Phil Mickelson or Jason Day - Who's chipping technique is best for YOU?

hinge or not hinge that's the question besides them looking at their golf swing let's do this it's time for our transformative advice presented by Morgan Franklin now this is what we're doing and this is what I want to remind you I want to look at some of your golf swings, you have to send them to me. What you're going to do is take a video of your golf swing, make sure you hold the camera in that horizontal landscape, and then I'm going to email it to a new generation of golf at Michael Breed Calm. A new generation of golf in Michael Breed Calm.

Send it to me and then we'll look at your golf swings the way we're looking at this now. So who do we have? We've got Andrew, let's take a little look at Andrew's swing here, it's really a beautiful golf swing. Let's look at it from the other side here too, let's go to this one and take a little look at what this looks like right now, a couple of things that are happening with Andrews' swing, first of all, it's a golf swing setup position. really really nice, she's really good, let me explain a couple of things to you here, that's the side of her head, that's the off the hip of the trail now, when she starts moving, she leans a little bit to the side of the trail and then it moves like the lower part of your body now when you start doing that, in effect what you do is move the position of the ball. and once you move the ball position in the middle of the swing, things change quite a bit, so so far I'm not necessarily a fan of what I'm seeing.

This is a really good golf swing and yet there are some minor flaws that you can sweep up a little bit, fix it up a little bit and all of a sudden start at this a little bit better so now there's that little swing club that comes back with a pretty good rotation. Now what you see, which is interesting is that the hip of the trail has Now we're back inside where it started, so do we care? No, actually, that's pretty good, but what happens is it creates a lot of rotation in the body, almost too much rotation in the body, and what that will lead to is a bit of a challenge. when we start to lower this golf club into the shot that I'm going to show you, such a good swing, the lower body is now hanging back, and look how there really isn't much rotation here, we start the body, particularly the shoulder it moves up right here and the arms are trapped behind it.

In fact, you can see if you exploit it. Look what happens with this foot. You see how it slides that way. That's because the body can't continue spinning. you're just sliding and you're sliding you're pulling on that so do some math on this slide on the back with the upper body slide on the through swing or the downswing and now there's a lot of movement horizontal, not much rotational movement and when we start doing that, we start to have some problem, so now that we are here, there is not much compression, there is not much rotation, that foot is still on the ground and now it starts to go up.

Let me come back to this because I want to show you what happens when we go into this strike or there is a position where we go down towards the ball, so remember before I tell you about the change of rotation, look at how far the club head is behind him, now now. Here the clubface is a little bit open, so that's what we call an upward movement of the bottom knee or the back knee that is locked. Now we start working. The head begins to move. Look at how much the eye line and head start to move back. and from a distance you see that the chin now drops towards the shoulder, so we're never going to stick the chin out, we're never going to stick the shoulder out of the chin, we're just stuffing the chin towards the chest, which inhibits our ability to rotate and as a result of that, when the club starts coming down, it's coming down from the inside, that club is almost right, it's not on the ground, but it's almost on the ground, so the toes go over here, this shot It seems like it's going to go like this. that the only way you're going to be able to get that club to the ball is by pushing it out and what you can see is when you push out look what the swing is like here and the ball spins that way and now this is where we get into other problems we are going to have a lot of activity in the hands, which we have to have if the body is calm the hands are going to activate I know you're sitting there saying wow, there's a lot going on here, but it's really all because of what happened in the beginning , I'm going to show you how to fix this and it's going to be very simple, so now when you go, watch what's happening with your hands and the exit point of the club and your hands.

You can't believe how vertical this club is in your hand, how they move, so much rotation there. I can still see the hands, I still see the stick, I still see the hands, look where the stick came out, the stick comes out right out of his ear. and now look where his hands come from, they come out here, then the club head comes out, they should all be oh, I wanted to hit this area here and he's got it way up, that's a problem, so let's go over here and let's solve this problem. because what we have is a situation where at the beginning of the swing there is a shift and then a lot of rotation here and that rotation is bringing the club in and now we start to slide in, that's going to lower the arms here, the club now It's going to work that way.

