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In this concept video we're going to go over the overview of the distance wedge swing.

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So the stock full swing is kind of any time you're taking a full cut.

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The finesse wedge is when you're around the green and you're intentionally trying to be weak.

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The distance wedge is kind of that in between zone.

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For most golfers it starts around 30, 40 yards.

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I'm about 35 yards.

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Where that's as far as I can hit a finesse wedge swing.

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And so to hit it a little bit further I have to add a few more power sources.

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So it's not quite if I was taking a full throw kind of wind up toss.

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And it's not quite this just simple little underhand beanbag toss.

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It's the beanbag toss where I've got to create a little bit more speed.

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So you'll see I can actually rock back and get a little bit more involved with the finesse wedge swing.

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By having a little bit more weight shift, a little bit more dynamics from the lower body.

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So the major keys for the finesse wedge are let's talk set up first.

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So set up we're going to look at basically taking a fairly narrow stance.

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But just like in the full swing we're not going to let the ball shift too far back.

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We want to keep it just ahead of center.

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Any time you have the ball ahead of center it encourages the weight shift.

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If you have the ball too far back it discourages the weight shift.

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So we're going to have the ball just ahead of center of my stance.

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But if you looked at my upper body and you dropped a line from my right ear or my right eye,

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that would be ahead of just even with the golf ball because my sternum and the center of my swing is going to be ahead of the golf ball.

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It helps eliminate the fat shot and allows me to be a little bit more aggressive with letting my arms just extend,

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which you're going to see is a big piece of this power source for your distance wedge swing.

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So the stack thing still applies.

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Ball more in the middle of your stance.

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We're going to have three different swings.

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So in order to control your distance just like we did in putting,

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I want you to try to find three different kind of landmark swings.

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So for the distance wedge there's going to be about waist height or hip height or shaft parallel to the ground or 9 o'clock.

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However you want to define it whatever kind of makes sense with you whether you think about the club or you think about your hands.

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The next one would be chest height, club vertical, arm parallel, 10 o'clock, however you want to define it.

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And then the last one would be about shoulder height were pretty close to a full motion.

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So if you have three wedges, three swings that gives you nine shots roughly from 90 yards down to 35 yards.

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Now the first person who I saw with the system was Dave Pelz.

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He kind of pioneered it with Tom Cite.

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But I've seen James Seekman talk about it.

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I've seen Stanutley talk about it.

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So I know that a lot of guys out there and most of the people who I played with in college

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now and then local tournaments things like that.

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Most players use some type of this system for helping to control their distance.

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So you got kind of your stack set up and then you've got your three different distances.

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Now as far as the swing goes, the swing itself is going to be a little bit of a hybrid of your stock swing in the finesse wedge.

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It's going to look very much like your typical backswing for the stock swing.

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Except you're going to have a little bit of a shift towards the target.

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So that helps keep your upper body centered and that helps keep the bottom of your swing out in front of the golf ball,

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which allows you to do the important transition for this distance wedge swing.

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The big difference between the distance wedge and the stock full swing is during transition.

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During transition of the stock full swing, we're going to let those arms kind of come in and create major lag in my arms

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as my body brings the hands in the play with this big axis till.

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You're not going to do that in the distance wedge.

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What you're going to do instead is from the top of the swing, you're going to start letting those arms just extend

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so that your arms stay very wide and your body, your upper body, your shoulders kind of control the rate of rotation as you come through.

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So it ends up looking a little bit more dead hands kind of like that

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as opposed to a stock full swing having a little bit more whip at the bottom.

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So we'll go into the details and the drills on how to build this transition, how to work on the release,

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how to get those arms to feel comfortable, how to dial in your distance, all the major pieces.

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But just keep in mind, we're not quite going to this soft underhand toss.

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We're kind of a little bit between the throw and a powerful underhand toss.

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So here's the distance wedge, all demonstrate sort of that chest height.

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And we'll go through all the pieces of why you want your arms to finish, how to control your distance, the release, the follow through.

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All those major pieces in the drills section, but just as an overview,

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know that it's going to be kind of a little bit more aggressive because we're going to have a weight shift towards the target.

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Going to have a little bit more body movement than the finesse swing, but it's not going to be as powerful and have nowhere near as much access to as the stock full swing.