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This video is face control with the wedges.

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So when we're looking in the nest wedges or we're looking in more of the distance wedges,

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you'll tend to see a slightly different pattern for face control than we'll see with the

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stock full swing.

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With the stock full swing, we want to have that early club face rotation so that I can have

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that down swing loading and really getting that body behind the golf ball with a whole

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lot of side bend with the finesse wedges and the distance wedges, my upper body is going

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to be a lot more level or stacked on top of my lower body.

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And so in order to get the height, I'm not going to have a lot of that side bend.

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I'm going to have to straighten my arms more to get that down towards the golf ball.

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Because I'm straightening my arms, I'm going to have a little different timing and method of

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squaring the face.

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If the wedges to square the face, instead of having it rotate right from the top of

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this swing, unless I wanted to hit kind of a low running punch wedge shot.

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If I wanted to hit more of a stock swing or a stock wedge swing, I should say, it's going

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to the faces going to resist rotation.

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So it's pretty much going to stay at about the same alignment and then it's going to

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rotate as the club passes me as opposed to twisting the face to the path.

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So one way that you can work on that is feeling a little bit more of that unhing and then

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keeping this shoulder long, you'll see that as I straighten my arms, now the back of my

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hand is facing the target, right?

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So you can use the back of the hand or the palm of the right hand as a little bit of a reference

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for where the club face would be.

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The full swing we would have it twisting kind of point like this and so my body would

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have to rotate to get out of the way so that the back of my left hand and the palm

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of my hand are pointing more at the target.

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So it's a little awkward timing for golfers who were really used to the full swing kind

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of motion and it can be awkward going the other way if you're better at more of this

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arm straightening club face closing method.

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But one way that you can work on that is kind of feeling a little bit of a pump where

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you keep the extension and the leaderist and flexion in the trail race and you just kind

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of work down more like so.

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As opposed to getting a ton of that shaft lean like that.

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So to compliment the pivot I can work on having that face feel a little bit more like

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there's no rotation there during transition and then it rotates more because the club

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is passing my hands as opposed to twisting the shaft.

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It will tend to have a tempo feeling a little bit more early energy into the club and then

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just kind of coasting with the body pivot on the way through.

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As opposed to with the full swing where I would have more of this twist and I'd be open

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and then I have a lot more of the arm extension from that leg and you could hear that

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I hit that a lot higher up on the face from having all that leg which tends to produce

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more of a higher and flatter swing where when I have this wedge face rotation of letting

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it stay a little bit more neutral getting a little bit more on top and having it's

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a straighten because my arm is getting straight that tends to hit lower on the face and

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tends to produce a little bit more spin.

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If you're struggling with getting with feeling the arm rotation sometimes it can help

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if you focus more on the location of the upper body.

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So feeling a number of very good wedge players have described the feeling of that right

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shoulder staying high and basically if that right shoulder stays high then the arm

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only way I can get the club all the way down the golf ball has a little bit earlier

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and more full arm movement.

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So if you're struggling with the club face orientation during this ball or during the

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wedge shots pay attention to the first movements and make sure that it's not rotating

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that it's working a little bit more kind of vertically or lacking that rotation and then

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it'll rotate late but mostly from the straightening of the arm not so much the twisting

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of the shot and the supplies to the distance wedge is probably up until you get to your

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hundred yard, hundred twenty yard shots of then from down the line you'll see a little

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bit more of that early club face staying pretty square kind of like this I don't want

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to hit it too far just because that's home number one with the distance wedge you'll

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tend to see a little bit earlier of that right shoulder as the upper body gets a little

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bit more on top.