# Short-Siding > Canonical: https://pinflag.io/glossary/short-siding ## Short-Siding URL: https://pinflag.io/glossary/short-siding > Short-siding is missing an approach shot on the side of the green with the least room between the ball and the hole, leaving little green to work with on the next shot. Every hole location has a "fat" side and a thin side relative to where the pin is cut — one side leaves plenty of green to land a chip or pitch and let it release toward the hole, the other leaves almost none. Missing to the thin side, or short-siding yourself, turns a routine up-and-down into one of the harder shots in golf, because there's so little green to work with. Short-siding is a location problem more than a distance problem. A shot that finishes the same number of feet from the pin can be a simple two-putt-range miss on the fat side, or a difficult flop shot on the thin side, depending only on which direction it missed. That's part of why raw [proximity to hole](https://pinflag.io/glossary/proximity-to-hole) understates how costly some misses really are. Course-management advice to "favor the fat side" is really advice to avoid short-siding: choosing an [aim point](https://pinflag.io/glossary/aim-point) a touch away from a tucked pin trades a little proximity for protection against the expensive miss. See also: [Strokes Gained Around the Green](https://pinflag.io/guides/strokes-gained-around-the-green)