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Hit From The Top - Finesse

To execute the drill, make your normal backswing and stop at the top of the swing for at least a 2 count. Then from there, make your downswing and hit the ball in one fluid motion. As you progress the drill, you can make your pause shorter and shorter until it blends into the timing of your full swing. If you have a hard time with this drill, then it usually implies that you create too much lag in your downswing by over accelerating your lower body for the finesse wedge stroke.

Tags: Chip, Drill, Intermediate

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This FNS wedge drill is hit from the top.

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So hit from the top is a great tempo drill and it can also be used to work on your sequencing.

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So just like in the full swing, a hit from the top is basically I'm going to take a back swing and I'm going to freeze count to two and then I'm going to start down.

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It allows me to really focus on what is changing direction first, what is powering the swing, what's moving last, etc.

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So for the FNS wedge, whether I'm doing a single arm release or I'm just hitting normal shots working on distance control and tempo, I'm going to take my back swing, hold for a two count and then instead of like in the full swing, we're in the full swing, I'm going to really focus on starting with my body first.

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In the FNS wedge, my lower body is going to just barely start first, but it's going to move slower.

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So everything's going to kind of move together.

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So from this hit from the top, I'm going to tend to feel like that club is going to change direction first and initiate even though my lower body is just barely starting.

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So it'll feel like it all goes down together.

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So whether I'm doing one or two arms, I can make my backswing focusing on all my good backswing pivot ideas and then from here, I'm just going to

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extend and let my body kind of turn and support, I'm going to release those arms and let my body support it on the way through.

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This is a great drill for working on your tempo, which will help a lot with distance control.

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And then what you can do is you can transition that into taking normal shots and focusing on having the transition be as slow as humanly possible.

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So like get it to where you stop for only one second and then half a second and then you know that just little pause, which is one of the good things

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and one of the good kind of thoughts for a lot of players for taking their mechanical practice onto the course.

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So for that one, it felt like I almost pause.

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I kind of tried to make that transition as long as possible and that transition of letting those arms kind of cast out a little bit.

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Tens to help with controlling using the bounce, adding a shallow because if I use my body, I tend to get you'll tend to get a little bit steep, hit leading edge.

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So if you're having bottom-like ground contact, if you're having sequencing issues, if you're having distance control issues with the finesse wedge, try this great tempo drill hit from the top.