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This concept video is lean left versus shift left for your finesse wedges. So

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this is kind

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of a little bit of a clarification video, just some language cleanup that I've

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been doing

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more the last six months or so. Historically, whenever people taught short game

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, it was

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always ball back, shift your weight forward, hands stay forward, and we hit

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kind of a like

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low driving shot kind of like that. And the, let's say some modern theory, kind

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of, we

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said, okay, you want to use more bounce, we want to get the ball position more

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forward,

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but we still always said you want to shift forward. I've gone a little bit away

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from

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saying shifting forward, and rather, I've adopted more of a lean forward. So

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for most

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people, the center of gravity is going to be much lower down closer to the pel

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vis than

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the upper body. And so when you say to shift forward, what a lot of people do

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is they shift

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their pelvis forward, and that actually tilts the upper body back. And with a

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short club

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where we don't have nearly as much disassociation and body rotation as the full

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swing, it's nearly

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impossible to get the low point to move far enough forward. So we start falling

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into chunk

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thin combination. So the first place I saw it was actually back in Stan Utley's

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original

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book on the short game. But he probably got it from somebody, you know, closer

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to 70 or

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something like that as well. So the idea here is instead of shifting to the

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left, we're going

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to lean to the left. And a little recipe that I'll give is if you put your arms

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at your

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sides, kind of like this, either on front or on the sides, and you kind of feel

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which

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fingertip is lower, then if you lean to the left, you're going to get your left

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hand about

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a hands width further down. So about that much further down without bending the

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arm. So kind

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of like that, that will position your upper body basically on top of your left

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leg. Now,

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this would feel really over the top before to grab like this. So then I'm just

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going

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to kind of close off my shoulders without sliding the hips forward or square up

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the

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shoulders, I should say. So now I'm in a pretty good position where if I just

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rotate, do my

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kind of good pivot with some good negative torsion on both sides, stay nice and

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centered.

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But now I'm positioned ahead of the golf ball, so it's going to help

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dramatically with moving

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the low point forward. And I'd say you could use this with your finesse wedge

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as well as

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your distance wedge, and even some of your short iron, maybe up until nine iron

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or kind

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of a 10 to two eight iron, before you start to really start feeling like you

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need to get

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a little bit more tilt behind the ball as you get into long irons, fairway

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woods, hybrids

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and driver. So if you're struggling, especially with contact and you look on

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your video and

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it's kind of set up more like this, don't think so much, we're watching a

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mirror and

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think to yourself, okay, I want to shift forward, and if you see your pelvis

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going way forward,

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that's incorrect. You want to move your upper body kind of forward compared to

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your pelvis.

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At the extreme, you are very limited in the number of shots that would work

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from this

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position. But if you were in this position where your hips felt like they were

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way back

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in your upper body more forward, you could actually have a greater versatility

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of short

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game shots from that position than from the other one. So airing a little bit

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more towards

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leaning left to help control low point can help you a lot with getting your

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first goal

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of getting solid contact with your wedge play. So quick little demo, we're

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going to lean

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to the left, we're going to basically stay in that position, maybe square up

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the shoulders

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just a touch. That would be more like my 20 yard. Now if we were going to do it

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more

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as a distance wedge version, my stance is going to be a little bit wider. So

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when I

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lean a little bit more forward, it actually might feel more dramatic because my

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stance

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is a tiny bit wider. But I'm basically in the same position compared to my pel

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vis, and

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now we'll do more of my three quarter. Kind of like that. So again, this should

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really

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help with your trajectory control, getting more spin, as well as your

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consistency of

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contact. A couple important keys for mastering your finesse and distance wedges

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