Fix Your WEDGES Instantly – Most Golfers Get This Wrong

If your wedges keep landing everywhere except where you aimed, you might be making this wedge accuracy killer mistake. In this live golf lesson, Coach James works with Jacky, a golfer of 5 years, to finally gain control and accuracy with every wedge shot. You’ll learn the key setup changes, contact fixes, and swing adjustments that instantly tighten your dispersion and stop those frustrating mishits. If you want to hit your wedges like a pro and actually trust them under pressure, this is the wedge control guide you need.

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Initial Swing + Initial Feedback
3:29 3 Things That Needs To Be Changed
4:20 Drills for: Backswing
4:45 Towel Drill
7:55 Tape Drill
11:43 Main Things when Hitting a Wedge
15:20 Tip for Lowest Point
16:20 Final Swings + Final Takeaways
17:38 Recap
19:27 Outro

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Whoa. That’s why you got to practice each things. Yeah. Until it’s just it’s in your DNA. In this live golf lesson, we’re going to help Jackie hit his wedges more with control and accuracy. Hey, Jackie. Hi. So, welcome to our channel. Thank you. Yeah. So, you’ve been golfing for how long? About five year. This is the fifth year. Fifth year. Okay. And what’s your handicap? It’s about a 10 10 11 12. Yeah. Okay. And what do you think is what’s causing you to not go down to a scratch golfer? I think um the wedges. Yeah. I like it’s crazy to me that I’m more comfortable hitting like a eight iron to to six iron into the green than actually wedges. Perfect. And let’s show the audience how you hit your wet shot. Sure. So, we’re going to hit three shots and we have 90 yards to the hole and you’re hitting with the 56. Is that your 56? Um, yeah. I I would probably hit this a little lighter, but usually my 56 goes 95 or so. 95. Yeah. Okay. Let’s see. Okay, that one shorter. Yep. Oh, that was better. Oh, nice. Nice shot. Oh, do one more. Yeah, let’s do one more. Sure. And that one’s way high and short. Yeah, just like your first shot. And it’s going left, too. Mhm. So, I think what’s happening to your shots is that you told me you’re you aim right just now on your second shot and then you tend to draw a ball. Why do you think your ball’s drawing? or like the feeling is drawing but you know I think most of the time I just pull it. You end up in the left. Why do you think it’s going left? Probably face angle. Yeah, it’s closing but why do you think it’s closing? You start with your setup square. Yeah. Um probably I do have a tendency for like out to in. Um but maybe out to in. Yeah, like an out to in swing. I have a very steep swing. So probably a mix of those things. Ex actually not. Oh, it’s not. Okay. You’re It’s because first shot and third shot, you know that you chunked it by like two inches. So what happens when your club touches the ground? Oh yeah. It closes. It closes, right? So it didn’t close much. It only closed like one to two degree. Yeah. Yeah. So soon as you hit the ground, your club always closes. Mhm. Yes. It’s not your face control from going out too much out to, you know, into out cuz second shot it went exactly straight. Right. So which means it didn’t really change you didn’t really change anything. Only thing that’s different was that you hit the ball first on la first shot and third shot. You hit the ground first. So both of them ended up on like five to 10 yards left, right? Because it hit the ground, your club twist. Yeah, that’s the main reason. Okay. But it might be even more when at the golf course because you know at the real grass it’s going to twist way more, right? You know what happens here, right? So you’re it’s just not the real grass. So when you hit hit the ground, your club just bounce off here and hit it high off the face. So and that’s the reason why you lost a lot of distance cuz your club is coming sliding off the face. You’re not compressing a ball. So I saw three things on your swing. Three thing that needs to be changed on your swing. So first, you’re doing way too much back swing. Yeah. Way too much. It’s like almost up there parallel. Yeah. Yeah. So you never want to do a full swing with the wedge. It’s something that is must. Okay. Okay. And then you gota we got to work on club face control. You got to make sure I mean your club face control is good but we still need to work on it. And then last one is your lowest point. Mhm. So reason why your ball sliding off the face is you’re hitting your lowest point is around 2 in behind the ball. Okay. So, I’m going to give you a drill for that. Drill for uh hitting the ball first and then help you give you some drill to keep keep your back swing more compact with a smaller back swing and another drill to help you keep your wrist more straight with the impact. So, let’s start with the back swing first. So, let me show you an example here. Sure. So, your back swing, your back swing position somewhere here. Mhm. So, it’s a little too much. So we want to keep your elbows almost tucked in together and we want the back swing to be just past half swing. Okay? So you’re this is half swing like 3/4 swing, not the full swing, right? Okay. So one drill, one easiest drill for this is just tower drill. You put the towel between your elbow or put you put like a glove underneath your elbow, not elbow, underneath your armpit and then swing like this. One, two, So that you can just do it at home, but let me show you a quick example. Mhm. So imagine there’s a towel underneath your elbow and we just do a start with the L to L swing. So L L and L. So you never want to do a full swing with the wedge. Okay. So here, open your stance, tuck in the elbow. Imagine there’s a ball between your arms here. Mhm. Hold time. Even after you hit the ball, imagine there’s a ball here. You’re squeezing the ball between your arm. Okay. So, we’re going with half swing. We’re just going like 60 yards. One and two. So, that was exactly 60 yards. Let’s give it a try. Make sure when you’re hitting a wet shot, try not to do too much weight transfer. Okay. Keep it. more like shoulders and more shoulder and just more torso. Okay. You got to open your stance a little more. Yep. And then imagine there’s a towel underneath your elbow. Good. Tuck them together. Good. Right there. Okay. So, stop there. Yes. Okay. Okay. That was better. Little little bit chunky. 