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This video is face control with the wedges.

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So when we're looking in the nest wedges or we're looking in more of the

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distance wedges,

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you'll tend to see a slightly different pattern for face control than we'll see

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with the stock

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full swing.

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With the stock full swing, we want to have that early club face rotation so

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that I can

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have that downswing loading and really getting that body behind the golf ball

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with a whole

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lot of side bend.

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With the finesse wedges and the distance wedges, my upper body's going to be a

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lot more level

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or stacked on top of my lower body.

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And so in order to get the height, I'm not going to have a lot of that side

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bend, I'm

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going to have to straighten my arms more to get that down towards the golf ball

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.

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Because I'm straightening my arms, I'm going to have a little different timing

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and method

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of squaring the face.

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With the wedges to square the face, instead of having it rotate right from the

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top of

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the swing, unless I wanted to hit kind of a low running punch wedge shot, if I

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wanted

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to hit more of a stock swing or a stock wedge swing I should say, it's going to

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, the face

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is going to resist rotation, so it's pretty much going to stay at about the

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same alignment.

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And then it's going to rotate as the club passes me, as opposed to twisting the

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face

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to the path.

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So one way that you can work on that is feeling a little bit more of that un

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hinged and then

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keeping this shoulder long, you'll see that as I straighten my arms, now the

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back of my

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hand is facing the target, right?

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So you can use the back of the hand or the palm of the right hand as a little

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bit of

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a reference for where the club face would be.

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With the full swing, we would have it twisting kind of point like this, and so

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my body would

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have to rotate to get out of the way, so that the palm, the back of my left

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hand and the

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palm of my right hand are pointing more at the target.

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So it's a little awkward timing for golfers who are really used to the full

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swing kind

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of motion, and it can be awkward going the other way if you're better at more

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of this

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arm straightening club face closing method.

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But one way that you can work on that is kind of feeling a little bit of a pump

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where

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you keep the extension in the lead wrist and flexion in the trail wrist, and

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you just

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kind of work down more like so, as opposed to getting a ton of that shaft lean

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like that.

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So to complement the pivot, I can work on having that face feel a little bit

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more like

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there's no rotation there during transition, and then it rotates more because

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the

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club is passing my hands as opposed to twisting the shaft.

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It will tend to have a tempo feeling of a little bit more early energy into the

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club,

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and then just kind of coasting with the body pivot on the way through.

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As opposed to with the full swing where I would have more of this twist, and I

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'd be

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open, and then I'd have a lot more of the arm extension from that leg, and you

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could

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hear that I hit that a lot higher up on the face from having all that leg,

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which tends

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to produce more of a higher and flatter swing, where when I have this wedge

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face rotation

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of letting it stay a little bit more neutral, getting a little bit more on top,

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and having

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it straighten because my arm is getting straight, that tends to hit lower on

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the face and tends

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to produce a little bit more spin.

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Now if you're struggling with feeling the arm rotation, sometimes it can help

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if you

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focus more on the location of the upper body.

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So feeling a number of very good wedge players have described the feeling of

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that right shoulder

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staying high, and basically if that right shoulder stays high, then the only

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way I can

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get the club all the way down the golf ball is to have a little bit earlier and

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more full

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arm movement.

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So if you're struggling with the club face orientation during this ball, or

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during the

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wedge shots, pay attention to the first movements and make sure that it's not

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rotating, that

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it's working a little bit more kind of vertically, or lacking that rotation,

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and then it'll

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rotate late, but mostly from the straightening of the arm, not so much the

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twisting of the

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shaft.

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And this applies to the distance wedges probably up until you get to your 100

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yard, 120 yard

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shot.

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So then from down the line, you'll see a little bit more of that early club

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face staying pretty

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square.

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Kind of like this, I don't want to hit it too far, just because that's hole

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number one.

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With the distance wedge, you'll tend to see a little bit earlier of that right

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shoulder

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as the upper body gets a little bit more on top.