nolongerlonger:Undestand you may be in Tampa so no rush in getting back to me.
LOL. Don't I wish. I looked at both replays and the pitch is definitely the correct shot in both places, IMO, you're just not hitting it hard enough. Both were too far away for a chip although the first one you might have been able to carry the green with a full swing but then you have to deal with the rollout. (You could plan a chip to land in the fringe to slow down the rollout but it would need a lot of top spin, more power than you used and it's a risky shot.)
With the pitch you would have carried the fringe but because that pin is so close to the edge of the green, you don't have a lot of room to handle the rollout without major back spin and a ball that has enough spin dots (Callaway spinner is cheapest good ball that would work.) A lot of players flop from both of those positions but I prefer the pitch because you can aim it like a putt that close.
My CG60 chips 11 yards and with runout rolls to about 12. It may have worked in the first shot with something like a 95% swing and back spin or I could have taken a full chip with the CG64 (7 yards) and added top spin to get it rolling. The key is taking as full a swing as you can.
On the 2nd one a full back spin pitch, choked, is what I would have used. The CG64 pitches 17 and with back spin is very easy to learn partial swings with and the ball stops nice. I don't think a chip was in order on the second one simply because it was too far from the edge of the green to chance.
I've never played the Ping wedges or the Raptures you have, it was always Satins before the CGs, and I've never tried chipping with the irons, just wedges. That's not to say they don't work, I've just never needed them. As for the punch, you're a little too close but back up 15 yards or so and I would be all over punching up. Hope this helps. :-)