Split Grip Club Throw - Finesse Wedge
Golfers who struggle with their wedges and finesse shots will often create an unnecessary amount of lag. As we have mentioned before, we want to be careful about bringing the mechanics of our "stock" full-swing to the short-game. Ultimately, to fix this pattern, we need to train & improve the "cast sequence"; that is, we need the club (or our extremeties) moving faster than our core (larger muscles).
A great way to feel this is simply by adopting a split hand grip; this puts more power and leverage in the arms (similar to hockey) and should provide the feeling of the club dropping or being thrown into impact. With practice, this will create more consistent contact and the ability to control the flight of your wedges in and around the green.
Golfers who struggle with their wedges and finesse shots will often create an unnecessary amount of lag. As we have mentioned before, we want to be careful about bringing the mechanics of our "stock" full-swing to the short-game. Ultimately, to fix this pattern, we need to train & improve the "cast sequence"; that is, we need the club (or our extremeties) moving faster than our core (larger muscles).
A great way to feel this is simply by adopting a split hand grip; this puts more power and leverage in the arms (similar to hockey) and should provide the feeling of the club dropping or being thrown into impact. With practice, this will create more consistent contact and the ability to control the flight of your wedges in and around the green.
Video Transcript
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This drill is split grip club throw. So one of the key concepts for getting
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00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.520
good with your wedge play is making sure that you're not creating a lot of lag
3
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:15.200
in the downswing so building on your cast sequence. So one of the ways that
4
00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:20.040
you can a cast sequence is typically when I'm moving the extremities faster
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00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:26.680
than a moving my core, the proximal part. Well one way to strengthen and give
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the
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arms more power is to split your hands. And so that's where in a lot of other
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sports like hockey you get a lot of powerful movement from the arms not
9
00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:40.360
quite as much from the body because the hands are further apart. So we're gonna
10
00:00:40.360 --> 00:00:45.880
adopt that to help us get the feeling of either the club dropping or even
11
00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:50.400
throwing it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring the club back with
12
00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:56.800
very little grip travel and then from here I'm just going to drop or throw the
13
00:00:56.800 --> 00:01:03.840
club down towards the ground. Some people feel more of an active throw and some
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people feel more of a kind of passive drop. But once it's down towards the end
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of this drop then your body is going to continue moving with it as it comes
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through.
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So it's going to have a look of here and then throw or so I'm I'm almost
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riding the momentum or coasting with the momentum in order to bring it through.
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And sometimes the split grip drill is very good for helping you feel that. So
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we're going to bring it back and now get that drop happening first and then
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bring the club through. See if we can do one that was pretty good. We'll see if
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we
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can do it a little bit better. So drop and then throw. They're pretty
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comparable. So if that feels drastically different then what you can do is
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pause
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where you think it would feel different and then bring your hands together. And
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you may feel like normally I have the club with a lot more angle or the club is
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higher off the ground. Oftentimes when you're feeling this drop move it gets
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the
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club low to the ground and then but it doesn't hit the leading edge so I'm
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able to then even though the club is low to the ground I'm still just skimming
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the
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ground for that good four to six inch zone down near the bottom. If you have
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the club too high because you haven't released the hands then it's going to
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tend to come into the ground a little bit too steep for a lot of golfers. I
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save
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that one but oftentimes if you have any rotation if you're coming in steep like
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that you can tend to get low point problems. So feel a little bit earlier
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drop from the arms and combine that with a feeling of the body bringing the
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club
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on coasting on the way through. So basically use the arms early and then
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don't use them through impact and that will help you with your overall ground
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contact and likely help you improve controlling your trajectory and
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distance control.
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Golfers who struggle with their wedges and finesse shots will often create an unnecessary amount of lag. As we have mentioned before, we want to be careful about bringing the mechanics of our "stock" full-swing to the short-game. Ultimately, to fix this pattern, we need to train & improve the "cast sequence"; that is, we need the club (or our extremeties) moving faster than our core (larger muscles).
