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This finesse wedge drill is the finished check points. So one of the great

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things

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about the finesse wedge is you're you're pretty much stopping at the end of

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this

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follow-through position or the end of your release and there's no time limit as

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far as how long you stay there so you can check and see if you've done the

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pieces that we describe here by looking at what's going on in your finish. So

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for a good finesse wedge we want to have kind of this little checklist that we

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're

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gonna run through. We want to have the club essentially pointing somewhere

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between our belly button and our left hip closer towards the left hip. You're

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gonna get into a lot of problems if this is pointing more at the right hip. So

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if

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I did it this way, pointing mostly at the left hip. Now what you'll also see

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from

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this camera view here is you can see that the clubface is pretty much parallel

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to

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my spine angle. So I haven't really rotated the forearms in order to close

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the face. I've kept the face open in order to use the bounce. Now also from

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this face-on view what you'll see is that you want to make sure that your body

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is

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kind of stacked up on top of each other or the shirt buttons to the zipper. My

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upper body is kind of facing the target. I've had kind of full rotation. My

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upper

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body is on top of my lower body but facing the target. So if you get into

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these good checkpoints where this is pointing mostly at the hip, not at the

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right hip, it's also pointing kind of slightly down. You can see the club is

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pointing down towards the ground as opposed to coming way up here unless I

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was hitting kind of a specialty high spin type shot. And I'm finishing with my

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body rotated towards the target. So if you get into that good-looking follow-

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through

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or finish position, it'll definitely help you make sure that you had a little

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bit

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of the cast sequence. Body supported it. All the good little fundamentals that

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we

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talk about as far as how we want to release the club, how we're going to

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power the swing. You can freeze that finish position and make sure that you're

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getting there. So now if I freeze this finish position, club is pointed at my

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hip. You can see that one other piece that I'm glad I hit one and didn't

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forget is that the butt of the club ends up about the same distance compared to

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my body through this whole little sequence. A lot of golfers that struggle

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with wedge play do one of the two extremes. But the one that's by far

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worse is to have the butt working way away from you. The only shot that you can

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ever hit, if the butt of the club is working way away from you, would be kind

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of that low spin, low shot kind of like this. It's limited in terms of

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contact. It's small margin of error. It's not something that I necessarily like

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to

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teach my students. So the getting into that finish position, you're going to

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have

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the butt of the club close to you. Body is turned to face the target. Body is

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stacked on top of each other. Hands are pointed away. Club is in a neutral

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position. You get all those pieces and it means that you did pretty much

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everything else that you're trying to do absolutely perfectly. You're going to

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hit a lot of great shots. So not quite as good. I could feel that this is

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pointing more at my belly button instead of there. I drifted just slightly in

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my

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transition. But would have been okay. Just not one of the A+ like I

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demonstrated

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there from the face on view. So you can use that follow through position to

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kind

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of hone in the feelings of what you're getting during either the backswing or

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transition, and ultimately that'll help you build your solid finesse wedge

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swing.