Chipping Was Never About Your Hands

Want 1 science based practice fix a day for the next 30 days? That is the second link: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/30hacksin30The Play Ready Golf app turns 30 seconds a hole into tour level strokes gained data and a practice plan built around your time and facilities: https://onelink.to/93ggkv Code PRGPOD gets you $20 off every year for life: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6752723937&code=PRGPODGrab the free Greenside Menu, the 1 page decision card we walk through in this episode. Print it or save it to your phone: https://playreadygolf.beehiiv.com/menuYour short game problem is not your hands. It is the order you pick shots in. In this episode of the Play Ready Golf Podcast (Ep. 31) we use Shot Scope and Arccos data to show why golfers at every handicap level fail from 50 yards, why the flop shot became everyone's default, and the 4 question menu that fixes it without a single lesson.Timestamps: 0:00 Nobody has hands 1:42 The data: up and down by handicap 2:56 The app in 30 seconds 3:22 The highlight reel raised you 5:57 Extreme sells: the wedge industry 7:00 Jason Day: one motion, many clubs 8:53 Option 1: the putter 10:17 One email a day for 30 days 10:33 Option 2: the low chip 11:11 Option 3: the pitch 12:34 Option 4: the flop 13:40 The cost of ignoring the menu 14:17 Judge every shot by its miss 15:27 What Hayden sees caddying 19:19 Rule 1: can I putt it?20:18 Rule 2: lowest loft that clears the trouble 21:59 Rule 3: pitch only when something is in the way 22:45 Rule 4: the flop is the fire escape 23:37 The menu in order 25:20 What about bad lies? 26:33 2 honest notes about the data 27:29 The takeawayMissed the double bogey episode we reference? Watch it here: https://youtu.be/D1ZK1E_06XsData in this episode comes from Shot Scope, Arccos data via Lou Stagner, PGA Tour scrambling stats, and Edoardo Molinari via Golf Digest.