Chipping Was Never About Your Hands

Chipping Was Never About Your Hands

Author: Isaak Ramsey & Hayden Zimmerer | Smarter Golf Practice in Less Time July 24, 2026 Duration: 28:29

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Your 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 takeaway

Missed the double bogey episode we reference? Watch it here: https://youtu.be/D1ZK1E_06Xs

Data in this episode comes from Shot Scope, Arccos data via Lou Stagner, PGA Tour scrambling stats, and Edoardo Molinari via Golf Digest.


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