Are you spending 70% of your practice time on your short game like Michael Breed implies you should?

[Gunther]

I was going to post something in this thread a month ago about how if you aren't taking lessons then maybe it makes sense to practice the short game the most otherwise you are just ingraining swing faults. But then I watch some people at the short game area ingrain strange short game techniques. It just seemed so pointless to chip 30 balls with a bad technique and have the balls ricochet off each other. The chipping green and the putting green are separated by a strip of fringe so if you face one direction you are chipping to the chipping green and if you face the other direction you are chipping to the putting green. I can't image what the objection is if nobody is using the putting green. The rigid thinking and the "this is the proper way to practice chipping" attitude bugged me and it's one more tick in the "golf sucks" column for me.

The objection is that you can put pitch marks into the putting green.

[JazzFatCat]

The objection is that you can put pitch marks into the putting green.

I can imagine a 30+ yard pitch shot creating a pitch mark. I don't image a 10 yard chip shot would. The greens were dry and hard.

[Gunther]

I can imagine a 30+ yard pitch shot creating a pitch mark. I don't image a 10 yard chip shot would. The greens were dry and hard.

That's typically the main reason. Another is that chipping greens aren't always cleared off after practice. Someone will drop half a bucket then walk away, leaving the balls on and around the green for the next player. That is annoying to deal with on a putting green.

[Lihu]

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Originally Posted by Gunther

The objection is that you can put pitch marks into the putting green.

I can imagine a 30+ yard pitch shot creating a pitch mark. I don't image a 10 yard chip shot would. The greens were dry and hard.

Even 30 yards is pushing it.

I was hitting 8i and was lucky that they punched the greens the following week, that was seriously brutal to the greens as I discovered in subsequent weeks of playing. Needlessly said, I abandoned that shag bag to the green idea.

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Originally Posted by JazzFatCat

I can imagine a 30+ yard pitch shot creating a pitch mark. I don't image a 10 yard chip shot would. The greens were dry and hard.

That's typically the main reason. Another is that chipping greens aren't always cleared off after practice. Someone will drop half a bucket then walk away, leaving the balls on and around the green for the next player. That is annoying to deal with on a putting green.

That's pretty bad.