Short Game

Improve your technique and master your short game. Get short game instruction to help simplify those critical shots. From holding the club properly to using the right angle, the key to golf's short game is a click away.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Short Game School Shoot Lower Scores Now! The secret to shooting lower scores isn't hitting longer drives and hitting more greens.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Bunker Control Get up and down from the kitty litter Without question, most amateurs make playing from the bunker more difficult than it needs to be.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Flip It To Stick It! Hinge your wrists early to perfect this more advanced flop shot If you've ever found yourself short-sided in the rough, as I am here, then you know you need to execute a shot that gets the ball up high and in a hurry—and lands soft. Here's a more advanced way to play this rough flop shot.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Greenside Greatness Get up and down when you’re just off the green As you can see here, I've got a 40-yard bunker shot, which is arguably one of the game's hardest tests. I'll show you two ways to play it, depending on the kind of sand that you find in the bunke

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 The Putt-Chip Shot "Putt" your chips to get up and down The putt-chip is a shot that I encourage all of my students to learn at our golf school.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Stripe Your Chips Line up a range ball for perfect contact When it comes to hitting short shots from just off the green, many of my students tend to neglect some basic swing fundamentals.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Making Crisp Chipping Contact Two tips for better chipping contact The chip shot might seem like a simple motion, so why do so many golfers complicate it with added movements?

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Old School Rescue Use your sand wedge to escape all kinds of greenside lies While a buried bunker lie might be a bad break, it’s certainly not impossible to get it up and down from here.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Throw Some Sand And escape the bunker One of the reasons so many folks struggle from the sand is that they don’t understand the importance of an open face at impact.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Knock It Tight! Six Tips To Get Up And Down My good friend and mentor Mike LaBauve once told me a story about watching Greg Norman practice at the U.S. Open.

Monday, February 28, 2011 Closed, Open, Square Control your pitch shots by practicing with your 8-iron Better iron play is at the heart of game improvement. It’s the center link of the golfing chain, and without a strong link in the middle, playing your best becomes an arduous, if not very frustrating, task.

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