Chef Min Woo’s #1 Tip For Improving Your Short Game

Dr. Chipinski himself gives his best advice for golfers looking to improve their chipping around the greens. We gave Min Woo Lee, who’s known for his exceptional touch around the greens, a brand new Opus SP wedge to play with. His #1 piece of advice might surprise you!

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[Music] So, here we are around the green. You’ve been uh 
doing some nice things around the green. We’ve been doing some nice things back at HQ designing 
a wedge. I’m really really excited to show you for the first time. So, Opus SP. Oh, wow. So, 
SP, there’s a spin pocket behind this forge face and what it does is it raises the center 
of gravity a lot. The grooves are designed to match every individual loft. So obviously 58 
and 60 you want to maximize spin. Idea is to create that low kind of spinning chip shot to 
to to make that a lot easier of a shot to hit. So when you’re chipping, how much do 
you spend versus height? Is it just a lie dependent? That’s such a Yeah, that’s 
such a feel shot. Like I every every chip changes. There’s going to be times where 
you need to spin it and create that spin, but most of the time if you’re kind of not 
shortsided, hopefully you can you can use a bit more of the loft and let it roll out. Um, 
but there’ll be there’ll be times when Yeah, every every chip is different. 
This one’s probably a bit of both. It’s nice though. It sits really good on the 
ground. So, usually wedges when you put it down cuz I I’m going to there’s going to be times where 
I have to flop it. There’s going to be time. So, I don’t want the leading edge to be so like above 
the ground like this. I want it to be very very close to the ground as much as possible so I have 
that confidence of hitting it up in the air. Um, so show me that kind of higher soft where where 
spin comes out. It’s more height that stops it. All right. So, I’m not the best chipper in the 
world. I want to consult the doctor. Okay. All right. Tell me how I can be a better chipper. I 
think just keep it simple. I mean, I use a lot of wrists, so I’m not really I’m a lot I’m again, 
I’m a field player. I think just the easiest thing if you’re just at home and watching like you want 
the path to be pretty pretty neutral, right? So, you don’t want to cut across it. You don’t want 
to scoop it. Scoop it and you don’t want to draw it too much. But I think the the main thing 
is contact. You want to hit good contact. So, that means you get the right spin, you get the 
right loft. If you if you don’t contact it right, you’re not going to hit a, you know, hit a great 
shot. So, I think there’s a there’s a time when you have to hit it high and there’s a time when 
you have to hit it low. So obviously if it’s low, you want it back of the stance, but you want to 
hit you want to have good contact. Um back of the stance normally for me, I I grip the I grip the 
club pretty short. Like I don’t know I don’t know why, but when I grip it normal, like let’s say 
that’s just my setup and I grip it at the end, I flub it a lot. Okay. So in a way, I try 
to nearly thin it if I can. Yeah. because I know I’m good enough to not hit the top of 
the ball, but I’m going to hit, you know, maybe a groove too low, which will but it will 
still go out pretty pretty nice. You know, this this one you don’t want to hit it too high because 
if you hit it too high and it comes up too short, you’re way too short. So, you want to kind of 
be a bit more penetrating and kind of roll it um because you got a lot of room. Back of the 
stance a little bit. And I’m going to stab it. You know, it’s not going to look perfect 
and pretty, but hopefully it comes out good. you can be aggressive. You you guys play on 
such fast, firm greens that if anything, it’s probably going to air towards the good side. You 
probably hit a couple if you’re the group thin, it still gets to, you know, too short where you 
get some that’s rolling hot, it’s gone. But yeah, contact is important. There we go. Yep. So, 
the doc is in the building. But I think the main thing you guys have to practice is practice 
on tough lies. Yeah. I did that as a kid all my life. Like I just I didn’t like I put it I put 
myself in in lies like this like divots because you know there’s going to be there’s going to 
be nice lies. Yes. But if you make it hard it’s going to be easy when you get the easy lies. 
Like I know this lie is pretty terrible. It’s like unplugged pretty much. Uh you can hit it a 
lot of ways. is I can hit it high or I can hit it low. I can get the back of it. But that’s 
just it’s just all practice that you have to, you know, kind of uh that didn’t come out 
pretty, but it’s Yeah, you’re making that. So, look at the divot. That’s a massive divot, but 
you just you just got to learn how to adapt. And um I think that’s a great tip for people at 
home. Like you fluff one up and you start, yo, that’s easy. But you get on the golf 
course, you can’t put your hand on the ball. Exactly. It’s really going to look like that. 
Just try to try to make it tough, you know, and learn. You got to learn every time you you 
put it in put in a lie. Again, put yourself in amazing lies and see how it comes out. Yeah. 
Yeah. So, this Opus SP wedged. Initial thoughts. It’s nice. It has a lot of uh it has 
a bit more bounce and it’s it’s nice, especially when you’re into the grain. It kind 
of comes out the turf quicker. Uh but it’s good. I like I really like the look of it. It’s nice. 
When I look for a wedge, I’m just trying to see how it goes through the turf. When I hit 
those low shots and hit those high shots, you’ll know pretty quick if you like it or 
not. One more for good luck. And hopefully in Come on, bar.