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Swing  Whenever you feel pressure, your heart rate naturally
increases, your breathing quickens and adrenaline starts to
flow. But that's not a good thing when you are about to hit a
shot that requires as much precision as you can muster. The last
thing any player wants on a pitch, chip or bunker shot are
quick, jerky movements.  The best solution to develop a short
game that will stand-up under pressure is to not use your
muscles to power your short game. Instead, let the power you
need to get the ball to the hole come from the energy provided
by a free-flowing swing.  It's the small yet incredibly strong
muscles in your fingers, hands, wrists and forearms that kill
your short game touch. You need to make a conscious decision to
keep those muscles out of your shots and use what we call at the
Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools, "Dead Hands." If you are
swinging with dead hands, those muscles have only two jobs: to
cock your wrists during the backswing