I was shocked when I saw the stat that Matt Fitzpatrick leads the DP World tour in strokes gained around the greens...

And he's doing it with a left hand low grip.

What the heck is going on?

We take a look today.

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Left hand low chipping secrets

Great video came out this week with Matt Fitz and Shane Lowry. Few things worth noting from it.

Matt Fitzpatrick leads the DP World Tour in strokes gained around the green with the left hand low chipping grip.

"The reason I went to the grip that I have, which is left and below right, was mainly because I was struggling from a strokes gained standpoint," Fitzpatrick explained. "My strike was inconsistent with my normal grip."

How he explains it...

The cross-handed setup keeps everything in a straight line. "From my left arm into the grip into the club. I just feel like I can move my shoulders and it stays... it feels like a putt because everything is so restricted and straightforward."

He feels like this grip removes some variables and keeps contact more consistent.

How to try it:

• Reverse your hands: left below right
• Keep your normal overlap or interlock
• Use it up to 30 yards from the fairway
• Matt talks about switching back to conventional in rough (needs more speed and steeper AOA)

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Camera Tower Golf

Shane had a great comment on strategy and how he looks at approach play...

"We play a lot of camera tower golf," Lowry said. "There's always a camera tower in the middle of the green. You're always trying to hit it there."

The next level of detail here is what makes it really interesting.

"I tend to be more comfortable with a fade. So if the pin's on the left, I normally try and fade it off the pin away from it.

And then if the pin's on the right, that's when I'm kind of licking my chops where I feel like I can fade it onto the flag."

They totally understand the expectations and averages and don't have over inflated ideas of how close they should be hitting shots even from 130 yards.

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Road to 190 carries on.

Today is day 13 of my 60 days to 190.

Had an awesome weekend session and got up to 126 club speed and 185 ball speed. Did some serious work and was super sore.

Mainly resting after that and need to start to get after it today leading into this weekend again.

Sidenote - its hard to get motivation to workout and do all this training after working all day and chasing kids around. 😳 Catch the latest update vid here. ​

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Have a great week!

-Cordie

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PS if you haven't watched the latest vid make sure to catch up before a new one next week.

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