1.1A ***New for 2025 – Wedge Launch Drills with the B29 Blue Brick***

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What's Covered:

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:40

Video Transcription:

You just watch Clay talk about staying in your posture and finding that magic number below 30 degrees to perfectly flight your wedges like the pros. I wanna show you two drills with a blue brick that are gonna give you some immediate feedback to see if you're doing exactly what the pros are doing to flight those wedges down.

So I've got my stick here, I'm inserting it in the wedge impact position, and I'm gonna run through the same series of drills that Clay did, but now I've got feedback. So let me know whether or not I'm getting the proper amount of forward shafting to create that 30 degree launch. So I've got two fingers here on the shaft, and I'm gonna set up just like I did for those previous drills.

Now the goal is to match this shaft to the stick here in the blue brick. Now, why is this so important? This is set at 17 degrees and all of our research. We found that pros have an average of 17 degrees of forward chaffing at impact. Meaning they're not shaft's, not straight up and down. It's not too much farther forward than that 17 degrees to create that perfect sub 30 degree launch angle, it's gonna give you optimum 30 degree wedge launch.

So I want you to pay attention to a couple things here. First, before you hit a shot, I want you to just. Find that spotted impact where the shaft matches the stick. Now notice where my weight is. So if I'm too far back on my trail foot, it's gonna be nearly impossible for me to get this shaft up far enough to launch it low.

So I have to feel, where's the weight in my feet? I've got most of my pressure in my back left heel here. 'cause as Clay mentioned before, if I get too far on my toes, I'm gonna start standing up outta my posture. Second, I start early releasing. You can see what happens to that shaft angle. There's no way I can keep that angle.

So as I come through impact here, I'm getting all my weight in my back, left foot, back, left heel, and now it's so easy for me. To match that stick right on the shaft. So now notice something else. I'm not doing it by shifting my head completely forward. So if I get there by just moving my whole body, look, I'm way over my front side.

I'm gonna drive straight into the ground. I'm gonna have a 15 degree angle of attack. That's not good. So I wanna keep my head still. Notice how I'm keeping my head still. Nose is directly over the ball and I've got all of my pressure in my left foot here, but it's easy for me to open up, rotate, and start matching that shaft to the stick.

So now I'm gonna hit balls feeling that same feeling at impact, getting that shaft forward just like that. So you can see that gives me immediate feedback on whether or not I'm getting the shaft far enough forward. If you don't get to 17 degrees, it's not gonna produce that 30 degree launch angle that you're after for all of your wedges.

After running through that series of drills, really feeling like you're getting that shaft forward, you're getting that weight and that pressure into that left heel. Now we're gonna see if the launch is right, so I'm gonna use the wedge launch setting on my blue brick. I'm gonna place one and I and two,

and I am gonna place my blue brick on the back of the stick. With the wedge launch angle facing towards me, and now this top part is gonna be 30 degrees. This is gonna be about 26, 27 degrees. And so what I wanna do is launch it anywhere in here and that's gonna gimme the perfect flight. So I'm still gripping down on the club and what I wanna feel is that same feeling and impact I'm getting to that same position.

Hands forward. Shaft is pointed at that 17 degrees. That's gonna help me launch it low and you can see there launched it just above the blue connector. That was a great launch angle. That's exactly what I'm looking for. So I'm gonna do 15 reps each. One with just the blue brick in front of me matching that shaft angle.

And then two, I'm gonna start doing it with the launch so that I can see I'm launching it at the proper angle. Now, after you do that, by choking down on the club, I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna get that same feeling,

but instead of gripping down on the club, I'm gonna create that same feeling here, get that lined up. Same thing here as I come down into impact. I'm gonna feel that pressure in my left heel. I'm gonna get my hands forward. I'm matching the shaft here. Shaft of the six with 17 degrees of forward shaft lean.

What does that feel like? Where does my body need to be in order for me to get there? Not too far back on my trail foot here. I'm really getting over to that left side hands forward, and I'm getting feeling that position. There we go. Perfect. But what does it need to feel like to get that shaft matching that 17 degree angle so that I can flight that optimum launch?

So I'm gonna hit 15 balls here, and then I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna do the exact same thing with my launch angle. I'm gonna check it again. One two, placing this blue brick. On the back of the stick wedge launch angle pointed towards me, and so now anywhere between the top of the stick and above the blue connector.

So I'm doing the same thing, feeling that 17 degrees of forward chaffing,

oh, just perfect, perfect launch angle right in the middle of the stick. That's exactly what the pros are doing. And so these are two drills that are gonna give me immediate feedback on whether or not I'm hitting all the positions I need to, so that I have no doubt in my mind you're doing exactly what the pros are doing.

I hope these drills help. And if you haven't picked up a blue brick yet, hit the button at the bottom of this page and get one for yourself so you can get the immediate feedback that you've been wanting. And now you know, without a shadow of a doubt, you're on the right track to fighting those wedges, staying in your posture, and making more birdies.

Good luck out there.