Wedge bounce

[Jason]

I really enjoyed the discussion on wedge bounce.

Which short game shots do you engage bounce (chip, pitch, flop) and what shots do you use a traditional handle forward leading edge approach?

[Tathata Staff]

Jason,

This is a great question, thank you. Our understanding of pressure allows us to know how the body, hands & arms and club move together as one unit or as a movement all together. This understanding allows us to properly use the bounce on all chip shots, pitches, and flop/bunker shots around the green. It is a lack of understanding the pressure that creates a shot where we would lean the shaft forward and use the hands and arms to hit down or chop down on a chip shot. It is okay to hit shots in this way and with hours and hours of practice some get extremely proficient at hitting shots in that way. If we want to hit world class pitch, chips and flops around the green, understanding pressure and how the feet, shins, knees, stomach, ribs, pecs, shoulders, arms, hands and club work together pressurized together we get to utilize the bounce with world class spin and shallowness around the greens in a short amount of time.

[Jason]

Thanks – this helps. Are there full pitch shots from further out were we would not use the bounce and more of a traditional handle forward approach? I understand based on the above that we would not use this approach closer in by the greens.

[Tathata Staff]

Jason,

The traditional handle forward approach is in some ways misunderstood. As we learn throughout the program, we train the body to move alongside the greatest players and athletes of all time. From that place of the body being trained, we learn how to create world-class width and leverage in the hands and arms. In Chapter 3 we learn the strength and vitality of understanding pressure, we see the benefit of the body and hands and arms being pressurized together to move as one. When the body and hands and arms are pressurized with width and strength, our angle of decent or the bottom of our arc becomes shallow and wide. That shallowness, width and pressure can still produce tiny grass root divots. The divot however is created with the bounce, this allows for flighted wedges that are shallow, wide and pressurized with world-class spin and trajectory.