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Master the Golf Chipping Stroke
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Learn the pro secret to consistent chipping - never blade or chunk a chip shot again! Few things in golf are more frustrating than being just a few feet off the green and 15 feet from the hole to then blade a chip shot across the other side - or worse, lay the sod over it. In this video, we show you how the pros hit their chip shots so cleanly off even the tightest lies so that you can have confidence around the greens.
Today, we're going to talk about chipping and, more importantly, how the RST fundamentals of pushing versus pulling apply into the short game, and specifically the basic chipping stroke.
When I'm talking about the basic chipping stroke, we're talking about hitting like a little bump and run.
This in this case is a seven iron.
We're going to say we have you know not a lot of distance to carry.
We We want the ball to land close on the green and release and roll quite a ways.
Or even if you're landing it short of the green and letting it roll up because you're on a firm fairway or a tight fairway lie.
This is a great shot to have in your arsenal because it's a low risk play, meaning it's going to tend to release out and get to the hole.
Versus if you try to put a lot of spin on the ball.
And if you don't hit it just right, you may come up way short, you hit it too hard, you may go too far.
This is more like a putt.
So in this case, you need to apply the same fundamentals that apply to every other part of rotary swing, and again, that goes back to pushing versus pulling.
Most golfers flip when they come into the short game area, and this is what makes a short game really, really hard.
Because the loft is changing dynamically as you're striking the ball, which is going to completely change the strike on the ball, the quality of the strike which is going to affect energy transfer, and the spin rate.
Now it doesn't seem like spin rate would be a huge deal on such a short shot but trust me it makes a massive difference.
So we want to make sure that this club face is staying at a constant loft angle all the way through the hitting area, versus doing this where we're adding a lot of loft.
Now, think about this for a second, what would you be able to do with your body, or your arms, or your wrists, or your hands? That would affect the loft of the club.
Well, of course, by now, hopefully you understand the RFC fundamentals.
That this right side tends to cause more problems than good, and that's because this right wrist is angled back.
These muscles are loaded even on a short game shot.
And then if you do what your brain wants to do, which is release them and use your dominant hand, you're flipping the club.
So how do we get rid of this? The exact same way you do in your real swing.
Take your right hand off and start practicing chipping with just your left arm and your body and now notice that my wrist stays nice and constant.
I'm coming through the club through the grass very shallow because I don't have any angles to make the club continue to travel on a tangent path down.
If I have my right wrist on there I create this angle it's very easy for me to stick the club in the ground.
So if you tend to chunk your chip shots I guarantee you this is where it's coming from.
Take this right hand off and start practicing using your body.
You'll notice I even use my knees and hips a little bit on these chip shots because I want to be able to keep my hands soft.
So this gives me a little momentum and rotation to move the club rather than having to use my hands.
So as long as I focus on using my body keeping this wrist nice and quiet then the chip shot becomes super super easy.
So what you should be doing when you're practicing your chip shots is doing them left-handed nice little bump and run piece of cake.
If I do it wrong if I do it with my right hand I hit behind that hit the ball up in the air the ball bounces when it lands it kind of goes offline.
You need to focus on using the left side to pull the club through the hitting area.
And then as you get comfortable.
When you put your right hand back on it, the right hands on there, very light to help support and stabilize the left hand not to hit at the ball.
So now if I just go back and forth perfect little bump and run chip shot.
Focus on the fundamentals.
Apply the push versus pull technique to your chipping, just like you do in your full swing, and you'll never chunk or blade a chip shot again.
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