Mao Saigo makes this major chip look easy. no

This is unsettling in your Saturday morning four-ball game, not to mention the decisive moment of a big tournament: from rough to green chips to the water. But that’s exactly where Mao found himself on the first playoff hole of the Chevron Championship on Sunday. Saigo shot into the stands with the second shot on the 5th, and Saigo enjoyed free relief and faced that nervous downhill chip to keep the golfer at night.

In short, it’s easy for Vivians to find themselves carved with three bogeys on the card. Becoming too radical, her balls can easily get caught in water hazards – and her main post hope. My love for Saigo’s drama is the reasonable decisions she makes under pressure and how well her mechanic performs.

One of these decisions is to keep the chip’s trajectory low and into the hill’s green and the slight uphill of the grain, which brings the ball down a bit and allows the ball to gently follow the green’s shatter and then breaks down the hole. When you see how far to the right of the Visa Hole (see below), it was obvious that she was going to take any chances from the shot, and there was no chance of the ball coming out. She also hopes not to have high-risk delays. The result was outstanding, and it won the Chevron Championship.

This is what Saigo does:

1. Using the wedge, she played the loft neutral (without face openings) and held it aligned squares to the starting line for rest on the green. This makes the footage path more like a thorough sport, and she makes solid ball contacts in the rough roughness, which is crucial to the nature of this chip.

2. Saigo stands out by turning his head with his wrist out of the defender’s upper body. Please note that the back of the club is: the face facing the ground, the front edge matches her posture. Another key to this type of chip is the “top” position of the trail hand (right hand) that waves backwards. This keeps the loft neutral and is the perfect match for following.

3. Saigo’s follow-up is this The clutch moment, showing the elite characteristics needed for such exquisite lenses: she never stopped turning toward her target. There is no haste during the transition, no wrist flip or unnecessary lower body movement, only one fluid torso turns toward the target. This takes out the hand’s use and slides the club to the end point.

Saigo makes a very challenging moment look easy. Trust me, no!