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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, it's the golf show on the ticket.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're going to get more in to live here in
a second, and what's going on with them. Let's get
into some tips with Joe Patrick. No Fitzpatrick. Matt Fitzpatrick
likes to cross hand chip.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, what do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Well, you know, the first time I saw that was
in South Africa. The black golfer did that. They cross handed.
It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Not
only did they crosshand chip, they hit it that way
and out drove you by twenty yards.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, it's just amazing.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
You've seen some people try it. It gets rid of
the if you have the yips yeps, all right, it
does get rid of that, all right, So if you're
having trouble with it, But it's a lot of practice,
and you have to have a lot of mobility in
the restaurants, Like I can't truly do it, all right,
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especially like he's hitting lob shots that way, so he
has a lot of mobility in the restaurants. There's two
people doing that right now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, there's another I think there was. I think there's
an LPGA to our player doing it too, but I
can't remember.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You have to have a lot of mobility in the wrists.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I think there, well, I'm going to get to this
tip next.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And there's a couple of golf courses on the trail
at Brackenridge is one. Uh And I saw this happen
with Justin Rose a few years ago in Tampa. And
that's when you have a pitch shot or a chip
shot around the green that you could put if you
wanted to, or could chip, and the grain is into you.
And so Justin Rose is practice hitting a couple of
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practice swings and you're you know, you're hitting the ground
and he can tell right away that it's into the grain,
and he hands the wedge bag says, give me the putter.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'm not chipping into the grain.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the seventeenth toll at brack I can't tell you,
probably ten times in the last two years have been
on the side of the green with this perfect lie
and I'm thinking, this is a chip I can make,
and I forget that it's into the grain. And if
you just missed by a hair, you're going to hit
it two inches. And that's one where you have to
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think about putting it and just not trying to make it.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, that's a great question. And we had a doctor
yesterday we were chipping and he goes, he brought up that.
He goes, sometimes I'm you know, there's grass growing into
my club, and I duff it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
There's ways of getting around that. But we're sitting there
and we're close enough to the green. I go, go
grab your most lofted hybrid and bring it over here.
He actually had a five hybrid, so he brought it
over and I go, let's let's put this with the
five hybrid and you'll see the ball will get up
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in the air a little bit, get above that that grass.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And then and roll right up to the.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Hor because the bounce of the club on the wedge
is kind of it hurts you a little bit by
kind of digging.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, there's just a big leading edge going in there.
It's a lot easier to chip with something that has
more bounce to it.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I think chipping in general is understanding how the club works.
Every player that I've ever and every teacher I've ever
been around, has said, when you get ready to hit
a chip shot or a pitch shot, you have to
pick out a landing area. There was a lady in
Oklahoma that taught for years at the Lake Kefner golf
course where I grew up, and she always talked about
if I were going to throw the ball to this target,
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how would I get it there the most consistent way?
And you have to try to land it in a
certain area. And I think a lot of people forget
that there's a landing area with pitch and chip shots.
Talk about that that, you know, look at Tiger's chip
at sixteen in Augusta, the famous chip in he picked
a place where he wanted to land it and nailed it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Incredible chip shot. Yeah, probably the best I've ever seen ever.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I think that the first thing you have to know
that before you try to pick out a point on
the green is you have to know your clubs. You
have to know how you chip the ball and how
the ball reacts all right when it hits the green,
do you hit it high enough to throw it to
there with that particular club. So my suggestion is is
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go to the putting green, go to the chipping green
and pull out if you carry a sixty or fifty eight,
fifty four or fifty six, whatever you carry there your
gap wedge, your pitching wedge.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You're nine iron and eight iron.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
And chip a couple of balls with each one to
a certain hole and each club to that hole and
see which one's the easiest to get it close to
the hole. But people don't they you can't pick a
point when you do not know what that club's going
to do for you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, and I know, like with my I react like that,
Like if I'm around the green and I'm like, say,
up the hill, Okay, do I want this club the
ball to release to the hole or do I want
it to land in stop? So you have your sixty
degree wedge and if you hit it properly, it's likely
not going to run as much as a fifty six
or a fifty four, and so knowing not only where
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to land it, but knowing, okay, this ball is going
to run out this much, which goes back to my
ball situation. If you're changing golf balls every time, the
landing area is going to change and it's going to
make it even more difficult.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Definitely, you got to make sure you chip with balls
that you play with right, because it does make a
big difference. If you're going to go over there with
a couple of yellow stripe or black striped yellow range
all the way over there, you know, at our range
there at San Pedro, and then or you're chipping with
you know, a max fly ball or titles ball or
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whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So the I think probably we don't have a lot
of this, especially on the trail courses, but there's enough
to where it becomes a problem from time to time.
What is your approach to hitting fairway bunker shots. What's
the best way to get the ball somewhere near the
if not on the green. We see pros making some
spectacular shots from the bunkers. They I've always heard you
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still take a d of it, but you got to
hit the ball first.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's like, first you hope that the bunker's kind of firmed, yes,
then you have a shot. The way I've shown one time,
which has worked for me and the things that we
teach my students is that once you get into the bunker,
whatever club you've picked and one that can get over
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the lip. First of all that's in front of you
is is that when you stand at it, stand normal
almost touching the sand obviously you can't, and then raise
your chest, raise your sternum up high, enough until the
club gets.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Above the ball.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
All right, take the club, put it on, hover it
on top of the ball, and make sure your chest
stays that high. You can't I go down. The chest
can't go down. So you're basically lifting several inches up
off the ground. Move the club above the ball and
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make your swing. You'll hit it thin, it'll come out.
You'll barely make a divot because your arms are going
to want to extend. Your eyes see the ball and
go I can't get there, so it's going to extend
to catch ball first.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So yeah, and I've heard also try to look at
the front of the golf ball.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That kind of helps a little bit.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
A little bit, but again you're going to gouge, so
it's like the you have to lift. Like if if
I'm bent over, let's just give it a number thirty
one degrees. I'm going to straighten up almost to let's
say twenty five degrees, and then I'm going to really
extend my arms just above the ball and just make
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a normal swing, and it will. You'll hit it thin,
it's not gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, you got to take enough loft to make sure
you get over the whatever lip there is.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Make sure you got a no felloft, or you'll be
in there again.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, Or you'll hit it and then you'll have a
worse shot and then you may spend an eternity in there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right, those are some of the tips today.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
John Rahm got into a little bit of a spat
with a marshal at the Spanish Open. I'm not defending
what rom did, but I understand. So we're going to
talk about that in a second, and then we're going
to get back into this live golf story where they're
losing upwards of over five hundred million dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
All that coming up next. It's the Golf Show on
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