Skills Assessment Challenge: Chipping
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Get your Chipping Rings here. Are you ready to move on to pitching the ball? If you have developed your clubface control of the trail hand, you'll be able to pass these two 10 yard tests.
For your chipping skills assessment, you're going to need the three-foot chipping ring, the smaller one, and two clubs.
I'm going to be using a 60 degree and a 50 degree.
I'm hitting the 50 degree here first, and the reason I want you to use something that's about 10 degrees apart, so if you've got a 60 degree and a gap wedge, that's perfect.
But the reason is, I want you to see the difference in how consistent you can become with a lower lofted, more straight face club.
Obviously, it's a smaller stroke, so you've got to be a little bit more sensitive with it.
But you're going to see that the more straight face club is much easier to consistently chip to a target 10 yards away.
Not that you don't use a 60.
We're training with a 60 because it is more difficult.
That's the whole point.
But as you start getting ready to take these skills to the course, I want you to be comfortable chipping with a more straight face club because it'll be much more consistent.
So that was my 60 degree or my 50 degree there.
Now I've gone to the 60 degree.
Now, obviously, it's going to be a bigger stroke, but the target's the same.
I'm hitting to the 10-yard target, so 30 feet away.
And the aim, again, is to hit 3 out of 10 with each club from 10 yards.
And I'm going to do this to two different targets.
I want you to do it to the same target at first.
So that you can just see the contrast between the higher lofted club and the less lofted club.
Because it's much more difficult to control the spin, how the ball bounces when it lands on the green, etc.
With the higher lofted club with the 60 degree that I'm hitting here.
So what you're really practicing, again, is consistency.
It's controlling that club face, getting that ball to land in the same spot, getting the ball to roll the same amount, getting the ball to roll in the same direction, and end up in that three foot circle every single time as much as you can.
Now here I'm moving to a much more difficult shot.
It's very fast downhill.
And this is just, again, to test my ability from different targets, different angles, different breaks, etc.
So, but the game really is 3 out of 5.
That's all you're trying to do.
3 out of 5 to stay in that chipping ring from 10 yards.
Once you can do that consistently with both clubs, both a 60 degree and a 50 degree, or if you don't have that, if you have a 56 and 46, what have you.
I just want to see something about two clubs apart, about 8 to 10 degrees aloft apart.
This will give you a really good sense of feel and also train you to be a little bit more sensitive.
Have a little bit better sense of touch and feel.
Because the less lofted club from 10 yards is going to want to go pretty far.
So this is a great drill.
It's a great test to really see if you're ready to move on to pitching.
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