down on the ball,

00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000
we'll do what I call brushing through bounce in order to get the club to slide along

00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000
the ground.

00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000
So there's a couple different ways that I'll do it.

00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:15,000
First version will grab one golf ball and we'll just start similar to like we would

00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,000
do with the three wood or flat spot drill in the full swing.

00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000
We're going to start a couple inches behind the golf ball and then we're just going to slide

00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:32,000
through feeling the body or the chest rotation bring the club through.

00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,000
Once I have that feeling, then I'm going to try and duplicate that feeling with the ball

00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000
there.

00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000
So just sliding the club along the ground.

00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000
Then the second option is I'm going to do it in more of a rhythm drill and there's

00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000
two common ways that I'll use that.

00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:59,000
One would be I get the club brushing back and forth and then while the club is brushing,

00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,000
I just walk myself in so I can get a sense of what it would be like to brush and make

00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000
contact with the golf ball.

00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,000
And then similar to what we do in the full swing when we're working on these rhythm drills

00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:18,000
is we'll line up a few golf balls and we'll just try to get the club to brush along

00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000
the ground on each swing.

00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000
One of the things about hitting multiple golf balls is it's really hard to do that with

00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000
just the hands.

00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:35,000
So here I'm getting it brush, getting it brush, getting it brush, just like that.

00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:41,000
And ideally they'll come off with somewhat similar trajectories, they'll come off with

00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000
somewhat similar contact.

00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:51,000
Then the last step would be just trying to do the brush a few times.

00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:57,000
And when I'm brushing back and forth I'm feeling it swing back as well as through.

00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000
What I'll end up doing is then I'll set up to the golf ball and I'll imagine that I brushed

00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:08,000
it through and then I'll start it when I would feel it swing back and then I'll just

00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000
kind of ride it and bring it through to get it to brush again.

00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000
So these are a couple different ways to really focus on the club brushing the ground

00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000
or hitting the bounce side of the club on the ground.

00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000
If I was to do this with the leading edge it would tend to literally bounce up or come

00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000
up off the ground very quickly.

00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,000
So if you find that you hit a lot of chunk shots where you just kind of lay side over it

00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000
or if you hit a lot of thin shots you may be uncomfortable with how the club is hitting

00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000
the ground and doing this little rhythm drill getting more acquainted with bounce and

00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,000
getting more consistent with your ground contact can ultimately elevate your level of

00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000
consistency.

00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:54,000
So quick demonstration regardless of whatever technique I decide to use as long as I get

00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,000
the club to slide along the ground for that period of time before the golf ball and a

00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000
little bit after it I'm probably going to hit an okay shot.