Practicing Different Distances with Wedges

What is one of the best ways to practice your golf wedge game? Practicing different distances! Easy as it sounds, too often golfers will hit shots to a similar target or distance over and over, which is fine; but if you aren’t mixing up your wedge distances, it makes getting better a lot more difficult.

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Hello golfers, PGA Professional Todd Kolb with another segment of Teaching with Technology; and get ready, because today I’m about to share with you the real secret to having a quality practice session with your wedges. Now we all know that in order to be considered a good wedge player, the key component is actually being able to control the distance that we hit our wedges.

So when we practice, this is the mistake I see a lot of golfers make. That is they grab their wedge—for example, I’ve got my 58 right here—and they hit the same shot over and over and over. They’ll stand there with a bucket of balls, and they’ll hit a 75 yard shot 100 times. Now the reality of it is that you might get a 75 yard shot on the golf course every once in a while, but you’re going to get a variety of different distances; so you want to practice like the game calls for. You want to practice a variety of things.

So that’s one of the reasons I like to use my Swing Caddie, and it’s one of the reasons technology is helping us practice better. So in the Swing Caddie, I’ve got it set up on this mode here, which is called an Approach Mode. Now what it does is it gives me a distance that I can practice. Right now it’s set at 56 yards. Let me hit a shot, and I’m going to hit this as close to 56 yards as possible. (55 yards) Okay, I’m not going to lie, that was the first take on that, that was pretty lucky; 55 yards. But now—boom—it switches.

Now I’m going to hit 77 yards, alright? This is what golf is like, right? I just had 56, now I’m going to go 77, let me see if I can replicate that. Might be a little long. (73 yards) 73 yards, just a little short, but I’ll take that. It’s going to switch again here, 46 yards. So now I’m going to try to hit it 46 yards, so I’m going to take a little bit off on that. (50 yards) Okay, 50 yards; pretty good. So you get the idea there. When I use technology—specifically, the Swing Caddie—I like the ability to practice different distances.

So to recap, if you want to have a good, quality practice session with your wedges, practice the way that the game is played. Different distances on each one of those holes; this is a prime example of how you can use technology to help you get a better practice session with your wedges.

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