Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Build Consistent Wedge Distances for Short Game Success

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify key swing positions for 7, 20, and 30-yard shots
  • Adjust your shot distance by modifying loft and swing length
  • Develop a reliable stock shot to improve your short game strategy

This drill focuses on establishing stock distances for finesse wedge shots, helping you develop touch and precision around the greens. Learn how to calibrate your swings for various short shot distances effectively.

Video Transcript
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This drill is finesse wedge stock distances, so it's always helpful when

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00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:10.760
you're trying to build touch to build a couple of references. We do that in the

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wedges where you're working on you know whether it's nine o'clock or ten o'

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clock

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swings and how far they go. With your full swing you dial in your full swing

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distance and then you make references off that. With putting I like to do the

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same thing so it only makes sense that we would do something similar with fines

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se

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wedges. So there's a couple different I put the finesse wedge in the you know

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less than 40 yard category and so it's very helpful to have a stock kind of

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00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:46.520
more short shot where it's seven to ten yards somewhere in that zone and then

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00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:52.960
having more of a medium length pitch of about 20 yards and then ultimately

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maybe a 30 yarder. One of the common data sets that a buddy of mine collects on

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tour pros is 30 yard shots and if you look at them it's it's eerily similar

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how all of them take their swing for their 30 yard shot back to about belly

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button height with the club somewhere up around 40 or even close the vertical.

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So for their 30 yard shots it's got to look kind of like that. Well I imagine

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if

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we had the data we'd start to see some similarities for even the shorter shots.

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So I like to calibrate one where it's just below the corner. I talk about the

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corner as being one of the hard spots so just below the corner and then I like

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to do one that's just above the corner and those typically coincide with

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somewhere just less than ten yards maybe about seven and somewhere around 20

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yards and if I practice those two distances or those two swings then I'm

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typically going to have an easier time adjusting my diff my distance on the

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course because I can I have this stock shot that I can either take less loft

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and

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make it run I can add more loft to take away some distance but I have this

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basic

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shot that I can adjust rather than having to kind of invent a brand new shot

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for

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every single shot that I'm facing. So we'll go through just a little session

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where we'll try to hit we can either do a handful going at the first one and

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then a handful going at the second or we can do ladders going back and forth

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and

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then trying to ultimately fill in the gaps playing a little leapfrog game. So

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variety of ways you could do it but I would start with at least two baselines

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inside of 30 yards I highly recommend somewhere in the seven to ten yards and

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somewhere around 20 yards as good baselines. Okay so we'll do just short of

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the corner and we're just going to pay attention to about how far so that's

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landing pretty close to my you know eight nine yard carry distance so that was

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too pretty close and you can see that those are rolling you know within a yard

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or so of each other so that would be one baseline next one we'll do just past

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the corner and for some people just past the corner is a little bit harder and

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for other people's just short of the corner is a little bit harder.

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So that was good that was pretty close to trajectory and distance that I wanted

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.

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Went the right distance not quite the trajectory that I wanted so now I can

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experiment with let's say halfway in between which would be either I'm gonna

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do the short shot and add a little bit more speed to it or I could do just

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short

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of the long shot or I could do the long shot a little bit slower so those were

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two different ways two different kind of trajectories for getting to let's say

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a 15 pace carry distance but it was easier for me to do that because I had

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the reference of my short shot and my long shot to go off of so if you don't

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have any references you're gonna have a hard time getting really precise with

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your carry distance control so I highly recommend calibrating a few and then

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again playing either leapfrog filling in the gaps or just learning how to

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adjust those carry distances for specific adjustments like taking off five

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yards

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adding five yards etc now we'll do the tough one for me which is the really

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short one good

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Build Consistent Wedge Distances for Short Game Success

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify key swing positions for 7, 20, and 30-yard shots
  • Adjust your shot distance by modifying loft and swing length
  • Develop a reliable stock shot to improve your short game strategy

This drill focuses on establishing stock distances for finesse wedge shots, helping you develop touch and precision around the greens. Learn how to calibrate your swings for various short shot distances effectively.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.800
This drill is finesse wedge stock distances, so it's always helpful when

2
00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:10.760
you're trying to build touch to build a couple of references. We do that in the

3
00:00:10.760 --> 00:00:15.680
wedges where you're working on you know whether it's nine o'clock or ten o'

4
00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:15.840
clock

5
00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:20.160
swings and how far they go. With your full swing you dial in your full swing

