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Improve your wedge distance control with Brian Sears, Assistant Golf Professional at TPC Myrtle Beach, as he demonstrates how to use different swing lengths and smooth acceleration to hit more consistent wedge shots.
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Today, we're going to be talking about how to control yardages with your shorter wedges.
Now, when you set up to the golf ball and bring the club back for a full swing, your left arm is roughly around 10:30 if you picture a clock.
How to control that is simply: if this is a full swing, a three-quarter swing will be like 9:30, a half swing will be 8:30, and so on and so forth.
But the most important thing is acceleration through the golf ball.
A lot of people, what they'll do is stop here and then quickly accelerate through. You don't do that. It's still a very smooth acceleration through the golf ball so that it'll go approximately 10 yards at a time.
Let me show you what I mean.
First, I'm going to hit a full shot.
So my arm was roughly around 10:30.
This one, this ball, I'm going to do three-quarter. So what I'm going to do is have my arm maybe at around a 9:30 position.
And for this one, I'm going to do half, roughly about 8:30.
The most important thing, though, is I wasn't swinging as hard as I can for each one. I was having a steady acceleration through the golf ball to make sure that those yardages are appropriate to my 56.