Dan Grieve
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Structure practice around your stats, weakest area first
Move an excessively weak grip right to reduce slices
Match chest and club head to hit chips straight
Finish through the chip, not at the ball
Play wet greenside rough with the toe and a high handle
Widen your stance to the slope on downhill chips
Train harder than you play: rehearse bad lies
Adjust loft and setup for a downhill short-game lie
Use less loft to stop thinning chips- Check grip thickness by your fingers on the palm
Control a downhill pitch from 60-80 yards
Stop driving your legs in the bunker- Pick the club you can pull off nine times in ten
Brush the grass drill for cleaner chip contact
Flare your lead foot out to open up through the shot
Flight the ball down into wind to stop coming up short
Bunker ball above feet: aim right and draw it off the bank
Off a downslope, lean your body with the slope
On a sitting-down lie, get height instead of spin
Face the start line on breaking putts- Stay still and roll the putt, don't hit it
- Build your setup in order: club, grip, feet
Focus on your landing spot, not the pin, when chipping- Chip long-to-short: two-thirds back to a third through
- Feel wide with triceps on ribs at tick-tock tempo
Rehearse bunker basics anywhere
Use a string line to groom aim and start line
Don't force loft — quit hitting every wedge on the number- Move an excessively strong grip left to reduce hooks
Throw-the-sand drill to keep loft and bounce
Saw off wedges to lower flight- Toe-down slide shot for tricky greenside lies
Drill: long wide backswing, short soft shot- Slide the toe under a bad lie
Read the bunker lie with your eyes and feet- Take thumbs off the grip for soft, spinny chips
- Train soft flight with a 58 before gaming a 62
- Soften short-game grip pressure to a four out of ten
Treat every bad shot as a learning opportunity
Smack down harder in loose links bunker sand- Club up and swing less with a wedge into wind
Soften grip pressure to let the wedge release- Use the wedge toe from hardpan
Use the clubface to gauge launch angle
Drop to less loft for long bunker shots- Switch to external focus when you compete
Keep the club head outside the hands going back- Chip under an imaginary coffee table to stay low
- Pace out putts every three feet to calibrate stroke
- Keep one chip technique and change club loft
- Chip and run: butt of grip to left hip for low flight
- Practice wedges with the stronger loft to force control
Hinge and hold, don't release, from wet lies
Drawing into the wind costs you distance- Set the chip-and-run stance and ball position
- Pick a front target on blind lobs
- Ball back and shaft lean for ball-first strike
- Compact bunker lie: shaft lean, set early, hit down
- Get low and narrow to spin a greenside bunker shot
- Get lead shoulder over lead pelvis to stop early low point
- Play the chip-and-run with any club to control run
- Set the chip-and-run stance: ball, feet, shoulder
- Skip out of deep, fluffy sand with a full release
Add chest speed not hip speed on long bunker shots- Drill: chip with the left hand lower on the grip
- Watch your partner's putt for the read
- Aim for the middle of the green for a margin of error
Chip a fairway wood or hybrid like a putt
Tight mown Bermuda: 8-iron chip-and-run, land it short- Play the putt chip: toe-down wedge with a putting stroke
Open the face more from a lower handle
Make the short-game backswing wider
Use spin feedback to check release- Let the lie pick the chip, not your eye
Play uphill lies: ball forward, swing low to high
Float a soft landing shot by bottoming out before the ball
Use tee grain to tune yardage- Add a touch of wrist hinge on long winter lag putts
Commit to process on short putts- Visualize a chip's landing spot and run-out
- Let the chest run the chip and hold your finish
Use weaker loft and hit downslopes harder- Use less loft to run it up wet greens into upslopes
- Start putts over a spot a foot in front
Set chip-and-run ball position just inside trail heel- Walk forward to take the fear out of a bunker shot
- Chop down on thick fringe lies
Strike putts from the middle of the face for pace- Play the ball back and low off a downhill greenside lie
Allow for a low-spin flyer from sitting rough- Raise the handle and stand closer to stop chip flips
Look at your start line during putting practice strokes
Use two five woods when a par five is unreachable in two- Use a hybrid like a putter from just off the green
- Tee-peg drill for a better pitch strike
Lower your hands to hit the lob higher
Lengthen the short-game backswing to avoid rushing- Lower chip flight to reduce side-slope kick
- Soften your thumbs so the club releases itself
Towel under armpits drill for pitching connection