– Do you struggle with your wedges? (playful music) This is the one thing that's holding Stewart
back from breaking 80. – Yes, and this one
thing is so, so simple. You need to check it out. – So we're on the 14th at the Asbury. We're here with Stew, we're gonna help him with his wedge game. He's struggling to break 80. So if we can improve this area; hopefully, he's gonna
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other areas of your game. Right! So we are 70 yards away, sir. Nice to see you. – And you. – Come and hit some
shots, and let's just see what's going on, and have a
little discussion about that. – Okay, no problem. – And just per what we were
gonna do as well, by the way, is we were gonna hit irons today and we're gonna work at that, but we actually watched
him hit irons and went, "You know what, he's flipping
good at that already, we don't need to work at that." So we're gonna go wedges.
– That's all I need to
take away from this. (gold club strikes) – Quite a nice strike, isn't it? Yeah, that's a good shot. So that's actually a really nice shot; but it's pitched about pin high. It's probably run about
30 or 40 feet past. Is that what's normally happening? – Yeah, I'm a really
struggling to generate any kind of spin on the green. – Okay. – And then I'm leaving
myself, big, massive port. And then, I'm two and three putt in.
If I can get it a little bit closer, I'll kill one putt, and break 80. – And that's a nightmare, when you've got a flag on the front like you have here on
the 14th of the Astbury. I mean, the only way that you're
getting close to that flag with that kind of shot. I mean you stroke that
really well, didn't you? It was a beautiful shot actually. Good technique. But there's no way that
that's gonna stop short or so by the flag, should I say, unless you land it short.
And then you're playing a
little bit of a lottery on. Well, if you're gonna
land it short the green. Where's it gonna bounce as a result? Just play one or two more maybe, I think we kind of know what we wanna do already on this one. But, let's see what you've got. (golf club strikes) Now, you're playing the game
of trying to land it short. You've hung it out short right, and now you've got actually a really difficult chip shot there. (indistinct) – One more. (club striking) – So this pitching wedge
will be about 46 degree. This has landed again
there look, just short.
But actually. – And it still rolled on. – It's run on further than the other two. – It's actually 44 that is under, 'cause the P790s. They're actually quite
strong lofts on that so. Those actual shots, the good
ones, the good technique ones. They're actually pretty good shots. – Right, okay. – Let's have a go with this
clip, and actually just quickly. Why do you not use this one? – I don't know, I had the rocket blades before I bought the P790s, and again, I just never used the club. I don't know whether it's in my head. – So did you just take
a couple of bad shots, something like that, and it just…? – I think I originally started playing this out of bunkers. Sand ones. And it didn't come well out of bunkers. So I thought, I'll leave that in the bag and I'm all right from there.
– It's an interesting one, and hopefully if you're
watching this back at home. Because it's a sand wedge, it does mean that you can actually it hit up the fairway as well. So make sure that you
are using other fairway. Myself, and Andy, will pitch mainly with our sand wedges, when we've got these shots.
So I'll tell you what, let's not do anything, other than let's just hit some shots and see what happens. – Exact same thing. – Exactly the same technique. Exactly what you've been doing. (club striking) What'd you see straight away, different? – The height difference. – Okay. So it's actually, what
you probably did then. It probably was exactly the same swing, because it actually ended up short. – So I needed more of a swing. – Yeah. Slightly longer swing, yes. Don't really need any different, from an effort level point of view. It's more the swing
length, on the backswing. (club striking) – Yeah. Just watch the
difference, when this lands.
– (Stewart) Oh yeah. – So straightaway now,
you've hit two shots. And the second shot
has actually been high. – Yeah. And that's two putt territory, at worst. – You know what the problem was, when you hit that one
shot before that was bad. You just didn't hit
another shot after that. You should've hit another shot after that. And you were too harsh on it. – And Stew just said
that, "Is it in my head?" Yes, it is in his head. It is in your attitude. Because your technique is
actually really, really good. I think as we watch you play
a few of these shots now. There may be some tweaks, but let's just see how consistent you are, at seeing if you can get it close. (club striking) – Again, let's see how much it rolls out. – Yeah. And I beat that one as well. – Should we finish there? – Thanks for watching. (group laughing) – What else do we need to do? – Okay.
So we just had a
good look at Stew's wedges. These are what Stew's got. Take a closeup of these. He's got a wedge, He's got a 55, and a 60. Now Stew's pitching
wedge; it's 44 degrees. So this is a fairly strong pitching wedge. And then your next loft is 55. That means you've got 11 degrees gap. Now yardage Stew, for this pitching wedge, what does it go? – 120. – 120. And this 55, based off what we see, at maximum, let's say 80 yards. You've got 40 yard gap
between pitching wedge, and your sand wedge. That's a huge gap, that you need to fill. So I would say that it's gonna fit, be really useful for you to have, let's say a 50 degree, that fits right in between there.
