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Nothing strikes more fear in the eyes of my students when I ask the question, "is that the same for all the clubs?". The simple, honest, answer is no. Since you are trying to do something slightly different with each club, there will be slight variations. But it works on the perspective of a spectrum. At one end is the driver, where you want to hit slightly up on the ball and be as powerful as possible. On the other end is the putter, where you want to start the ball as close to online as you can and only need to hit it a short distance, so you do things to make yourself "weaker". Wedges are closer to the putter. We want to be weak, because if you make a small change to a weak swing, the net effect will be minimal. So you have to make bigger changes, which gives you a comfortable buffer. Simply put, with the wedges, we are giving up power for the sake of control.
Tags: Chip, Concept, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to talk about the overview of the finesse wing.
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Now the finesse wing is essentially going to be your chip and your pitch around the
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green.
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And I'm going to differentiate what we're doing with kind of either the stock full swing,
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which is we're trying to create power or the distance wedge, which is kind of in the
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middle, or the finesse wedge, which is what we're talking about in this section, where
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I am intentionally trying to be weak in order to be accurate.
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So the analogy that I like to give just to kind of create the big picture of what we're
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trying to do is if we look at throwing.
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There's a variety of different ways that I could throw a ball, right?
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Well the stock full swing would be like if I'm trying to throw this thing as far as I can,
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and I'm basically loading up unloading, sequencing, trying to create power, all that
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fun stuff.
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The finesse wedge would basically be if I were trying to toss a bean bag or toss a ball
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for control just like so.
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And it's often been described as, hey, my short game just feels kind of like I'm doing
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an underhand toss.
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Well, there's a lot of truth in that.
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So what I want to do in this video is just break down some of these key differences between
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a powerful throw and a soft underhand toss throw.
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So in the powerful throw you will see that there is a counter shift, right?
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I shift my weight back in order to load up some muscles in my hips and my core as well
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as to create somewhere for my weight to go during transition.
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So then during transition I'm going to step towards the target.
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I'm going to sequence my body from the ground to my arm, creating leg all the way.
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And then at the last second I'm going to release my arm in hand in the direction of my
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target.
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Well, in the underhand toss, right?
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Kind of like this.
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I'm not really going to have a weight shift because I'm not going to have a counter shift.
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I'm not going to shift away from the target.
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I'm pretty much as far away from it as I'm going to get.
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And then even during the backswing I'm going to be moving towards the target and then
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I'm going to have a gentle release from my hand.
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I'm not really creating very much leg because what'll happen is my biggest stretch will
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basically be at the top of the swing and then I'll close that stretch the entire time
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that I'm going into that throwing motion.
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Here's how that applies to golf.
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So if I were to take a stock full swing, you would see a slight little counter movement
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into the backswing followed by leg created from the lower body through the upper body.
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During that transition my arms get in narrow and then I release everything during my
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powerful release which you've studied in the stock full swing.
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In this short game area, in this finesse wedge swing section, basically what you'll see
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is during the backswing my body is going to be moving towards the target just slightly
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and I'm going to have a little bit of set from my wrist.
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Now I'm not going to have a big downcock movement but from the top of the swing I'm just
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going to release those arms and hands while I continue to move in the direction of the target.
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So we'll go through my favorite drills and some of the key details in the drills section
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but that's kind of a big overhand or the big overview.
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Instead of trying to create power and throw in a wall, we're going to try and create control
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like tossing a wall.
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If you can do that, you can probably be pretty accurate at getting up and down around the
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greens.
