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This distance wedge video is looking at the low spinny wedge, so the the low

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spinny wedge is kind of the really cool shot that a lot of tour pros like to

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hit. Not everyone does it but a lot of them default to this is kind of some of

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their standard 40 to 60 yards or so. Where it comes in a little bit low looks

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like it's gonna bounce way off the green and then it lands once and then kind

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of

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grinds to a halt or lands twice and grinds to a halt depending on kind of the

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distance that they're hitting. There's two things that are required in order to

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get this shot. You need low launch and high spin. Now I'm going to walk you

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through a little bit of the kind of details of how they're able to hit this

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shot but know that it's layered on the finesse wedge so or sorry it's layered

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on

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the distance wedge so as far as the general pattern is going to go we're

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going to tend to see a little bit of a upper and lower body shift towards the

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target the entire stroke. You're not going to see a shift off the ball and

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then big through the ball so during the backswing that upper body is going to

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shift slightly left. You'll tend to see a little bit more of a cast pattern

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where

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everything kind of goes all together instead of having a really pronounced

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bracing strategy and sequencing. But we'll talk about a couple of the

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specifics that we're going to do for this shot that you don't necessarily have

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to do just to hit a good distance wedge shot. Okay so most of these shots are

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going to be hit with your at least sand wedge so 56 and above. I've got my

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58 here and I'll demonstrate some at the end of this video. Basically what

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you're going to see is you have to in order to get this to launch low we have

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to do some things that are going to deloft the club. But if my angle of

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attack is really high with a delofted club I'm going to tend to hit too high

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on the face in order to get the spin. So to monitor your launch angle this is a

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brilliant little setup that I first saw James Redyard in his program the

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secrets of the short game or the distance wedge. If you'd google James

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Redyard in short game you'll find it. But basically this is a yardage stick

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that

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has some duct tape going across from it and I basically got it about twice the

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distance of one of these meter sticks. And so what that does is that creates a

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30 60 90 triangle which means that if I'm going to hit the tape I'm roughly

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going to have about a 30 degree launch angle which is about the optimum for

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where where at least the guys who I've talked to who use a lot of track man

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data they'll tell you that 30 degrees if it gets up around 40 degrees you're

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not going to have high enough spin so 30 degrees is where you get the low one

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that still spins enough. So how am I going to take my 60 degree or 58 degree

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wedge and get it to launch there? Well part of it is going to be wherever I set

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up I want to have about 10 14 degrees of shaft lean somewhere in there. Now

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there are different ways to get shaft lean and we'll talk a little bit about

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how we're going to get it for this particular shot but we want to get

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shaft lean which is going to deal off the club and the other big one which is

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going to more relate to the spin than the than the launch is we want to hit

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this low on the face. As opposed to hitting the ball kind of high up in the

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middle of the club what happens is if you hit it off the middle of the club

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it's just going to ricochet off that sweet spot. If you hit it low off the

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face it'll tend to slide a little bit more up the face of the club and so you

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'll

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actually be able to impart more spin that way. So what ends up happening for

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this shot is I need to have lean but I don't want to have that steep angle of

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attack because that's going to move my contact a little bit too high up the

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face typically. So I want to have a very shallow angle of attack while still

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having the shaft lean. One of the big requirements for being able to do this

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shot based on that criteria is we can't have very much flip in the hands at all

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So the cast is more from the from the arm and the elbow than it is from the

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hand. So what ends up happening is that cast pattern is going to look more like

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that right arm is going to extend and for a lot of you because you're not going

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to flip the wrist it's going to feel a little bit more like a punch shot it's

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it's not it's this specialty shot but it's going to feel more like a punch shot

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because you're not going to have a big flip of the hands. So all other things

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are going to be fairly standard to what we were doing in the distance wedge

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other

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than we need a little bit more lean we can't have any flip of the hands and we

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need the the hand path to go a little bit more left through the shot you're

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never going to see someone hit this low spinny wedge where their hands are

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going kind of in out and up kind of like that like you you would see a little

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bit

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more with the longer clubs like the driver. What you'll tend to see on this

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shot is you'll tend to see the hands almost work straight up the shaft

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plane it impact kind of following that body rotation just like so. So one of

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ways that I like to teach players how to hit this shot is basically learning to

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get that shaft lean without stalling. So getting into that set up position and

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then finding where that impact's going to be just going to be somewhere on

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there

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and then from here keeping the wrist about the same just use that body

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rotation to take the club up that that shaft lean and by doing so what you'll

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tend to find is that you're going to have a little bit more of the speed

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coming from that right elbow extension as opposed to a really big body pivot.

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Now this is why in my playing days I didn't hit this shot a lot I would air

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for more going with kind of slightly open-faced and lofted shot because I

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tend to I still tend I tend to get most of my speed from my hips and my lower

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body

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and that's very hard for this particular shot. You want to have more of the

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engine

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more of the power source being the arms and the shoulders if it drifts down

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into your lower body you're also going to tend to have trouble contacting it

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really low on the face. One last point this because we're trying to get a lot

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of

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spin I should point out that equipment is incredibly important for this shot I

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remember talking to Padre Harrington's brother at a conference and he said that

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Padre similar to Phil Mickelson would get new wedges every single week. That's

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not realistic for most people but if you have old beat up wedges kind of like

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this one if you're hitting range balls that combination you're not going to get

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enough spin to actually make it grab. If you're hitting off of kind of shaggy

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turf

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or like first cut a rough that's also going to make it harder to hit this shot.

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So you want to have relatively new wedges and you absolutely have to play kind

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of

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a spinny performance ball. All the technique in the world you're not going

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to be able to generate the spin numbers if you don't have good quality

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equipment

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for hitting the shot. So you're going to we'll just quickly recap you're going

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to

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get that shaft lean by having your hands slightly forward an impact you're

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going to have that body continue or support the movement of the body through

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the shot. Other than that it's just going to be your standard ball position

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kind

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of in the middle to slightly back in your stance. Not very far back as that

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will get your angle of attack too far up. So ball position middle a little bit

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of

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this reverse weight shift. Power it more with your upper body. If you do that

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you

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should be able to clip the tape hit these low shots that have a high amount of

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spin and we'll demonstrate a couple for you here so you can see kind of what it

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looks like. That's close that's actually really good. So lower body is going to

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be

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a little bit quieter. It's more of a torso arm movement in order to get the

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amount of shaft lean you need and not have the club just slam in the ground

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even though your lower body is quiet your upper body has to keep turning

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through

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and you don't want to have a really pronounced flip of the hands because the

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flip of the hands is typically going to get you to contact it a little too high

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on the face to get the real high spin numbers. So it's a it's not a shot that I

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think you absolutely have to have but it's a fun shot to be able to pull off

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when you need to. That had a little bit high launch but that was still enough

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spin that that would have held for the shot that I was trying to hit.