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This FNS Wedge drill is the finished checkpoints.

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So one of the great things about the FNS wedges,

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you're pretty much stopping at the end of this

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follow-through position or the end of your release.

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And there's no time limit as far as how long you stay there.

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So you can check and see if you've done the pieces that we describe here

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by looking at what's going on in your finish.

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So for a good FNS wedge,

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we want to have kind of this little checklist that we're going to run through.

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We want to have the club essentially pointing somewhere between our belly button

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and our left hip.

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The closer towards the left hip,

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you're going to get into a lot of problems if this is pointing more at the right hip.

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So if I did it this way,

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pointing mostly at the left hip.

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Now what you'll also see from this camera view here,

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as you can see that the club face is pretty much parallel to my spine angle.

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So I haven't really rotated the forearms in order to close the face.

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I've kept the face open in order to use the bounce.

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Now also from this face-on view,

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what you'll see is that you want to make sure that your body is kind of stacked up on top of

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these other or the shirt buttons, the zipper.

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My upper body is kind of facing the target.

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I've had kind of full rotation.

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My upper body is on top of my lower body, but facing the target.

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So if you get into these good checkpoints where this is pointing mostly at the hip,

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not at the right hip, it's also pointing kind of slightly down.

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You can see the club is pointing down towards the ground, as opposed to

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coming way up here, unless I was hitting kind of a specialty high spin type shot.

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And I'm finishing with my body rotated towards the target.

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So if you get into that good looking follow-through or finish position,

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it'll definitely help you make sure that you had a little bit of the cast sequence,

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body supported it, all the good little fundamentals that we talk about as far as

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how we want to release the club, how we're going to power the swing.

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You can freeze that finished position and make sure that you're getting there.

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So now if I freeze this finished position, club is pointed at my hip, you can see that

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one other piece that I'm glad I hit one and didn't forget is that the

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butt of the club ends up about the same distance compared to my body through this whole little sequence.

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A lot of golfers that struggle with wedge play do one of the two extremes, but the one that's

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by far worse is to have the butt working way away from you. The only shot that you can

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ever hit if the butt of the club is working way away from you would be kind of that

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low, low spin, low shot kind of like this. It's limited in terms of contact, it's small

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margin, and it's not something that I necessarily like to teach my students. So the getting into

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that finished position you're going to have the butt of the club close to you, body is turned

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to face the target, body is stacked on top of each other, hands are pointed away, club is in a

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neutral position. You get all those pieces and it means that you did pretty much everything else

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that you're trying to do absolutely perfectly, you're going to hit a lot of great shots.

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So not quite as good, I could feel if this is pointing more at my belly button instead of there.

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I drifted just slightly in my transition, but would have been okay, just not one of the A plus

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like I demonstrated there from the face on you. So you can use that follow-through position to kind

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of hone in the feelings of what you're getting during either the backswing or transition.

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And ultimately that'll help you build your solid Finesse wedge swing.