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One of the biggest causes of contact issues for good players is having too much axis tilt with the distance wedge shots. You want to have some, but too much moves the bottom of the swing behind the ball. One common way to feel the upper body staying on top of the lower body is to work on the upper body rotating instead of side bending. If the lead shoulder works away from the chin, then the body will have to rotate. If the lead shoulder stays close to the chin, then the body will be going into more side flexion and extension.
Tags: Pitch, Drill, Intermediate
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This wedge drill is left shoulder away from chin.
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I've heard this a number of times, but I've recently seen James Seekman use it help with a couple
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players who were struggling on getting too much of this kind of Jackson 5 side tilt happening
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for the distance wedges.
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The idea is basically if you get up to the top of the swing, then if you're going to
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stay a more stacked and have your body rotate, then what's going to happen is this
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shoulder is going to work away from the chin.
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If this shoulder stays close to the chin, I can still feel like I'm rotating if I'm doing
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more of this side bend movement.
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So what ends up happening is you feel like you get to the top of the swing, and then without
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letting your arms come over the top, so still feeling a little bit of that shallow, you're
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going to feel like this shoulder moves away from the chin kind of like so.
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From the down the line, you'll see that it doesn't actually look anything different than
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just having good rotation, but if you tend to see more of this pattern, that would be the
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shoulder and the chin kind of keeping the same distance.
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So this can be a great way if you're finding that you're sliding in towards the golf ball
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or early extending or having too much of this axis till for what we want to do with the distance
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wedge.
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So it works whether you're doing the 9 to 3 or the shoulder version and can help you with the
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overall rotation mechanics of your upper body.
