20 Yard Wedge Shot Basics
Sorry, you need to be a member to access this video.
You Are Just Seconds Away - Become a member here!
Already a member? Log in now
Are you ready to start transferring your newfound clubface control to longer shots?! The fun begins here!
Now that you're ready to move to wedge play, it's very important that we really begin to learn how to properly use our body.
Learning how to use your core is going to make or break your golf game.
And that's one of the things that makes golf so difficult for most golfers is that they just don't really know how to engage their core and how to use it properly in the swing.
This is where you're really going to start to feel that more than anything else in your game.
Because as you start hitting wedge shots, and what we're going to start here first, is just 20-yard carry shots.
And learning how to control that clubface and control your body is everything.
And you're going to, in order to pass the skills assessment test, there's a couple basic things you're going to need to be able to do.
The first one is understanding how to rotate.
In the golf swing, we're creating torque.
And you started to maybe feel this a little bit in the pitching game and the chipping game.
But now as we start making bigger strokes, it's really going to become important to do it right.
So the way that you're going to feel that you're doing, what you're going to feel is that you're taking your body, your core, right in here in the back part of your ribcage, and using that to rotate your body back.
As I do this, it's going to give me a nice big shoulder turn.
And that's going to help move my arms, transport my arms back here to where I want them to be without me trying to move my arms.
And that's very important because as you start going through these drills, you're going to find in order to be very consistent and get your starting line the same, carry the same trajectory and spin the same, your hands and arms can't be overactive.
They can't be opening the face and setting the face.
We want a very quiet toe of that club during this stroke.
And so that's what we're going to look at first.
So as I go back, I set a ball up here.
What you're going to find that all great players do is they rotate back, keep the club outside their hands and their hands and arms are very quiet.
And if I do just moving from here to move my shoulders, the club's going to stay nice and quiet.
The club face angle, the leading edge is going to match my spine.
And I'm going to have very little manipulation of that club face.
I'm going to have a little bit of wrist set, obviously, but not as much as we start moving more into wedge play versus the short game, the chipping and pitching.
You're going to have less wrist set early on because obviously in a little tiny pitching stroke, we need some hand acts.
We need to be able to feel that club and have a little bit of hit in there.
But now as you start making bigger swings, we're going to start using our core more and more to rotate our shoulders.
It's still involved, of course, in the chipping and pitching.
But now as we get into bigger strokes, it's much more important.
So we're going to really start to emphasize that.
So I'm pulling this back to get this nice big turn that's transporting my arms and hands and club back.
And now they're really set.
I don't know how to do a whole lot.
I'm going to fire this because this has been stretched.
This part of your abdominal wall is what you really start to feel as you're firing.
To start rotating everything back through and bringing your hands and arms back down to the ball.
And so that's why as you're pulling this back, it's stretching and lengthening these muscles in your core and your belly.
And that's what's going to help you fire on the way down.
So as I do this and through note, the club face isn't really changing.
I am trying to essentially get into that goat delivery position with this, this goat arm, where I talk about how they you're almost leading with this part of your hand.
And that's obviously it's going to start to rotate and unhinge.
And that's what's going to bring the club back to square.
But you are basically holding it like that as you rotate through.
That's what's going to give you the control and consistency you need to pass the skills assessment test.
When you start pronating your arm game over, you're going to have to time every single shot.
But you can see when I use my core to drive my arm through my arms basically doing nothing.
And from up the line, it actually kind of looks like that, that I'm not actually doing anything with that face.
Now, of course, as we add speed, it's going to start to release.
But while we're doing these wedge drills, there's very little re release happening.
You're letting the wrist unhinge a little bit, but we're not we don't need a lot of speed.
So we don't need to let those hands go over at this point.
We're wanting absolute control over that golf ball.
So fundamental wise, setup wise, you need to make sure that you're still favoring the lead side.
60-70% on that lead side.
Nose between the toes, your shoulders are stacked over your hips, Meaning that you have about the same amount of if you dropped a club on the outside of your shoulder here, it's going to be the same distance from your foot as the other shoulder.
They're both going to be a few inches outside of your feet.
So you don't want to be way over here with your shoulders or way back here with your shoulders.
You want to feel nice and stacked over the ball and over your body.
Club, The ball position is going to change a little bit depending on the shot height, trajectory, spin that you want.
But for your stock shot and to pass this 20 yard skills assessment test that you'll see in the next video, play the ball roughly off the center of your in between your feet.
You can play it back a little bit more.
You can play it forward a little bit more.
But roughly just in front of the big toe is a great spot.
And everything else that you learned from the pitching game is the same.
Your hands are going to be in the center of your body.
And a forward press that's going to rock that core forward to give you momentum and start to stretch those muscles to pull the core back.
And then as you go back down, you're going to move a little bit more into your lead side.
And that's going to deal off the club a little bit more.
And that's going to help you compress the ball a little bit more and keep the the ball flight down.
You don't want to hit the ball really, really high with this drill.
When you start hitting the ball really, really high, you're kind of at the mercy of the green condition, depending on what that first bounce is going to do.
And that first bounce is everything for consistency and control.
Because if the ball is up really high, it's way more likely to deflect offline once it lands.
I want that ball to land and go immediately forward in the exact same direction that I hit it.
I don't want to take a risk of it hitting something, an imperfection in the green and kicking off one way or the other.
The higher you hit it, the more likely that is to happen.
So I'm going to hit a couple here and give you a sense of how the stroke works.
And I'll do a couple of mistakes that will help you understand when you see this in video in your swing, what the tendencies are.
So set up.
I like to pull this right shoulder back, make sure it's nice and connected to my core.
That helps my arm feel really stable as I go back to start to make these strokes.
Same thing.
Everything else is the same that you learned in pitching.
Back.
Through.
And hit it into that yellow ring.
That's what we're going to see in the skills assessment.
That's what you're trying to do.
So that's a good stroke.
I maybe pulled it a tiny bit.
I'm trying to hit it right in the middle of that yellow circle.
And when you pull it, a lot of times that's just letting this arm start to pronate, internally rotate.
And as you do that, you can see it shutting the face down.
You want to practice holding that face like this, Like, Your palm is facing the target so that that club face is not turning over when we're doing these drills.
If I let it turn over a lot, you're going to watch this shot.
So I'll let my trail arm start to pronate a lot on the way down.
And now I hit it a mile left.
All right.
So that is what's going to happen when you start letting this arm pronate.
Get used to your core bringing your arm down in that goat arm position.
And that's what's going to help you control that club face and hit it dead straight every single time.
When you do this drill properly, you should, you will be amazed at how consistent you can become.
And you'll see that next in the skills assessment test.
Hyogo
Hyogo
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hyogo
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Damian
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Tim
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Steven
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
MILTON
Chuck
Jeff
Chuck
Nick
Nick
Chuck
Nick
Kendall
Chuck
Kendall
Chuck
Erik
Chuck
Anthony
Chuck
Jim
Chuck
Mark
Chuck
Mark
Chuck
Bob
Chuck