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Finesse Wedge - Chipping and Pitching
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The finesse wedge shots are short enough that you don't have a lot of time to adjust for a poor path. Typically, the biggest mistakes come from getting the body shallow (tilting back or standing up) and getting steep with the arms (too much wrist hinge or left forearm rotation). In order to build a good wedge game, you should emphasize being shallow with the arms so that you can have a good finesse wedge pivot.
Tags: Pitch, Chip, Drill, Intermediate
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This FNS wedge video is looking at steep and shallow arm movements.
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So with the FNS wedge section where the FNS wedge shots, I should say, you don't really have
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as much time to make big, powerful body adjustments the way you do in the full swing.
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So having a gentle blend of steep and shallows or having really good path is much more
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important for a wedge shot than it is for the full swing.
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The general tendency is we want our arm motions to be more shallow so that my body can be
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more steep and be kind of on top of the golf ball.
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So there are two common ways that your arms will tend to get steep and these can each cause
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major issues, feeling of the hips, contact issues, lots of problems around the shworking.
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The two ways are going to be either increasing my hinge like this or rotating to the left.
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So from here it would be increasing or narrowing kind of like this during transition kind of a
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lag move or rotating left with the arms too much.
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Because I do want them to rotate left but there's a big difference between that and
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that. They're both rotating left but you can see one of my checkpoints is with this alignment
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at impact you still want to be able to see this right form under the left if you're looking
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from a down-the-line camera angle. So having the arms rotate is going to tend to cause
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really diggy contact and kind of close the face and will typically cause a little bit of that
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flip move or path getting too far into out on the actual release. Where this is going to
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tend to cause a little bit too much of that load or high-to-low contact you can still hit
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pretty good shots that way. It just tends to have a little bit less margin of air.
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So the better pattern is having a rotation but having this alignment where that right form is a
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little bit underneath you can hear and see how that allows the bounce to hit compared to that
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if this gets a little bit too much on top. That's one of those death moves for the short game
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because you'll get that really diggy contact. In addition instead of kind of
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hinging and angling this way if you do the opposite if you actually let it kind of unhinged
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you'll tend to have a little bit more gentle release of the club and so you'll tend to have
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better distance control. So it ends up looking kind of the combination something like that where the
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club is just kind of bruising the ground using the natural bounce having all these good
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face-path impact alignments that we teach here in the finesse wedge section. Just know if you're
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struggling a lot with contact and your body pivot isn't kind of falling behind or standing up too much.
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If your body pivot's pretty stacked and on top of the golf ball then one of the few areas where you'll
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tend to see a lot of issues are going to be getting steep with those arms in transition that can
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set off whole cast gays of compensations that lead towards inconsistency.
