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I have been playing pretty good golf lately but I still have a major problem with my wedges, I simply don't understand what to do with them. In the past I hit them really accurately with a vary over the top swing and I had divots that pointed 30-45 degrees to the right of the target but the ball usually went where I was aiming but without spin.

I have tried for months now to get the divots pointing at the target or a little right of it but if I manage to straighten out the swing plane I always lose the ball right, even with a square clubface. I read a little of the short game bible recently and it says the wedge swing is completely different than any other swing in golf? He mentions that all the power moves should be absent and there shouldn't be any of what many people call *kinetic linking* everything in sync with everything else.

An older guy I play with told me that I should line up 45 degrees left of the target so that I didn't block? I don't know anymore, there is to much conflicting advice when it comes to golf. What should I do?
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I have been playing pretty good golf lately but I still have a major problem with my wedges, I simply don't understand what to do with them. In the past I hit them really accurately with a vary over the top swing and I had divots that pointed 30-45 degrees to the right of the target but the ball usually went where I was aiming but without spin.

That doesn't sound bad if you normally play a right to left draw.

I'm not sure how you wouldn't be spinning the ball at all if you were taking divots unless you were really scooping it.
I have tried for months now to get the divots pointing at the target or a little right of it but if I manage to straighten out the swing plane I always lose the ball right, even with a square clubface. I read a little of the short game bible recently and it says the wedge swing is completely different than any other swing in golf? He mentions that all the power moves should be absent and there shouldn't be any of what many people call *kinetic linking* everything in sync with everything else.

Actually I would say a short wedge shot is a microcosm of all of the other swings in golf. You can learn the vast majority of a golf swing from a chip.

I think with a full sand wedge all of your basic power moves should be present, just to a much lesser degree. My hips are quieter. My shoulder turn is more gradual. Its all there it is just a lot more relaxed.
An older guy I play with told me that I should line up 45 degrees left of the target so that I didn't block? I don't know anymore, there is to much conflicting advice when it comes to golf. What should I do?

Don't ever do that.

The reason those old men tell you to do such things is because they spent their entire lives hitting it dead right or dead left and so rather than fix the problem they just aim accordingly. Don't be that guy.

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I would set up with my feet together, knees slightly bent, weight forward with an open stance placed the ball back of your stance and have the club face facing the target. This set up make you hit consistent shots and your learn the distance with how far you take the club back and accelerate through the ball with each shot.

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When i play a wedge I set up with an open stance and the ball in the very middle of my stance. I try to hit down on the back of the ball which helps with spin. Doing this i hit my SW 70 yards

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