The Key To Great Wedge Play Is Eye-Solation

I’ve seen thousands of golfers try to chip, pitch, and wedge shots many different ways. However, one factor separates the good and the great wedge players from the bad and the ugly. The ball doesn’t move when a great player moves. Which means, their eyes don’t move when they move.

Major league players keep their eyes steady to pick up fly balls, ground balls, the first baseman, and the catcher. They look graceful while throwing, catching, and hitting because they eliminate inefficient motion. We observe one common theme in great athletes – their eyes don’t move more than absolutely necessary.

Without practice, our wedge game may get a little off. If our contact suffers, our swing gets longer to build a “Slop-factor” into our process. We know our set up is off, and we know it because our ball position looks a bit unsteady while we swing. Ball position is a set-up variable, so we can figure out, pretty quickly, how to diagnose our wedge malady.

Concentrating on eye-solation while practicing forces us to observe our movement, which helps accelerate our progress. Golfers don’t have to set up open to keep their eyes still, mind you. However, they DO have to set up open to keep their eyes still, produce shaft lean, and steepen impact for ball compression in the event we have adverse lies or have to produce backspin.

The one, best way I’ve found to accomplish everything needed for great wedge play and short-game mastery is eye-solating our weight on our forward foot while we swing. The longer our shot, of course, the longer our swing, which means we need less eye-solation in our swing set-up. Learning to move your wedge swings around this one necessity will create better contact, which will take the “Slop” out of your swing-length, and make you “sticky” into and around the greens.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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