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In this drill video, we're going to talk about distance control with the FNS wedge swing.

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Now there are a number of ways I suggest four different ways that you can use to control

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distance when you're around the greens.

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So if you just get comfortable making these little three inch reverse sequence type swing

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motions where you have a little bit more of a chop action and you can get the club to

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bottom out.

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Obviously just making one style swing isn't going to work or one distance swing.

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So what I recommend is you can control the distance the ball is going to go by either changing

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ball position.

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That's really easy.

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Changing clubs.

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That's another one that's really easy.

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Opening or closing the face to add more loft.

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It's another easy one.

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And then the last one would be changing the length of your swing.

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The one that you can do that I don't recommend is changing your rate of acceleration.

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I encourage all of my students to try and find gravity.

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So gravity is constant force, right?

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It's always pulling at the same rate no matter how big you are or where you are.

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If I take this club and let it swing, gravity is the only thing really speeding it up.

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So if I take it back a certain distance because it's accelerating at the same rate, it's

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pretty easy to control how far the ball is going to go or how fast the club is swinging.

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But if I were to bring it back this far and then artificially speed it up, now I'm going

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to have to artificially speed it up the same amount every time in order to have control.

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So the easy way just like in putting, you can either have always the same length

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stroke and just change your rate of acceleration or always have the same rate of acceleration

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and change the length of the stroke.

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So the first and easiest way is to get used to changing the length of the swing.

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So that swing right there may hit the ball 15 yards and that going a little bit further,

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may hit it 20.

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Everybody's going to be a little different.

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So that's option number one is just changing the length of your swing.

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Option number two is opening and closing the face.

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So when we say opening and closing the face, that doesn't mean you take your normal grip

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and then you position your hands differently like so.

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Because during the swing they're just going to go back to that natural neutral joint alignment.

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What I recommend to do instead is take the grip and hold it in the right hand out in front

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of you so you have a constant reference point.

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So my normal for a finesse wedge may be vertical like so.

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My normal for a full swing may be 2030 degrees close.

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Well if I want to, I could go 10 degrees open and now I have a little bit more loft.

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I have a little bit more bounce and this is going to hit the ball a little bit higher.

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Option two, I could always just switch clubs.

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If I need to hit the ball a little bit further, I could take one with less loft.

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If I need to hit the ball a little bit shorter, I could take one with more loft.

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And then lastly, which I talked about in the setup video is you can always vary your ball position.

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So using the same club and having a ball position that's either off your heel, off the midfoot

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or off more of the middle of your stance, if I make the same relative swing, I'm going

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to get slightly different trajectories and slightly different amounts of roll.

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So those are the four ways that I recommend that around the greens you play around with

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controlling your distance.