Besides coaching amateur golfers from far and wide on a one-to-one basis, Dan delivers the most attended short game school in the U. In addition to the greenside shots you will learn the art of bunker play and pitching, along with many other specialist shots to add to your repertoire. As a couple others mentioned losing height/adding right tilt is death with this general strain of pitching technique.

Dan has had a great deal of success coaching Elite Amateurs and Tour Professionals playing at the very highest level. Then I look at where I need to land the ball and think, "Given where I need to land it, what's the appropriate release and club out of my available choices? K. Besides coaching amateur golfers far and wide, he has helped dozens of Tour Players to dozens of wins - including Georgia Hall’s victory at the 2018 Women’s Open Championship. I find the Daniel Grieve book teaches many similar things but is easier to use as it’s more simply written and I like it although haven’t yet found it’s changed my game much since I already made changes this Summer. Woburn has 3 World Class Golf Courses, all ranked in the UK’s top-100 list and a rich tournament history hosted over 60 Professional events including dozens of British Masters and 10 Women’s British Opens!Whatever allows you to enjoy the game with less stress and shoot lower scores is really all that matters. After detailing the 3 Releases, the book progresses onto topics such as playing from awkward lies, understanding your equipment’s capabilities, and how to practice with intention - thereby increasing golfers’ rate of improvement.

Host of the UK’s most attended short game school, Daniel Grieve has released an all-encompassing new book, designed to simplify the short game and create clarity of thought around the greens.As in anything the best technique is the one that works for you for the course conditions and situation. Sieckmann book is good for pitching , chipping , but chapter on bunkers is poorly written or edited , and the advice given is actually contradictory : one paragraph says 'there is little or no weight shift in bunker shots' ,and a few paragraphs later on faults and cures it says 'you may have this fault because of insufficient weight shift.

You will learn the 3 Releases you can use around the green to give you versatility in your shot selection and crucially have a clear understanding of what shot to play where. Honestly haven't even finished the whole book yet but have spent several weeks with the basics of the first couple releases and seeing some light at the end of the tunnel finally. The concept is that if your wedge has 10* of bounce and you have 5* of shaft lean, there is still 5* of bounce to work with, whereas if you have 13* of shaft lean, bounce is now negative 3*.Dan brilliantly simultaneously explains how complex the short game is while proving the cleanest and easiest way to approach it in 3 easy to understand techniques. Golfers have been playing these shots for centuries, I have just packaged it within a system which I know amateur golfers find very useful and provides much needed clarity. I have not read the book but this guy’s IG posts seem to be very much similar to the new way of playing the short game.

In 2022 I suffered from "Lob Wedge Addiction" using my 58* wedge 43% of the time (average proximity and up/down 20' and 24%, respectively) whereas it turned out that I was much more effective with a chipper, putter or hybrid in terms of proximity and up/down %. Accordingly, my finesse game for 2023 will be primarily reliant on the chip and run (with various irons as I no longer carry the chipper) and secondarily the soft-landing shot. The editorial team at Golf Today strives to provide readers with captivating content that celebrates the rich heritage and exciting developments in the world of golf. Consistency over how you practise and truly understanding how to play all the shots you require when on the course.My guess is he's extreme about not using the LW because it is hard for a lot of ams to use and his overall message is that there is a whole universe of shots that should be considered for every situation so we should stop grabbing 60* by default. I can yip or duff one now and then as much as the next hacker but at least the 90% of my chips that I don't duff are good, solid shots that get somewhere near the hole. I have to say that in all my decades of golf, I never truly understood how to use the bounce on a club. As well as learning these exact techniques, proven at the highest level in golf, you will acquire crucial performance skills. Whilst busy coaching the next generation of Tour Players including some of the best Juniors in the UK and in 2019 coached Ellen Hume to the English Women’s Amateur Championship.