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Guys and Gals,

After watching the Big Boys practice basic and acquired motion at the PGA, we discussed how they manage "throwaway" in the short game to hit those fancy lobs and spinners...

Coming off of the chip yips, fixed with Mr. Kelley's imperatives and fundamentals, I feel my chipping has improved 1000%. One of the reasons it has improved so much, is that frozen flat left wrist and frozen bent right wrist. Now to hit it higher I cheat and go to a 62° wedge. I think I would be scared to death to even attempt managing throwaway with a "pause" type stroke right now...

What do you TGM'ers do?

Thanks,
Kevin

Mr Kelley, I think, would want you to find your own best method Kev. The more axe handle method that sees you going to both arms straight accomplishes much the same thing as the Pause Stroke. Maybe a little less intentional wobble , a little more sweet spot feeling as there isnt quite as much lay back but not that different. Especially if you open up the face really wide.

But if in your journey from swinger to hitter to what ever, you want to go back to a more rope handle method (you dont necessarily need to leave active thrusting, hitting to achieve rope handle to my mind) then by all means, explore the lagging, sweeping intentional throwaway flop shots. It might just be a way towards mastering Lag, the secret to good golf.

Im thinking that often a TGM'r will learn the impact alignments in a more wooden manner but then graduate to a more free flowing stroke, hitting or swinging. The free flow being a natural Lag producer that reproduces the impact alignments he or she learned previously. But of course Homer would say there is no one way or one journey. To each his own. Arnie was King after all.

Either way you have to load the lag, on either the back or top of the shaft and then sustain it, direct it through the shot. This is what its all about and if accomplished.......... yipped throwaway is impossible as it is the opposite of Lag.