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Playing Lessons: Matt Ryan: Pitch Shots (2:42)
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Brandel Chamblee gives Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan some tips on the perfect pitch shot in this web-exclusive clip. Watch Super Bowl coverage Sunday on NBC, beginning at noon ET.
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-Wow. A pretty crazy pitch shot. -Yeah. -How do you
play this one? -This is- I would probably take either
like a 56 or a 60 and just trying to
get real steep on the ball. Just trying to kinda
take it out and get steep on it and kinda
get it up in the air. -Got it. I was
chipping at the US Open 2001 Southern Hills and I
was- and it's a free spot like- because this pretty
thick rough and I was hitting 60's and 54-degree wedges
and trying to shot just like this. And along comes
Hale Irwin and he stops and I know him from
Phoenix and he stops and he watched me hit bunch
of chips and he goes, "Why are you hitting with
a 60 or 56 degree sideways?". And I said, "Well,
I'm trying to get some loft on or you know
I need to get it out of here." He goes
over to my bag and he gets a 9-iron now
and he literally just go "boop" like that and the
ball just tumbled right down and just rolled up like
this and I'm like, "You can't do that again." He
hit 10 and they all finished like you know, you
don't want 3 US Open. -Yeah. -So if anybody knows
how to chip out of this stuff, it's him. So,
I adopted that shot. I know you're always quick to
grab a 60 or 56-degree wedge out of here but
I encourage you to try more different you know, different
shots with a 9-iron or an 8-iron. You'll be surprised
how easy it is to get in here and play
this kind of back in your stance and you literally-
you only have to hit it about this hard because
all you do is fly it to right there. -Spin
around. -And it will release up. I supposed to have
it to land it into that bank up there. You've
got this huge indentation you gotta get over and if
you landed into that bank, it may stop and it
may release. But here, I don't know. I tried a
9 or an 8-iron. -So you'd take like a 9-iron.
-A 9-iron and you play it back in your stance
and another thing you would do is you grip down
all the way to the steel and you try to
get as little of the club in the grass as
possible. So you're literally trying to get the heel or
it would come off for the ground. So now then,
all you're hitting the ball with is kinda just to
the right of center, almost on the toe. And it's
a kind of an up and down motion kind of
a putt and it's literally taking a lot of the
effort out of this. -So, it's that one there. -Yeah
definitely. You get close to it and you're just putting
it to the fringe. -Try another one. Where- You see
that was more of the- -That's a good shot. You
just don't need that speed.
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