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Short Game · Mental Model

Rotate around your front side in the short game

Grieve frames the short game as the opposite of the long game: instead of the lateral weight transfer that drives the full swing, the short game is soft and rotational. You rotate around your front side and control ball speed rather than trying to accelerate the ball.

Channel: Dan Grieve

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Why this context matters

Stated as a short game foundation before the chip-and-run section.