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How to Differentiate Arm Chop from Arm Lift in Your Swing
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify when to use a chopping motion for better wedge shots
- Feel how your arms should move differently in a full swing versus finesse shots
- Practice a drill to reinforce the correct arm path for improved accuracy
In this video, you'll learn the key differences between the chopping and lifting motions of your arms during different types of swings. Understanding this distinction is essential for improving your wedge shots and overall swing mechanics.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.340
In this video we're going to talk about the chop verse lift.
2
00:00:04.340 --> 00:00:08.720
Okay, so this is one of those 30,000 foot views that I'm going to turn into a
3
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:09.760
drill for you.
4
00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.520
But this view is looking at what the arms doing compared to the body with your
5
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:14.880
full swing
6
00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:15.880
and with your finesse swing.
7
00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:21.120
I'm going to turn this way so that you can see what my arms are doing.
8
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.920
With the full swing, I talk a lot about the arms working away from you.
9
00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:32.080
Well, if you were to measure this angle of my shoulder, as my arms work away,
10
00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:32.240
you can
11
00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.360
see that this actually tends to work up a little bit.
12
00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:40.170
On 3D with the full swing, what you'll see is from right about here through,
13
00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:40.860
right about
14
00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:41.860
there.
15
00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:46.620
It's a very short little window, but you'll see the club actually work out and
16
00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:47.040
up instead
17
00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:49.200
of working left.
18
00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.560
With the wedge shot, you're typically going to see it working left the entire
19
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.120
time.
20
00:00:54.120 --> 00:00:58.880
So I think of it more as like a chopping motion of that arm pulling down like
21
00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.840
so, as opposed
22
00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.400
to swinging up and away the way I teach in the Zorro swings.
23
00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.420
So let me show you how I like to do this drill.
24
00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:13.080
So what you're going to do is you're going to get set up for the golf ball and
25
00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:13.520
you're
26
00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:19.210
going to look at the space, sometimes it helps to put a line on the ground so
27
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:19.720
that you can
28
00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:21.560
see the vertical space.
29
00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.840
So you can see that the grip is roughly above this line on the ground.
30
00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.880
What I'm going to try to do is I'm going to rehearse pulling that grip left.
31
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.470
I'm going to rehearse that arm working behind me and pulling that grip left,
32
00:01:36.470 --> 00:01:37.840
just like so.
33
00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.580
Now, that's going to feel, especially if you're a good driver of the golf ball,
34
00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:42.640
like
35
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.040
I'm just chopping, which is good for wedge shots.
36
00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.800
It's not very powerful, but it's good for wedge shots.
37
00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:55.630
So that also helps to control the amount of shallow because what happens is if
38
00:01:55.630 --> 00:01:56.420
your arms
39
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.950
continue working out away from you like so, unless you have a lot of side bend,
40
00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:02.280
you're
41
00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:06.410
actually going to create more dig and get the leading edge to go into the
42
00:02:06.410 --> 00:02:07.120
ground.
43
00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:11.880
So it's going to go more like that as opposed to if I pull away, the distance
44
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:12.760
between the
45
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:18.450
grip and the ball is increasing and so it causes it to get a little bit more
46
00:02:18.450 --> 00:02:19.520
shallow.
47
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.200
So that was probably about a BB+ I would have got away with it, but I think I
48
00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:25.760
can do a little
49
00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:27.840
bit better.
50
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.520
So I'm going to rehearse those arms going left, those arms going left, and then
51
00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:33.920
do kind
52
00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:37.650
of little swings, just trying to get those arms to feel like they chopped down
53
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and behind
54
00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.000
me the whole time.
55
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And it may even encourage me to take the club a little bit more up out and away
56
00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:47.680
.
57
00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.400
So just as you saw that, we'll do one last time so the club's going to go up
58
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.960
out and
59
00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:56.700
away and then it's going to chop down and go left and you can see that grip
60
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working
61
00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:58.360
very much left.
