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This content video is adjusting your fitness wedge for the rough.

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So one of the common questions is how do we adjust our basic technique or basic

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finesse wedge for the rough?

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And one thing I'm going to give you before we even get into any technique is more of a

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real concept, which is especially I'd say my 15 handicapped students, somewhere kind of in

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that zone.

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I see a lot of them when I put them in the rough.

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They take their practice swings where the club just brushes the grass, but does not hit

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all the way down to the ground.

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And simply getting them to focus on, I still want the club to hit the ground, not just

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the grass, feel how much more the rough grabs it, and then take a shot where they're basically

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getting the club to slide along the ground, can change the way that they approach shots

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out of the rough.

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That's not everything, so let's talk a little bit about how we can adjust the technique.

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In general, the grass conditions, you want to read the lie, so you want to evaluate how

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thick the rough is, how much the ball is sitting up versus down, because those all influence

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what you can do and what you can get away with.

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In general, the rough is going to slow down the clubhead, so I'm going to need a little

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bit more speed.

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To give myself a little bit more margin of error, I'm going to open the face, so I have

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more bounce so that I can slide the club along the ground easier.

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And so that when I add more speed, it doesn't cause the ball to go shooting off.

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The other thing is because I'm typically going to get less spin, I need to increase the

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loft, or it's helpful for me to increase the loft to help get the ball to stop in a reasonable

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amount of time.

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So I need more speed, more bounce, more loft.

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So in order to accommodate this, I'm going to try and get a little bit steeper while

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keeping the club face open.

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So I'm going to take my normal grip and then I'm going to open the face and take my

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grip.

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I'm not going to, sorry, take my grip and then turn my hands, I'm going to turn the

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club in my hands and then take my normal grip.

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That's how we set up with an open club face.

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Now because the club face is open, I might be aiming a little bit more left.

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You want to experiment with how much the ball shoots off to the right for your given style

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in technique.

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Some people, it shoots off a lot.

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Others, it doesn't shoot off to the right very much at all and they can aim pretty much

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square.

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Okay, so now we've got the club face and the bounce taking care of.

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Now how do we steepen things?

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There are three ways that I coach trying to steepen things out of the rough.

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One would be leaning a little bit more left.

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You could also rotate a little bit more open, but I think that one is a little bit

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risky because it's going to tend to take away some of the bounce.

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So I'm going to lean my shoulders just a little bit more left.

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That helps get the club leaning slightly forward with steepens things.

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Two, you can see what I did instinctively is I'm going to choke up a little bit more.

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By having a more narrow club, the circle is naturally coming down steeper to reach the

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same low point.

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Just by choking up a bit, it makes it so that the club is going to travel steeper.

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So lean left, choke up and then the third is somewhat optional depending on the grass

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and how much you have to really steepen things and how much extra speed you're going to

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need.

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That would be adding a bit more risk as your power source.

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So hinging it up a little bit quicker and then casting it on the normal period, but hinging

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it up just a little bit quicker.

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If I lean left, I open the face, I choke up and I hinge it up.

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Then the club will tend to come down into the rough, slide along the ground, pop the ball

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up and I'll learn to gauge about how much distance I need to allocate or how much the

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ball is going to roll a little bit differently.

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If the ball is sitting up perfectly, then I can probably get away with just focus

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on my normal wedge technique.

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But you can see how much that ball ran compared to the one where I opened the face and

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used more the rough technique.

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The other thing that I would say is when you're evaluating the lies, you can play around

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with ball position.

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So two different options would be if I play the ball back, that's going to help steepen

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things.

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So it's going to come out with a little less, I'll made one.

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So it's going to come out with a little less spin, especially if the grass is really thick,

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that can be quite helpful.

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The other option is to move the ball forward, which is going to start to get into more

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of a flopshot style technique.

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I still want to hit the ground.

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I may even open the face a little bit more to give myself more freedom.

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Because I'm hitting with more loft, I'm probably going to need a little bit more speed.

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So if I have it forward, I can basically hit the ground, took a lot more speed, popped

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the ball way up in the air, landed close to the pin, depending on how much you have to

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carry, that can be the safer method as well.

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So experimenting with ball forward, ball back, that's kind of a variable, but I would

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recommend more open club face in general, leaning a little bit more left, and choking

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up and using a little bit more risk as adjustments for making your stock, the nest wedge swing

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more friendly out of the rough.