60. Exactly. 60. Yeah. I feel like the more compression there. Oh, did you? Yeah, I did. But just one more thing is that your ball position was too much on the le side. Okay. So, let’s get your ball to be slightly right now. It’s in the center. Yeah. Yeah. More like here. Yes. More like somewhere there. Okay. With the wedge. Yes. Okay. It’s L to L elbow. Perfect. I love it. Do you notice how low your balls are going? Yeah. That’s what we’re trying to do. Trying to get a low shot as possible. So, okay. We don’t want too much loft when you’re hitting a hitting a wedge. Okay? So, you want to compress as much as you can just by doing less wrist hinge less and then just use the body and compress the ball. Okay? So, it kind of feels like you’re doing like like a punch shot right now, right? So, let’s with the same back swing, let’s add a little bit more speed. Same amount of back swing though. L to L. Okay, let’s try that one more time. Okay, that was a little bit chunky though. Oh. Oh, that was a shank. Was it topping? I think I bladed it. Oh, was it topping? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Was it? Yeah, it was bladed, right? Yeah. Let’s try one more. Okay. Okay. So what’s happening right now is still even with that back small back swing, you still don’t have that control of the hitting the controlling your lowest point. So now we’re going to do a tape drill. Okay. So what this tape’s going to I’m going to do is just I’m going to put it just one ball behind where your ball is. Okay. So I usually start with three balls which means I put two balls here and I put a extra ball right here and then you’re supposed to hit this ball. Mhm. So which means I put a ball here tape here something like this and I put two ball but for the wet this is only for the middle iron or the longer iron. I use two ball for which control which practice. Okay. So your goal is not to hit the tape. Okay. Okay. That was not bad. Just a slightly behind the ball. Let’s try one more. No, two more. That was a similar shot. Okay. One more. Okay. I like that one. So that one was the first shot you actually hit the ball first. Okay. Last two was uh still a little chunky. Still like half an inch chunky. Yeah. But that was the that was the best one. So it went definitely went a little bit lower and then more in the center too, right? So that’s the thing drill that you really got to practice cuz this is something that can you cannot just fix it right away. Mhm. You got to do a lot of drill. What I did was for the wet shot, I did way more extreme. Not I I just didn’t do just the just the tape. Yeah. When I was at the practicing at the golf course or at the driving range, I I was lucky enough to use the actual grass range, not the mat range. I put my ball in the divot, literally on the divot. I practice hitting it on the divot with my wedge like actually in the divot and put in the det and keep hitting the ball and then I practice end up hitting it from the bunker actual bunker. Yeah. And keep hitting the ball there. And if you put the ball in the fairway like this, you can hit it with your eyes closed once you keep practicing with in the divot. Right. Another practice that you can do because when a lot lot of people are lucky enough to practice in the grass range, right? Mhm. So, another thing you can do is just put the ball right behind the tape. Literally behind the tape and practice hitting the ball like this. Real quick, we’re building 100 free educational YouTube channels to provide accessible learning to everyone. If you’d like to support our mission, please join our YouTube membership so we can continue to provide free quality content to you. Now, back to the video. So, let’s give it a try with the closer. Yes. And for my stance, should I always be like this open for my wedges? Like more open for my 60? I guess. Oh, yes. Uh, no. 60 is same. I mean, just slightly open. But do you know why we’re opening the setup? Because of the swing path of a wedge. Swing path. Yeah. Swing plane. Swing plane and swing path. Yes. You’re with the wedge shot, you’re not supposed to shallow the club, right? You know that, right? With the wedge, you’re not supposed to shallow. You got to come down in a steep angle. So, you got to hit down on the ball so it can create more backspin. Yeah. That’s the reason why we’re going more open stance. So, we’re kind of cutting across the ball. Oh, good. See, more you hit the ball first, you notice more your ball go low. Yeah. Right. You hit the ball first. Perfect. Let’s try one more shot. Okay. Oh, okay. That’s good. Oh, perfect. All right. So, yeah, that’s the one drill that you can do. Okay. Okay. And then when I’m hitting my wet, there’s two main thing that I focus on is one is the low controlling the lowest point and controlling my face angle. So if I want to keep my club face square throughout my whole back swing and to the impact, how do you make it not become open? No wrist hinge. Oh, there should be a wrist hinge. Just no wrist rotation. Right. Right. Yeah. Wrist rotation makes your club face open and wrist hinge doesn’t make it open. Oh yeah. And then wrist flexion keep it keep your club face square. Okay. So I soon as I start my back swing I do a lot of wrist flexion. Wrist flexion is this movement. So that’s only thing that that my wrist does throughout my whole back swing. So but if I only do wrist flexion, my club’s going to be here. So, I