Chipping Distance Control

Someday

Hi all

Playing Golf 5 months and I have come on a huge amount.

I need advice and Tips on distance control of a chip, I have watched a few videos and understand the setup etc, just need tips on distance control from 20 - 50 yards out !

Played a Top course yesterday and I got 23 pts, which was happy with, 15 the pervious week. I reckon if i get my chipping I can bring this up to 30+

mike12

If you have a go to chip just vary the club so you have the same swing but using 4 different clubs will give u 4 different distances. You really need to get to a practice green to see how each club reacts. Try and keep the same swing for each club and 3 swings for each club i use ankle, knee and hip. That will give you a huge amount of different distances but is useless if you done know how far a knee high swing with a PW or 9 iron goes.
Also by moving the ball to different positions in your stance you get different reactions when the ball hits the green.
Mike

Trampas

practice and more practice.

I'd advise just worry about chip and runs. Don't even think about lob shots or anything fancy.

Keep it simple at the start even if it means going around a bunker that going for a phil special.

just try and get it onto the green and worse case 2 putt.

ForeRight

I'm no expert but I think the big difference between someone with a great short game and a bad short game is commitment. I mean commitment to the shot. My short game is ok but when I do a bad effort it's almost always because I've decelerated through the shot and have not just committed 100%

Keep practicing with chips were you accelerate through the ball and finish the chip and you will begin to get check on the ball if your technique is good.

tommyombomb

ForeRight wrote: »

I'm no expert but I think the big difference between someone with a great short game and a bad short game is commitment. I mean commitment to the shot. My short game is ok but when I do a bad effort it's almost always because I've decelerated through the shot and have not just committed 100%

Keep practicing with chips were you accelerate through the ball and finish the chip and you will begin to get check on the ball if your technique is good.

Agree with this. I always scuff my shots when I am not fully committed.

GreeBo

+1 on being committed.
I'd say 90% of bad chips come from players panicking and decelerating.
A fully committed shot thats 10% too firm is always better than quitting on one.

TheDoc

ForeRight wrote: »

I'm no expert but I think the big difference between someone with a great short game and a bad short game is commitment. I mean commitment to the shot. My short game is ok but when I do a bad effort it's almost always because I've decelerated through the shot and have not just committed 100%

Keep practicing with chips were you accelerate through the ball and finish the chip and you will begin to get check on the ball if your technique is good.

+1

I suffer from it myself and its killing good rounds. I lost 4 points easy on Sunday from de acceleration and it stopped me from posting a winning score.

The mindset is that you feel your giving it too much so you slow down, and end up with a duff, short shot or a host of bad effects.

Something I'm trying is to keep committed, and regardless of the ball maybe going too far, atleast giving it a chance.

When I chip well I leave the ball stone dead, on days where I'm not committed I absolutely ruin my scores

Myksyk

I agree that deceleration and lack of commitment to a shot usually kill us during a round. Unless you accidentally bone a shot amateurs nearly always leave chip shots short. The key as someone else said is practice and more practice. The deceleration comes from being unsure ... Unsure that the length of your backswing is not too much for the shot you're attempting. The only thing that will give you conviction over these shots is practising them over and over until you're familiar with the length of backswing needed to successfully execute the shot.

BoardsMember

GreeBo wrote: »

+1 on being committed.
I'd say 90% of bad chips come from players panicking and decelerating.
A fully committed shot thats 10% too firm is always better than quitting on one.

That's me!!!!

Thoughts: keep head down, hit positive shot through the ball.

Practise: lovely confident ball strike, able to vary the height & spin, hit close to the pin more often than not with lots of different clubs

In competition: slow back, when I get to the end of the back I snap down, lift the head, wrists break forward before impact....ball careers through the green.....it is truly an awful thing.

So its just a case of trying to bring it onto the course. I enjoy the challenge, when I hit a good one its brilliant, when I dont I know that I can.

Someday

If you have a go to chip just vary the club so you have the same swing but using 4 different clubs will give u 4 different distances. You really need to get to a practice green to see how each club reacts. Try and keep the same swing for each club and 3 swings for each club i use ankle, knee and hip. That will give you a huge amount of different distances but is useless if you done know how far a knee high swing with a PW or 9 iron goes.
Also by moving the ball to different positions in your stance you get different reactions when the ball hits the green.
Mike

Great advice and makes sense ! Also setup is important but watched a few videos on that !

Thanks All !

BoardsMember

Someday wrote: »

If you have a go to chip just vary the club so you have the same swing but using 4 different clubs will give u 4 different distances. You really need to get to a practice green to see how each club reacts. Try and keep the same swing for each club and 3 swings for each club i use ankle, knee and hip. That will give you a huge amount of different distances but is useless if you done know how far a knee high swing with a PW or 9 iron goes.
Also by moving the ball to different positions in your stance you get different reactions when the ball hits the green.
Mike

Great advice and makes sense ! Also setup is important but watched a few videos on that !

Thanks All !

Yes. it is good advice. But key in this is to not introduce too many other variables, like varying hand position & ball position in stance particularly. If you stick to a few clubs, same ball position, grip length, hand position etc etc you will get the most out of practise.

GreeBo

BoardsMember wrote: »

Yes. it is good advice. But key in this is to not introduce too many other variables, like varying hand position & ball position in stance particularly. If you stick to a few clubs, same ball position, grip length, hand position etc etc you will get the most out of practise.

+1
Varying elements is for when you are perfectly comfortable hitting a standard chip shot.

Until you have a cast iron chip and run shot dont worry about trying to flop, hop and stop etc.