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Single Arm Finesse Wedge Releases

Single arm moves with club

Right Arm - Take your normal finesse wedge set up and take your left hand off the club
Take a small backswing
The right arm will swing the club toe up
Let the arm drop to initiate the downswing, keep the elbow close to your side as the club swings to a finish
The body should rotate only to help the club finish the swing, but not to create much speed

Left Arm - Take your normal finesse wedge set up and take your right hand off the club

Focus on the amount of extension in your left wrist
Keep the left wrist cupped as you make a backswing so that the toe finishes pointing up
As you swing through, keep the extension in the left wrist, and let the club pass your body into the finish
As with the right hand, let the body support and not lead.

Tags: Chip, Release, Drill, Advanced, Intermediate

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In this finesse swing drill video, we're going to go over the single arm releases.

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So just like in the full swing and in putting, we're going to break the release down into

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what the right arm is going to do and what the left arm is going to do.

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So for the right arm or the trail arm for a right hand golfer,

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you're going to take your normal setup position,

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paying attention to what we talked about in the overview video,

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and you're then going to take your left hand off the club and place it on your right thigh.

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From here, you're just going to do a little backswing and then kind of let the club drop

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and when it gets down towards the bottom, let your body turn with it.

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What you'll pay attention to is two things.

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Because the right arm is connected over here,

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behind the golf ball, it will be very easy to get the shaft leaning vertical or closer to vertical

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than when we do the left hand.

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The other thing is because of the weight of the club and the relatively weak position

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my right arm is in, I'm going to encourage me to allow the arm or allow the club to initiate

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transition. So if you remember one of the big issues that we tend to see with short game shots

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is getting to here and then creating a lot of this shaft lean or creating a lot of this

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lower body dynamics from having the lower body lead the swing like in the full swing.

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As you saw, that will cause a lot of fat shots because you're not going to hold on to the angle

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the way that you would in the full swing. So right arm again is just going to come back until the

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club is about 90 degrees and toe up and then from there it's just going to drop and brush the ground.

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One of the things that you may see in the follow-through position is that this arm is actually

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going to be close to my side as opposed to fully extended like when we were doing the single arm

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releases in the full swing. So second piece is looking at the lead arm or the left arm for

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right hand golfers. So the left arm we're going to focus on the back of this left wrist because

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what's typically going to happen with bad wedge players is they're going to get the club shut

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and probably inside. So they will take it back low and inside like so and then if they just came

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down that leading edge is very much exposed and so what they'll typically do is stand up and fall

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back in order to try to get the club to open back up. In this single arm release we're going to

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practice keeping that cup and keeping the club more out in front of my body. So the lead arm

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would look something like that. If I was to then put my trail arm in place that's still kind of

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in the same place. So just like we did in the putting and just like we did in the full swing when

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you're practicing each of these arms you want to make sure that they're taking the club through

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the same path. So you can take your right hand backswing switch-hands that has the same cup

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it's in the same place. If I now go through this still has the cup I put my right hand on it's in

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the right place. So use your hands to train each other on how to use the release for the finesse wing

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and this will help support the sequencing or the engine of the golf swing that we've talked about

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in some of the other videos.