This may be what we would call a push path. Andra, I imagine you've probably had a couple of these in your life. It's not a fun thing to do, but it's bound to happen. What I want to happen is that I want you to feel like it's the first thing that's going to move. in your swing it's your hip, you do a wonderful job with your lower body, the hip is going to work, but I want your arms to come away from you so your hips go back and your arms come out, so when we take the stick back we turn and push out and now the stick will be up high and in, not stuck behind us, but up here and then from there we'll come down on top of this and the way you're going. to learn how to do this it's that simple we're going to take a ball and we're going to put a ball out here I'm going to take another ball and I'm going to put a ball right here if I bring the club too far in I'm going to hit this yellow ball, okay, and if so, when I come back, if I have it too much from the inside, I'm going to hit that yellow ball, we want to feel this club from the outside, right here, so push and then push out. in and out now the simulator is not going to pick up all this stuff because of all these golf balls here, but you can see that when I made that swing I didn't hit these other two golf balls, okay, the body rotates the hip, rotates the arms back.

Move away so these two things separate here and now you're falling on top of that now let's put them back here take this I don't need that other ball and now I want you to see what happens with my start line because remember the shot that Andrew made started well to the right, so now we are looking at the horizontal throw, not the vertical throw, not how it is thrown into the air, how it is thrown towards the ground to the left or to the right, so I'm going to make the hips rotate , I let my arms move away from my body and then I imagine that white ball up there and the yellow ball down here and now what I get is I get a shot that comes out and Greg, I'm I'm going to want you to show that shot again because They didn't hit that hard, but what I want you to see is how this ball starts slightly to the left and then takes off to the right.

Now come here for the front row and what you can see is the horizontal shot, there's a point three degrees to the left for you, Andrew, that's going to literally feel like you're doing this shot, that's what it's going to feel like, it's not going to be That point three is nothing. but that's what it's going to feel like and when we go back and do this again, the other thing you're going to start to feel and I want to address this because that part of the swing where the chin starts to move is really important.

We dip into the chest so we start going down, the body slides and turns, I mean we slide but we don't turn and now all of a sudden the chin dips into the chest when we start doing this move where the club is out . Here and there, the leading shoulders will work away from the chin and help the body open, which will lift the trail healing, so I'm going to look at those two things again, the yellow ball is here, the white ball is out. here the arms are going to be working, the hips are going to rotate back and then we're going to put it in that path right there, which was a better shot by many, added a little bit of clubhead speed on that one that's going to have a little bit of fade to not have a lot of face rotation and when we get here what we see now is that that horizontal throw was 1.2 degrees to the left 1.2 degrees to the left for Andrew, that's going to feel like a huge sensation and exaggerated and that's what I want you to feel and when you do it, you will start to feel this forward shoulder moving away from the chin, the chin will not be directed towards the chest and so everything starts to happen, you are going to start hitting the ball more solidly.

You'll also notice in the line down view that the club head is now on the strike line for a long time instead of crossing it and as that starts to happen we now start to have some consistency in the starting line of the shot, we become less dependent on movement and as a result we get much more consistency in the total distance the ball travels because we hit the ball first instead. to hit the ground first, there's a lot of reasons why that's going to help you, so put all those things together, Andrew, and when you do, I'm telling you the handicap is decreasing and, by the way, it's at nine with everything that I know you have a lot of skill and I know you love this game of golf and I appreciate you sending it and by the way, a little reminder, send me those videos again.

Hold the camera in that horizontal way and send it to A New Generation of Golf on Michael Breed Comm will appear here on the show and it will help you improve your game, and that is our transformative tip presented by Morgan Frank. The short game is always something you can, but you never get enough information. We have a grip tip for you brought to you by golf pride here's the question: do I hinge or shouldn't I? I see great players like Phil Mickelson, wonderful short game, he has a little hinge there. I see Jason, the wonderful short game, doesn't really articulate the club. and yet both are very effective, so which one is

best

for me?

What should I do? Let me talk a little bit about the advantages of using hinges versus not using hinges. Well, when I hinge a little bit, what I'm doing is I'm allowing the club head to move a little more without the arms moving as much; In other words, if I take the club back without any hinges and position the clubhead so it's probably in the 10 o'clock and 12 o'clock position. The clock is above me here, ten o'clock is right here now, if I'm at the 10 o'clock position my lead arm is at about 9 o'clock, that would be what we would call hingeless if I take the club now. and add it and bring it to ten o'clock, which is right there now, all of a sudden this arm is around eight o'clock, so I've saved about an hour on the arm movement.

