Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today were going to talk about the protocol I follow from the back of the green. Now I might have this particular shot or I might have a shot it's 15 20 feet even 30 yards away from where I'm trying to go the 1st thing I'm going to look at is can I putt? You know sometimes you can sometimes you can't still the 1st phase is putting if you can't putt I would suggest using your hybrid setting up to it just like you would normally choking up the steel hands and weight forward just putt that's going to give you love and moreover spin is going to make it a little bit easier to track through this longer grass.

The 3rd place I'm going to go if those 2 will work is I'm going to chip. Fall back off my right toe hands in a way forward there is my lower case Y 1 2 use my putting stroke and I chip the ball that gets in the green makes it start rolling. If that doesn't work then I pitch the golf ball, ball in the middle hands and weight forward a little set a little pivot ball jumps up in the air releases a little bit if that won't work then I flop ball forward open the blade a little set little pivot ball jumps up air comes off a little bit softer. If that will work I go to the safety flop I'm going to hit it high and soft open the blade fall forward and I'm going to look at a part of the green where I know that I can hit the green safely I'm going to take my two put bogey and walk the next hole so remember always follow the same protocol with any short game shot putt, use your hybrid, chip, pitch, flop, safety flop try it.