Be interested to know actually
what wedges you've got. Let us know in the comments what lofts. But I think you're missing out big time, on having just a wedge, and a sand wedge. 50 degree gap there, would
bridge that perfectly. And you're going to find, it's
going to be so much easier, to hit the yardage. – Okay – Having said that now we're going, still on the sand wedge. 50 yards. Let's see what we can do, in
terms of consistency here. – Yeah. We are 50 yards away then now. We've got the 55 in play. Let's see you play a few. (club striking) What would you do differently
now with this shot? Not too bad, a little strong.
What would you do
differently with this shot, compared to the 70 yards? – I wouldn't swing as far. And I'd try to be a lot more smoother. – Okay, okay. (club striking) Contact wasn't that great. But the results actually pretty decent. Look, we'll take you back. We did a video with Dustin Johnson. And we wanted to play the 50 yard shot. One of the first things we said to him is, "What do you do when you're
playing the 50 yard shot?" He says, " Well, I don't
really do 50 yards." So he avoids that shot.
He wants to stay clear of that. That he wants to be 70 yards. He wants that fuller shot, when it comes to playing in the green. So if one of the best golfers
in the world doesn't want 50.. – Yeah, of course. – Then it might be worth
considering just avoiding that. But let's just have a little
play around with a few things.
I'm going to give you one setup cue, and I'm going to give you
one feel in your swing. And it's more about,
not so much the swing, is more the contacts. And just see if we can
create something there. Because what we have done,
noticing the ground here, we've had a brush of the grass. We've had a bit of a stubby divots.
We had a little bit thin. So let's just set up to
the side of the ball. With a slightly narrower stance. Straight away, when you narrow stance. It can change the intention of how hard you're going to hit it. I want to make sure on this shot, that Stewart's not thinking
about hitting it hard. And he is, by narrowing his stance, he can change that. And then have some practice swings. And as you were just doing there. I just want you to brush the grass. So all I want you to be comfortable with, is brushing the grass. And you can have slightly
longer swings then that.
Imagine you're hitting the shot. – Okay. – So narrow stance, and then brush. (club brushing grass) And if we can keep this really simple. And not really think about
changing technique too much. That's always going to be the best way. So let's just hit a few shots. – So when you're doing that as well. When you're doing the brush, this is really important, Stew. And for you guys at home. Don't just brush the grass. Like, feel the earth, if that makes sense. Feel the club landing on the actual earth, as opposed to, just brushing
the top of the grass. Does that make sense? There you go. – Yeah – You want to feel it in the bounce. You want to feel the
club land on the ground, and glide the first. Sort of giving it a hack. You wanna feel that club on the ground. – That's really good. There you go. – That's what we don't want to see though. That mode, obviously when we. – Feel the difference there Stew? – Yeah, definitely.
That's what you want
to get used to feeling. – So let's get that narrow stance, and that brush feel. (club striking) – Wow, yeah. Straight away. – That was really good. – Sure – But yeah, I felt the difference. – That was a horrendous bounce. – Contact was good though, yeah? Contact was exactly how
your practice swings were. The distance, you weren't
necessarily thinking about that. But that's fine. (club striking) And you feel the contact
on the ground there. – Yeah. – And then the other thing is; you actually pushed that quite a lot. We've only got a 10 footer. Because it's been high. – That felt effortless, as well. – And that's the key with these shots. Pitch shots are all about
getting it pin high. Your directions never
going to be massively off. – Do us a favor, Stew. When you do your practice swings, do the same length that
you want the shot to be.
– Right. – Okay. Just so we can tie
in the feel here, as well. We're tuning in the
feel, with the contact. – Do that again. What he did there, as well. Compared to the ones, like,
before Andy was seeing him. He's hitting the ground; he's
working at the technique, But he's looking at the ground. On that one there, when you were working more at the field. You actually turned it into a shot. You started looking
towards the target then. So whenever you're having
those practice swings.
Yes, we want the brush. But we need to get you
looking at the target, as they've just played a shot. – Yeah, you're almost
experiencing the shot, in your practice swing. – It's a preview. (club striking) – Lovely. – That's really nice. – You can just hear that club, gliding along the ground now. – I'd be happy with that. – If you're not, we're in trouble. (group laughing) That was beautiful. – When you get 50 yards away, you're nervous, you're anxious; you don't want to play that shot. You'll avoid it. Let us
know in the comments. It's one of the most
difficult shots to play. But it doesn't need to be, if you can use the club in the right way. And you're using the right club as well. – Just saying there Stuart,
having a practice swing. So do that practice me again for me. Really immersing yourself
in the distance of the shot. This is what the best
short game players do. It's contact wasn't so good
on the ground that time.
That's okay. But now he's imagined that
ball flying through the air; landing, where he wants it to. Seve, and all the short game
greats, are very good at that. Getting that preview in their mind, to what the shot wants to be. Let's see you hit one. (club striking) – Beautiful. Again, distance look. Really nice. – Just left again. – Do you know what? We are less bothered about direction. All we've all we cared about now is just how far the balls go
in relation to that target. (club striking) – Very nice. – This'll be the closest one. – Just needs a little bounce to the left. – I'd still be happy with that. – Excuse me. (both laughing) – Don't leave you hanging. – Don't leave me hanging.
– Very nice Stew. Guys,
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