Improve Your Short Game With These Golf Chipping Tips

Golf Chipping Tips

Scores of golfers put large emphasis on hitting the ball out of sight, while ignoring the all important short game. Winning matches often comes back to the short game. Concentrate on your wedge and putter and see those scores come tumbling down. Reduce your score by practicing with your wedge and putter.

Confidence

Chip with confidence by working on a firm chipping stroke and know which type of shot to play. If your confident from around the green, however ticklish the lie, you can attack the pin just as easily as if putting.

Which Chip Shot?

Careful thought needs to be given to playing the best shot to give you the maximum chance of a makeable putt. Take a good look and evaluate if there is a hazard or rough in the way and how flat the ground is. Having decided on the shot to use commit to it. Lack of commitment will time and again cause problems.

From the Fringe

If you have a good lie, take your 5 iron and place the ball toward the back of your stance. Aim your club face at the flag and use your putting grip at the bottom of the rubber. Use a slow, short and even swing without wrist break. While a putter is easier to play it is difficult to judge the stroke with the longer grass. Using a 5 iron helps to lift the ball cleanly and onto the green.

Over Apron

Take a slightly open stance and use your 7 iron. Aiming your clubface at the flag, place the ball towards the back of your stance. Grip the club lower than usual and make a backswing and though swing of equal length with no wrist break – the left wrist staying solid through impact. A 7 iron, instead of a putter, should prevent hitting the less even surface of the apron.

Over a Hazard/Bunker

If you have a good lie but grass lengthy enough to tangle, use a sand wedge and an open stance. With your hands ahead of the club head, place the ball in the centre of your stance. {Aim the clubface at the flag and make an effort to drop the ball on top of it.} Your grip must be lower than what it is for a full wedge. Make a steep backswing and downswing by using an early wrist break. Be positive, too delicate a touch will place the ball in the sand in front of you.

Grip

To better your feel for the club head grip lower than normal.  This will also give you improved control. Club head awareness is essential to a delicate greenside touch.

Stance

A great point for the chip shot is to position most of your weight on the left foot. Keeping your weight on yoru left foot right through your swing is vital . If you permit your weight to transfer too much to the right foot it will cause your club head to swing in the opposite direction to what you require.

You can drop three shots into two around the greens with golf chipping tips practice. {Keep it simple and it will aid you to trim your handicap.}