Cooper Flagg's PGA headquarters visit starts with fixing chip contact

Cooper Flagg’s visit to PGA headquarters in Frisco, Texas, began with a familiar short-game problem: alternating between chips struck heavy and chips struck thin. PGA Coach Tim Cusick used the lesson to work on where the club meets the ground before turning to a friendly contest with Flagg’s mother, Kelly.

The PGA of America published the six-minute visit on October 2. Its introduction places the Dallas Mavericks star at the Home of the PGA of America before the NBA season tips off. The useful part for golfers is the sequence of the lesson: contact first, distance control second, then a little pressure.

Give the club a repeatable route

Cusick points out that Flagg’s club tends to drop too far inside during the downswing. That makes the bottom of the swing harder to repeat. His initial cue is to take the club back along a plane line and return it along that same route, maintaining the club’s loft.

He then adjusts Flagg’s setup. The lesson uses slightly open feet, knees, hips and shoulders, with a wider stance and a handle positioned more forward. Cusick asks Flagg to let his body support the motion and to send the club’s exit toward an imaginary 11 o’clock position.

Those cues belong to this specific lesson. They show how the coach responds to the movement in front of him, and why a clean strike comes before deciding how hard to hit the shot. At roughly 2:50, Cusick explicitly makes contact the first checkpoint before distance control.

A different kind of pressure

The visit finishes with three chips apiece and a bonus ball. Asked whether a game-winning free throw or a chip makes him more nervous, Flagg chooses the chip because he has fewer repetitions at it. Kelly takes her own turn, and the closing conversation leaves the result as a possible tie.

For a practice session, the video supplies a straightforward structure: identify the contact error, make one setup or swing-path adjustment, and finish with a small target contest. Flagg’s basketball credentials don’t remove the need for those repetitions on a different playing surface.