Stan Utley Short Game theories

[Range King]

Would you please post the link?

Thanks

[Brakkus]

Funny thing is when I used to face that situation where I had less than 30 yds to the green I would just grab a SW and hit a smaller swing,then after getting more advice from various sources I felt I needed the chipping action which was most accepted.

Funnily after reading Bob Rotella's book on putting which had a section on wedges I decided to quit on the standard chipping and go back to instinct.I knew of Stan Utley's similar methods on the short game being based on a mini swing and now I'm not fluffing chips even though I don't look textbook and haven't got a 7 iron in my hand.

His bunker advice I already implement because of my flatter plane I like to stand square on all my shots.I open the face and out that ball comes nice and high.It just feels so natural,the less manipulation to my set-up on all my shots the better,which is breeding the consistency.

[shortgamewiz]

Resurrecting this thread..

I had been trying to understand and use his books for quite a while, but with little success. I basically memorized them. I understood them technically, sort of, maybe, but I struggled pathetically with their implementation.

Then recently I moved to a new city and suddenly had easy access to a proper short game practice area (chipping, pitching putting and sand trap areas, with a ton of practice balls) and that made all the difference. That, plus obsessively watching his videos on the golf channel web site, youtube and other sites. My big "ah hah" moment came when I realized I wasnt rotating my forarms open on the backswing of my chips. Once I did that it all fell into place. I got the low boring trajectory with next to no effort, using an L wedge.

I think the big reason it took me so long to get this is that I was stuck in a faulty groove caused by a concept I had accepted long ago.. the commonly prescribed "reverse release" methodology was so ingrained in my short game psyche that I was completely helpless. But once I got this all at once both the putting and chipping technique came to me on the same day.

People in this thread say his technique is "handsy" but I think that couldn't me further from the truth. You cant really go by the pictures in the book. If you look at the videos on line you can see he's not handsy at all. In the pictures it looks handsy but it's just an optical illusion.. those damn still pictures will get you every time... but he's just rolling his forarms open and shut; but for some reason it looks like he's using his wrists.

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It also really helped me to watch his putting training video that they have on the "links of utopia" where he shows his method to a student, using one handed putting.

The more I use and think about his method the more I feel that it's by far the most sensible way to do it. You want to get the best contact and impart the most energy with the least effort, and then you'll have the most control.