 Now, if you, like me, are sick and tired of hitting your wedges long and left, just like that one I've just hit, then you must tune into this episode of Testing the Tips. Today's video comes from the specialist Mr Shortgame himself, and he's going to make sure I stop wasting shots and hitting long left when I've got a wedging end. So welcome back to another episode of Testing the Tips, where I, as an average golfer like you, try out some of the very best tips out there from leading YouTubers, and like I said, this one comes from Mr Shortgame. What's been good about this series for me on a personal level is I'm really paying some attention to the areas that I am struggling with, and I've been getting the ball in good positions off the tee, and I've been wasting shots by hitting wedges that Mr Green from just 100 odd yards out, and that's an absolute killer, and putting bogies on my card that I don't need, much like you, no doubt. So what is the problem? Well, the problem is understanding what happens when my face of the club meets the ball, and what's happening through that impact position, and what's causing me to go left, long left, and a little bit lower ball flight as well, because they're all the things that are causing me the problem. Now, Mr Shortgame will no doubt explain this one better in a lot more detail than I'm going to, because I'm going to skip quite a bit of the explanation that he goes through, and get down to the meter this one, because for me it's really simple what is going on. Understanding his explanation, and understanding what is going on with that club. Now, essentially what I would do in terms of the address position, my wedges, ball is pretty much centre of stands. I stand very close to the ball, and my hands are generally leading quite forward, really, off of my left thigh. The idea I've always understood with that is that's a pretty much normal situation, but what is happening and why is it so negative in terms of the impact on my results. Well, first of all, Mr Shortgame explains, I wish I know his proper name by the way, he explains that the difference between your iron setup and your wedge setup is first of all what we spoke about, and a lot closer to the ball. What that means is my swing plane is a lot steeper, the angle of attack is a lot steeper, and that has an impact again on how we impact the ball, and where our club face is located through that impact. And what it effectively causes us to do is shut that club face down and get it pointing over to the left-hand side. What you'll notice with wedge is if I just turn the face just by a degree or two, then there's a severe change in direction in terms of pointing left. It's literally just, you try it, get your wedge in address, just twist it just a slight bit, and all of a sudden you'll notice the direction is quite severely offline. And that's one of the major problems with that wedge in hand, just a little bit of being offline, that impact position, through that impact. When you're meeting the ball, it's going to cause you significant problems. We want to change that. So how does he change it? Well, first of all, we're going to change the position of the hands. Keep the ball central of the stance, but instead of having our hands forward, we're going to bring them into a more neutral position. So effectively in line with the ball, maybe in my case the way I'm looking down on the ball right now, is my knuckles are just slightly to the left half of the center of the golf ball. So that's something that I would never do. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to open the club face up at that address position. That's also a major change for me because what we're saying is, when we hit the ball, a slight adjustment to the left with a closed face means we're going long left. So my automatic assumption is, if I open that club face, well surely I'm going to go out to the right with that same degree of miss. Well, no, that's where the claim is that doesn't happen. And that's because of what actually happens through the swing itself and the delivery and what changes through that swing plane. And it's very similar to what we've seen in previous videos that I've done and that understanding of closing the club face down through our natural swing path is going from an open position at address. But hopefully, if this goes according to plan, what Mr Shortgame is suggesting is we will start to naturally close that club face down. Our hands will also naturally come through the ball at forward of the ball. So even though we've addressed it here, once we start to come through impact and release the club itself, then our hands become in the position that we think they should be in and also we go from an open to a straight or a neutral face to a path. That all sounds fantastic, but surely it cannot work. I'm going to change round. We're going to aim on that flag and we'll see if one simple change or two hand position and that club face position at address, can they make that much of a difference to the ball flight of my wedges? So we've cut through the waffle. I mean, I really feel like we've just got to the point on this one. You can. There'll be a link down below in the description to Mr Shortgame's original video. And like I said, he goes into a little bit more detail as to why this is a thing and my potential to work right. Anyway, all I'm interested in is getting to the crux of this and seeing if it works. I'm in that neutral position. Hopefully you can see that I'm just aiming directly at target right