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This drill is hit the bottom shaft. So this is a great drill for getting the

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proper shaft lean for the finesse wedge shot. We've said it before. I love

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James

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Seacman, Stan Utley, kind of the modern way of teaching what the best wedge

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players on the planet do. Well most of us were taught when we first started to

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kind of lean the shaft way forward like so and it just gives such a small

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margin

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for air especially on really tight, really manicured courses that we all had to

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relearn how Tom Bernice or Stan Utley or Brad Faxon or some of these great

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wedge players, Corey Pave and what they did to be so good at wedges. Well here

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one of the one of the big pieces is instead of having this shaft leaning

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forward which takes away bounced and exposes the leading edge so that it can

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dig into the ground. Good chippers, good pitchers tend to have the shaft a lot

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more vertical. Well this is a great drill where I'm going to take two shafts

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and

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normally I would stick them in the ground but if I'm practicing indoors which

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you

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can work on you can just take an old shoe box like I did here and stick the

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alignment rods through them and they'll balance out. So basically it ends up

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they're not in there that sturdy but it ends up looking something like this so

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have you know two shafts one of them about four inches off the ground and one

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of them a little bit higher. I'm going to set up to this box right here and in

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my

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mind I'm going to try and hit the bottom shaft before I hit the top shaft so if

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I

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face you this will be the easiest view for it so I can see both shafts and I'm

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going to try and basically just let the club drop and hit the bottom shaft

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before

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the top shaft. Now in reality when I'm taking a swing I'm going to hit this top

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shaft just a fraction of a second before the bottom shaft but if you struggle

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with wedge play there's a good chance that you're using too much body and

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creating too much shaft lean and now you can see that I would clearly hit the

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top shaft before the bottom shaft. I'll do it that again at a little bit of an

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angle just in case the box was blocking your view. So if I was to have too much

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lower body which is one of those kiss the deaths or if I was to get this

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axis tilt you can see that that club would almost certainly hit the top shaft

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well before the bottom shaft. So I'm going to get this feeling of just letting

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the club kind of fall and hit the bottom shaft and if you stick them in the

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ground

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you can actually kind of make contact a few times. So this is a great drill for

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getting that feeling of that vertical shaft and we'll show you what it looks

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like. So I don't actually recommend hitting golf balls with the shafts there

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but now I'm going to keep that same visual and I'm going to try and hit that

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bottom shaft just slightly before I hit that top shaft. So with all my good

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finesse

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wedge technique I'm going to try and hit that bottom shaft before I hit that

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top

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shaft. If you if you struggle with wedge play especially if you're blading

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shots hitting fat and thin shots this can really help you bottom out the swing

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in the right place and use the bounce of the club which will give you a much

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bigger margin of air when you're practicing your finesse wedge chipping

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and pitching.