Chipping Made Simple: 1 Technique for Every Shot

Today I'm going to simplify chipping for you. You're going to be able to play a low shot, a medium height shot and a high shot with one simple technique. Let's get into it. So what's the technique now? All I want you to do is set up to the ball, standing very close to it and I want the ball in line with your right foot. Why do we put the ball back towards our right or back foot? Because if I put the ball towards my front foot it's very easy to hit the ground early and that's one of the worst shots in golf. So we definitely don't want to hit the ground early. Put the ball in line with your right foot and lean to the left. That helps us hit the ground after the ball. So it avoids the chunk shot. A lot of people they go to chip and suddenly it's very very different technique than a putt. They start going at it with their wrists. There's no need. When you use your wrist the clubface gets off alignment. We're just chipping a short shot here. We don't need power. We don't need wrists. I just rock like a putt. I'm just putting the ball back in my stance, leaning on my left side, front side and then just putter swing. We want to stand very close to the golf ball. Why is that? Because if I stand far away this club goes around me like a door. There's a lot of clubface rotation. See that? The club goes back and it opens. Clubface is pointing that way and then it comes through and it closes. It's pointing that way. I don't want that. I want to be accurate here. I want this club. The closer I stand it just goes straight back straight through. I keep the face square for longer. Whereas if I'm back here how am I going to have any direction control? I could hit the ball and it just goes out to the right. I could come across. Clubface closes and goes way left. So really close to the ball. I don't need any power here. I don't need a load of speed and rotation. I just need to stand close and the ball in line with the right foot and just putter swing weight on the left. Easy money there. Okay same again. Now I have to have the club brush the grass. This is not enough. It has to actually touch the ground. I might get away with it off this sort of lie but when that ball is down in the rough. Say it's sitting badly down. I have to make sure that I'm hitting the ground below it. So we go from a terrible lie. Seven iron weight left. Not an easy shot with a sand wedge. Easy with a seven iron. You might say look I don't like the seven iron. I like the six iron. Okay then use a six iron then. Here's a six. Easy. Not much can go wrong. You might say don't like the six or the seven. Okay what about the eight? Bad lie. Terrible. Can't get at it with a sand wedge. Nice shot. So here we have a trickier chip shot. We have to add a bit of height here. We can't just play the low shot with the seven iron because it's just going to catch in this rough here. It's going to go too low. So if I play it ball back low shot. Just completely snagged in the rough there. We have to add a bit of height. So I'm going from seven iron up to nine iron. More loft on the club now and I'm just going to do the same technique. So ball back in the stance and lie with the right foot. Weight on the left. Brush the ground after the ball with a putter swing. Oh nearly went in there and it works in good lie or bad lie. Works in summer or winter. Doesn't matter because we're hitting the ball before the ground. A lot of teachers are teaching chipping technique. It's hit the ground first. That's really dangerous because that then depends on well what's the ground made of. If the ground is soft mud that's a lot different than if it's firm ground. The ball sitting up sitting down. So we'll give ourselves a bad lie. Ball sitting down. Tuff the grass behind the ball. But technique's the same. Putter swing. When you're chipping just think about how you throw the ball. Don't just say I'll pick this club. Like think how high is this ball going to go. If I was to throw this ball from here I wouldn't throw it way up in the air and I wouldn't bowl it through this rough. I would just throw it and land it say there. Pretty good there. So that's the kind of height and trajectory you want on the shot. For me this is probably a nine iron. You test it out yourself see what suits best. Okay so now we're in a much trickier spot. We have to carry over a lot of heavy rough. The rough goes all the way out to here and then we don't have a lot of green to work with. So from here I'm going to take my 54 degree wedge. You can use a pitching wedge or 54. Don't just reach for the 60 straight away or the 56. You don't need this to go very very very high. Again think about how you would throw it. So you'd throw it just over the long stuff like that. Throw it in the hole. I just want to play that as a shot. Same technique. I'm not going to start opening the face or adding loft. Ball in line with the right foot. Weight on the left. Chest left. Lovely. That kicked a little bit to the right so I'm going to aim a little bit more to the left. Easy. So it's the same technique whether it's a low shot, a medium or a high. You're just letting the club do the work and you have one technique. Select which club suits you best. Which clubs you like the best. One club for low, one club for medium and one club for high. Don't over complicate it. Just keep it simple. Comment down below how it works for you. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe for more and I'll see you in the next one. Keep it simple.