now. And I have got my butt on my club at my bell buckle, centre of my sternum. Hands are in that position. I'm going to open the club face up slightly. Right, I could do the practice swing really. Trust me, this is the first time we've tried this. Right, let's see then. So I'm going to swing normal. Well, Han, you're not facing the right way, but you'll be as surprised as I am. That has gone straight. It was a little weak. It was a little tentative in its effort. If anything, I just let it out a little bit to the right hand side. Joe baffles me about this whole test in the tip series. If I watch most of these things, this video included, and I was ultra skeptical. Even walking to this position, I was saying to Hannah that I'm not really sure if this is just a simple quick fix that leads to kind of other problems. And maybe it does, I don't know. But we've just significantly changed the ball fight from going long left to straight at the flag. I'm going to give that another go. Today's video is brought to you in partnership with HotGolf, the online golf mega store bringing you the hottest deals in golf. And of course, the clubs featured in today's video. Find the link to the HotGolf website in the description below and check out some incredible giveaways and offers. Now I've just said to Hannah, again, off camera, is I'm not sure whether you should open the clubface up and then take the grip or grip normal and then open the clubface. So again, go and clarify that. My thing is not to be perfect, dear. This is my interpretation of a video. Much like you would watch a video, take it to the golf course and try it out for yourself. That's exactly what I'm doing. But I'm trying to relay stuff that I find really has worked or has not worked. And like I said, sift through a lot of the stuff that's out there that you might be wasting your time on. Right now, one shot in, I am hugely impressed with that. Slightly wider stance than I would normally adopt with wedge as well, which is a bit weird because I'm not doing that on purpose. It's just, I don't know, it just happened. Now what I'm going to try and do is a bit of a fuller swing and see if we can get right. So centre of sternum, nothing like where I would be. Now I'm going to open that clubface up just a tad. Now for me, as you can see with that one, I'm just leaking a little bit out to the right. And what I can feel straight away from it is that my hands aren't covering the shot. So I'm just going to make one more shot and I'm going to make a little bit more effort to get through that ball, maybe turn my chest to face the target a little bit because that's one thing I'm noticing. And I think with all these tips, it's important that you ain't going to just go out. The first shot was really good and shot me a bit. The second one wasn't so good. But as you do too, there's no magic fixes in this game. So while these things can help, they certainly need grooving into your swing and let you understand it. But it's also important that you notice or try and notice what happened when it doesn't go right and if you can rectify it. I think I can rectify that. Okay, let's try one more time. See if I can get... Because I do feel my aim is a little down that side on that one as well. So I'm centre of my stance. Club face just a little bit open. But I want to try and turn through that ball just a little bit more. Maybe I'm being a little bit sensitive with the camera on. Right, that seems okay. Come on, and let's see if we can get through this one. Oh my word, that's it. Ball flight's changed as well. This is right on it. That's a much better result. And again, I can't obviously see myself back right now. I will watch back later. But I already felt that there was a much better turn through the ball, through impact. Look, I would gladly tell you if these tips are a load of absolute garbage, I've got no problem in doing that whatsoever. That's worth a try. There is no doubt about it. In fact, everything I'm trying right now has been so, so good. But if you think about it, there's a lot of similarities between a lot of the tips and it's really understanding the relationship between that club head, the sort of... the path of your club and that face to path relationship. And I think if you can sort of understand that and start to recognise those things when things go wrong, as well as right, then you can start to sort of self-correct and get a better understanding of your swing. Right, like I said, I broke down and moved a lot of the stuff out there of Mr Shortgames' explanation to get to the point on that one. So hopefully you've understood it. If you've not, like I said, linked down below. Go and watch Mr Shortgames' explanation. But certainly worth a try. And hopefully that's going to help me shave a few shots off my future rounds. Right, as ever, thanks for watching. I don't know what channel you've watched this on because we're going to mix up going on right now. There's every chance you're either on the Average Golf or our original channel, or you could be watching this on Testing the Tips. Either way, I'd appreciate your support on both and it's important. If you just want to watch tip videos, Testing the Tips is where it's all going to shift to. So make sure you are supporting that in terms of subscribing and hit that notification bell for every time we release one of these videos. Because I genuinely feel we can help you become a better golfer and I'm hoping I can become one along the way with you. Right, thanks for watching. I'll see you all soon.