Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about wedges hitting wedges more effectively. The biggest thing I see with wedges and players is they stand up here and they go OK here I go wedge and they try to hit it too far. Remember these are scoring clubs we want to stand up here and have some reasonable control over what's going on with these wedges. So if you come up here you swing at mach one trying to get this sand wedge or this pitching wedge as far as you can hit it you're going to have a whole lot bigger dispersion.

Remember wedges are for control not power unless you absolutely have to drag the ball close to the pin. So remember if I stand up here and I swing wedges at 70 percent of my power within reason I'm going to be able to hit the ball straighter my dispersions higher or my distance control is better and I'm going to hit wedges closer to the pin. Standing up here and hitting it at mach one trying to drag back from the back of the green and spin it back looks great on TV great on style points but is not quite what we're looking for. So remember when we stand up here and hit wedges you always want to use that easy 70/80 percent swing to hit the ball effectively if you can't hit it far enough take an extra club don't make it rocket science it's not that hard.