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This concept video is factors of low point for the finesse wedge.

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So a lot of golfers who struggle with their finesse wedges tend to struggle

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with contact.

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They complain about chunking it or blading it, thinning it, sometimes

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inconsistent trajectory

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as well, but the major one is the chunk and the thin shot.

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So shots where basically it hits the ground kind of like that before the ball

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or it tends

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to kind of top the ball and bladed over the green.

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So in this video we're going to talk through the two big body influences and

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the two big

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arm influences that will help you guarantee yourself more consistent contact.

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From the body's perspective, there are two major influences.

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We're looking at the location of the body, so I have this stick to help us

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visualize that.

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Is it more forward, backward?

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Now if we're using our stance as the measurement, the closer our feet are

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together, the less

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important our weight is, but compared to the golf ball, ideally will be

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slightly ahead

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of it, maybe about one to two inches ahead of it to start, and we will feel a

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little

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bit more of that pressure shift forward if we have kind of more of that three

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inch lean

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in the backswing.

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So that helps us with the forward backward.

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The second component is looking at the height or the depth of the low point.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with poor contact really are struggling with

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depth control and

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depth control comes down to three different areas.

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You can look at the pelvis and the legs or they lowering moving down towards

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the ground.

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You can look at kind of the bottom of your rib cage or your core where the more

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that

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I'm extending it, that's moving me closer to the golf ball and the more that I

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'm tucking

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it or doing the turtle shell, this is keeping me further away.

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And then we can look at kind of the bottom of the neck or the top of the ribs

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kind of

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up in here, the more that I'm rounding forward that lowers things and the more

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that I'm extending

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that's going to pull things away from the golf ball.

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So there's the two big influences for the body, height and forward backward

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location.

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For the arms, we're looking at the timing of the arms straightening.

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The timing of the arms can include the wrists, it can include the elbows and it

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can include

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the shoulder blades.

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Ideally, the shoulder blades aren't doing too much.

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The elbows aren't bending a whole lot and if anything, I just have a little bit

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of kind

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of play from the wrist, then the width isn't changing.

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I have more of this constant radius.

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The second factor for the arms is looking at the location of the body, the more

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that

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it moves backward, that can move low point backward and make the path go more

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into out.

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And the more that it's in front of my body that moves the low point forward, it

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makes

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the path a little bit more neutral.

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So if you're struggling with contact, you want to look from the face on video

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to see

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am I too far back, am I too far down, are my arms lengthening, are my arms

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bending or

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my arms too far back.

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So sounds like a lot, but most of us are going to have one to two of those that

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tend

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to creep in the most.

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And if I had to prioritize, if I wanted to kind of eliminate the worst misses,

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I want to focus on the height, making sure that I'm feeling tall or making sure

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that

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I'm not moving down into the golf ball.

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And then I want to focus on the width of my arms, making sure that they're not

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reaching

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or bending on the way through.

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If I master those two, then even if I'm a little bit back and the arms are a

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little bit

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behind, my shots aren't going to be terrible.

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They're not going to be the really extreme chunks and blades.

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So again, look at those four big parameters.

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We've got drills that work on each of them, but this will help you understand

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what you

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might be struggling with if you're struggling with low point control or contact

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Okay, so quick demo.

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So why I say we want to focus on those main two.

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So if I'm too far back and my arms are actually behind my body, as long as I'm

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tall enough,

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and using my body and kind of maintaining the radius, I can pick it or if I

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really get

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it behind, I can hit the ground a little bit behind.

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Now I might struggle with creating some spin and I might struggle with

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trajectory.

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So I might struggle with some of the shots where I need to have it a little bit

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more

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low and running, but I can hit okay shots as long as I'm monitoring my height,

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especially

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the height of my core, and if I'm monitoring my arm extension, especially the

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bend in my

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elbows, potentially also the reach of the shoulders, but that also can show up

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in the

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upper body going down.

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So if I monitor the height and the width, that will give me the greatest chance

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for success

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in terms of getting some consistent ground contact.

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If I want to optimize it, then I want to try to be a little bit more forward to

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start

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forward in the backswing, and then feeling like it's tall, especially in my

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core and

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neck, and the arms will feel like they're more in front of the body during the

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stroke.

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That will tend to give me a little bit lower launch and potentially a little

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bit more spin.

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So three and lean, a little lower launch, a little more grab on that first.

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That's too bad, I probably need to clean this wedge, or new ones are coming in

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soon.

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So a little bit of that lean forward, monitor the height, and definitely need

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to clean that

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sweet spot, but overall, contact was pretty good there, wasn't really in risk

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of blading

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or chunking, that'll help you with your low point control.