62
00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:02.330
So one of the big differences between the full swing and the finesse wedge is
63
00:03:02.330 --> 00:03:03.240
the difference
64
00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:08.310
of a lift during the release for the full swing versus a chop in all of your
65
00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:09.520
wedge shots.
66
00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.660
So practice that, feel around with that space and it'll help you with shall
67
00:03:13.660 --> 00:03:14.480
owing out your
68
00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:16.600
swing, but not doing it from your body.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.340
In this video we're going to talk about the chop verse lift.
2
00:00:04.340 --> 00:00:08.720
Okay, so this is one of those 30,000 foot views that I'm going to turn into a
3
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:09.760
drill for you.
4
00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.520
But this view is looking at what the arms doing compared to the body with your
5
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:14.880
full swing
6
00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:15.880
and with your finesse swing.
7
00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:21.120
I'm going to turn this way so that you can see what my arms are doing.
8
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.920
With the full swing, I talk a lot about the arms working away from you.
9
00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:32.080
Well, if you were to measure this angle of my shoulder, as my arms work away,
10
00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:32.240
you can
11
00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.360
see that this actually tends to work up a little bit.
12
00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:40.170
On 3D with the full swing, what you'll see is from right about here through,
13
00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:40.860
right about
14
00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:41.860
there.
15
00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:46.620
It's a very short little window, but you'll see the club actually work out and
16
00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:47.040
up instead
17
00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:49.200
of working left.
18
00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.560
With the wedge shot, you're typically going to see it working left the entire
19
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.120
time.
20
00:00:54.120 --> 00:00:58.880
So I think of it more as like a chopping motion of that arm pulling down like
21
00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.840
so, as opposed
22
00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.400
to swinging up and away the way I teach in the Zorro swings.
23
00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.420
So let me show you how I like to do this drill.
24
00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:13.080
So what you're going to do is you're going to get set up for the golf ball and
25
00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:13.520
you're
26
00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:19.210
going to look at the space, sometimes it helps to put a line on the ground so
27
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:19.720
that you can
28
00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:21.560
see the vertical space.
29
00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.840
So you can see that the grip is roughly above this line on the ground.
30
00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.880
What I'm going to try to do is I'm going to rehearse pulling that grip left.
31
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.470
I'm going to rehearse that arm working behind me and pulling that grip left,
32
00:01:36.470 --> 00:01:37.840
just like so.
33
00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.580
Now, that's going to feel, especially if you're a good driver of the golf ball,
34
00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:42.640
like
35
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.040
I'm just chopping, which is good for wedge shots.
36
00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.800
It's not very powerful, but it's good for wedge shots.
37
00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:55.630
So that also helps to control the amount of shallow because what happens is if
38
00:01:55.630 --> 00:01:56.420
your arms
39
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.950
continue working out away from you like so, unless you have a lot of side bend,
40
00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:02.280
you're
41
00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:06.410
actually going to create more dig and get the leading edge to go into the
42
00:02:06.410 --> 00:02:07.120
ground.
43
00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:11.880
So it's going to go more like that as opposed to if I pull away, the distance
44
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:12.760
between the
45
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:18.450
grip and the ball is increasing and so it causes it to get a little bit more
46
00:02:18.450 --> 00:02:19.520
shallow.
47
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.200
So that was probably about a BB+ I would have got away with it, but I think I
48
00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:25.760
can do a little
49
00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:27.840
bit better.
50
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.520
So I'm going to rehearse those arms going left, those arms going left, and then
51
00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:33.920
do kind
52
00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:37.650
of little swings, just trying to get those arms to feel like they chopped down
53
00:02:37.650 --> 00:02:38.280
and behind
54
00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.000
me the whole time.
55
00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:47.240
And it may even encourage me to take the club a little bit more up out and away
56
00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:47.680
.
57
00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.400
So just as you saw that, we'll do one last time so the club's going to go up
58
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.960
out and
59
00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:56.700
away and then it's going to chop down and go left and you can see that grip
60
00:02:56.700 --> 00:02:56.800
working
61
00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:58.360
very much left.
