• Feet about a club head width and a half apart
• Ball off the inside of the trailing foot
• 70% of weight on forward foot, hip slightly ahead of NJA
• Put the hands forward by leaning the shaft about 10 degrees
• Bend from the hips with no slouching
• Feet, hips, and shoulders aligned parallel to target line

WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:08.179 so many amateur golfers struggle with the 2 00:00:08.179 --> 00:00:10.560 basic chip shot and it the reason is 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:12.580 they've been taught how to set up in a 4 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:14.699 way that makes it very difficult to make 5 00:00:14.699 --> 00:00:17.879 very clean crisp consistent contact on 6 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:20.140 the simplest chip shots and today I'm 7 00:00:20.140 --> 00:00:21.359 going to show you a way that's going to 8 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.399 make this simple simple shot easy not 9 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:26.039 only in your head but to execute because 10 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.179 most golfers set up in a way that makes 11 00:00:28.179 --> 00:00:29.980 it virtually impossible to play the shot 12 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:32.780 so let's talk about the way that is 13 00:00:32.780 --> 00:00:35.020 commonly taught and the issues that are 14 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:36.320 going to rise from that and a different 15 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:37.579 way to do it that's going to make your 16 00:00:37.579 --> 00:00:40.939 chip shots a lot easier most golfers and 17 00:00:40.939 --> 00:00:43.359 golf instructors alike teach or are 18 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:45.560 taught to put the ball way back in the 19 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.380 stance kind of off the back foot 20 00:00:47.380 --> 00:00:49.439 sometimes even back up behind the heel 21 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.820 with an open stance and the shaft leaning 22 00:00:52.820 --> 00:00:55.119 forward so this is kind of chipping 101 23 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.140 when you're going out take a lesson you 24 00:00:57.140 --> 00:00:58.420 may see somebody teach you a chip like 25 00:00:58.420 --> 00:01:00.840 this now in some ways this chip shot this 26 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.540 setup has some advantages for one you're 27 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:06.319 de-lofting the club so it's really nice 28 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.659 and easy to get a ball to roll properly 29 00:01:08.659 --> 00:01:11.200 which is critical in a chip shot because 30 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.299 you don't want it to take you know fly up 31 00:01:14.299 --> 00:01:15.439 high in the air and take a big bounce 32 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:17.079 because it can knock it offline so you 33 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:18.760 want the ball to be driven forward 34 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.599 relatively low and to react more like a 35 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.519 putt than a pitch shot so a chip shot 36 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:25.420 it's going to tend to be a little bit 37 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:27.219 lower and run a little bit more and this 38 00:01:27.219 --> 00:01:29.959 makes that very very simple to do now the 39 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.159 downside of that is that I've taken so 40 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.379 much loft off the club by having so much 41 00:01:34.379 --> 00:01:36.359 shaft lean that the only thing that's 42 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.939 going to hit the ground is this very very 43 00:01:38.939 --> 00:01:41.340 sharp leading edge as I move the club 44 00:01:41.340 --> 00:01:44.120 back to vertical the trailing edge can 45 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:47.319 then be used to keep the club from 46 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.920 digging and that is the whole big secret 47 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.620 to chipping for amateur golfers is to 48 00:01:52.620 --> 00:01:55.200 keep the club from digging because they 49 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.260 tend to overuse their hands and stick the 50 00:01:57.260 --> 00:01:59.099 club in the dirt and that leading edge 51 00:01:59.099 --> 00:02:01.340 grabs and it picks up the sod and it lays 52 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:04.459 the sod over the ball and you take a six 53 00:02:04.459 --> 00:02:06.319 -foot chip shot and you hit it three 54 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.060 inches it's pretty embarrassing so we can 55 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:11.560 prevent all of that by just changing how 56 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.199 you set up to the ball so for chip shots 57 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:16.460 I actually want the shaft relatively 58 00:02:16.460 --> 00:02:19.180 vertical and the ball is going to be 59 00:02:19.180 --> 00:02:21.039 played much more up in my stance to 60 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:22.900 accomplish that with a square stance this 61 00:02:22.900 --> 00:02:25.900 makes it one easy for me to aim because 62 00:02:25.900 --> 00:02:27.699 my stance is square I know exactly where 63 00:02:27.699 --> 00:02:30.379 everything's lined up but two as my hands 64 00:02:30.379 --> 00:02:33.120 are very slightly forward pressed on a 65 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.020 chip shot I don't need much at all it's 66 00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:38.020 gonna allow the club to glide through the 67 00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:41.699 grass because the bounce can now be used 68 00:02:41.699 --> 00:02:43.919 versus if I'm like this you can see the 69 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:45.659 club wants to dig right away and I'm 70 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:47.039 creating a very steep angle of attack 71 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:48.960 which means if I'm coming down on the 72 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.120 ball very very steeply it has to be 73 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.360 everything has to be perfect in order for 74 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:54.780 me to hit the ball first if I come down 75 00:02:54.780 --> 00:02:57.439 just a half inch behind I'm gonna stick 76 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.500 the club right in the dirt when you use 77 00:02:59.500 --> 00:03:01.840 the balance you can hit six inches behind 78 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.539 the ball and it's not gonna matter like 79 00:03:04.539 --> 00:03:06.539 clubs just gonna glide right through so 80 00:03:06.539 --> 00:03:10.419 set up for a basic chip shot ball up in 81 00:03:10.419 --> 00:03:12.599 the stance stance square you can use the 82 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.180 left end step shaft essentially vertical 83 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:20.300 and that makes the chip shot an extremely 84 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:22.020 simple shot to execute so all you need to 85 00:03:22.020 --> 00:03:25.300 do stand with your stance square the ball 86 00:03:25.300 --> 00:03:26.900 more up in your stance don't get into 87 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:29.000 this habit of doing this because now I've 88 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.439 taken the seven iron I've turned it into 89 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:32.460 a three iron and I have to hit it just 90 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:35.000 perfect give yourself margin of error the 91 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.139 ball up in the stance shafts vertical or 92 00:03:37.139 --> 00:03:39.439 slightly forward pressed and the bounce 93 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:40.300 will be your friend