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PurePoint Golf Chip Shot Tips – Short Game
I recently played a round of golf with a friend of mine. Every
time he had a chip shot, he used a sand wedge. It didn’t matter
if he had a short chip shot or long chip shot. Every single time
he chipped the ball, he chipped it with a sand wedge.
Let me tell you what the problem with that is. If you use a lofted
golf club to chip a golf ball, you might be okay on the smaller
chip shots, the short ones, where you don’t have to make too
big of a golf swing. But to make a golf ball go further when you're
chipping, you have to make a bigger golf swing.
If I had a small chip shot, the backswing would go maybe a foot
or a foot and a half long. If I had a longer chip shot, I would
have to make a longer backswing. You have to be very talented to
do that.
Here’s something that will really help you. If you have a
short chip shot, try chipping with a 9 iron. Ball in the middle
of your stance, a little weight on your left leg, the handle over
towards your left leg, and make an arm swing out of it.
If you have a medium length chip shot, the very same golf swing:
ball in the middle of your stance, weight over to your left leg
with the handle over on your left leg, and make another little arm
swing. Because the loft is flatter, the golf ball will go further.
I’ll take it a step further for you. Let’s say you
had a chip shot and you had to go all the way to the back of the
green. Instead of making this long golf swing with a sand wedge,
why not try a 5 iron? Ball in the middle of your stance, a little
weight on your left leg, handle over towards your left leg, and
make the same golf swing that you made with a 9 iron and the same
golf swing you made with the 7 iron. I guarantee you this will help
you.
Get a picture of what you're trying to do. You're trying to make
the golf ball go a short distance in the air and a long distance
on the ground for a long chip shot: a short distance in the air
and a medium length distance on the ground for a medium chip shot;
short chip, short distance in the air, and a little bit on the ground.
To do that, try to change the golf club. Control the distance you
want the chip shots to go by your club selection, not by the length
of your backswing.
Try that and have a great day.
Bobby Eldridge is the Head Instructor for the PurePoint Golf Academy
where he teaches "The Simple Golf Swing" theory. You can
check out PurePoint Golf instructional DVDs at http://www.golfswingguru.com/index15.htm
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