You should know after reading how to control distance around the greens how this should work. In this article I am giving a real example while on the golf course. Kind of like a playing lesson. Since we are discussing controlling your distance with the sand wedge we will talk about a shot often faced on the golf course many golfers absolutely brutalize. And quite frankly its pretty embarrassing.

Here is our scenario:

You have a 50 yard shot from where the ball rests to the pin location. Since we now know how far we can fly the ball in the air after our sand wedge drill lets take a closer look at the green and where we want the our ball to land so we can get our ball up and down. After determining where we want the ball to land we determined we want to the ball to actually fly in the air 43 yards giving us about 23 feet or 7 yards of roll and release to the hole.

With this shot we don’t want something too low that is going to skip and run way past the hole so we rule out a pitching wedge for this shot. Now you are left with the decision of whether to use your 56 or your 60 degree wedge. Assuming we are in the fairway let’s determine what our lie is like. Is the fairway firm or a little soft so that our wedge can easily get under the ball. A firm fairway might lead us to the 56 with less bounce enabling us to pinch the back of the ball easier than the 60 degree.

But lets assume we can easily get the club under the ball. With that we choose a 60 degree because with a short shot of 43 yards the ball will be slightly hot when it lands so we need to give a little loft and room to skip and then check to the hole. Now with your practice earlier you are going to take your back swing to the part of the clock that will produce a shot that flies 43 yards in the air.

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This is not an exact science but this allows you to be very sure of the stroke you are about to make and frees up any doubts you have thus giving you the best chance to hit a great shot. Even if it doesn’t turn out perfect you managed to stay firm with how you approached this shot. Over time you will hit more good ones then bad ones.

By: Brad Long

Whether you are just a beginner at golf or have been playing for some years, there is always something new for you to learn or some skill to hone and there is no doubt that the best way to do that is with the help of a professional coach.

However, the problem is that coaching can cost a lot of money.

At the top end of the scale you may think about enrolling at a golf school for an intensive course and immersing yourself for a full 7 days in learning or improving one specific facet of your game. Costs will vary widely depending upon the school you opt for and things like the quality of its instructors and the range of training facilities which the school provides. In every case however the cost is likely to be high and you can certainly think about paying $1,000 to $2,000 or more for a course of this nature.

Your next option may be to consider individual lessons with a local golf professional lasting perhaps 1 or 2 hours every day, or possibly just two or three times a week. This option is certainly one which is worth considering as an alternative to attending a golf school, however it will still be fairly expensive, particularly if you discover that you need to continue your lessons for any length of time.

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Well, an increasingly popular alternative these days is to improve your game by watching DVDs and, before laughing at this idea, you might wish to think about the range of DVDs currently being made by a large number of highly respected professional instructors and the huge number of golfers who are turning to this particular type of tuition.

Not only do DVDs permit a golf professional to literally come into your home and take you through all aspects of the game in great detail and provide you with step by step exercises to follow yourself so that you can master everything from improving your driving to hitting the perfect draw shot, but the great beauty of working with DVDs is that it lets you learn at your own pace and replay each lesson to your heart’s content to ensure that you pick up even the smallest of detail.

But maybe the best thing of all is the fact that your own personal library of golf DVDs is not going to cost you a fortune.

Now, if you can afford it, enrolling at a golf school or personal one to one instruction with your local golf professional will almost certainly produce faster and better results than learning from DVDs. However, instructional DVDs nowadays do run a very close second and you really cannot beat them when it comes to cost.

By: Donald Saunders