Hi Tom,
I feel like I had a breakthrough yesterday after experiencing some frustration. I've really been focusing on the downswing of the Flying Wedge Drill in maintaining the cheese all the way through impact and beyond. I guess you can call that Ulnar Deviation or as you say in the flying wedge drill "Point the shaft down to the ground in the finish". At first I began to shank the ball and couldn't figure out what was going wrong until I began to take everything super slow, and discovered that I wasn't moving the hips laterally enough like how you end up with the 90% weight forward drill.
When I began to really incorporate that move of sliding the hips forward and maintaining the wedge I began to hit some beautiful shots (push draws) even out of the soccer field rough that I was practicing at. Thankfully, there were no bystanders around during the first part of this session. My question is two-fold, and may require me sending in a V1 for you to answer.
I noticed when doing this swing and really maintaining the wedge with weight forward that my arms/hands ended up above my left shoulder and to the left of my Left Shoulder. Is that the correct finish point of where you want to be? I could feel my butt tucked way in on the finish as well.
I've attached a photo of the two clubs that I was using (Gap wedge and 6 iron). You'll notice that the ball impact marks are more Heel biased rather than in the center. Is this expected at first, or do I need to make some other adjustment to have impact occur more central to the club-face?
Thanks,
Rjroll
Hi Tom, as I mentioned in this post a couple weeks ago I've been really working on maintaining the cheese wedge, and feel like it's pretty engrained in my swing (drill 2.8). I was also trying to work on the Ulnar Deviation of the Wrist, or what I call U-FLEX, but realized after watching your most recent You-tube video over the weekend that I was doing this wrong.
Went out yesterday and began working on pointing the shaft to the ground with half shots, and couldn't believe how my ball contact changed. I mean it made an instant impact, and also couldn't believe how easy it really is to employ in the swing. I started hitting the pitching wedge, and hit it consistently well with the buttery feeling you speak of. I then moved to my 7 iron and experienced the same feeling of effortlessness with long high shots. I was in disbelief standing there hitting in a soccer field with overgrown grass and striping shots. The only time I've ever felt contact like this was on shots that every once in a while I made that i couldn't explain what I did to get that result.
I then pulled out my 5 and 3 iron and proceeded to have great shots like I've never felt before with these clubs. Admittedly, I did flub a couple of these shots with these longer irons, but nothing more practice can solve.
Just want to say "thank you" for that video as it cleared up the feel that I need to achieve what you described in that video! I still need to practice the Finish that you prescribe, and wouldn't even attempt this Wrist move before nailing the fundaments of S&T first.
Great video - Thank you!