A great way to feel this is simply by adopting a split hand grip; this puts more power and leverage in the arms (similar to hockey) and should provide the feeling of the club dropping or being thrown into impact. With practice, this will create more consistent contact and the ability to control the flight of your wedges in and around the green.
Golfers who struggle with their wedges and finesse shots will often create an unnecessary amount of lag. As we have mentioned before, we want to be careful about bringing the mechanics of our "stock" full-swing to the short-game. Ultimately, to fix this pattern, we need to train & improve the "cast sequence"; that is, we need the club (or our extremeties) moving faster than our core (larger muscles).
A great way to feel this is simply by adopting a split hand grip; this puts more power and leverage in the arms (similar to hockey) and should provide the feeling of the club dropping or being thrown into impact. With practice, this will create more consistent contact and the ability to control the flight of your wedges in and around the green.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.120
This drill is split grip club throw. So one of the key concepts for getting
2
00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.520
good with your wedge play is making sure that you're not creating a lot of lag
3
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:15.200
in the downswing so building on your cast sequence. So one of the ways that
4
00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:20.040
you can a cast sequence is typically when I'm moving the extremities faster
5
00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:26.680
than a moving my core, the proximal part. Well one way to strengthen and give
6
00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:26.840
the
7
00:00:26.840 --> 00:00:31.320
arms more power is to split your hands. And so that's where in a lot of other
8
00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:36.280
sports like hockey you get a lot of powerful movement from the arms not
9
00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:40.360
quite as much from the body because the hands are further apart. So we're gonna
10
00:00:40.360 --> 00:00:45.880
adopt that to help us get the feeling of either the club dropping or even
11
00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:50.400
throwing it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring the club back with
12
00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:56.800
very little grip travel and then from here I'm just going to drop or throw the
13
00:00:56.800 --> 00:01:03.840
club down towards the ground. Some people feel more of an active throw and some
14
00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:09.000
people feel more of a kind of passive drop. But once it's down towards the end
15
00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:15.310
of this drop then your body is going to continue moving with it as it comes
16
00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:15.480
through.
17
00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:24.200
So it's going to have a look of here and then throw or so I'm I'm almost
18
00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.000
riding the momentum or coasting with the momentum in order to bring it through.
19
00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.480
And sometimes the split grip drill is very good for helping you feel that. So
20
00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:42.160
we're going to bring it back and now get that drop happening first and then
21
00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:48.520
bring the club through. See if we can do one that was pretty good. We'll see if
22
00:01:48.520 --> 00:01:48.520
we
23
00:01:48.520 --> 00:01:55.160
can do it a little bit better. So drop and then throw. They're pretty
24
00:01:55.160 --> 00:02:00.920
comparable. So if that feels drastically different then what you can do is
25
00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:01.600
pause
26
00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:04.360
where you think it would feel different and then bring your hands together. And
27
00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:09.040
you may feel like normally I have the club with a lot more angle or the club is
28
00:02:09.040 --> 00:02:13.370
higher off the ground. Oftentimes when you're feeling this drop move it gets
29
00:02:13.370 --> 00:02:13.560
the
30
00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:19.720
club low to the ground and then but it doesn't hit the leading edge so I'm
31
00:02:19.720 --> 00:02:25.120
able to then even though the club is low to the ground I'm still just skimming
32
00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:25.280
the
33
00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:30.840
ground for that good four to six inch zone down near the bottom. If you have
34
00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:36.800
the club too high because you haven't released the hands then it's going to
35
00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:43.520
tend to come into the ground a little bit too steep for a lot of golfers. I
36
00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:44.080
save
37
00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.480
that one but oftentimes if you have any rotation if you're coming in steep like
38
00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:52.940
that you can tend to get low point problems. So feel a little bit earlier
39
00:02:52.940 --> 00:02:56.930
drop from the arms and combine that with a feeling of the body bringing the
40
00:02:56.930 --> 00:02:57.040
club
41
00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:03.160
on coasting on the way through. So basically use the arms early and then
42
00:03:03.160 --> 00:03:06.640
don't use them through impact and that will help you with your overall ground
43
00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:10.760
contact and likely help you improve controlling your trajectory and
44
00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:13.400
distance control.
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