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In this drill video, we're going to go over the overview of the body movements

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for the

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finesse wedge swing.

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So there's three key pieces I like to look at when I'm looking at the movements

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of the

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swing.

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The first piece is going to be kind of controlling steeps and shallows.

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So if you think about the setup video, the setup video we set up in a very

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steep position.

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If I did nothing, you know, if I'm open, if I'm stacked, all those things that

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will cause

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the club to come straight into the ground, right, because my posture is very,

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very vertical.

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So I need more of a shallow swing in order to balance that out.

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So there's a couple things that are going to, the major things that are going

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to be shallow

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are going to be your arm movements.

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So in the swing, we're going to let the arms rotate more kind of around the

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body with more

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face rotation, and we're going to allow the wrist to kind of scoop on the way

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through,

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which also helps shout out the swing.

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So key number one for the movements is having a shallow arm swing.

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Key number two is going to be what we call energy moving towards the target.

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My mentor, James Seacman, talks about this a lot.

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What I see on 3D is typically good wedge players during the backswing will have

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a shift

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towards the target.

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Just like when we were doing that underhand toss, they shift towards the target

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during

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the backswing, and then they either stop and kind of plant there, or they even

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keep going

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there during the downswing.

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The thing you'll never see is they never go backward like so, because that

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creates in

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golf anyway, this kind of propelled club action, which tends to move the bottom

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of the swing

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further back, and you'll tend to hit fat shots and have a lot of club head

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speed.

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So what they'll do is we'll go forward, forward like so, as opposed to in your

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full swing,

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going back, even back on the way down, and what that back on the way down just

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creates

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so much power that you can't tend to control it with your finesse wedge.

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So we've got shallow arms, we've got energy moving towards the target, and then

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let's

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talk about sequencing.

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The big difference between the stock full swing and your finesse wedge swing is

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going

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to be sequencing.

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Typically on these short shots, you're going to have the sequencing of this

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underhand toss,

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which is basically going to be from the club to the ground, as opposed to from

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the ground

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to the club.

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So with the full swing, I get to the top of the swing, and my lower body starts

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moving,

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then my core, then my shoulders, then my elbow, and finally my hands.

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The opposite is going to happen in this finesse wedge swing.

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I'm going to get to the top of the swing, and my club is going to start moving

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first

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from the wrist and from the elbow, and then finally that body is going to come

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through

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and kind of catch and support it at the bottom.

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So we'll go through the details of all of those key movements in the drills,

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but as an

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overview, just focus on we're going to let the arms rotate more, we're going to

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make

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sure that the upper body goes towards the target, that's actually my first key.

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And then the second key is the sequencing of letting the club cast or letting

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those

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arms lead the transition.

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So if you get that big picture and apply it to your own technique, it'll help

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you with

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your consistency of contact with your finesse wedge swing.