Dan Grieve
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Punch under branches with ball back and short finish
Release through a perched rough lie
Play a low checking chip that grabs and stops
Lower pitch flight with the same wedge, ball back
Use shadows as landing rails
Match the short-game shot to your lie
Set the pivot line to stop hitting chips fat
Keep the club head outside your hands on short chips- Use a reverse overlap grip to quiet the wrists
Let setup width dictate your backswing length
Use hybrid safely from rough
Punch shot off bad lies: grip down, ball back, hands leading
Chip a lofted iron into a bank
Acknowledge and embrace pressure instead of blocking it
Shallow a wet up-slope chip with a draw feel
End practice while you're still hitting it well
Swing hands inward by the right hip
Use less release on a downhill bunker shot- Randomize lies without improving them
- Loosen grip pressure to get spin on wedge shots
Use a lower tee and smooth swing when stiff
In deep sand, splash lighter and take less sand
Choose lie, landing spot, bounce, then loft
Set up a low chip with ball inside lead heel
Bring quick-chip targets back
Chip and run with an eight iron
Hold the club in your fingers with light grip pressure
Glue the right arm to your chest on tight-lie chips
Get lead shoulder over lead foot to set a pivot line
Use the bounce and trust the ground
Launch lower so the ball climbs an upslope tier
Land chip shots past the hump and release them
Lighten grip pressure and let the club hover, not press down
Ball back to spin, ball forward to chunk-and-run- Pinch the chip for check on firm fast greens
- Use your second-most-lofted wedge, not the 60
Don't dwell over the ball: settle one second and breathe
Stay down and hear short putts go in
Match the chip club to the pin, don't chip a 9 everywhere
Judge putts on line and pace, not the result
Walk off the distance when playing over a bunker
Switch grips when the club must release- Pick the shot you can play, not the flashy one
Hinge release one for low check
Chip a 9-iron one-third carry, two-thirds roll- Start the chip with the left shoulder, not the hands
Left-arm-only chipping drill
Play a low release chip from a downslope
Draw the long bunker shot for extra carry and run- A putt breaks most as it slows down near the hole
Avoid a square bunker face and turn through- Start the chip with the shoulder, not the hands
- Use more loft when playing out of the rough
Sole the club to read if you can get under it- Chip with a hybrid using a putting grip
Drop your trail foot back to free up hip rotation- Pop rough out with steep release three
- Feel the sand with your feet before a bunker shot
Plant your feet heavy to create a base to rotate around
Drill: left-hand-only chip swings with no ball- Move the ball back and hands forward for contact
Let the club fall and pass through in transition
Set chip-and-run stance and ball position by spacings- Attack a sitting-down rough lie more steeply
Use less loft into the wind and up a slope
Flight an iron down into the wind
Play the front number, not just the laser pin- Use the toe from a tight lie
Pick your chip shot by how you'd throw the ball- Train your eyes with a precise chip landing stripe
- Use a lead-hand-only drill to set the backswing
- Ball back delofts the club, so take more loft
- Lengthen your chip backswing to release the club
- Hit a knockdown: grip down, ball back, short finish
- Soften chip grip pressure to about 3 out of 10
- Pinch a chip when the ball is sitting down
- Ball above your feet, hook it; below, cut it
- Record your key feel after a lesson
Stay external over putts: one look and go
Hit it higher or lower by setup, not ball position- Visualize your landing spot to pick the chip and club
- Swing with thumbs off the grip to feel clubhead weight
- Get chest ahead of ball, level shoulders for chip-and-run
- Adjust chip landing spot for slope and green speed
No divot drill for the soft release shot
Control pitch distance with a two-clubhead stance- Don't chase every pin - play par pins safe
- Drop the handle to toe the ball out of a divot
Set up a winter pitch: ball back, shaft lean, wrist hinge
Structure your short-game practice: block then random- Hit short putts into the back of the hole
- Cure an over-the-top slice by swinging on an arc
- Read the lie to decide which short-game shot to play
- Structure practice as block, random, then pressure
- Chip and run with a longer backswing, shorter finish
- Keep the club upright and let it fall with gravity
Play upslope short shots by tilting and releasing with slope- Control bunker distance by how fast you work the sand
Land short of an upslope- Pick a club that can't go long when long is dead