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this finesse wedge drill is the short game triangle so the short game triangle

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is

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one of my favorite kind of block practice sessions when you're when you're

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just kind of getting the groove of your swing or you haven't necessarily hit

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in a while or if you just want to work on a little bit of mechanics so the

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short

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game triangle is basically putting a little bit of a t-square now I'm gonna

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show you why it's called the short game triangle here in a second but if I put

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a little bit of a t-square this gives me the feedback as far as the two most

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common problems you're gonna see with the finesse wedge swing one is going to

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be whipping the club inside and close so that as a result if I if I did that

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and I have this alignment stick on the ground I would see it kind of cross way

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inside that's gonna get me shallow which is gonna bring in the the bladed the

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chunk laying side like it brings in it can bring in shanks it brings in the

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whole host of problem shots for this finesse wedge the other thing is if I

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have my ball position pretty much even with this stick what I can do is I can

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use that to make sure I'm not coming in with too much shaft lean so that's the

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other major issue that you'll tend to see in the finesse wedge is not bringing

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the club into more of a vertical impact alignment so I called the finesse wedge

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triangle because you don't actually need these alignment sticks so what I'll do

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is if I'm going to the short game practice area I'll take three golf balls

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and make them kind of my target so right now I've got one ball from the face on

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that's perpendicular to my target and one that's parallel so this gives me a

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real rough visual and sometimes I'll do it where the triangle is here and this

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will give me kind of a visual as far as more of the backswing plane making sure

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that I'm not whipping the club inside and then the second ball gives me a

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visual as far as I want to make sure that I'm releasing the club before my

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hands get to that golf ball so you can either set it up as I have here or you

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can set it up with it back there doesn't really matter it's just a visual to

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give you both a target line as well as an impact goal so it gives a target line

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as well as an impact goal you can tie that with any of the other mechanical

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thoughts that you might be working on whether it be the left arm release right

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arm release the body pivot body staying stacked or doing your follow through

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checkpoints this is just a great little visual to kind of tie in some of those

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feelings into what it will look like if you do it correctly so this is how it

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looks from down the line I've got these two golf balls that are representing my

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target line making sure that I'm kind of keeping the club on plane and not

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really whipping it inside and then I've got my object ball as far as what I

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call zero barrier to make sure that I've released the club before I get to this

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point and then all I have to do is as I start to release the club keep turning

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my body so I get into that good finesse wedge finish position now the great

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thing about the finesse wedge triangle is because you're using the bounce

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properly it's barely going to brush the grass or just kind of scuff the grass

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so

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you can pretty much use the same hitting spot for most of the practice session

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and not getting too much trouble