62
00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:02.330
So one of the big differences between the full swing and the finesse wedge is
63
00:03:02.330 --> 00:03:03.240
the difference
64
00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:08.310
of a lift during the release for the full swing versus a chop in all of your
65
00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:09.520
wedge shots.
66
00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.660
So practice that, feel around with that space and it'll help you with shall
67
00:03:13.660 --> 00:03:14.480
owing out your
68
00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:16.600
swing, but not doing it from your body.
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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 Differentiate Arm Chop from Arm Lift in Your Swing
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify when to use a chopping motion for better wedge shots
- Feel how your arms should move differently in a full swing versus finesse shots
- Practice a drill to reinforce the correct arm path for improved accuracy
In this video, you'll learn the key differences between the chopping and lifting motions of your arms during different types of swings. Understanding this distinction is essential for improving your wedge shots and overall swing mechanics.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.340
In this video we're going to talk about the chop verse lift.
2
00:00:04.340 --> 00:00:08.720
Okay, so this is one of those 30,000 foot views that I'm going to turn into a
3
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:09.760
drill for you.
4
00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.520
But this view is looking at what the arms doing compared to the body with your
5
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:14.880
full swing
6
00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:15.880
and with your finesse swing.
7
00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:21.120
I'm going to turn this way so that you can see what my arms are doing.
8
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.920
With the full swing, I talk a lot about the arms working away from you.
9
00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:32.080
Well, if you were to measure this angle of my shoulder, as my arms work away,
10
00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:32.240
you can
11
00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.360
see that this actually tends to work up a little bit.
12
00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:40.170
On 3D with the full swing, what you'll see is from right about here through,
13
00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:40.860
right about
14
00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:41.860
there.
15
00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:46.620
It's a very short little window, but you'll see the club actually work out and
16
00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:47.040
up instead
17
00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:49.200
of working left.
18
00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.560
With the wedge shot, you're typically going to see it working left the entire
19
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.120
time.
20
00:00:54.120 --> 00:00:58.880
So I think of it more as like a chopping motion of that arm pulling down like
21
00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.840
so, as opposed
22
00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.400
to swinging up and away the way I teach in the Zorro swings.
23
00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.420
So let me show you how I like to do this drill.
24
00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:13.080
So what you're going to do is you're going to get set up for the golf ball and
25
00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:13.520
you're
26
00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:19.210
going to look at the space, sometimes it helps to put a line on the ground so
27
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:19.720
that you can
28
00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:21.560
see the vertical space.
29
00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.840
So you can see that the grip is roughly above this line on the ground.
30
00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.880
What I'm going to try to do is I'm going to rehearse pulling that grip left.
31
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.470
I'm going to rehearse that arm working behind me and pulling that grip left,
32
00:01:36.470 --> 00:01:37.840
just like so.
33
00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.580
Now, that's going to feel, especially if you're a good driver of the golf ball,
34
00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:42.640
like
35
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.040
I'm just chopping, which is good for wedge shots.
36
00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.800
It's not very powerful, but it's good for wedge shots.
37
00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:55.630
So that also helps to control the amount of shallow because what happens is if
38
00:01:55.630 --> 00:01:56.420
your arms
39
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.950
continue working out away from you like so, unless you have a lot of side bend,
40
00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:02.280
you're
41
00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:06.410
actually going to create more dig and get the leading edge to go into the
42
00:02:06.410 --> 00:02:07.120
ground.
43
00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:11.880
So it's going to go more like that as opposed to if I pull away, the distance
44
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:12.760
between the
45
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:18.450
grip and the ball is increasing and so it causes it to get a little bit more
46
00:02:18.450 --> 00:02:19.520
shallow.
47
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.200
So that was probably about a BB+ I would have got away with it, but I think I
48
00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:25.760
can do a little
49
00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:27.840
bit better.
50
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.520
So I'm going to rehearse those arms going left, those arms going left, and then
51
00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:33.920
do kind
52
00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:37.650
of little swings, just trying to get those arms to feel like they chopped down
53
00:02:37.650 --> 00:02:38.280
and behind
54
00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.000
me the whole time.
