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In this concept video, we're going to go over the technical components to the

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distance wedge.

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So the distance wedge is going to be very similar to our stock swing with a few

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exceptions

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that will help us with consistency of contact and angle of attack, two of the

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big things

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that we're trying to promote here with the distance wedge.

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So I recommend that you build three swings for your distance wedge, but we're

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going to

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go over setup for all three of them first.

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So if you remember from the setup video from your stock swing, you're going to

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take a

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step forward with your left foot and then a step back with the right foot.

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Now most distance wedges are going to be just slightly ahead of centered so

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that when I'm

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leaning forward, the ball position is going to be kind of off of my right eye

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or if you

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were looking at where my sternum is, if you were to drop a line straight down,

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it would

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be a couple inches in front of the golf ball.

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Now this is one of the big differences between the distance wedge and our full

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swing, because

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by setting up forward like so, it's going to assure that we make ball first

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contact,

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but it's also going to limit how much energy we're going to be able to create

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from the

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lower body.

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With a wedge swing, it's going to be a little bit more of an upper body

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dominant swing, even

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though we're going to use our lower body, you know, our hips or knees or ankles

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, we're

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going to use our lower body to help create the proper sequencing as well as the

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shift

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our way to get forward and create the proper delivery path.

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So again, we're going to do the small step forward, small step back, so the

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ball is roughly

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just ahead of centered with our body leaning slightly left and our shoulders

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are going

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to be closer to level than if I was trying to launch say a four or five six

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iron.

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We're going to take our normal grip and you're welcome to play around with

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experimenting

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with either the finesse grip with the right hand a little bit in a weaker

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position or

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just your stock and standard grip.

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Both of them can work and produce different, slightly different ball flights.

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So the set up position, let's go over real quick again, sternum ahead of the

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ball, you're

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going to stay there during the backswing, which is one of the big key

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fundamentals.

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There's not going to be a big weight shift back.

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Now in the finesse wing, we talked about how the center actually moves forward,

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your upper

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body moves forward in the backswing.

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With the distance wedge, it is allowed to move forward, but it's best when it

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just kind

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of stays put.

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When I see on 3D that it's pretty close to neutral or maybe an inch forward,

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those tend

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to be the best distance wedge players I've seen.

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So in the backswing, it's going to feel like you stay a little bit more stacked

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and like

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you're leaning a little bit more left.

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This helps control and make sure that we don't hit behind the golf ball because

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we absolutely

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want to make sure with the distance wedge that we have enough shaft lean and

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that we're

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getting the golf ball first.

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So I recommend again that we build three different distance wedge swings to

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help control distances.

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These will be your stock swings.

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One would be basically when the shaft is parallel to the ground.

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Some people call this the 730 swing, some people 9 o'clock, it depends how you

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're looking

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at, but basically shaft parallel to the ground will be my first swing.

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Left arm parallel to the ground will be the second swing and then kind of a

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full feeling

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backswing will be my third swing.

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And so if I have a couple different wedges, this gives me a couple different or

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a whole

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matrix of shots inside 100 yards.

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Dave Pells was the first person who I saw do this, but I've heard about it from

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James

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Seachman, I know I believe Stan Utley talks about a similar type of pattern for

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controlling

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your distance wedges.

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So it seems to work and it seems to be the easiest way.

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And then it gives you a couple of reference points that you can then adjust

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your distance

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off of when you're practicing because your goal is to be able to know your

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distance wedge

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swing well enough that you can take a guess at how far it is and know exactly

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what swing

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to produce.

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Now that takes a significant amount of practice.

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As long as you practice effectively, it's not quite as much as you may think.

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You don't need to hit wedges every single day in order to be good with them.

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So you've got the ideas for the setup.

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As far as the backswing goes, it's going to feel like there's more of a left

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lean to

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it because that's what's going to help keep my upper body staying centered.

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And when we, as far as the sequencing and where the energy goes from, we're

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going to

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have most of our power coming from turning our upper body as opposed to a rapid

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release

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of your wrist or having a massive lower body leg drive.

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The problem with this lower body leg drive is it creates this axis tilt, right?

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I don't want a ton of this axis tilt with these wedges.

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I'm going to stay much more stacked or vertical so that my chin, my sternum, my

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belly button,

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my pelvis are all in a similar line like so.

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So it's going to be lean slightly left.

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Work on either 9 o'clock, 11 o'clock, full swing, however you want to call them

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, shaft

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parallel, 3/4 full swing, however you want to dial them in, hit 10 balls or so

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with some

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yardage markers, figure out those distances, and then it gives you a good idea

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of where

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to adjust when you get on the course.

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So that's kind of the overview of the wedges, we're going to go through

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specific details

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in other drills.