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The drill is hit the bottom shaft. So this is a great drill for getting the proper

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shaft lean for the finesse wedge shot. We've said it before. I love James

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Seekman, Stanut Lee, kind of the modern way of teaching what the best wedge

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players on the planet do. Well most of us were taught when we first started to

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kind of lean the shaft way forward like so and it just gives such a small margin

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for air especially on really tight really manicured courses that we all had to

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relearn how Tom Perny sort of stand out Lee or Brad Faxon or some of these

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great wedge players, Corey Pavan, what they did to be so good at wedges. Well here's

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a one of the one of the big pieces is instead of having the shaft leaning forward

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which takes away bounced and exposes the leading edge so that it can dig into

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the ground. Good chipper is good pitchers tend to have the shaft a lot more

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vertical. Well this is a great drill where I'm going to take two shafts and

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normally I would stick them in the ground but if I'm practicing indoors

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which you can work on you can just take an old shoe box like I did here and stick

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the alignment rods through them and they'll balance out. So basically it ends up

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they're not in there that sturdy but it ends up looking something like this so

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I have you know two shafts, one of them about four inches off the ground and one

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of them a little bit higher. I'm going to set up to this box right here and in my

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mind I'm going to try and hit the bottom shaft before I hit the top shaft so

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if I face you this will be the easiest view for it so I can see both shafts and I'm

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going to try and basically just let the club drop and hit the bottom shaft

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before the top shaft. Now in reality when I'm taking a swing I'm going to hit

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this top shaft just a fraction of a second before the bottom shaft but if you

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struggle with wedge play there's a good chance that you're using too much body

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and creating too much shaft lean and now you can see that I would clearly hit the

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top shaft before the bottom shaft. I'll do it at that again and a little bit of

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an angle just in case the box was blocking your view so if I was to have too

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much lower body which is one of those kiss of deaths or if I was to get this

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axis till you can see that that club would almost certainly hit the top

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shaft well before the bottom shaft so I'm going to get this feeling of just letting

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the club kind of fall and hit the bottom shaft and if you stick them in the ground

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you can actually kind of make contact a few times so this is a great drill for

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getting that feeling of that vertical shaft and we'll show you what it looks

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like so I don't actually recommend hitting golf balls with the shafts there

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but now I'm going to keep that same visual and I'm going to try and hit that

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bottom shaft just slightly before I hit that top shaft so with all my good

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thinness wedge technique I'm going to try and hit that bottom shaft before I hit

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that top shaft. If you if you struggle with wedge play especially if you're

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bleeding shots hitting fat and thin shots this can really help you bottom out the

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swing in the right place and use the bounce of the club which will give you a

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much bigger margin of error when you're practicing your thinness wedge

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chipping and pitching.