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The drill is finesse wedge, open trail hand.

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So the open trail hand is one of the really great anti-flip drills.

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It's interesting because it also is one of the great coasting drills.

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So I'll talk to you a little bit about why it might build complementary skills or what

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seems like opposite skills while doing the same drill.

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But the full swing when I am going to have the bracing, if I'm scooping or staying

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underneath, the weight of the club is going to cause a little bit of disconnect.

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But in the finesse wedge, because there's no bracing, there's no force causing the club

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to release snap.

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So there's no real force that would cause my hands to separate.

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So it's actually good at helping train staying under without having any real massive

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bracing movement because if I were to flip or really throw at the hands, I could feel

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a little bit of sliding because my hands stayed under.

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So the big difference, there are two big differences in the finesse wedge version versus

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the full swing version.

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In the finesse wedge version, you want your hand to stay more underneath the shaft on

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the way through, not get on top of it because there's a very little shaft rotation.

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And then too, you want your body to continue moving and coast on the way through versus

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having that lead leg really push and creating more of a bracing movement.

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So open trail hand.

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You can use this in a variety of different ways.

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Either hit from the top, brushing drills.

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Sometimes I'll combine this with a feeling of the rhythm or the brushing drill, kind of

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like that.

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Or you can do it just as a stand alone drill.

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So I'm just going to get set up.

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Take the swing.

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And it's helpful to work on, I'd say, multiple distances.

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Some golfers tend to have a lot of trouble with either the real short chip shot and other

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golfers have trouble with more of the longer chip shot, the 20-25 yard one.

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So I would experiment with both of those different zones, focusing on when you come through

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that the hand stays underneath and doesn't rotate on top.

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Then what can be helpful if it feels drastically different is you can stop at different

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points in the swing and close your hand.

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You'd say, oh, normally the club is out there or normally the club is there and you

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can start to associate what's different in this little one hand or open hand drill compared

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to your regular swing.

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So if you have an overactive right side, it gets into internal rotation, it tends to

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re-hinge.

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This can be a great way of taking some power away from the trail arm.

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And ultimately you'll hit these poorly unless you keep your body coasting on the way

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through.

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That's why this is one of my favorite sequencing or coasting drills for your wedge-by.