I don't have to work so hard. with the arms they don't have to move as much so that I can get the club head to that ten o'clock position and when I get to where I have it in that place now I have the opportunity to Let this club fall with what we would call speed effortless so a little bit of hinge here and then we hit that shot there and the shot comes out. Now we'll look at a couple of different little things, so come here. I'll go to the front here and I just want you to pay attention to a couple of things: one, my vertical launch angle was about thirty, when I lowered that hinge a little bit, my spin rate goes up to sixty-three hundred, although the speed of the ball was forty-five and I flew it pretty well, it went to thirty-nine, but I want you to pay attention to a couple of different things: launch angle and spin rate and then hopefully I'll be able to create a speed of ball that will be something like this 45 miles per hour, that's where we are now when I do that hinge, what I get is a shot that maybe flies a little lower and has a little less spin, why?

That's because the angle of attack is going to be steeper and when the angle of attack is steeper, I've taken some loft off the clubface and when I do that, the flight will fly a little lower and as go up, a little lower, it might have a little less spin now when I hit a shot where I don't get any hinge here and then I go out there hoping I can create another shot that has a ball speed of about 45 miles per hour. . That was a little further than I wanted to go and as we go here, come here.

I'll show you that again, that was a little further than I wanted, so the speeds will slow down a little. fifty to four, but there are a few things I can get from this one: The launch angle went up right there, you can see the launch angle goes up to 33because it's a little bit shallower approach when this club gets close to my swing speed. it goes up a little bit and my spin there went up to about 6900. We'll come back here and do this again. What would be the advantage of this? Well, when I don't have any hinge now I'm basically hitting the shot with my chest, in other words I'm going to rotate my chest back like this.

I'm going to roll my chest back over here and I'm using my body a lot more thoroughly there's another good shot, a great shot, come up here again and we go back up to see my spit, my backspin number right here at 72 73, so he increased the ball speed around 48, very close, so what am I? Starting to have a little more spin and a little more launch angle, that would happen when it was about 31 degrees, so not dramatically different, but definitely higher, that has a purpose and you. You have to understand that when you go into these shots you want to evaluate well what it is that I want to do.

I'm not necessarily saying you should do one or the other, what I'm saying is that now you can have both. you may be able to practice this; Some of you may only have enough time to practice one thing. One of the other reasons I sometimes like the hinge a little bit is that it allows my tempo to be a little better, in other words, when I start doing this and let my arms go up in the air, I suddenly do it. What that allows me to do is I don't really have to work as hard because my arms don't have to reach as far as they can.

The body doesn't have to rotate as much and when I do that I get a little more. I'll call fluency in the shot when I think of the adjacent day making a slightly short shot, his pace is a little different. To say a Phil Mickelson, obviously the type of shot they're trying to make also has an effect on all of that. Now this is what I will also tell you if you are one of those people who is going through a bit of a difficult situation. Maybe with the pressure of the grip, maybe you're holding it a little bit too tight, what I would say is try to add a little hinge there because what the hinge will allow you to do is hold this a little bit looser and what you'll be able to do is what you've got.

What to do is maybe you can have a little less pressure on the shot. You also have gravity, which helps you a little more. When I take this stick here now, I just let that hinge almost go, so I get it. Up here and I get this and now I just drop it to the ground when I don't have a hinge. I have to move my arms a lot more, so the arm speed on a short throw without a hinge is obviously much higher. that if I have a little bit of hinge when I'm doing this shot, I hit one more here no hinge again launch angle spin rate all that here we go and that one's going to be a little bit further than I want to go so it takes a little bit of practice, but the same launch angle up around thirty two spin speed up to around seventy four hundred all of these different things are parts of the short game that you need to work on and develop which one is

best

for So this is what I would tell you.

What I would tell you is that the short game offers many different opportunities and the big question of whether or not I should hinge. I think it's really a decision about the shape of the shot or the outcome of the shot, not necessarily a decision. given

technique

, if you want to go deeper into one

technique

or another, you absolutely can, try to perfect it at all. I'm not saying you have options and what I would suggest is finding out what is best for you. You can do it? Both, can you only do one? Are you better at one than the other?

This is something that I know with a little practice you will find the right direction for you and you will find success that will allow you to overcome these intermediate shots 40 50 yards whatever and execute it the way you want to execute that is our grip tip brought to you by golf prize it's time to show it brought to you by Titleist we're talking about a little short game that will help you hit all kinds of shots different shots and show you the importance of controlling your wrist movement in this short game. Now let me tell you what I mean if I'm going to hit a shot and I want to have what I'll say effortless power or speed in the head of this club.

