Master Your Wedge: Part One

in Golf Instruction | by Paul Smith | comments | 25 Aug 2008

Fig 1

The left hand wedge

(Photo: iseekgolf.com)

We all know how bridges and airplane wings are built using supporting beams and struts, so it is fairly logical that if we wish to hit a ball hard that the same sort of engineering principles must be pretty useful. Part One looks at the structure in the backswing and part two (coming soon) will follow up with the downswing and follow through, showing just how much more power can be maintained using this simple format to your golf ...
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