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This drill is the Trail Elbow supported wedge swing. So with the wedge play,

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one of our

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goals is to get a good coasting on the way through or basically a hit through

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the shop

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that's really smooth and tends to keep, there's no real hit. A common place

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where the golfers

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get a hit or a rapid acceleration, tends to be from that Trail Elbow straight

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ening or

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that Trail Elbow throwing. And a lot of golfers are really unaware that they're

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doing it.

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So the Trail Elbow supported wedge swing or AKA the Justin Rose wedge drill is

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basically

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taking your lead hand, placing it on your bicep. So now I can feel if I

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straighten that

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arm or I can feel if that arm stays pretty quiet in the same amount of bend on

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the way

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through. I'll also sometimes do it like this where instead of holding the bicep

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, you'll

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see that I'm basically placing two fingers here, almost like so that it

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restricts any

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bend and I can really feel the angle change. So I can feel if that straightens

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or bends

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based on how these two fingers are moving. So here we'll do kind of the classic

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version

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where I'm just holding this, keeping some connection of the shoulder and then I

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'm going

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to make a little wedge swing just kind of like that. And now you can do this

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with either

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a finesse wedge style just like that or you could do this all the way up to a

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short distance

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wedge. I do feel that in theory you should be able to do it up to kind of maybe

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your

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chest height wedge drill. But I find that it becomes harder to make the clean

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backswing

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keeping this arm, the lead arm in a good position. So I tend to do this on

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about 50 yards and

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in. So 50 yards on kind of the upper limit. But again, it really helps get a

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sense of,

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so that was a little bit further one that was probably closer to 40 yards. It

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really helps

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get a sense of this coasting and getting a sense of the whole body kind of

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rotating

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through together and taking some of the hit out of the arm. When you're working

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through

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it, I recommend if you're used to having kind of a really big arm extension,

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then I recommend

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doing some kind of tai chi or pause type drills where you're going to do a

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practice swing and

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you're going to stop and then take the lead hand and place it on. Just like we

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would do

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in any of the single arm drills. So now you can get a sense of what would be

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different. You know,

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maybe it would be more there. Maybe I would feel a little bit more disconnected

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. That'll help you

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recognize what's the difference when you stay connected and smooth in this

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drill versus your

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regular swing. So again, one last one for demonstration. We'll do kind of the

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holding style that I

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like where it's just thumb and pinky and now I can feel if there's any change

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in radius,

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that one felt really good. Had a really good clean bottom of the swing. So this

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can help work on low

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point and this can also help work on distance control. I find that this drill

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is really helpful

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for golfers who have more of a pronounced hit from the arm. So maybe they have

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a little bit more

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of kind of like a punchy style on the way through that and perhaps struggle

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with some low point

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control or distance control. So doing this feel kind of gets the feeling of the

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leg, the hip,

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the core, the shoulders, everything coming through together and then you can

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recreate kind of that

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same feel for a really smooth bottom of the swing. That can tend to help a lot

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with your

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quality of low point control using the bounce as well as distance control. So

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try that if you're

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struggling with a little bit too active trail arm in your wedge game.