A really crucial part of getting a good, clean strike on the wedge is getting the feeling that you’re hitting down on the wedge shot. So to make that happen we’ve got to really make sure the back swing and the takeaway are going to mirror the down swing. There’s no point setting up to this wedge shot here and making a really wide takeaway like you would do with a driver, then trying to get on top of it and chop down onto it. So your back swing has to reflect what your down swing is going to look like.

So we’ll play the ball here from the center of the stance, in a narrow stance, like we’ve discussed a slightly open stance; body weight a little bit to the left side as well. Now from here, the hands and the arms are going to work slightly more upwards. The right arm is going to do a little bit more bending early on and the wrists are going to play their part slightly earlier as well. So not this big, wide, slow takeaway like we would do for a longer iron or a driver. It’s feeling like the body weight is left, that club tracks back and tracks upwards quite quickly with quite a lot of wrist hinge.

And once I’ve got this angle here, sort of this 90 degree angle, that’s going to be maintained into my down swing to feel like I’m striking down. So we don’t have to adjust the hands or the arms. We’re not flicking this. It’s still shoulders turning, but I am aware that I’m not wide in a way like I was with — with an iron previously. I’m a little bit steeper, a little bit more left sided. And if I can get my takeaway to be steep and left sided I can then strike down nice and clean and crisp, get a really good contact for those clean, crisp wedge shots.