Step 1 of 4, identify
Strike Wedge is an external tool, designed to be avoided. Identify your miss, and we'll show you how to train it.
Placements are shown for a right-handed golfer. Strike Wedge is symmetrical, so left-handers mirror each one.
Your miss
The club hits the ground before the ball. On grass, the divot starts behind the ball. On a mat, you can sometimes hit the ground first and not notice.
Two main reasons you hit it fat. Your low point (the bottom of your swing arc) is behind the ball, or your arc height is too low. Either way, the club meets the ground too early. You lose a lot of distance as a result.
Make a swing and miss it. Bottom out early and you'll hit the Strike Wedge.
In Strike Wedge Launch App, look for:
Once you've developed your skills, compete in Daily Challenge in Strike Wedge Launch: one distance, three shots, a leaderboard every day.
Play the gamesYour miss
Check where the ball comes off the face, hit enough shots to gather good data. Heel strikes bunch towards the hosel; take that miss to its extreme and you have the shank.
A shank is a strike location problem. The ball is meeting the face about an inch (25 mm) from the centre, and you don't always need a swing rebuild to close that gap.
Hit the ball, miss the wall. The strike will move away from the heel.
In the Strike Wedge Launch App, look for:
When your skill level improves, take it into the Daily Challenge in Strike Wedge Launch: one distance, three shots, a leaderboard every day.
Play the gamesYour miss
Check where the ball comes off the face, shot after shot. Toe strikes bunch out at the far end of the face, and your shots will often come up short.
The ball is meeting the face off centre, out towards the toe. Off-centre contact deflects the face at impact, so as well as coming up short, you can lose accuracy.
Avoid it and the strike moves away from the toe, back towards the middle.
In Strike Wedge Launch, look for:
When your skill improves, get involved in the Daily Challenge in Strike Wedge Launch: one distance, three shots, a leaderboard every day.
Play the gamesYour miss
The ball curves from left to right in the air. (for a right hander)
Your path (the direction the club travels through impact) travels left of where the face points, out to in, so the ball curves right. The curve comes from the gap between face and path.
It blocks the out-to-in path. The angle is the instruction. Left-handers mirror it.
Strike Wedge Launch reads the strike, not the curve. Look for:
When your skill improves, get involved in the Daily Challenge in Strike Wedge Launch: one distance, three shots, a leaderboard every day.
Play the gamesYour miss
The ball curves from right to left in the air. (for a right hander)
Your path (the direction the club travels through impact) travels right of where the face points, in to out, so the ball curves left. The curve comes from the gap between face and path.
It sits where an in-to-out path wants to go. Left-handers mirror it.
Strike Wedge Launch reads the strike, not the curve. Look for:
When it holds up, take it into the Daily Challenge in Strike Wedge Launch: one distance, three shots, a leaderboard every day.
Play the gamesYour miss
The ball flight gives it away: a low launch, too much spin and not enough carry. On a launch monitor that reads attack angle (whether the club is travelling up or down at impact), your driver shows a negative number: the club is travelling down when it meets the ball.
The driver is moving down at the point of impact. At most club head speeds, this is not optimal, as it doesn't produce the necessary launch and spin to hit the ball a long way. Hitting slightly up is preferable at most speeds.
A club moving down at the point of impact will hit the Strike Wedge. Avoid the Strike Wedge and you'll start to achieve an upward attack angle.
Strike Wedge Launch is for shots inside 150 yards, so here Strike Wedge is the measure:
Carry it to the first tee, then test your wedges in the Daily Challenge in Strike Wedge Launch.
Play the games
“It’s simple, effective, and now an essential part of my practice routine.”
“I’ve tried a lot of training aids, but I really admire the simplicity and effectiveness of the Strike Wedge.”
“It’s simplified my practice and helped me make the improvements I’ve been looking for.”
In a tour winner’s words
If you ever want to change a movement pattern, put an obstacle in the way and let your body figure it out. I do everything on ball flight, nothing technical. I get so many players who hang back and come in shallow. I put the Strike Wedge down and all of a sudden they're moving onto the left side, delivering it properly and getting the ball flight. It's the one training aid that goes everywhere with me, and I mean everywhere.
In the box, and beyond
Strike Wedge, the wall attachment/ruler, the plane guide, a carry case and the placement card.
Fully unlocked. Ball speed, launch and carry, then the daily games.
Identify, Train, Measure, Compete
