How To Hit Your Wedges Like The Pros
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Once you’ve gotten beyond the point where your general wedge setup stuff looks good, and where the solid contact is not an issue, and once you have a wedge system built, it’s time to get a little bit more advanced with your wedge skills.
We know distance is a key factor for a lot of us for birdie opportunities or for saving par. The first thing that would aid me in controlling my distance would be trajectory control – my ability to hit the ball higher than normal or lower than normal on command and build that on top of my wedge system to be able to hit my spots.
Two things affect the height with my wedges. One is the loft of the club, so if I want to hit the ball lower than normal, I want less loft. The second part is angle of attack. The more down I hit on the golf ball, the lower the ball is.
What set up pieces would I do to accomplish that goal? I would first take the ball position and I’d put it more back in my stance. The more back in my stance it goes, the easier it is to hit down on the ball. And the second part is I would have my handle, or the shaft be leaning more towards the target than normal.
Now if I said to hit it lower, you want less dynamic loft and you want to hit down more, the opposite would apply for the high shot. If I want to hit the ball higher, I want more dynamic loft and I want to hit down the least. At set up, I’d put the ball forward. I might open the face a little bit here to add more loft.
When you’re doing trajectories, you’re changing your setup pieces accordingly. You’re also going to change your follow through pieces. If I want to hit the ball the lowest and lower the trajectory, the butt of the club would be the farthest from my body, so I would have the widest arc, the widest follow through, and the club head would stay below my hands. My release is going to be very different for the high shot. The butt of the club is very close to my body and the club head finishes very high in the air.
The only other piece I want to touch on is hinge amounts. If I were going to do just a normal wedge shot, I would have a gradual hinge. If I had zero hinge at address and 100 percent of hinged during my backswing, I gradually go from zero to 100 and I’d have what I would call maybe a normal amount of hands. What does the normal amount? It’d be about 90 degrees. Not Looking to have a ton of hinge.
Now, if you’re going to add a lot of hinge back, you need to unhinge a lot on the way through. The point is you have to match both sides to this. If you’re going to have a wedge shot where you hinge a lot back, you need to unhinge a lot on the way through.
If you’re really serious about your ball control with your wedges, you should practice hitting low, medium, and high shots from 30 yards all the way to 150.
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