The position now I'm just going to let the weight of my arm swing through. Get it.
Oh, man. Oh, knocked that one into the hall. Hey everyone, Sean. Clemett here. Wisdom in golf and
instructor with golf channel academy. Did you see that shot That was 50 yards in the air?
You're going to see how important this shot is for you to practice to get that all precious, lag
that ball first, then ground contact that we all want to see and you won't believe how easy it is
to integrate into your golf game. Once you're able to see it, you can do it. Got to stay with us.
Okay. A little anatomy first. If I was cutting grass with one arm, there's my lawnmower.
So you can see that the center of that machine is my shoulder. Now you'll notice that the
club is cutting the grass right underneath that shoulder. So if we go about it a different way,
now you have two pendulums in your swing. So let's say I wanted to
squeeze a ball into the face of this hammer with my clubface. All right.
So I wouldn't be putting it here because you'll notice that the low point when I bring
both arms together to take my grip, the low point is right there in the center of my clavicles,
my sternal notch. So if I'm cutting grass, you'll notice the center where it wants to start. Cutting
grass is from the center forward. All right. So if I want to squeeze this ball into this hammer
with a full swing, I would do it from here, the place is basically in the center of my stance.
Now when my arms fall, notice my arms fall first, then the club comes down
instinctively. This is where I would want to trap the ball against the face of that hammer.
If I play the ball a little too far forward, now it feels like I'm going to bottom out before I
get to the ball. And when I get to the ball, I'll be topping it on the way up. And if I want to hit
it solid, well, I'm going to have to bring my center forward. And now it's going to go to the
left. So if the ball position was too far back in my stance, well notice now if I, everything fall,
it's going to fall to this center. I'm going to have to reach back now for chipping. This would
be okay because the hands naturally stay forward. And don't really change that's for another day.
But if I have too far back and I'm trying to go towards the target, that's not going to work.
I'm going to have to reach back to get to that. And if I don't reach back,
then it's going off to the right. So there's the ideal position. So if I use this hammer now
to do it with the back, the backward shot, right Then if I play too far forward, I'm going to top
it on the way up. So you notice the center of that swing arc is right here. And you'll notice
that the low point of that swing where I'm, where I want to catch the ball is right there
at the front of my toes. So this allows my hand to naturally hang forward. So now when I take
my swing, notice the second pendulum right here, where your risks are going to hinge.
So my arm falls brings my hand past the ball. Naturally. If I play the ball
right underneath my shoulder socket, then I'm going to have, I'm going to run the risk of having
the club catch up to my hands before impact. That's going to cause me to hit the ground first
and or top it on the way up. And if I played the ball too far out here, I'd have to reach back to
get to the ball. So there's a nice little zone where if I just let it fall, stay there. You,
it wants to compress the ball naturally against that hammer. So now you can see where the ideal
ball position is, and then you start to figure out, oh yeah, look, this is the only way to trap
the ball to the target. And you'll see the distance between you and the ball.
Real simple. This is where the arm is hanging. So you got no choice, but to have
the ball right there, I can't go there. I'd have to hold the arm out.
Remember that putting video I just did a few days ago. And obviously,
if it's closer than that, I'm stubbing my toe. So this is where it wants to pass.
Pretty cool, huh So that would be the place where I'd want to have that ball position. And like
I was showing you, if you look at how the shot comes off, notice when I want to jump towards you,
my hands come together. And when I want to get ready to jump towards you, my arms split
apart. So the nature of the swing is not going to be straight. It's going to have a tendency to
swing into out. So expect that to go a little bit more to the left if you're a right-handed player.
So we're good to go get my ball position feels like my hand is naturally hanging in front of
the ball. And it feels like if I take a practice swing, I can see the blur right above the ball.
So I got the right distance to the ball. I got the right ball position. Now I'm just going to
let the weight of my arm swing through, get it. Oh, man. Oh, let's knock that one into the hall.
That's 50-yard green right there. So this is such a highly effective shot to hit.
So now let's look at with the normal, you know, swing set up how that would transpire.
All right. So let's have a look here. If I go to what just went on. There's my backswing.
Pretty cool. Huh,
So I got the right ball position. My hands are hanging in front of my hand is hanging in front.
Now as I come down, see how my hand passes the ball first.
Then the club comes down, catches the ball, squeezes it through that doorframe,
and then continues right through. See how my arm wants to move just a little bit away from me
and look at how beautiful that clubface is right there. So if we look at the angle of attack,
perfect, 10 degrees down, my path was 0.1 into outright 45 yards carry 60 yards total. And look
how straight that was the spin axis on. That was just phenomenal. So if you look at the replay,
man, I pulled it or pushed it, I should say because it's moving away. How gorgeous was that
Okay, so I've got a hundred-yard shot. I got my sand wedge and I'm getting ready to squeeze
that ball into the hammer. So notice when I was doing it with the reverse shot, right The backward
shot that I was just letting my arm fall through the shot. And it's the same thing here. I've got
two arms together and the center is right here where between the two clavicles the sternal.
So I'm positioning that in a way. Notice how my hands naturally want to hang in
front of the ball. So you'll notice that is just slightly back of center
and back of centers where you're going to see the vast majority of the pros on tour are hitting
their wedges from cause they're coming in low draw trapping it. That's where you get the most control
over your golf shots. And you'll see the S the spin that you get out of that is quite phenomenal.
So I feel now that when I let my arms fall, my hands are falling in front of the ball.
And then the club is going to come and catch the ball afterward. And then as I let my arms
fall past me and toward the target, that's the most important. So it's armed, fall club falls.
There's my impact. And as that is happening, the arms are continuing. And the body's getting out of
the way because I'm letting my arms continue towards the target. So it looks like this.
Did you see where the low point occurred
So the place where the club actually hits the ground is so it's a ball, then
dandelion stem, then grass through the hammer. Then it exits out of the grass, only past the
hammer. That's why divots are usually about the length of that hammerhead. So let's have a look,
feel like my hands are naturally hanging in front of the ball. And I'm just going to let
the weight of my arms fall in the direction of that intermediate point, right there. Here we go.
Here's that shot
and watch the spin on that. Just sit and stay. So notice my path was naturally from the inside
because, everything is revolving around that, and look how beautiful the center strikes are there.
So I'm hitting that right in the center of the club. My angle of attack notice is very
similar to my backward shot, eight degrees down, cause it's a wedge from the inside.
My face is closed enough and I'm getting a nice little draw. Now, look at how close the faces are.
If this was a driver that would have been a snap hook, right But with the wedges, you can go much
more closed than you're only getting a little draw. Notice how that ball didn't
move a lot in the air. So if we look at it started at three, 3.5 degrees to the right,
and it ended up only eight feet offline to the right descent angle was 50 degrees, a nice
75-foot high shot. And that was exactly a hundred yards. And there's another valuable lesson there.
A smooth sand wedge sits and stays a from sand wedge is going to spin off the green depending
on the conditions. So if you want that ball to sit and stay, we're looking at backspin on,
that was 9,000 RPM. If I rip through there with a little bit more authority,
and I would only apply that authority beyond the ball and toward the target,
then that, that backspin would go up to 11,000 RPM in a heartbeat. Okay. So hope you enjoyed that
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