Short Game

No Sway, Jose

And Keep The Bag In Place

By Hank Gardner, PGA. Photos By Warren Keating   

One of the great players on the PGA Tour was Chi Chi Rodriguez. In his heyday, Chi Chi could play and hit the ball as well and as far as almost anyone, even though he was smaller in size.

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PROspectives: Ryan Moore

Milk The Cow

By By Ryan Moore, PGA Tour Photography By Warren Keating   

For a long time I’ve been doing a drill that I like to call “Milking the Cow.” From the photos, you probably can guess where it got its name. Why is it important to “milk the cow” in your swing? Because it creates a 90º angle between your left arm and your club shaft and, in golf, that’s what we call “lag.”

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PROspectives: Eric Axley

How to chip like a pro.

By Eric Axley, PGA Tour. Photos By Warren Keating   

On the PGA Tour, the ability to get up and down consistently from around the green is critical, and being a good pitcher of the ball makes saving pars a lot easier. The three basic shots you need to know are high, medium and low pitches. Master these three, and you’ll be able to handle just about any situation.

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Short Game Games

Lower your scores by making practice fun

By Chuck Winstead, PGA, Photography By Warren Keating   

short gameOne of the absolute basics of good scoring is solid putting from short to medium range. If you’re confident from these distances, it will take pressure off all your other short-game shots and make you a better lag putter as well.

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Pitch Right!

How to improve your chipping in two minutes' time

By Paul Ito, PGA, Illustration By Steve Karp   

pitch rightIf you want to control your shots more effectively around the greens, the best thing you can do is set up with a narrow stance and always remember to keep the shaft leaning toward the target. Since it’s a chip shot, you don’t have to worry about releasing the club; instead, you want to hold the face square to ensure optimal directional control. This setup position also helps to avoid flubbed chipped shots—one of the most embarrassing and avoidable shots in golf.

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Pitching Mechanics

Better pitching is a matter of perfecting your address positions

By Jeff Yurkiewicz, PGA, With Ryan Noll; Photography By Warren Keating   

Playing well from within 100 yards is a must if you want to score well. Just look at the best players in the world. They all miss the fairway sometimes, but from within 100 yards, there isn’t a player out there who doesn’t expect to knock it close from “a hundie” and in. This is golf’s scoring zone, where the difference between a long birdie putt and a short tap-in can be made up by hitting the right kinds of shots.

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Short Game CPR

How To Resuscitate Your Short Game With Three Simple Tips

By Derek Hooper, PGA, With Ryan M. Noll, Photography By Warren Keating, Illustrations By Steve Kar   

Short Game CPR, Chipping, Pitching, RecoveryWhen someone refers to “saving your score” on a particular hole, it typically requires a chip, pitch or bunker shot to get the ball up and down. These three shots can have the biggest impact on your score when learned and executed properly, since you can only do so much to make up strokes from the tee box or on the green.

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Sweep Before You Reap

By Barry Goldstein, Photo by Warren Keating   

How you make a practice swing when chipping from off the green is especially critical. First of all, you’re not just trying to calculate how far you need to hit the ball, you’re also trying to determine how high the ball should fly and how much roll you want it to have. Also, a practice stroke helps you to assess the lie, which can range from having a ball that’s sunken down in the rough to one sitting high on the collar. All these variables come into play when making a practice swing, which is why I think it’s critical that every golfer learn my “rehearsal” technique before hitting a chip or pitch shot.

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Awkward Lies

Master golf's most difficult bunker shots

By Jeff Ritter, PGA; with Charlie Schroeder   

Awkward LiesIf only we could tee up every golf shot. We’d always have perfect lies, where no grass or trees or sand could get in the way of making clean contact with the ball. Of course, that isn’t the case. Between the tee and green, we have to surrender to the course and “play the ball as it lies.” That means adjusting to a number of challenging circumstances, such as plugged bunker shots and awkward stances. For this story, I’ve concentrated my efforts on just those types of lies—the ones you get where you look to your playing partners, throw your arms in the air and say “anybody have any suggestions?” Take time to practice these shots, and you won’t wonder what to do the next time you’re faced with an awkward lie.

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Beat The Fried Egg

Beat The Fried EggWhen you desire a softer type of explosion shot out of the bunker from this normally “hot” lie, you need to employ an open clubface and relaxed hands. Make your angle of attack steeper by leaning your weight toward your front foot. This weight shift also accentuates the digging action of the clubhead, making soft hands and an open clubface that much more critical. Otherwise, the golf ball will come out with more velocity than desired.
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Master The Mid-Range Lob

By T.J. Tomasi, Ph.D., PGA, Photography by D2 Productions   
Master The Mid-Range LobThey don’t keep stats for it on the PGA Tour, but all pros excel at hitting the mid-range lob. It’s played with your highest-lofted club (usually a lob wedge) from around 30 yards, and it’s one of those shots that, if you pull it off to save par or make birdie, can energize the rest of your round.
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