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In this concept video, we're going to talk about the loft of the club and how

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you can

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use it to your advantage when you're trying to get out of trouble.

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So right here I have my 58 degree wedge and I've got our little face angle tool

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to show

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you exactly where that club is pointing.

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Now one of the neat little things that you can do is to get a rough idea, it's

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not going

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to be exact but mostly because of the bounce on the club, but to get a rough

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idea as to

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what this club is going to launch at its maximum or what it should launch at

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its maximum,

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you can stand on it.

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So I've got a couple different clubs here, 7 iron and my 58 degree wedge.

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So if I was to put my 7 iron flat and stand on it just so that I kind of have a

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rough,

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the back of the club is roughly flat to the ground, this will give me a rough

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idea as

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to the angle that I'm going to launch the ball at.

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So let's say that I was in the rough and I had to clear this Nike shank guard.

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Well you can see that this 7 iron is going to be cutting it a little close

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especially

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if I have a little bit of forward shaft lean which would probably be more like

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that, where

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this club gives me a lot of wiggle room.

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So depending on how far I had to hit it, how much I had to keep it down, if you

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're ever

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trying to hit over bushes and under trees, this is a great way for looking at

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it because

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the two scenarios is I have this bush in front of me and I need to strike a

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shot from out

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of the woods and make sure that I clear this bush because if I hit the bush, I

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'm completely

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in trouble.

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So I want to pick a club where when I step on it, I'm clearing it by at least a

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couple

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feet and then factor in the rest of the shot that way.

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The other option is let's say I've got a tree, you know, 10, 15 feet in front

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of me with

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an overhanging limb, if I were to stand on the club and it looks like it would

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just barely

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make it underneath, I probably want to go down one more to give myself a little

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bit

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of wiggle room just in case I flip my release just a tad.

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So this is one of the fun easy ways that I used to use when trying to recover

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out of

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trouble to help figure out approximately what this initial launch is going to

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be like.

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If you're just doing kind of your stock swing, this is a great way for

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identifying your

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kind of launch window and that'll help you stay out of trouble.