Hitting Golf Wiffle Balls: Sand Wedge

Video Transcript

"Okay, so now that you've got your plastic golf balls, one of the things that when I'm at the range, I like to take my sand wedge as the first club I practice with. And if I'm hitting it nice and high, if I shape the ball correctly, I feel pretty good that I'm on the right path. So, at home, or in a local park, where they probably won't let you use real golf balls, get these plastic balls, and start with your sand wedge. And the key here is you want to get the ball up in the air pretty good, so you can try with a closed face, or an open face. But this way, you're going to use the club and the plastic ball to get the repetitions, to see if you're hitting it right. So that was pretty good. So, in some ways it's kind of like a a small-scale modeling of what you're doing by hitting a real ball. So if you're not getting this ball to pop up with a nice trajectory, you're probably not going to be able to do it at the range, or on the course with a real golf ball. So that's what you want to look at the shape of your shot with this whiffle ball, and if you're shaping it properly that means you're doing things right. And then you can we're going to work on some other clubs, but the shape of the shot tells you a lot of information about the quality of your swing, and how you're striking the ball."