6
00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:24.120
distance and then you make references off that. With putting I like to do the

7
00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:28.460
same thing so it only makes sense that we would do something similar with fines

8
00:00:28.460 --> 00:00:28.480
se

9
00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:35.720
wedges. So there's a couple different I put the finesse wedge in the you know

10
00:00:35.720 --> 00:00:40.600
less than 40 yard category and so it's very helpful to have a stock kind of

11
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:46.520
more short shot where it's seven to ten yards somewhere in that zone and then

12
00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:52.960
having more of a medium length pitch of about 20 yards and then ultimately

13
00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:58.840
maybe a 30 yarder. One of the common data sets that a buddy of mine collects on

14
00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:03.040
tour pros is 30 yard shots and if you look at them it's it's eerily similar

15
00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:08.680
how all of them take their swing for their 30 yard shot back to about belly

16
00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.480
button height with the club somewhere up around 40 or even close the vertical.

17
00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:18.800
So for their 30 yard shots it's got to look kind of like that. Well I imagine

18
00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:18.880
if

19
00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:22.520
we had the data we'd start to see some similarities for even the shorter shots.

20
00:01:22.520 --> 00:01:27.560
So I like to calibrate one where it's just below the corner. I talk about the

21
00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:32.440
corner as being one of the hard spots so just below the corner and then I like

22
00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:37.120
to do one that's just above the corner and those typically coincide with

23
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.720
somewhere just less than ten yards maybe about seven and somewhere around 20

24
00:01:41.720 --> 00:01:48.040
yards and if I practice those two distances or those two swings then I'm

25
00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:54.360
typically going to have an easier time adjusting my diff my distance on the

26
00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:58.690
course because I can I have this stock shot that I can either take less loft

27
00:01:58.690 --> 00:01:58.880
and

28
00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:03.280
make it run I can add more loft to take away some distance but I have this

29
00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.400
basic

30
00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.260
shot that I can adjust rather than having to kind of invent a brand new shot

31
00:02:09.260 --> 00:02:09.640
for

32
00:02:09.640 --> 00:02:14.760
every single shot that I'm facing. So we'll go through just a little session

33
00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:19.320
where we'll try to hit we can either do a handful going at the first one and

34
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:23.560
then a handful going at the second or we can do ladders going back and forth

35
00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:23.640
and

36
00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:28.480
then trying to ultimately fill in the gaps playing a little leapfrog game. So

37
00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:32.240
variety of ways you could do it but I would start with at least two baselines

38
00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:37.800
inside of 30 yards I highly recommend somewhere in the seven to ten yards and

39
00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:42.840
somewhere around 20 yards as good baselines. Okay so we'll do just short of

40
00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:52.480
the corner and we're just going to pay attention to about how far so that's

41
00:02:52.480 --> 00:03:00.920
landing pretty close to my you know eight nine yard carry distance so that was

42
00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:05.480
too pretty close and you can see that those are rolling you know within a yard

43
00:03:05.480 --> 00:03:11.640
or so of each other so that would be one baseline next one we'll do just past

44
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:16.480
the corner and for some people just past the corner is a little bit harder and

45
00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:22.280
for other people's just short of the corner is a little bit harder.

46
00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:32.370
So that was good that was pretty close to trajectory and distance that I wanted

47
00:03:32.370 --> 00:03:33.160
.

48
00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.480
Went the right distance not quite the trajectory that I wanted so now I can

49
00:03:43.480 --> 00:03:48.720
experiment with let's say halfway in between which would be either I'm gonna

50
00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:56.280
do the short shot and add a little bit more speed to it or I could do just

51
00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:56.560
short

52
00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:02.600
of the long shot or I could do the long shot a little bit slower so those were

53
00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:06.800
two different ways two different kind of trajectories for getting to let's say

54
00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:11.960
a 15 pace carry distance but it was easier for me to do that because I had

55
00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:17.340
the reference of my short shot and my long shot to go off of so if you don't

56
00:04:17.340 --> 00:04:21.440
have any references you're gonna have a hard time getting really precise with

57
00:04:21.440 --> 00:04:26.280
your carry distance control so I highly recommend calibrating a few and then

58
00:04:26.280 --> 00:04:30.720
again playing either leapfrog filling in the gaps or just learning how to

59
00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:36.600
adjust those carry distances for specific adjustments like taking off five

60
00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:36.880
yards

61
00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:43.560
adding five yards etc now we'll do the tough one for me which is the really

62
00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:49.520
short one good

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