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Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lee Janzen
Introduction
Chapter 1 Score Counts in Golf
1.1 Defining the Scoring Game
1.2 Why Is This Book Necessary?
1.3 The “Golden Eight”
1.4 Giving Your Short Game Its Due
1.5 Learn How to Learn
1.6 The Pelz Overview of Scoring
1.7 How I Got Here
1.8 A Businessman? No!
1.9 The Day That Changed My Life
1.10 I Followed, Watched, and Wondered
1.11 The Scoring Game Taught Here
Chapter 2 Understanding the Game and its Realities
2.1 What Is a Good Swing?
2.2 A Little Slack, Please
2.3 Shot Performance Evaluation
2.4 Data, Data, and More Data
2.5 The Man in the Raincoat
2.6 The Reason to Caddie
2.7 How Good Are the Tour Players?
2.8 No Two Were the Same
2.9 Are PEIs Important?
2.10 Why Is the Short Game So Important?
2.11 The Data Speaks
2.12 Now We’re Getting Somewhere
2.13 The Conversion Curve
2.14 If It’s Straight, It’s Good
2.15 The Scoring Game
Chapter 3 The Five Games of Golf
3.1 “The Golf Swing” Is a Myth
3.2 The Great Ones
3.3 There Are Three Swings and Five Games
3.4 The Power Swing
3.5 The Putting Game
3.6 The Short Game
3.7 The Differences
3.8 The Golden Rule
3.9 Pros I’ve Worked With
Chapter 4 Mechanics of the Short Game
4.1 Muscles and Adrenaline
4.2 Dead Hands
4.3 Alignment Is Critical
4.4 Parallel Left
4.5 Every Swing Has a Bottom
4.6 Ball Position Is Fundamental
4.7 Don’t Go to Fat City
4.8 A Concept of Stability
4.9 Pull Carts and Clubs Are Stable
4.10 “Short-to-Long” Has It
4.11 Intellectualizing Comes Up Short
4.12 The Synchronized Turn
4.13 Rhythm and Timing: The Power Source
4.14 The World-Class Finish
4.15 Cocking the Wrists
4.16 The Finesse Grip
4.17 The Finesse Swing Plane
4.18 Hold, Watch, and Feel: Learning from Feedback
4.19 Good and Bad Finesse Swings
Chapter 5 How to Score
5.1 Research on What Works
5.2 Do You Think Distance?
5.3 In the Early Years
5.4 Fast Eddie
5.5 Learning Through Repetition
5.6 Here Comes Rhythm
5.7 The Players Knew at impact
5.8 I Knew at Impact
5.9 Timing the Wedge Swings
5.10 9:00 O’clock Is Best
5.11 Working with a System
5.12 Turn Away and Turn Through
5.13 My “3 × 4 System”
5.14 Good News-Bad News
5.15 Is This Mission Impossible?
5.16 Don’t Think
5.17 Preshot Routine
5.18 Preshot Preparation
5.19 Preshot Ritual
5.20 Religion Helps
Chapter 6 Distance Wedges
6.1 Which Shot?
6.2 There’s More to Scoring Than Hitting Shots
6.3 Four Basic Shots
6.4 From 30 Yards or More
6.5 Distance-Wedge Execution
6.6 Distance-Wedge Recap
6.7 What Happens After Impact
6.8 Average Expectations
6.9 The Ball’s Pitch Mark Controls Roll
6.10 The Grip-Down
6.11 Low Trajectories
6.12 The Cut Lob
6.13 Calibrate Your Cut-Lob Technique
6.14 From Deep Grass
6.15 Against the Grain
6.16 On Hardpan
6.17 Ball Above or Below Your Feet
6.18 Downhill and Uphill
6.19 From Sand
Chapter 7 The Pitch Shot
7.1 You Could Toss It On from Here
7.2 Execution of the Pitch Shot
7.3 Standard Pitch Recap
7.4 S-Wedge, L-Wedge, and X-Wedge Shots
7.5 Cut Shots
7.6 Pinch Shots
7.7 Minimum vs. Maximum Spin
7.8 Don’t Hit into Slopes
7.9 After It’s on the Green
7.10 P-Wedge Flight vs. Roll
7.11 Loft Affects Roll
