Body connected short game

[davepuppies]

As I continue my pursuit of lowering my handicap, I have been working on rebuilding my swing with my coach. My ball striking has improved a lot, but I haven’t been practicing my short game.

I have never had formal short game lesson, and use mostly hands / arms. A recipe for disaster when my timing is off (yesterday)

I realise I need to rebuild my pitching and chipping to be driven by my body, like my full swing is.

Does anyone have any good drills or thoughts to stay connected?

Today I practiced and focused on keeping my left arm straight and turning chest whilst keeping arm connected (don’t know if that makes sense?)

My strike quality was far better as I was keeping bounce angle the same, not steepening it through extra hinging, however being a new concept my distance control and feel was non existent

Am I on the right track here?

Reference point - I’m a 6 handicap that has a game built on flaws and compensations. Want to build something more repeatable and consistent to get closer to scratch

[markTHEblake]

Dan Grieve
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[davepuppies]

Dan Grieve/end of thread

I’ll look him up

[virge666]

Dan is the Answer.
just learn release 1 and 2, 95% of your short game done

And for you Dave, think wibbly wobbly grip, you do tend to strangle the club.

[davepuppies]

Dan is the Answer.just learn release 1 and 2, 95% of your short game doneAnd for you Dave, think wibbly wobbly grip, you do tend to strangle the club.

Good point. Softening my grip allows the body to drive

[TheNuclearOne]

Dan is definitely the man. Get his book and follow/watch his videos on youtube and you're sorted......with a bit of practise as well. Virge is right release 3 (flop/lob) is only a last resort and rarely ever needed and release 1 and 2 are hardly rocket science. What isn't in his book (specialist shots/lies) will pretty much be found in his videos. It's a great system.