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This finesse wedge drill is alignment stick surfing.

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Um, so we're gonna use an alignment stick

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to help us engage the bounce

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and get the club to slide along the ground, uh,

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for a longer period of time, giving us some,

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uh, more and margin of air.

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Um, so, uh, what we're gonna do here is we're gonna walk

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through a couple different progressions of here of this.

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Um, but basically if I'm quiet, you'll hear if the club

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slides along the, the stick, you'll hear kind of a, a soft,

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um, kind of whooshing sound as opposed to if I was to

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hit the stick pretty aggressively down,

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you'll hear it's a little bit sharper,

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it's higher, higher pitched.

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Um, so this would be trying to get the club

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to just slide along the ground, um, versus

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stabbing the ground or hitting it a little

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bit, uh, too hard.

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And you'll notice when it hits it, it's a,

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the club hits the stick

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and then bounces right back off of it.

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Um, to give ourselves a little bit more, more margin

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of error for the finesse wedge shot, um, we're trying

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to get the club to slide along the ground

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and be kind of hovering, um, at the height of the golf ball

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for a longer period of time, giving us,

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um, some margin of error.

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So two different ways I'll use it.

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First, I'll just kind of get the, the feeling

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of sliding the bottom of the club, um, along the stick.

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And then I'll try to do it sliding

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the club along the ground.

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Now you have to be careful, um,

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if you have grainy grass like I have right there, um,

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this is a better one to do, kind of either neutral grain

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or down grain into the grain.

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This will feel a little weird.

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Um, so then the first step is I'm gonna hit a ball just

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sliding the club along the ground.

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So I'm gonna put the club back a couple feet

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and I'm just gonna slide it through the golf wall.

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So this will feel a little weird.

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I'm gonna slide it through the golf ball. Now.

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I want to, um, uh, do my best

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to avoid really bad mechanics.

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It's hard to do this with perfect mechanics.

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Um, but the thing that I most want to watch out for is a lot

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of people will tend to kind of lunge forward

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or keep that upper body pointing downward like that in order

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to keep the club low along the ground, um, as opposed to,

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uh, doing it more with a combination

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of rotation side bend while maintaining that stack center.

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Okay, so first version we've got dragging

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around along the ground,

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and then second version we're now gonna try

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and get to get the club to slide along the stick,

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but in a more rhythmic

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or dynamic fashion, kind of like that.

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Then we're gonna try to get the same thing

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with the grass, kind of like that.

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And now we're gonna try to get the, the club to contact

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the ground and the ball.

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Um, so it's gonna contact either right at the ball

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or just a little bit before it.

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Um, I tend to air on a little bit more

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before it, you can still get, um, some pretty good check

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and, uh, low launching shots like that as long as you, um,

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keep the hands ahead

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as the body is moving, kind of like that.

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Um, so I find that this can be really helpful for people

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who have too much of a, uh, uh,

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a low point that is too aggressive or too deep.

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Um, it's not so much getting steep,

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but it's really kind of like coming down at the golf ball

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and having a bottomless wing that's a couple inches

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behind the stick will give you a lot

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of really clear feedback.

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Um, so it can help you kind of control the depth

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of the swing, shallow it out a little bit,

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and get a little bit more, uh, bounce engagement.

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All of those things will help give you a bigger margin

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of air for hitting your basic chip shot around the green.