"Use the Bounce of the club" means what in the shortgame???? (excludes bunker shots)

[300Drive]

Now question is,, how to have flat left wrist and center ball position and a vertical shaft ...at impact ... hum....

Also in chipping many teacher including Tom Tomasello uses Heel up ... cool way to use a bounce isn't it?

....Not quite vertical, and certainly not "hitting" down on the ball.

The cool thing about the book for me, is it forces me to think of options....and when it comes to short game, you must be creative, imaginative, and have an arsenal of shots for the situation at hand.

BTW, I am sure Seve B, (a short game guru), used throwaway quite a bit.

[Martee]

If you look at his pictures and then compare it to the text, it doesn't track too well.

The idea of having a cup wrist for pitch shots, cupping the wrist on the backstroke, bowing the wrist for chips to control trajectory, minimal shaft leaning on chips while even advocating laying back the shaft on pitches makes his technique appear to be more complex than needed. Then we take the changes at address position with the hands lower, etc....

On my second read. I think he has done a great job on identify faults and causes, but his written technique vs pictures along with some catch words seems off to me.

He beleives the pitch shot is high, little spin, lands softly and stops. He seems to be very much anti-back spin and pro-trajectory and run out.

[nuke99]

Seve B ... in some of his video in some magazines somewhere.. remember him saying soft arms, left arm must Bend after impact ... to aid softer shots... so ... no extensor action with chicken wing? ...


We need to keep an open mind. this short game thingie is making me confused cuckle

[asleep]

Seve B ... in some of his video in some magazines somewhere.. remember him saying soft arms, left arm must Bend after impact ... to aid softer shots... so ... no extensor action with chicken wing? ...

Ballesteros chipped with ball forward, hitters type extensor action into a vertical shaft at low point. Left arm bends with inside of left elbow tracing around the (left side) body above the beltline.

Click here to see: Seve demonstrating ball control with clubhead