I want to create a hinge, but there are many ways to articulate this Club and what I'm also going to do with the hinge, am I going to release it?, am I going to release it? or I'm going to keep it. Let me show you. what I mean, this is just going to be a swing that I buckle him into and then unclip him, so I'm going to let him come up here and then I'm going to throw him to the ground, look what happens with this shot, so this is about a shot of 40 yards I throw the clubhead into the ground now come here and see what happens with this.

I have a launch angle there of about 33 degrees. We want to pay attention to these 33 degrees. They have launched their twists. 7500 and got a ball speed of 45, the ball traveled a total distance of about 41 yards on the ground, so it traveled about 6 feet. Now why does it unfold 6 feet? It had 7400 rpm of rotation. Why is it deployed? One of the reasons The reason it deploys is because when we hit this shot and I'm releasing it, I can also release it to close it or release it to open it and that will have an effect on how this ball deploys, what we also need to understand is how we articulated it in the backswing, so now I'm going to show you several differences in this backswing hinge and in the online view below we want to pay attention to a couple of different things, one of which is happening with the rotation of the forearms, so If I hinge and turn my forearms like this, I'm opening the clubface, so when I do like this, I open the clubface, I'm still getting a lot of hinge, not a lot of arm movement, but what now?

What I did was add loft to this club, so this club has 54 degrees of loft. I do this, these balls will be launched even higher and as you launch a little higher, the apex on that shot was 23 feet. What's wrong with this one now? So I'm going to open this hinge. This will go straight into the air. It's not my highest suit, but it will play very, very high, so now there's that shot, right now, look. On that ball it spins towards me, come here, it's really fun to see what happens, so what I did was I let the forearm spin, open like this, hinged, come down and I hit the shot.

Now remember I told you about that before. numbers that we had launch angle 33 apex of 23 spin rate all that, look what happened. I threw this one at 34 now because I opened it, let it go down, my apex was 23, it's exactly the same, but what happened to my spin? With my weight, my spin rate went up to 8800. I got a lot more spin because when I went over there and shot, I got a little bit higher launch angle, but I got a lot more spin on that shot, almost up to 9,000 rpm and what is. It was great too, my ball speed was around 45, about the same as before.

Which happened well, this time the ball landed at 38, but instead of rolling to 40 or 41, it spun back to 37, point 5, so I almost got a full yard of backspin on that shot by letting it the forearm rotate and let the clubface open quite wide. Now look at this other hinge, so when we take this one and instead of turning it where it opens, I'm going to turn it where it closes now. I will have less hinge because it has a greater range of motion than this, however when you do this watch what happens. There will be two things that will happen, one will be that it launches a little lower and the other will be that spin rate decreases and those two things will have an effect on how this ball rolls out, so close it like this and now I make that shot as we go up here , let's go back here, remember I told you before about what and a launch angle, what would happen to the spin rate, look what happens, the launch angle goes to 25, so I almost lose 10 degrees of launch, which reduced, that's why the vertex was at 16, now what did I get?

I got a ball speed. that went up to 48 why because my clubface was a little bit tighter and that means that same clubhead speed is going to create a little bit more ball speed because it's a little bit flatter and what happened here? , so it was a total of thirty-nine point eight yards, so it was pretty close to the same distance in the air, but this one extended about nine feet, why didn't it extend nine feet? We will see the retracement number drop from 8,800 to 7,400 as we rotate that. close the thing that way now I've talked to you about the backs and the backswing, how we articulate it differently, those three different hinges and don't worry about the hooks or the cuts that will happen with what you do in the downswing or in the straight swing so as we get here we can do a lot of different things and it was one of the reasons why the short came to me is such a fascinating part of the game of golf because when I come here now I can take this. hinge and you might loosen this hinge when you take this motor.

I drop this hinge now, all of a sudden, I'm adding loft and when I start adding loft, eight X will go up again, the launch angles will start going up. again and depending on what happens with the forearm rotation, not only does it combine with the wrist release, but also if I've rotated, pronated figure eight, if I've done any of that, now what? What ends up happening is that I can also affect the twist there, so this time what I'm going to do is just lift this up and release this hinge, release the hinge and unhinge it, so this is where we are.

I'm going to hinge, unhinge, now look what happens with this shot, so we come here and look at this now, this is cool, what happened because I increased my backspin there, my backspin went up to 8400, so that the ball should have spun backwards. t inter Michael not necessarily the spin rate could definitely do that, but it doesn't necessarily mean that's what's going to happen and what we also saw was the vertical launch went up, remember before on that hinge I had that thing around 25 , now I let her go. The thing rises again to 32 vertices and rises again to 22 almost identical ball speeds.

