Why Dan Grieve's Release Series Can Change Your Game
By Colton Peters · February 27, 2026
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The 3 Releases
Youtube is a rabbit hole of garbage golf videos. The people "coaching" range from Golf Digest Top 50 down to your brother in law up the street who claims he shot a 73 one time. I created this category to weed through the BS.
Dan Grieve is someone who changed my entire short game. I had the pleasure of exchanging a couple of emails with him, and he was as nice as he is in his videos. For these reasons, I figured this was a great person to start our Youtube Rabbit Hole series with. Let's start with the fact that he is the #1 best selling international author. This would be insane for anyone let alone someone in the golf category. He is also a golf monthly top 50 coach and the Head Pro at Woburn Golf Club.
Let's just touch briefly on what Dan teaches. He gives you a concept on a system to organize what type of shots you are hitting around the greens. This includes:
Release 1: Your low running chip that checks and rolls out
Release 2: A medium trajectory soft landing chip
Release 3: A high wide open face shot usually used in sand or emergency
As a Sports Psych that is obsessed with routines and systems, this is a gold standard system for performance. Go down Dan's rabbit hole on youtube. It's very well worth your time. I would also highly recommend buying his book. It goes into even more detail than his videos do, and it was an awesome read. I still refer back to this book all the time even though I have been using his system for over a year. I have a link to buy his book in the pro shop or you can click the links below. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments about Dan's system!