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Golf Fix: Go smooth with your gap wedge (2:34)

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Michael Breed, host of ‘The Golf Fix,’ shows viewers a tip on how to hit short wedge shots without hitting the ball fat. Watch ‘The Golf Fix’ Mondays 7 and 10PM ET.

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-Got a great questions from Brian on Facebook here regarding we...

-Got a great questions from Brian on Facebook here regarding wedges. This is something that you're definitely gonna wanna pay attention to. He asked any tips for hitting a gap wedge smoothly from 50 to 80 yards out. I've been hitting them fat lately. Alright Brian and this something that everybody struggles with. Maybe a smooth gap wedge for you is you gonna go 50 to 80 yards. Maybe it's gonna go 40 yards, but being smooth with the gap wedge, it's challenging because you're got a club that's got a loft to it and in your mind you're thinking that you wanna try to hit this up into the air and so as you start to go you start falling back and you start flicking your hands and really changing the tempo of the motion of the shot. What I want you to is want you to just narrow up your stance a little bit, put the ball more in the back of your stance, and then I want you to just swing with some ease to it as if you are almost gonna hit as low as you possibly could. The reason why we lost our tempo is because we start trying to lift this ball up into the air. I want you to visualize hitting a lower shot, getting the handle of the club sort of in front of the head that's gonna help you kind of stay smooth with it and it's gonna get your body to move forward into the shaft. We're hitting it fat because our body is moving away from the target. We want the body to be moving towards the target. So, we're gonna narrow up that stance, put the ball back, and then we're gonna make just a smooth swing as we come into that shot. The body is gonna rotate the club through the hit. So, narrow stance, ball back, then just gonna keep that body moving slowly through that shot. What's gonna happen is once you get away from trying to lift that ball up into the air, you're gonna find that gonna hit the ball first and you're gonna have great tempo with the shot because you won't be working so hard to try to lift this up in the air. You'll be letting the loft the club do what it's designed to do. That's gonna help your game. The other thing you're gonna do to improve your game, stay right here on the golf channel, back slash to the golf fix. We've got all these instructional advice that we spent years of putting together just so you can improve your game, and then other thing you're gonna do every Monday night, there's nothing else to do, 7 and 10 p.m. eastern right here on Golf Channel. It's called the Golf Fix. I'm michael Breed, the host, and I wanna help you play your best golf.
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