Justin Thomas is one of the best in the game with a wedge. Here’s three things you can learn from his strategy on controlling distance. Tip number one is club selection. I don’t like hitting wedges full. I just feel like it’s I don’t need to be swinging a gap wedge really hard here. JT never hits a full swing wedge. In my opinion, it’s much harder to control a wedge when you swing full out. But it’s much easier to control launch, spin, and distance if you club up and swing easy. Now that you got the right club, next we’re going to talk about how to control the launch. A lot of guys don’t like choke down or near as much as I do. Like they’re pretty dominant of just kind of being here. But is that just like you just kind of do what you feel or do you have like kind of a system of like one in a couple yards here? I don’t I mean I can kind of gauge it but like if I’m you know hitting that same one and like I want it really really low. I mean I can just I feel like if I choke down about this much like it’s going to come in so much lower. JT’s biggest key to flighting the ball down is gripping down on the club. This allows him to create more shaftling to lower the launch. It It obviously does something to my delivery or whatever. And I mean, I’m I’m sure I put it a little back in my stance, but I just feel like when I’m more when I choke down, I’m a little closer to it, more on top of it, and I’m just able to cover it a little bit better. Now, the last and possibly most important tip, I take it back as short as I can to hit at that distance. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. Like, it’s it’s weird. It’s but I feel like because of that I’m able to have the same acceleration all the time. Yeah, JT wants the same tempo and acceleration through the ball on every wedge shot. This makes it easier to control distance because the only variable changing distance is the length of the back swing. I’ve personally been focused on this and I’ve gone from decelerating and leaving wedges short to getting the ball much closer to the hole more often.
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