In this video, top 50 coach John Howells demonstrates the wedge distance triangle – a foolproof, three-part system which is going to help golfers get up and down more often from inside 100 yards. It’s an underrated and under-practiced skill but if you can improve your short game from inside this distance, your scores should start to tumble.
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So let’s get you better dialed in from inside 100 yards we’re going to be looking at something really cool called the distance wedge triangle let’s get into It so the distance wedge triangle is made up of three aspects the first is centeredness of strike the second is making sure you’ve got a nice low Dynamic Loft at impact usually less than 15° and then the third is altering your swing length to increase or decrease the
Amount of Club head speed you’ve got at impact all three of those aspects are absolutely critical to be accurate inside 100 yards we’ve often looked at the third one swing lengths that’s been well coached and well documented but the first two have often been neglected so we’re going to really focus on those
So number one centeredness of strike what we’re trying to do here is make sure that we hit the ball out of the horizontal Center I.E not out of the toe or the heel but also out of the vertical Center as well which means not catching
It fat or thin in order to do that we’re going to need to do a couple of quick things at setup I like to see the ball just forward of center of your stance left foot turned out a little bit of weight favoring your left side and maybe
Even in voke a little bit of forward shaft lean at address we’re going to make a nice centered back swing that means that we’re not swaying our head way off it or moving our weight excessively over to the right because that’s going to cause us real contact
Problems with where we hit the ground we’re trying to make sure that we hit the ground either level with or slightly after the golf ball just like that if we can do that we’re going to get ball first divot second that nice compressed contact with with the ball once we’ve
Learned to hit the the ground in the right spot what I like to do then is do the runway drill which is all about trying to make sure that we land the club in the horizontal position correctly so what I like to do is set up this little tram
Line set up to the middle of it here and I’ve given myself a little Runway or a Tramway there that I can swing down you can see I just hit a little bit too close to me on that one we’ll have another go set up those tram lines again just go a
Little bit further back on that one I landed it a little bit too far away from from me so this third and final one now I should be able to land it exactly on the correct spot Perfect Right Down the tram lines that’s going to give me a really nice
Opportunity to hit it exactly out of the center and also out of the vertical Center those are going to give you really consistent ball speeds and it’s going to allow that ball to come off with a controlled amount of Spin and launch to get the ball Landing nice and close to the
Flag so the second aspect of the triangle is having that nice low Dynamic Loft the best players will probably deloft their wed shots around 15° for a distance wed shot in this region of 70 yards or so what we’re trying to do is make sure that we’ve got plenty of shaft
Lean through impact and that we’re delivering that club you know if it was a 58° lofted wedge I would de off this to around 43 at impact the reason we want that is it’s going to give us that nice low launch angle High spin plenty of friction the ball will grab nice and
Low on the grooves and it’ll come in and get that nice one hop and stop type effect when it lands so how can we do that well I like to use the alignment stick drill so what you’re going to do is grip the club with the alignment stick about halfway down the alignment
Stick and just try and take your normal grip try and fashion it up so that you’re still holding the stick next to the grip and you’re going to have the alignment stick just outside your left hip and what it does is it invokes a nice amount of forward shaft lean even
At a dress we’re not looking for that necessarily but it helps certainly with the drill but what I’m trying to do is make sure that when I swing through I’m not allowing this stick to touch my left rib cage if I do I’m going to get really
Bruised on my left rib cage so making little shots back and through as a drill trying to just brush the ground with that nice low Dynamic Loft so let’s give it a go let’s try and hit a shot here I’ve got GC quad running get into my normal setup
Position good centered back swing as I’ve said before ball just forward of Center little bit of weight on my left and I’m really trying to deal off the club through impact nice low flying distance wed shot GC quads there telling me I actually Del lofted that there to what’s it coming up with
7,044 Spin and it was Del lofted to 44 degrees of lofted impact so a nice 14° dof that’s exactly what we’re looking for low flying a nice spin on the shot So the third aspect is dealing with the different Club head speeds that can control the ball speed and how far the shot carries so how can we easily monitor that well this is something that’s been spoken about a lot by various different instructors over the years and it’s how to use the clock
System in your wedge game what we can almost do is Imagine where would our left arm swing to in the back swing you could swing your arm you know from down here at address at 6:00 we could sing swing it to sort of 8:30 maybe 9:30
10:00 or indeed all the way up to a full back swing those three different sized back swings will obviously give you three different Club head speeds now obviously when we’re doing this you can call it what you want you can call it a small swing a medium swing a large swing
You can call it half 3/4 full it really doesn’t matter what’s important is that it’s individual to you and you know how far each of these shots goes for you what I recommend to players is get the numbers written on the back of your wedge try and see if you can actually
Practice them a range a top Tracer range or a trapman range and put them down on the back of your wedge so that when you pull the club out of your golf bag you know exactly what your three swings are so I’ve got a 50 yard shot here I know
My my uh small 830 swing goes about 46 yards carry so let’s give it a try again as I’ve mentioned monitoring my setup ball just forward of Center little bit of weight on my left and a nice 830 back swing a little bit left of the pin but
It’s gone the right distance so give those three aspects of the distance wedge triangle a go make sure that you’re focusing on centered strikes on a nice minus5 dynamic lofted impact and get those distance wedges dialed in with three different back swing lengths and you’ll watch your proximity to the hole
Get way way better inside 100 Yards
