Knock It Close With Three-Quarter Golf Wedge Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles
Knock It Close With Three-Quarter Golf Wedge Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles

When you consider the clubs in most golfers’ bags, we’ll probably find two, three or four wedges. And I start with two because most people probably still have the standard pitching wedges and sand wedges that comes with that set. Golfers who are a little more informed will probably carry three and I would rather see four wedges in people’s bags. Most of the top players are going to carry four, and I think Phil Mickelson at times actually carries five wedges. So the more wedges you’ve got the more chance you’ve got hitting different distances, but even with four wedges really you’ve still only got four full swings.

So it might be that one wedge goes 100 yards, another goes 90, another one goes 80 and another one goes 70 roundabout 10 maybe 15 yards in between each wedge. But even with four wedges you’ve only got four different distances but on the golf course we know that we don’t just get four set distances. We’re not that good at laying the ball up in the right position every time. We have to hit the ball lots of different distances with only these four clubs. So the concept of hitting non-full wedges is a very important idea to understand for golfers now trying to bring their scores down and we’re all trying to do that. And most golfers will improve the most in this last 100, 120 yards and in. So distance control in tat 100, 120 and in is super important. We’ve got four wedges for the job, now if you’ve only got two or three wedges this is the first tip, is get yourself four wedges. You should have a pitching wedge, a gap wedge, a sand wedge and a lobe wedge and they should be nicely spaced apart maybe four degrees per club as a; spacing would work quite nicely. But even with those clubs we’ve only got four distances. So this idea of hitting non-full wedges is super important and in these next five videos we’re going to look at a three-quarter wedge shot. So a three-quarter wedge shot simply put three quarters the amount of power, three quarters on the backswing, three quarters on the follow-through and try and gauge out distances a little bit more accurately when we’re inside that last 100 to 120 yards. 2016-10-13

When you consider the clubs in most golfers’ bags, we’ll probably find two, three or four wedges. And I start with two because most people probably still have the standard pitching wedges and sand wedges that comes with that set. Golfers who are a little more informed will probably carry three and I would rather see four wedges in people’s bags. Most of the top players are going to carry four, and I think Phil Mickelson at times actually carries five wedges. So the more wedges you’ve got the more chance you’ve got hitting different distances, but even with four wedges really you’ve still only got four full swings.

So it might be that one wedge goes 100 yards, another goes 90, another one goes 80 and another one goes 70 roundabout 10 maybe 15 yards in between each wedge. But even with four wedges you’ve only got four different distances but on the golf course we know that we don’t just get four set distances. We’re not that good at laying the ball up in the right position every time. We have to hit the ball lots of different distances with only these four clubs. So the concept of hitting non-full wedges is a very important idea to understand for golfers now trying to bring their scores down and we’re all trying to do that. And most golfers will improve the most in this last 100, 120 yards and in. So distance control in tat 100, 120 and in is super important.

We’ve got four wedges for the job, now if you’ve only got two or three wedges this is the first tip, is get yourself four wedges. You should have a pitching wedge, a gap wedge, a sand wedge and a lobe wedge and they should be nicely spaced apart maybe four degrees per club as a; spacing would work quite nicely. But even with those clubs we’ve only got four distances. So this idea of hitting non-full wedges is super important and in these next five videos we’re going to look at a three-quarter wedge shot. So a three-quarter wedge shot simply put three quarters the amount of power, three quarters on the backswing, three quarters on the follow-through and try and gauge out distances a little bit more accurately when we’re inside that last 100 to 120 yards.