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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at visualizing bounce.

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I think a lot of students are confused about what should happen with the Fineswege and how

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the club should contact the ground.

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I've got a few or a handful of Torpro and Amateur versions where we're just going to look

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at how the club interacts with the ground.

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The most common approach I see beginners or amateurs come in with is that ballback

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cance forward and they want to make sure that they're hitting down on the golf ball.

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What you'll see is in order to use the bounce effectively and give yourself a margin

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of air, the goal was really to get a long flat brushing spot on the ground.

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As you can watch this is a grandmaked dial hitting a standard little chip shot.

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You'll see that the club contacts the ground at least an inch or so behind the ball.

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Then as it goes through, you'll see there's very little change in loft, there's very

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little change in face rotation and there's very little change in the height of the golf

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club to the ground.

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It's just sliding along the ground.

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Now we've got a close up of Justin Rose.

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Not quite as clear on the club face but again you'll see contact with the ground just

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behind the golf ball and then you'll see how long the club slides along the ground.

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This is Justin Rose over the last 15 years or so has been statistically one of the

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better guys with wedges and finesse wedges.

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This is a good example.

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That ball checked up on him a little bit so you can see that he caught it a little bit

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cleaner as far as didn't quite as far behind as say Graham McDowell in that first example.

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But again you'll see this long flat spot.

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That's essentially our goal for any of the finesse wedges swings to get the club to just

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slide along the ground which is proper usage of the bounce.

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All right here we have Tiger Woods at the British open hitting a little more of a pitch

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shot.

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But again we're going to see this comment rate.

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So even if there's a little the camera angle is not perfectly square to his

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stance but even if you have shaft lean as long as you get the club to slide along the

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ground and this is I think one of the best illustrations.

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But typically on the firmer ground you'll be able to hit a little bit behind it as long

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as you're using the bounce properly and you'll be able to really slide the club along

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the ground as Tiger is demonstrating here.

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So one way to monitor and track your progress when you're practicing your wedge play is to

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work on how long of a brush spot can you get with your chipping and pitching.

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All right so now we got Patrick Reed.

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I wish that this was a little bit zoomed out but because we can't quite exactly see where

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the club, the height of the club but you can see that it's on the ground here close to on

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the ground well behind the ball and then he even takes a little leading edge divot just

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past the ball that can happen while still using the bounce they're not mutually exclusive.

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But again you'll be able to see that he's able to get the club to slide along the ground.

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I usually challenge my students to give me at least four to six inches of club sliding

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along the ground.

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I think it's a good kind of rough ballpark that'll give you a big enough margin of air

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even your bad shots will end up all right which is really the goal of this is to build a technique

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that allows you to not have to be perfect.

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Most golfers who struggle with this have the club too high coming into the golf ball and

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then tend to pull up quickly that can either happen from getting too much lag or getting

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a little steep with the shoulders or then it will come up from using too much risk and not enough

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body on the way through.

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If you get the good pattern of casting in transition and then coasting through impact,

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you can get this good long brush location.

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Now we've got an amateur over here on the right we're going to see one of his earlier shots

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and you'll see the club contacts the ground.

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It was coming in on a nice shallow angle but it contacted the ground and then skipped up into the

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ball so that wasn't on the ground for a very long period of time.

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Now the golfer complained both of blading the shot and hitting behind it over here on the left.

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You'll see the club still contacts the ground well before the golf ball.

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It may be a little bit closer to the golf ball but not dramatically but then what you'll see is

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he's able to keep it lower to the ground from the little setup and concept change.

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So this ended up being an okay shot.

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Now the two questions I always get are what about out of the rough and what about if I'm

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hitting a low running shot should I still contact it behind the golf ball.

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So first we've got Tiger demonstrating more of a low running shot and you'll see that he's

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got a fair amount of shaffling and that club is coming in from a higher position but you will

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still see that that gets close to striking the ground if not striking the ground just before

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the ball but it's definitely much closer to where the ball was hit or where the ball's

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lying and it's done with a fair amount more shaffling.

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Now even though he has shaffling because he has this long flatter bottom of the swing not quite

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as long and flat as when he did the pitch shot from the British open but you'll still see

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the clubs stay low to the ground for a long period of time.

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It's not coming up very quickly.

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So he's essentially shifted that flat spot a little bit more forward but not so much that he's

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hitting the middle of the ball down on a very steep angle which I think is the image that a lot

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of amateurs have in their mind. You'll see that he does something similar with the shot out of the

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rough which is the club is definitely coming more down towards the golf ball but just watch how

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low the club heads stays through this zone through here. Again our goal is to get at least a

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four to six inch kind of window where the club is about the same height just kind of sliding

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along the ground and you do that by having a proper blend of pivot and not a whole lot of

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wrist flip on the way through. Now for fun I thought we'd look at a member of the website who was

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complaining about struggling a little bit with this chipping and I had him do a little shadow drill

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of hitting right arm only left arm only trying to keep the opposite hand in the same bubble

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and he said that his right hand feels more comfortable but is more inconsistent. Well I want you to see

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if you can identify why. So if we're looking at the way that the club contacts the ground

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okay we can see it's contacting the ground before the ball and it's coming up

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little quickly so I wouldn't say that that's a really large flat spot now let's compare that

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to the left hand. So if we look at the left hand you can see how much

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lower and flatter that is on the way through. So I said if we were going to match one of the hands I

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would probably want to match the way the club is swinging more from the left hand even though the

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right hand feels more comfortable I think that the overall low point control pattern you can see

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little different pattern of how the club is sliding along the ground. If you use the

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the way the bounce works and how the club is sliding along the ground as kind of the ultimate

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barometer of whether or not you're making progress with your finesse wedge technique it'll help

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make some of the decisions of what you need to work on a little bit clearer. Do I need to get the club

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lower to the ground or do I need to get the club sliding longer on the way through? By working on

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those two skills you should develop a pretty predictable level of consistency with your finesse wedge game.