55
00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:47.240
And it may even encourage me to take the club a little bit more up out and away
56
00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:47.680
.
57
00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.400
So just as you saw that, we'll do one last time so the club's going to go up
58
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.960
out and
59
00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:56.700
away and then it's going to chop down and go left and you can see that grip
60
00:02:56.700 --> 00:02:56.800
working
61
00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:58.360
very much left.
62
00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:02.330
So one of the big differences between the full swing and the finesse wedge is
63
00:03:02.330 --> 00:03:03.240
the difference
64
00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:08.310
of a lift during the release for the full swing versus a chop in all of your
65
00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:09.520
wedge shots.
66
00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.660
So practice that, feel around with that space and it'll help you with shall
67
00:03:13.660 --> 00:03:14.480
owing out your
68
00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:16.600
swing, but not doing it from your body.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.340
In this video we're going to talk about the chop verse lift.
2
00:00:04.340 --> 00:00:08.720
Okay, so this is one of those 30,000 foot views that I'm going to turn into a
3
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:09.760
drill for you.
4
00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.520
But this view is looking at what the arms doing compared to the body with your
5
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:14.880
full swing
6
00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:15.880
and with your finesse swing.
7
00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:21.120
I'm going to turn this way so that you can see what my arms are doing.
8
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.920
With the full swing, I talk a lot about the arms working away from you.
9
00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:32.080
Well, if you were to measure this angle of my shoulder, as my arms work away,
10
00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:32.240
you can
11
00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.360
see that this actually tends to work up a little bit.
12
00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:40.170
On 3D with the full swing, what you'll see is from right about here through,
13
00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:40.860
right about
14
00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:41.860
there.
15
00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:46.620
It's a very short little window, but you'll see the club actually work out and
16
00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:47.040
up instead
17
00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:49.200
of working left.
18
00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.560
With the wedge shot, you're typically going to see it working left the entire
19
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.120
time.
20
00:00:54.120 --> 00:00:58.880
So I think of it more as like a chopping motion of that arm pulling down like
21
00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.840
so, as opposed
22
00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.400
to swinging up and away the way I teach in the Zorro swings.
23
00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.420
So let me show you how I like to do this drill.
24
00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:13.080
So what you're going to do is you're going to get set up for the golf ball and
25
00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:13.520
you're
26
00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:19.210
going to look at the space, sometimes it helps to put a line on the ground so
27
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:19.720
that you can
28
00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:21.560
see the vertical space.
29
00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.840
So you can see that the grip is roughly above this line on the ground.
30
00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.880
What I'm going to try to do is I'm going to rehearse pulling that grip left.
31
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.470
I'm going to rehearse that arm working behind me and pulling that grip left,
32
00:01:36.470 --> 00:01:37.840
just like so.
33
00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.580
Now, that's going to feel, especially if you're a good driver of the golf ball,
34
00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:42.640
like
35
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.040
I'm just chopping, which is good for wedge shots.
36
00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.800
It's not very powerful, but it's good for wedge shots.
37
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So that also helps to control the amount of shallow because what happens is if
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your arms
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continue working out away from you like so, unless you have a lot of side bend,
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you're
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actually going to create more dig and get the leading edge to go into the
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ground.
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So it's going to go more like that as opposed to if I pull away, the distance
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between the
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grip and the ball is increasing and so it causes it to get a little bit more
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shallow.
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So that was probably about a BB+ I would have got away with it, but I think I
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can do a little
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bit better.
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So I'm going to rehearse those arms going left, those arms going left, and then
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do kind
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of little swings, just trying to get those arms to feel like they chopped down
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and behind
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me the whole time.
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And it may even encourage me to take the club a little bit more up out and away
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.
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So just as you saw that, we'll do one last time so the club's going to go up
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out and
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away and then it's going to chop down and go left and you can see that grip
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working
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very much left.
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So one of the big differences between the full swing and the finesse wedge is
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the difference
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of a lift during the release for the full swing versus a chop in all of your
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wedge shots.
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So practice that, feel around with that space and it'll help you with shall
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owing out your
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swing, but not doing it from your body.
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