Here are another series of drills and tips for those of you who are having trouble with chipping. Zachary Allen wrote an article in Golf Tips Magazine entitled "Chip Control" that shares some very useful information. I have always been aware of the usual chip shot tips like "placing the ball back in the stance, leaning the shaft and your weight forward, keeping your backswing shorter and accelerate through the shot" and so on. But some of these drills and tips like "looking at the target for the entire swing" instead of the ball, "hold[ing] the club in your right hand, place[ing] the ball in the middle of your stance, open[ing] the face and keep[ing] the shaft vertical" for hitting higher loft shots, keep[ing] [the right] elbow relatively stiff [to] limit the length of my backswing" I had not been familiar with. Take a look at his article Chip Control it could be quite useful in identifying some issues that his drills might rectify.
Two areas I have been working on is pitching and chipping. I have been practicing a few drills from a golf instructor seen here on this site (Jeff Ritter) that also helped with my tempo and rhythm.
When chipping or pitching, make sure you stay aggressive with the stroke. Do not decelerate the club at impact, accelerate the club thru impact. Dave D.
The chip shot is much the same in stance and set-up as a putt, in fact the key often times is to get the ball on the ground and rolling as fast as possible. Chip shots are often only used if there is a small obstacle in the way, such as a sprinkler head or light rough that you can't putt over, in which case you chip the ball over the obstacle and onto the green, getting it rolling as soon as possible. Many people chip with anything from an 8 iron to a pitching wedge, often the higher lofted wedges are not used at all because it takes too long of a swing to get the ball to the hole. The longer the swing, the more room for error, hence the use of the chip shot. Steve O.
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