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In this drill video, we're going to talk about distance control with the fines

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se wedge swing.

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Now there are a number of ways, I suggest, four different ways that you can use

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to control

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distance when you're around the greens.

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So if you just get comfortable making these little three inch reverse sequence

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type swing

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motions where you have a little bit more of a chop action and you can get the

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club the

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bottom out, obviously just making one style swing isn't going to work, or one

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distance

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swing.

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So what I recommend is you can control the distance the ball is going to go by

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either

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changing ball position, that's really easy, changing clubs, that's another one

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that's

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really easy, opening or closing the face to add more loft, it's another easy

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one.

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And then the last one would be changing the length of your swing, the one that

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you can

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do that I don't recommend is changing your rate of acceleration.

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I encourage all of my students to try and find gravity, okay?

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So gravity is constant force, right?

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It's always pulling at the same rate no matter how big you are or where you are

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.

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If I take this club and let it swing, gravity is the only thing really speeding

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it up.

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So if I take it back a certain distance, because it's accelerating at the same

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rate, it's pretty

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easy to control how far the ball is going to go or how fast the club is

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swinging.

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But if I were to bring it back this far and then artificially speed it up, now

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I'm going

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to have to artificially speed it up the same amount every time in order to have

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control.

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So the easy way, just like in putting, you can either have always the same

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length stroke

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and just change your rate of acceleration or always have the same rate of

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acceleration

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and change the length of the stroke.

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So the first and easiest way is to get used to changing the length of the swing

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So that swing right there may hit the ball 15 yards and that going a little bit

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further

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may hit it 20.

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Everybody's going to be a little different.

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So that's option number one is just changing the length of your swing.

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Option number two is opening and closing the face.

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So when we say opening and closing the face, that doesn't mean you take your

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normal grip

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and then you position your hands differently like so.

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Because during the swing they're just going to go back to that natural neutral

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joint alignment.

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What I recommend to do instead is take the grip and hold it in the right hand

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out in

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front of you so you have a constant reference point.

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So my normal for finesse wedge may be vertical like so.

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My normal for a full swing may be 20, 30 degrees close.

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Well if I want to, I could go 10 degrees open and now I have a little bit more

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loft,

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I have a little bit more bounce and this is going to hit the ball a little bit

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higher.

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Option two, I could always just switch clubs.

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If I need to hit the ball a little bit further, I could take one with the last

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loft.

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If I need to hit the ball a little bit shorter, I could take one with more loft

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.

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And then lastly, which I talked about in the setup video, is you can always

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vary your ball

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position.

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So using the same club and having a ball position that's either off your heel,

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off the midfoot

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or off more of the middle of your stance, if I make the same relative swing, I

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'm going

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to get slightly different trajectories and slightly different amounts of roll.

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So those are the four ways that I recommend that around the greens you play

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around with

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controlling your distance.