7.12 Spin Effects
7.13 The Grass Menagerie
7.14 Avoid Humps, Look for Valleys
7.15 Gripping Down
7.16 Uneven Lies
7.17 Tight Lies, Then Hardpan
7.18 From Serious Greenside Rough
7.19 From Nesty Lies
7.20 From Tight Quarters
7.21 From Impossible Stances
7.22 From Shallow Water
Chapter 8 Chipping and the Bump-and-Run
8.1 So Simple-Yet Difficult
8.2 Dead Hands … Quiet Wrists
8.3 Clean Contact
8.4 Make a Stable Swing
8.5 Chipping Recap
8.6 What Happens on the Greens
8.7 Lower Is Straighter
8.8 No Backspin
8.9 Keep the Face Square
8.10 To Putt or to Chip?
8.11 The Chiputt
8.12 Get It Down and Rolling
8.13 Down Lies, No Problem
8.14 Against the Rough—Or in It
8.15 The Cock-and-Pop
8.16 Flagstick in or Out?
8.17 Chip Yips
8.18 Bump-and-Run Mechanics
8.19 Why Play the Bump-and-Run?
8.20 Land on the Flat Spots
8.21 The Texas Turn-Down
8.22 The World Game
8.23 We Need More Short Courses
Chapter 9 The Sand Shot
9.1 How Not to Do It: The Dig-and-Push
9.2 The Right Way: Scoot-and-Spin Mechanics
9.3 Blast Calibration
9.4 Margin for Error
9.5 Chipping Mechanics in Sand
9.6 The Putt from Sand
9.7 Accuracy Benefits
9.8 Disaster Is Close
9.9 Spin Controls Behavior on the Green
9.10 Spin Mechanics
9.11 Generic Expectations
9.12 Distance Control for Blasting
9.13 Bounce vs. Conditions
9.14 Ball Position vs. Lie
9.15 The Cock-and-Pop from Sand
9.16 Downhill Lies
9.17 Uphill Struggles
9.18 Deep Problems
9.19 Imagination Helps
Chapter 10 Short-Game Equipment
10.1 Generic-Set Design
10.2 The Standard Way
10.3 Sets in the Field
10.4 A Better Set Design
10.5 Why Four?
10.6 The Male Ego
10.7 How Should They Perform?
10.8 Are There Any Negatives to This?
10.9 Is This Set Practical?
10.10 Club Specifications
10.11 Optimizing Your Set
10.12 Scoring Considerations
Chapter 11 Everyone Has a Short-Game Handicap
11.1 The Overall Handicap
11.2 Your Short-Game Handicap
11.3 How to Measure It
11.4 How You Compare
11.5 Missemall
11.6 The Bad vs. the Good
11.7 Strategy
11.8 The Architect’s Way
11.9 Play the Probabilities
11.10 Reading Your Lie
11.11 Reading the Green
11.12 Choosing Your Equipment
11.13 Using the Right Ball
11.14 Bad Mistakes Are Bad
11.15 Commit to Your Shot
11.16 Conservative Strategy, Aggressive Execution
11.17 The 90% Rule
11.18 Don’t Be Too Conservative
Chapter 12 Secrets of the Short Game
12.1 Secret No. 1: The Secret of Feedback
12.2 Secret No. 2: The Secret of Productive Time
12.3 Secret No. 3: The Secret of Hand Muscles
12.4 Secret No. 4: The Secret of Repetition and Drills
12.5 At-Home Drills
12.6 At-the-Course Drills
12.7 Secret No. 5: The Secret of the Preshot Routine and Ritual
12.8 Secret No. 6: The Secret of the Secrets
Chapter 13 The Future
13.1 A Scoring Machine
13.2 The Awesome Talents
13.3 Future Greatness
13.4 Finesse-Swing Mechanics
13.5 Essential Short-Game Principles
13.6 Don’t Forget Your Secrets
13.7 Don’t Try It Alone
13.8 At the Course or Range
13.9 Away from the Course
13.10 The Golfer’s Achilles’ Heel
13.11 Work Hard and Smart
13.12 Keep the Trees and the Forest in View
13.13 Keep Your Priorities Straight
13.14 Understanding Comes First
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