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It's common for golfers who have more of a stall and flip release to have distance control issues. To work on that, visualize a similar rate for the club head and grip angular speed. This idea usually requires better torso speed through the ball and less active hands.
Tags: Drill, Intermediate
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This wedge video is matching the club and the grip speed.
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So one of the concepts that I really like for,
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especially when we get into the distance wedges,
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but it can apply to the finesse wedges well,
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is working on the follow-through,
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and especially kind of the later stages of the release,
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having the grip and the club head kind of revolving around the circle
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at a similar pacing.
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As opposed to this would be all grip speed.
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We'll put that down for a second.
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So this would be all grip speed compared to the club,
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and if I exaggerate it even more, it would be kind of like that.
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Or this would be all handle speed,
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where basically the point of the grip is kind of frozen in space,
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and the club head works past that.
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As opposed to having the two of them kind of matched up a little bit better,
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where the grip and the handle almost look like they're moving around a point
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somewhere in the body.
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So having that all work together tends to be a look that I see with more consistent wedge players.
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I like it in the full swing as well,
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it seems to be that much more important in the wedges,
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especially the distance wedges,
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but you can work on it in the finesse game as well.
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So to do that, I use a lot of the concept of kind of hit my arms,
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where basically you're almost trying to match at this waist height position,
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like there's as much speed in the grip as there is going to be in the club head.
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So to demonstrate on the way through,
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you'll basically see no stall, no flip,
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but supporting it with my body and continuing that rotation,
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keeps the grip end of the club moving.
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It's rare to see golfers have too much grip speed,
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but it's very common to see that grip kind of stall
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and the club head pass like so.
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So working on keeping the grip moving through the release
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can really help kind of smooth out some of your contact issues,
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which will really help with your distance control,
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especially as we get into kind of the 70-80 90-yard wedge shots.