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This finesse wed drill is the short game triangle.

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So the short game triangle is one of my favorite kind of block practice sessions when

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you're just kind of getting the groove of your swing or you haven't necessarily hit

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no while or if you just want to work on a little bit of mechanics.

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So the short game triangle is basically putting a little bit of a T-square.

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Now I'm going to show you why it's called the short game triangle here in a second.

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But if I put a little bit of a T-square, this gives me the feedback as far as the

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two most common problems you're going to see with the finesse wed swing.

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One is going to be whipping the club inside and close so that as a result, if I did

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that and I have this alignment stick on the ground, I would see it kind of cross way inside.

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That's going to get me shallow, which is going to bring in the bladed, the chunk, laying

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side like it brings in, it can bring in shanks, it brings in the whole host of problem shots

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for the finesse wedge.

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The other thing is if I have my ball position pretty much even with this stick, what I can

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do is I can use that to make sure I'm not coming in with too much shaft lean.

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So that's the other major issue that you'll tend to see in the finesse wedge is not bringing

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the club into more of a vertical impact alignment.

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So I call it the finesse wedge triangle because you don't actually need these alignments

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sticks.

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So what I'll do is if I'm going to the short game practice area, I'll take three golf balls

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and make them kind of my target.

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So right now I've got one ball from the face on its perpendicular to my target and one

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that's parallel.

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This gives me a real rough visual and sometimes I'll do it where the triangle is here.

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This will give me kind of a visual as far as more of the backswing plane making sure that

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I'm not whipping the club inside.

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And the second ball gives me a visual as far as I want to make sure that I'm releasing

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the club before my hands get to that golf ball.

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So you can either set it up as I have here or you can set it up with it back there.

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Doesn't really matter.

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It's just a visual to give you both a target line as well as an impact goal.

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So it gives a target line as well as an impact goal.

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You can tie that with any of the other mechanical thoughts that you might be working on,

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whether it be the left arm release, right arm release, the body pivot, body staying stacked,

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or doing your follow-through checkpoints.

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This is just a great little visual to kind of tie in some of those feelings into what it

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will look like if you do it correctly.

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So this is how it looks from down the line.

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I've got these two golf balls that are representing my target line making sure that I'm

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going to keep the club on plane and not really whipping it inside.

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And then I've got my object ball as far as what I call zero barrier to make sure that

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I've released the club before I get to this point.

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And then all I have to do is as I start to release the club, keep turning my body so

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I get into that good finesse wedge finish position.

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The great thing about the finesse wedge triangle is because you're using the bounce properly,

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it's barely going to brush the grass or just kind of scuff the grass.

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So you can pretty much use the same hitting spot for most of the practice session and not

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getting too much trouble.