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This concept video is factors

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of low point for the finesse wedge.

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Um, so a lot of golfers who struggle

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with their finesse wedges tend to struggle with contact.

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Um, they complain about chunking it

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or plaing it, thinning it.

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Um, sometimes inconsistent trajectory as well.

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But the major one is the chunk and the thin shot.

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So shots where basically it hits the ground kind of like

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that before the ball,

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or it tends to kind of top the ball and blade it over the green.

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So in this video, we're gonna talk

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through the two big body influences

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and the two big arm influences.

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They'll help you guarantee yourself more consistent contact

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From the body's per perspective,

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there are two major influences.

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We're looking at the location of the body.

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So I have this stick to help us visualize that.

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Um, is it more forward, backward is now.

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Um, if we're using our stance as the, as the measurement,

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the closer our feet are together,

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the less important our weight is.

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Um, but compared to the golf ball,

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ideally we'll be slightly ahead of it.

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Um, maybe about one to two inches ahead of it to start.

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Um, and we will feel a little bit more of

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that pressure shift forward if we have kind of more of

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that three lean in the, the back swing.

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Um, so that helps us with the forward backward.

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The second component is looking at the height

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or the depth of the low point.

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Um, a lot of golfers who struggle with poor contact, um,

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really are struggling with depth control.

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And depth control comes down to three different areas.

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You can look at the pelvis and the legs, are they lowering?

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Moving down towards the ground, you can look at kind

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of the bottom of your rib cage

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or your core, um, where the more that I'm extending it,

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that's moving me closer to the golf ball

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and the more that I'm tucking it

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or doing the turtle shell, um, this is keeping me,

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uh, further away.

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And then we can look at kind of the bottom of the neck

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or the top of the ribs kind of up in here.

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The more that I'm rounding forward, that lowers things.

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And the more that I'm extending, that's going

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to pull things away from the golf ball.

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So those are the two big influences for the body height

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and forward backward location.

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Uh, for the arms we're looking at the timing

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of the arm straightening.

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Um, straightening the arms can include the wrists,

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it can include the elbows,

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and it can include the shoulder blades.

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Ideally, the shoulder blades aren't doing too much,

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the elbows aren't bending a whole lot.

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And if anything, I just have a little bit

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of kind of play from the wrist.

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Then the width isn't changing.

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I have more of this constant radius.

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The second factor for the arms is looking at the location

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of the bo the arms compared to the body.

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The more that it moves backward,

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that can move low point backward

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and make the path go more into out.

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Um, and the more that it's in front of my body,

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that moves the low point forward, um,

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and makes the path a little bit more neutral.

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So if you're struggling with contact,

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you wanna look from the face on video

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to see, am I too far back?

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Am I too far down? Are my arms lengthening?

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Are my arms bending or are my arms too far back?

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So it sounds like a lot,

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but most of us are gonna have one to two of those, um,

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that tend to creep in the most.

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And if I had to prioritize, if I wanted to kind

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of eliminate the worst misses,

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then I wanna focus on the height making, making sure

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that I'm feeling tall, um,

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or making sure that I'm not moving down into the golf wall.

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Um, and then I wanna focus on the width of my arms,

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making sure that they're not reaching

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or bending on the way through.

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If I master those two, then even if I'm a little bit back

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and the arms are a little bit behind, um,

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my shots aren't going to be, um, terrible.

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They're not gonna be the really extreme chunks and blades.

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Um, so again, look at those four, four big parameters.

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We've got drills that work on each of them,

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but this will help you understand

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what you might be struggling with if you're struggling

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with low point control or contact.

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Okay, so quick demo. Um, so while I,

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why I say we want to focus on those main two.

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Um, so if I'm too far back

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and my arms are actually behind my body, as long as

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I am tall enough, um, and using my body

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and kind of maintaining the ra, the radius, I,

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I can pick it.

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Um, or if I really get it behind,

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I can hit the ground a little bit, be behind.

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Now, I might struggle with creating some spin

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and I might struggle with, uh, trajectory.

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So I might struggle with some of the shots where I need

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to have it a little bit more low and running.

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Um, but I can hit okay shots as long

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as I'm monitoring my height,

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especially the height of my core.

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And if I'm monitoring my arm extension,

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especially the bend in my elbows, um, potentially also the,

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the reach of the shoulders,

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but that also can show up in the upper body going down.

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Um, so if I monitor the height

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and the, the width, that will give me the,

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the greatest chance for success in terms

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of getting some consistent ground contact.

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If I want to optimize it, then I want to try

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to be a little bit more forward

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to start forward in the backswing

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and then feeling like it's tall,

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especially in my core and neck.

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Um, and the arms will feel like they're more in front

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of the body, uh, during the stroke that will tend

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to give me, um, a little bit lower launch

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and potentially a little bit more spin.

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So three inline, little lower launch,

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little more grab on that first.

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Um, not too bad.

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I probably need to clean this wedge

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or the new ones are coming in soon.

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So a little bit of that lean forward, monitor the height

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and definitely need to clean that sweet spot.

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But overall contact was pretty good there.

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Um, wasn't really in risk of blading

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or chunking that'll help you with your low point control.