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In this concept video we're going to go over the overview of the distance wedge

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swing. So the stock full swing is kind of anytime you're taking a full cut. The

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finesse wedge is when you're around the green you're intentionally trying to be

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weak. The distance wedge is kind of that in-between zone. For most golfers it

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starts around 30, 40 yards. I'm about 35 yards. Where that's as far as I can

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hit a

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finesse wedge swing and so to hit it a little bit further I have to add a few

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more power sources. So it's not quite if I was taking a full throw kind of wind

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up toss and it's not quite this just simple little underhand bean bag toss.

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It's the bean bag toss where I've got to create a little bit more speed. So I

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you'll see I can actually rock back and get a little bit more involved with the

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finesse wedge swing by having a little bit more weight shift. A little bit more

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dynamics from the lower body. So the major keys for the finesse wedge are let's

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talk setup first. So setup we're going to look at basically taking a fairly

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narrow stance but just like in the full swing we're not going to let the ball

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shift too far back. We want to keep it just ahead of center. Okay anytime you

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have the ball ahead of center it encourages the weight shift if you have

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the ball too far back it discourages the weight shift. So we're going to have

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the

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ball just ahead of center of my stance but if you looked at my upper body and

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you dropped a line from my right ear or my right eye that would be ahead of or

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just even with the golf ball because my sternum and the center of my swing is

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going to be ahead of the golf ball. That helps eliminate the fat shot and

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allows me to be a little bit more aggressive with letting my arms just

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extend which you're going to see is a big piece of this power source for your

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distance wedge swing. So the stacked thing still applies

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ball more in the middle of your stance. We're going to have three different

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swings. Okay so in order to control your distance

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just like we did in putting I want you to try to find three different kind of

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landmark swings. So for the distance wedge there's going to be

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about waist height or hip height or shaft parallel to the ground or nine

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o'clock. However you wanted to find it whatever

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kind of makes sense with you whether you think about the club or you think

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about your hands. The next one would be chest height,

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club vertical, arm parallel, ten o'clock however you wanted to find it.

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And then the last one would be about shoulder height or pretty close to a full

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motion. So if you have three wedges, three

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swings that gives you nine shots roughly from

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90 yards down to 35 yards. Now the first person who

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I saw with this system was Dave Pels. He kind of pioneered it with Tom Kite.

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But I've seen James Seachman talk about it. I've seen Stan Utley talk about it

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so I

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know that a lot of guys out there and most of the people who I played with in

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college and then local tournaments things like that.

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Most players use some type of this system for helping to control their

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distance. So you got kind of your stack set up

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and then you've got your three different distances.

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Now as far as the swing goes, the swing itself

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is going to be a little bit of a hybrid of your stock swing in the finesse

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wedge.

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It's going to look very much like your typical backswing for the stock swing

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except you're going to have a little bit of a shift towards the target.

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So that helps keep your upper body centered and that helps keep

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the the bottom of your swing out in front of the golf ball

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which allows you to do the important transition

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for this distance wedge swing. The big difference between the distance wedge

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and the stock full swing is during transition

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of during transition of the stock full swing we're going to let those arms kind

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of come in and create major lag in my arms as my body

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brings the hands into play with this big axis tilt.

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You're not going to do that in the in the distance wedge. What you're going to

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do

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instead is from the top of the swing you're going to start letting those arms

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just extend so that your arms stay very wide

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and your body, your upper body, your shoulders kind of control the rate of

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rotation as you come through. So it ends up looking a little bit more

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dead hands kind of like that as opposed to a stock full swing

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having a little bit more whip at the bottom. So we'll go into the details in

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the drills on how to build this transition, how to work on the release,

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how to get those arms to feel comfortable, how to dial in your distance,

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all the major pieces but just keep in mind we're not quite going to this soft

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underhand toss we're kind of a little bit between the throw

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and a powerful underhand toss. So here's the distance wedge I'll demonstrate

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sort of that chest height and we'll go through all the pieces of

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why you want your arms to finish, how to control your distance,

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the release, the follow through, all those major pieces

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in the drills section but just as an overview know that it's going to be

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kind of a little bit more aggressive because we're going to have a weight

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shift towards the target we're going to have a little bit more body movement

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than the finesse swing but it's not going to be as powerful

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and have nowhere near as much access till as the stock full swing.