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06 Aug Brush the ground to savour better chips

Posted at 05:47h in Golf Tip by

The business of golf coaching has changed throughout the years but teaching ideas and techniques have changed little, especially chipping.

You may have previously been told that the key to good chipping is to put the ball back in your stance, to lean forward, to lean the shaft forward, and then hit down on the ball.

Can I just mention though to try this tip if you’re struggling with chipping?

Experiment with perhaps a better way of executing a chip shot that will increase your margin of error and mean that even poor shots will lead to better results.

So, instead, put the ball in the middle of your stance, have your shaft pointing straight up to your belly button and put some slight pressure on your lead leg.

Then you need to focus on allowing the club to BRUSH the ground, rather than hitting down on the ball.

One great way of practising this feeling is to place a ball marker a couple of inches before the golf ball and work on hitting the marker before the golf ball when chipping. But the key is to brush the ground, rather than hit down on the ball.

Out of Bounds: Did you hear about the golfer who lost his ear in a driving range accident? They reconstructed it from pig skin — the sound quality is good but there’s still a little bit of crackling.

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