Finesse Wedge - Chipping and Pitching
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Left Arm Backswing For Wedges
A drill inspired from one of my biggest influences, James Sieckmann. This subtly brilliant drill helps you feel both the position and tempo of a good backswing for your finesse wedge shots.
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This drill is left arm finesse wedge backswing.
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So one of my biggest influences in the short game has been James Seekman and this is one
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of his best case studies, Tom Pernice, who's one of the best wedge players in the planet.
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He's got a few drills that after listening to this, who of them talk, I've put him in
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practice and I think that they're great.
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So left arm backswing is basically to get the feeling.
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So we have the individual arm drills to feel what it's like to make this finesse wedge
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backswing as opposed to the wide one piece take away backswing that we make in the stock
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full swing.
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Well, a great way to feel the combined movements of these arms is to start with the club
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out kind of pointing towards this target just like that.
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So I'm going to get my golf posture.
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Club is pointing out towards this target.
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I'm just going to let the club swing and then put my right hand on at waist parallel
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here.
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So I'll do that again.
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So I'm right here.
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I'm going to let it swing and then I'm going to put my right hand on.
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So if I was to do a right hand only, you can see that that basically gets me in just about
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the same area.
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So this also allows me to feel kind of the rhythm of letting the club swing to this position
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and then letting it swing down and through it.
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So if you're having trouble getting a little bit to one piece and wide and then you get
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stuck underneath and hit a lot of bladed shots or fat shots, this can be a great drill for
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helping you feel the proper backswing position for your finesse wedge.
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So we'll demonstrate a couple.
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So I'm just going to let it swing to right about here and then I could either just hit
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from there or I could start over.
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So I could either hit from there or just get that feeling and then start over.
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So I could either hit from there or I could just get that feeling a few times so let it
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swing kind of to there and then start over.