Possible Clues:

• An approach, of course, to the potatoes just out of the pan
• An approach, of course, to hot potato
• Things to gamble with -- in-form golfer's speciality
• Short approach, in golf
• Bits of food, cooked -- what may be provided by a golf club
• A blow maybe to find green fragments on piping
• Food, freshly cooked, that may follow a drive?
• Wedge's task
• It may be used to escape hazard from food that's fried at high temperature
• Golf stroke