Knock it close with three quarter wedge golf shot (Video) - by Pete Styles
Knock it close with three quarter wedge golf shot (Video) - by Pete Styles

This is one of my favorite shots out from the golf course when I’ve to yardage maybe 100 yards and in, where it’s not quite a full wedge distance, but I can hit a little bit of a knockdown shot, take a bit of yardage off my wedges, and get it nice and close and accurate. It’s a real good opportunity to set up pars and birdies from this sort of range.

The first thing you need to identify is how far do you hit your full wedges. So, whether you got two wedges, three wedges or maybe even four wedges, understand how far you hit them all when you’re making full swings and full follow-throughs. And then if you say “We’ll I’ve got my gap wedge. My gap wedge goes 110 yards, but I’ve got 100-yard shot and my sand wedge only goes 85 yards, then I’ve got that distance somewhere in between those two wedges and this is a great opportunity to buy a three-quarter or knockdown shots which starts off by playing the ball central in the stance but a slightly narrowest stance this time so not full speed and full power from the wide stance, slightly reducing club head speed from a slightly reducing stance. Drip down low on the shaft as well more towards the bottom. And the further I move my hands down, the less power I’m going to get to my shot. Position a little bit more body weight into your left side at setup so, you’re leaning a bit more into your left side. And again, by reducing the amount your body weight moves to your right and back to your left, you’re reducing the distance you’ll hit the shots. So, I narrow a stance, gripping down a little bit, leaning on to the left hand side.

And because of this, my backswing will naturally come shorter. I won’t feel quite so comfortable turning all the way to a big full finish position or big full top position, shall I say. So, I’m going to have a little bit of a knockdown backswing and then certainly a knockdown follow-through, just a little three-quarter move on the follow through. It’s a great way of taking a bit of power off the shot but replacing it with a bit more control and a slightly crisp strike.

So, my full swing setup for wedge would be here and here, and my little knockdown shot narrower down more on the left side, three-quarter back, three-quarter through, and I hold my finish off there and that’s a nice 100-yard distance with my 52-degree wedge. I take 10 yards off the shot but I gained a little bit more control and a little bit more accuracy.

 2012-12-03

This is one of my favorite shots out from the golf course when I’ve to yardage maybe 100 yards and in, where it’s not quite a full wedge distance, but I can hit a little bit of a knockdown shot, take a bit of yardage off my wedges, and get it nice and close and accurate. It’s a real good opportunity to set up pars and birdies from this sort of range.

The first thing you need to identify is how far do you hit your full wedges. So, whether you got two wedges, three wedges or maybe even four wedges, understand how far you hit them all when you’re making full swings and full follow-throughs. And then if you say “We’ll I’ve got my gap wedge. My gap wedge goes 110 yards, but I’ve got 100-yard shot and my sand wedge only goes 85 yards, then I’ve got that distance somewhere in between those two wedges and this is a great opportunity to buy a three-quarter or knockdown shots which starts off by playing the ball central in the stance but a slightly narrowest stance this time so not full speed and full power from the wide stance, slightly reducing club head speed from a slightly reducing stance. Drip down low on the shaft as well more towards the bottom. And the further I move my hands down, the less power I’m going to get to my shot. Position a little bit more body weight into your left side at setup so, you’re leaning a bit more into your left side. And again, by reducing the amount your body weight moves to your right and back to your left, you’re reducing the distance you’ll hit the shots. So, I narrow a stance, gripping down a little bit, leaning on to the left hand side.

And because of this, my backswing will naturally come shorter. I won’t feel quite so comfortable turning all the way to a big full finish position or big full top position, shall I say. So, I’m going to have a little bit of a knockdown backswing and then certainly a knockdown follow-through, just a little three-quarter move on the follow through. It’s a great way of taking a bit of power off the shot but replacing it with a bit more control and a slightly crisp strike.

So, my full swing setup for wedge would be here and here, and my little knockdown shot narrower down more on the left side, three-quarter back, three-quarter through, and I hold my finish off there and that’s a nice 100-yard distance with my 52-degree wedge. I take 10 yards off the shot but I gained a little bit more control and a little bit more accuracy.