just turn my body right here and then I use my body to swing. You see my club is square and then hit the ball. So, first thing I want you to do when you’re doing a back swing, obviously do not do any wrist rotation. Mhm. Keep your eyes on the club and see if your club face is opening or closing. Mhm. Up to here. So if you keep your wrist straight or keep it keep your club face square during the whole back swing, you can’t really do more back swing than this. If you do more, see your arm was club was way up here. Your club starts to your hand starts to cut. But if you want to keep it straight or a little bit bow and trying to do a wrist hinge, you can’t really do it. You see my club is facing the sky. Yeah. And then after that, I just rely on my body and just hit the ball like this. Okay, that’s Yeah. So that’s that’s how I keep my club face more square. So let me show you more example. See the direction wise? Yeah, it’s there’s no way my ball’s going to go right and left because I’m not doing anything with my wrist, right? My foot face is square, square, and square. Obviously, I can’t hit it on the toe and heel. It might go a little bit right and left, but yeah, as long as I don’t make that mistake, it’s going to be pretty straight. Let’s give it a try. Okay. Uh, keep your hands very passive throughout your takeaway. Keep looking at the club face. Keep looking. Keep looking. That’s it. You see your club head is facing the sky. Yeah. Yeah. And then go to the impact. Okay. Yes. That forces you to do a smaller back swing. Okay. I think I got under that a little bit. I got under that. So at the top of the back swing, your wrist was here. It was perfect. Yeah. You weren’t doing this. So you were really thinking about your wrist just now, right? The whole time. That that you you didn’t think about the contact point. I tried. I tried. It’s hard to think about two things. That’s why you got to practice each things. Yeah. until it’s just it’s in your DNA. Okay. All right. Let’s try Let’s try again. Try again. Yeah. So much better wise, but still chunk that one. Mhm. So, let’s try again. Why does the ball keep flying back there? Cuz the spin is pretty hard. Yeah. Okay. So, then there’s one more thing I want you to work on. So I told you about two things that I think about right right the lowest point and the club face control. Mhm. So, how I think about the lowest point is this. When I if my body is in my chest is on top of my ball, if it stays there, it’s eventually going to come back there, right? So, what I do is I put a lot of pressure on my right big toe and right knee. Mhm. And then what I do is when I do my back swing, I try to push my knees and right big toe this way. So I don’t do any little movement with my wedges cuz I rather want to top it and blad it than chunking a ball. Right. So yeah, give it a try this time. So put the pressure on your right knee or your right big toe. Keep it there. Yes. Okay. Should I finish higher? Uh doesn’t matter that much. Perfect. I love it. Yeah. I love that swing. So we’re going to hit three shots. Yes. Okay. Very good. Perfect. Good. Okay. Okay. One more. Good job. Yep. That’s it. Whoa. So, that’s the pretty much the shot that I want. Yeah. It’s just that last two shot you’re a little bit towy, but they’re exact same shot. You hit the ball first. Yeah. Right. But it’s just you hit on the toe, right? So just by having that feeling of not moving laterally this way, it gives you more uh better contact, better uh low low point control. Yeah. So I love that last shot. Yeah, me too. And you didn’t even do you did like almost three quarter back swing instead of full back swing. And your finish was more controlled like this. before you were doing here here with less with less club speed you can generate way more better control of the ball because as I said if you keep your ball high there’s a lot of wind at the top that you can’t really feel so you can’t really control the distance every time that’s why torpros they always hit do a knockdown wet shot right they don’t hit a like 150 feet in the air and drop it down like this yeah so for the recap first we worked on jackis is uh lowest controlling the lowest point by doing the tape drill and then also by doing a smaller back swing. So we’re trying to have a little less wrist hinge on his back swing. We’re trying to keep his hands a little bit more passive and that is also going to help him keep his club face more square throughout his whole back swing just by being more passive with the hand, not wrist hinge. And then the last one was he was still uh I mean we haven’t done enough drill to have a dramatic change, but another quick tip to not hit it behind the ball is when you’re at the top of the back swing, try to put a lot of pressure on your right knee and right big toe and pressing it this way towards the target. So that’s So make sure your chest is on top of the ball every time, not moving side to side. Move your right knee towards this way and then swing. And practice swinging in front of the ball, making a divot in front of ball so you can actually physically see where you’re hitting on the ground. So practice this drill and trying to hit around 3 to 5 in after the ball. And then do that when you’re actually at the range. So your goal is to not hit it fat. Always hit the ball first. So put your knees moving towards that way. So if I hit the ball first, it’s always straight. Mhm. Right. So if I chunk it, there’s no prediction there. Yeah. So we worked on a few things today. A lot of drills to work on. So I hope that helps you break 80. And then uh any questions? Uh, no. I think the drills are great. I’ll work on that and then maybe we can revisit later on. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Thank you for watching our video. Please like and subscribe and support us by joining our YouTube membership. And see you guys on the next video.