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This drill is the trail elbow supported wedge swing.

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So with the wedge play, one of our goals is to get a good coasting on the way through or

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basically a hit through the shop that's really smooth and tends to keep, there's no real

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hit.

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And commonplace where the golfer is a hit or a rapid acceleration tends to be from that trail

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elbow straightening or that trail elbow throwing.

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And a lot of golfers are really unaware that they're doing it.

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So the trail elbow supported wedge swing or aka the Justin Rose wedge drill is basically taking

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your lead hand placing it on your bicep.

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So now I can feel if I straighten that arm or I can feel if that arm stays pretty

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quiet in the same amount of bend on the way through.

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I'll also sometimes do it like this where instead of holding the bicep, you'll see that

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I'm basically placing two fingers here almost like so that it restricts any bend.

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And I can really feel the angle change so I can feel if that straightens or bends based

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on how these two fingers are moving.

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So here we'll do kind of the classic version where I'm just holding this keeping some

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connection of the shoulder and then I'm going to make a little wedge swing just kind

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of like that.

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And now you can do this with either a finesse wedge style just like that or you could

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do this all the way up to a short distance wedge.

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I do feel that in theory you should be able to do it up to kind of maybe your chest height

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wedge drill.

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But I find that it becomes harder to make a clean backswing keeping this arm the lead arm

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in a good position.

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So I tend to do this on about 50 yards and in so 50 yards on kind of the upper limit.

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But again it really helps get a sense of, so that was a little bit further one that was

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probably closer to 40 yards.

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It really helps get a sense of this coasting and getting a sense of the whole body kind

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of rotating through together and taking some of the hit out of the arm.

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When you're working through it I recommend if you're, if you're used to having kind

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of a really big arm extension then I recommend doing some kind of tighter, your pause type

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drills where you're going to do a practice swing and you're going to stop and then take

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the lead hand and place it on just like we would do in any of the single arm drills.

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So now you can get a sense of what would be different, you know maybe it would be more

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there, maybe I would feel a little bit more disconnected.

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That'll help you recognize what's the difference when you stay connected and smooth

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in this drill versus your regular swing.

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So again one last one for demonstration will do kind of the holding style that I like where

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it's just thumb and pinky and now I can feel if there's any change in radius that one felt

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really good had a really good clean bottom of the swing.

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So this can help work on low point and this can also help work on distance control.

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I find that this drill is really helpful for golfers who have more of a pronounced hit from

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the arm so maybe they have a little bit more of kind of like a punchy style in the way

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through that and perhaps struggle with some low point control or distance control.

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So doing this feel kind of gets the feeling of the leg, the hip, the core, the shoulders,

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everything coming through together and then you can recreate kind of that same feel for

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a really smooth bottom of swing.

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I can tend to help a lot with your quality of low point control using the bounce as well

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as distance control.

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So try that if you're struggling with a little bit too active trail arm in your wedge

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game.