Dan Grieve
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Hold your chip finish to smooth your tempo
Keep weight forward and turn through, don't lean back
Practice short-game accuracy through a gate
Glue the right elbow to your body for a connected chip
Glare at the landing spot, glance at the pin, then go
Widen your stance on a severe downslope for balance- Check pin position from the tee to plan your approach
Reserve the lob shot for no green to work with
Use more loft on a fast downhill chip
Punch a delofted iron back into play
Switch off cack-handed when you need spin or height
Picture the trajectory into your landing spot
Keep the clubhead outside your hands
Chip with less loft in wet winter conditions
Build a two-rod gateway to sharpen start-line control
Dig steeper out of compacted winter bunker sand- Let the lie choose your loft and release
Turn onto a connected right arm
Feel a light grip by sliding the club through fingers- Toe-up, high-handle setup for chips (Willett)
Widen out for buried downslope rough
Left-hand-only drill for short-game swing plane
Lock the lower body and rock the shoulders to putt
Let the grip release upward- Keep your hands moving to stay light over chips
- Load spin with a wide mini-release
Toe down from a buried divot- Feel the left shoulder lift up and around in the chip
Make your bunker divot level from front to back
Swing the driver smoother to take 20 yards off- Use the bank to kill short-sided speed
Read grain from the burnt edge around the hole- Flight pitches lower over tiers
- Clip a high-teed ball to shallow your wedge strike
Land chips into an upslope to remove speed
Use low-lofted options from tight links turf
Use a nine-iron half-swing pitch in strong wind
Raise the handle and flatten the lie for low chips
Read grain: grass grows toward the sun and water
Read grain by grass color and adjust your flight
Set a neutral lead-hand grip with three checkpoints- Read greens from the low side in three sections
Hit a fairway finder under pressure
Arms connection drill for the short game- Match grip pressure to how the ball should come off
- Use gravity to calibrate four-out-of-ten grip pressure
Swap swing thoughts for a start-line task
Space your chip stance: 1 ball, 1 clubhead, 2 at toes
Stop machine-gunning balls; reset after a bad shot- Stun it out of a divot with no release
- Read what's behind the ball, not just the lie
Fix rolling the club inside with a left-arm rod drill
Use tee height and heel to control shape- Club down from a flyer lie
From a downslope, play it low with spin
Feel a draw to shallow a sitting-up chip- Master two wedge numbers, then feel the gaps
Paint the picture before every short-game shot- Skip the club in light sand, dig in compact sand
Set up for a standard-depth bunker splash
Play a putt-chip for quick downhill fringe shots- Match chip loft to green firmness
- Read the lie first, then pick your release
Putt off a downslope: ball back with forward shaft lean
Raise the handle to quiet the wrists on a chip-and-run- Add wrist hinge for speed on slow long putts
Feel the butt of the grip work up toward your hip- Shorten the left thumb to shorten your backswing
Chipping into grain: ball forward and use the bounce
On left-to-right putts favor the high side and start line
Play the soft landing shot only from a green-light lie
Play the Bank short-game footage challenge
Ball above your feet: expect a hook, aim right- Bumble six iron into steep banks
Control chip distance by changing loft, not swing
Take the slope out with flight
Use the lie, land, loft routine around the green- Practice your setup basics without hitting balls
- Watch your partner's putt for a free read
- Weaken the top hand for release one
- Drive the leading edge into a bank to remove speed
- Feel low to high on the chip
- Expect little spin on shots from the rough
- Rehearse one pressure routine until it is automatic
Set up the greenside lob: wider, right foot back- Tuck a rod under both armpits for arms-body connection
- Match wedge loft to a firm, downhill green
- Play the soft landing shot with a super light grip
- Carry past front runoffs on links approaches
- Hinge quickly out of long rough
- Grip tighter with the lead hand from sticky rough
Set up narrow and open the chest through short shots
Bump a fast downhill lie with no release- Hit a lower running pitch into wind or firm lies
- Thumbs-off drill to feel the clubhead and release
- Chip like bowling a ball, not throwing it
- Let a buried bunker shot run out
- Feel trail-hand pressure with a one-hand drill
- Let the club fall from the top, don't force it
Use a middle wedge for the soft floater, not the 60