Golf Tips On Chipping!

Golf Tips! Practice Your Chipping For Improving Your Scores!

Chipping may not be the most glamorous part of the golf game, but the short game is so important. It’s the key component to shooting lower scores. It’s amazing how a good chip shot can quickly turn a possible disaster into a respectable hole. Chipping close to the hole and tapping in a putt can also maintain a positive attitude towards your round and keep you in a good frame of mind for the next hole.

My golf tips to chipping is keep it as simple as possible. Find one good club that you can believe in every time you use it. Confidence is as important as technique when approaching a golf shot, especially when it comes to the short game. I personally prefer the bump and run shot, and will use my putter off the green as often as I can. (Texas Wedge.) The room for error is diminished greatly, because there is no air time. It’s the easiest club to control. You need to know your stroke and distance to the hole when making this golf shot. There are other various situations on the golf course that you need to know when it comes to the short game. When practicing focus on different shot making skills that you will encounter on the golf course Such as, chipping, flopping, knockdown, lobbing, pitching, punch, putting, sand, trouble and utility shots.

Chipping covers the shots you will play where the ball carries no more than about 10-15 yards around the green. It is a shot that has a short amount of air time and spends most of the time on the ground running towards the golf hole. According to U.S.G.A. statistics, 80 percent of the strokes golfers lose to par are determined by their play within 100 yards of the green. So, why is it the least amount of time practicing, not devoted to improving around the green?

Golf is the last bastion for the male ego. Your younger days of playing team sports is over with. So, instead you go out to the driving range, grab the driver and try to rip it as far as you can. Totally forgetting about the short game. Take notice next time your at a golf course that has a driving range attached to it. For every one golfer practicing their short game, there will be at least 10 on the practice range with a driver or long iron in their hands warming up.

How do you effectively practice your chipping? The focus should be on reproducing a sound chipping action that consistently produces a ball-first contact. Notice the relationship between the amount of flight and roll for each different short club used. The closer a golfer chips the ball to the hole, the better the odds for success. Learn to lag the ball close to the hole from 50 feet. The average golfer three-putts from there almost every time, because they never get a reference point for the correct amount of speed, slope or breaks. If you have just five minutes before you tee it up, try hitting some chip shots from 10, 15, 20 feet off the green. Get your hands and your touch tuned up. Finesse around the greens is everything. Amateur golfers will score their worse during the first three holes than they do in the middle of the golf round. Most of the time it’s because they haven’t hit a chip shot since a week ago, or whenever the last time they played.

The following are golf tips you need to know about your golf swing mechanics when it comes to chipping:

• Your feet should be open with your weight balanced, and the ball positioned just inside inside of your back foot.
• Your body should be addressing the golf ball with an open stance facing the target line. Take your normal grip, but your hands should be choked down on the shaft according to the distance the ball must travel. (Full grip if between a chip or pitch shot.)
• The hands on the club shaft should be leaning slightly forward towards the target.( Forward press.)
• Maintain having a firm left wrist and a concave right wrist. Hit down and through. Make sure you finish the golf swing.
• Don’t break your wrists through the golf swing. (Don’t try to help the golf ball into the air, allow the clubface to do the work.)
• Once in this set up position, make a putting stroke with the club brushing the ground next to where the ball is sitting.
• Your weight must remain balanced. If chipping uphill, weight is pressed on the front foot.(The ball is played from the front inside foot.)
• Your hands stay in front of the club head. This ensures a ball-first contact that will result in better distance, flight and spin control.
• Don’t hang back on it and swing up. It makes you hit the top half of the ball, and that’s the one that goes sculling over the green.
• Hit down and through the golf ball. Make sure you finish the swing to completion.
• Altering the club and the length of the swing, controls changes in distance and flight.
• Read the contour of the greens when chipping or pitching like a putt. (See how it will break to the hole, the slopes and textures.)
• When chipping long distance. You should try to land the ball on the green as soon as possible and then let it roll out to the hole.
• Pitching is a mini-version of your full swing, which means you have to pivot with your body and let the club work into the ground taking a divot.

If you want to improve upon your scoring ability, then go to work on your short game. That’s where the lost strokes are. The key to setting up the short game, you need a good tee shot. You need to strategize on each hole where you want to attack the green. From what is the best position you can be at out on the fairway. When you find yourself in bad trouble off the tee, a sidehill or downhill lie perhaps, make sure you get it back out onto the fairway in one shot. Don’t try the hero shot. From those really funky lies, that’s where people make big scores. Instead, rely on your short game to make up for those bad mishits. The importance of getting a chip or pitch close to the hole, does take a lot of pressure off of your putting.

1. For putts of 10 to 15 feet, even a P.G.A. Tour player makes only 30 percent. That number drops to 19 percent for a 10-handicapper, 14 percent for a 20-handicapper and just 2.5 percent for a 30-handicapper.
2. For putts of 20 to 25 feet, the success rates are 12 percent for a touring pro, 13 percent for a 10-handicapper, just 4 percent for a 20-handicapper and less than 1 percent for a 30-handicapper.
3. On average, P.G.A. Tour players three-putt 3.3 percent of their holes. But that failure rate jumps to 14 percent of the holes for 10-handicappers, 16.8 percent for 20-handicappers and 19.4 percent for 30-handicappers.

The short game can be scary for a lot of golfers. It’s because we put extra pressure on ourselves, to get the golf ball as close to the hole as possible. It’s the golf mindset of not knowing how to execute that particular shot on the golf course. This shot is not practiced, but it’s a pressure shot never the same. It could mean the difference in breaking your own scoring record, winning a golf match or club tournament.

Purepoint Golf with Coaching Pro Bobby Eldridge, foremost expert on the short game will give you great instructional tips that you can take to the practice range with you. Follow the golf tips and you will gain confidence next time your out on the golf course playing. Great DVD to add to your library. You can get it here at: Chipping, Pitching and Putting Makes Up Your Total Short Game!

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