Dan Grieve
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Choose trajectory before recovery club
Take insurance when the lie is in doubt
Soft-sand bunker: weight forward, upper body back
Read grain from the worn edge of the cup
Use routine to shift pressure
Set a strong lead hand to open the face in bunkers
Keep the feet quiet and pivot the chest when pitching
Glare at your landing spot, glance at the pin
Choose the easy club downwind
Drop to a lower-lofted wedge to lower flight
More sand means more release and bounce
Root your feet and stop swaying on the soft landing shot- Keep the putter in front
Gauge putt distance by your stroke length- Prioritize fairway over distance on long holes
- Use hand height to control chip trajectory
Take less loft to release a wedge up a slope
Play a firm lie with the ball well back
Reflect instead of machine-gunning balls
Drill: hit chips up on your trail toe to feel weight forward
Squeeze firm bunker sand with a deeper divot
Deep bunker divots mean too much shaft lean
Level your shoulders to stop hitting behind chips- Chip with a hybrid using a putting stroke
- Keep chest and club head connected on longer wedge pitches
Run a 9-iron into the bank off a downhill lie
Punch off a bad lie to guarantee ball-first strike
Stop swaying, rotate around your feet on the lob
Use a club-against-hip turning drill- Close the body to find strike
Use a heavy-sand running lie for a back pin- Control wedge distance with an address system
Vary your wedge loft to control spin around the green- Read the ground firmness, not just the lie
Narrow the grip gap to feel release
Do random practice: one ball, no preferred lie- Grip Down and Narrow Your Stance to Take Distance Off
Breathe and loosen grip under pressure- Cover the ball to stop thin, weak-right strikes
Dig a plugged bunker lie out with an open heel- Widen your stance for downhill chips
De-loft a 60 for a low check-and-release spinner- Match three bunker releases to parts of the sole
- Thumbs-off drill to feel the wedge's head weight
- Set up so you physically can't over-swing
Use back-foot shaft lean on tight lies
Hit it higher: ball forward, earlier hinge, look high- Play the par-5 second shot for angle, not just a 3-wood
- Grip down and narrow up to make a distance wedge
Wean off an exaggerated drill in small steps- Widen your stance like a driver for the lob
Make your practice stroke match the putt's length- Beat a slice with an extreme closed-stance drill
- Tee it lower for a straighter fairway finder
Face to face drill for greenside bunker shots
Ease thumb grip pressure in transition
Stop the ball by spin or by land angle- Let a good lie release the wedge
- Keep the shaft in line with the ball to protect the bounce
Plan a chip from lie, slope, and landing reaction- Use slight forward shaft lean, hands not too far back
Pick a rounded-sole wedge off soft, sandy lies
Use a hybrid through tufty grass
Lengthen your backswing to buy transition time
Allow less break on slow winter greens- Fly it lower to a back pin and land it short
Release 1: the low chip-and-run
Land the chip on the flattest part of the green- Land chips on a flat part of the green
- Shift from internal mechanics to external target focus
Keep rotating through short chips instead of stopping
60 degree chip: 75% carry, 25% roll
Turn the hip back and chest through the chip- Let your arms hang to soften your chipping grip
- Toe down a firm tight lie
- Split a 15-minute short-game session into three blocks
Above your feet hook it, below your feet cut it
Use a hybrid with a putting grip to chip into the grain- Make your practice swing look like the real shot
Lower your hands for a high short-game shot- Avoid the 60 wedge off an upslope
Sitting-up lie spins more, so drop wedge loft- Keep the grip leading to roll putts with less loft
Use the chunk-and-run for safer long bunker shots- Look at the hole during your putting practice stroke
Use the Texas wedge from links runoffs- Toe down drill to stop swaying in the short game
Narrow your chip stance with flared feet
Hold your finish to check how you released the chip- Hit winter putts harder by increasing the beat of the stroke
- Pitch off a downslope without thinning it
Drop to less loft, not a 60, when chipping anxious- Check a new grip is square to the clubface
Note your carry distances during a round- Slide the bounce through a wet lie
Build a solid base in the bunker and stop moving your legs- Play the bunker ball position slightly back
Choose the lower short-game shot in gusts- Open the face when you drop the handle, or it goes left
- Draw a chip so it releases down a slope