Slide 1: How to Improve Your Golf Chipping Technique
If your goal is to improve your short game and lower your golf scores, the best way is to improve your golf chipping technique. A solid chipping game is a crucial part of the golf short game. By adding a variety of chip shots to your arsenal you will be able to quickly improve your golf scores. Here are some basic “Golf Chipping Tips” for improving your chipping technique and executing accurate chip shots: Maintain equal light grip pressure Play the ball back in your stance with your hands forward Maintain your knee flex at all times Keep a steady head Have your hands lead the clubhead through impact Accelerate your club through the ball In addition to good technique, the execution of a chip shot requires excellent touch and feel. Maintain soft grip pressure during the stroke and you will be able to feel the clubhead at all times. This is a necessity for hitting consistent and accurate chip shots. Below are four of my favorite mini golf chipping lessons. I use all of these shots during an average round of golf. These tips on chipping have consistently helped me to save strokes around the green. The Chunk and Run Chip Shot – This shot is invaluable for when you need to play from thick rough around the green. It’s nearly impossible to decide where to hit behind the ball for a chip that sits down in the rough. Either you don’t hit the shot hard enough, chunk it, or catch it thin. To play the chunk and run chip shot set up with the ball slightly back of center in your stance and your hands ahead of the ball. Focus on a spot two to three inches behind the ball where your club should enter the grass. Use a short follow-through and very the speed of your swing based on the distance you want the ball to travel. Hit this shot similar to a bunker shot with an abbreviated follow-through. The Low Runner Chip Shot - For a consistent chip shot that lands, takes one hop and consistently rolls out each time this is the choice. Position the ball slightly back of center with your hands set forward. This is mostly a dead wrist chip shot; however, I do use a slight setting of the wrists. Feel like you close the clubface down at impact and trap the ball. Finally, finish with the toe of the club facing the target as this will allow the ball to turn over and run with a consistent role each time. The Soft Floating Chip - Use this chip shot when you have very little green to work with and need to land the shot softly. Set up with the face open and ball in front of center. Feel like you carry the clubhead to
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Slide 2: the hole and keep the clubface pointing towards the sky throughout the follow-through. As this shot comes out high and soft make sure you hit it hard enough. The Flop Chip - This is the shot you see the pros use on television when they have a small landing area and need to hit a high shot that stops quickly. Set up left of target, open your clubface and play the ball inside your front heal. Take the club back more upright, swing along your stance line and hit hard left through impact. Use either a 56 or 60 degree wedge for this shot, accelerate the club and make sure to keep the clubface pointing to the sky. Practice your technique and some of these specific chip shots on the range before you try them on the course. You need to become comfortable as to which shot should be used in a specific situation. Remember to be confident with your shot selection and always see the ball finishing close to the hole. Chipping Tips Article by Ron Galuska – www.GolfLessonsandTips.com
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