I had it at 45 before it was at 46 7 so it's close enough for government work fly 40 throw another three now look what happens here when I don't let go of this so now what I'm going to do is spin this but I'm not going to let go of the angle. I'm going to hold on to this angle, so here we go, so now I'm holding on to that, now a number. Many things are going to happen here look at what happens here and this is the interesting part of this sport. Swing speed definitely has an effect on things, but it's not just swing speed.

I hate to say it's not just swing speed, it has an effect, but it's not. just spin rate, so when I make that shot, let me go over all of this again, my vertical release goes back down to 25 because I'm holding on to the angle, so when I create the wrist hinge, I take loft off the face of the stick because it's going to be a steeper angle of approach. I haven't added any width in the sense that what I've done is I've held on to this and hit this, so this steeper approach angle now the club is coming down on this. and when you come down on that, that can have an effect on a lot of different things and what it has an effect on is the vertical launch, it also has an effect on the apex, it also has an effect on the spin which went down to 6400. it will also increase the speed of the ball, believe it or not. 51 6 the speed of my ball increased and that one flew about 45 yards and it rolled a couple of feet now no 9 it just rolled about 6 let me show you what happens here when I take this hinge now and I'm going to hold on to it, but this time I'm going to rotate my four arms, so what happened when I do this is almost like I'm hitting a hook, so I'm going to grab my hinge and then I'm going to come in here and I'm going to turn the club upside down, so I put it down now , look what happens with this one.

I'm cleaning the turn when I do it, I come back here and now, suddenly. The launch angle goes down to 24 because I held it but I rotated it and when I turn it I close the clubface a little bit, it will deviate to the left, that's why you will see that the horizontal launch goes four degrees to the left because when the club enters and it does, it deflects it to the left but it also takes away the spin, so here I am at 5,600 and that's why when that ball hit the ground, it hit the ground at 37.6 it extended to 43.9, that's almost 20 feet there, so when we start thinking about where the hole is located, what kind of shot I want here, I want a low runner, I want one that has low spin, I want to fight a slope, whatever I want to do now, I took to my chickens have it on the backswing, but now I have modified what I do on the downswing, there are many different ways to play putts and I love the options.

I'm going to show you this last one and this last one will have a little bit of open rotation and then when I come over here, I'm going to hold on to this. It's almost like a scene cut here, so I'm going to go here and see what happens with this one, so now I gave this shot and Greg, I don't know if you'll be able to play that one or not, can you just replace the shotbecause look at this, this will actually curve? the air you see one vanish into the air, now come here to the front edge because I told you things are going to change a little bit when I do that, I opened it up, I opened the clubface and then when I got there I threw it with the face open, look what happened eight pecks 19, so it's not my highest vertical launch 28 7 so that's pretty good, well, because it's steep when I come in, so when I start to turn, I'm actually steep.

Now I'm going to cut this approach angle, which will help me with the turn and then when I cut it, all of a sudden the turn speed goes back up to about 8800 and what I get is a golf. ball that almost releases only about 3 feet, but it has a right chisel, so when you look at the lateral spin, there's 1,400 rpm on the right and that's how you're going to alter these little different things now, why do we do all this right ? You might have a hole location that's off to the side, like you're coming into this shot and the high side of the green is on the right, the low side is on the left and you're a right-handed player who wanted to give it a try.

To hold that ball well against it, if I cut it, I have all the sides going into it, that goes to the right now, all of a sudden when I hit it, it won't release to the left, it will release to the right and since it's fighting . that slope will stop a little bit, so do I have a front flag? Do I have a rear flag? There is no Lin? How do I have to load that? Do I have to deploy it? There are all these different options out there. What's happening around the green when you're within this 4050 yard range, there are all kinds of different things happening and what I can tell you is that I give you permission to experiment, it's one of the most important things you can do for your game, you have to experiment and figure out what shot I like to hit, what shot I should hit, can I hit the shot that I'm supposed to hit or can I hit it with something else and when you start?

If you play with all of this, you'll find that you're going to affect spin rates, launch angles, simian help you improve your game you need to realize that your ability to control this wedge around the greens this is what will save you on the par 5s maybe give you a birdie chance it will also save you on the par fours when maybe you get a errant shot, whether it's a tee shot or an approach shot, you need to be able to see the short game as what will save your game and help you achieve lower scores, as Titleist has proven.