The Right Chipping Club Can Save You Tons of Strokes
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The Pitching Wedge is Not the Only Chipping Club in Your Bag
Back in the day, the Pitching Wedge was considered the right chipping club for playing short shots around the green. The Sand Wedge was the only club choice for blasting out of green-side bunkers.
In the modern golf game, chipping club selection is wide open. The best players will use everything from hybrid woods to a lob wedge to get the ball close to the hole. They will commonly chip with irons from 5 through 9, plus wedges with lofts from 48 to 64 degrees. As green complexes get more and more challenging, getting the ball close to the hole becomes more and more important. We waste way too many strokes by selecting the wrong chipping club for the shot at hand.
Select the Right Chipping Club to Match Your Distance to the Hole
Many golfers choose to use the same club to chip with regardless of the distance to the flag. This strategy produces very inconsistent results.
Don't rely on just one club.
A better choice is to use the same basic chipping technique each time, but to choose a different chipping club depending on the distance you need to make the ball travel to the hole.
You master a single method (stance, alignment, ball position, take-away, and follow-through), then select a different chipping club depending on the height and distance you want the ball to travel. It's all about keeping it simple and consistent.
Select the Right Chipping Club to Match Your Lie
Have you ever hit a good chip shot and got a really bad result? If so, you probably said "Wow. I hit the wrong club." That usually happens when you don't choose a chipping club that matches your lie.
Now that's a BAD LIE !
Assume you have 60 feet to the hole. Besides the distance, the chipping club you select will depend on whether you are:
on the fringe of the green
in the rough near the green
in a deep green-side bunker
on a bare lie
going uphill or downhill
Choosing the right golf club for the given situation is absolutely critical to short game success. Really good players consistently pick the best club to handle their lie.
If you're serious about improving your golf game, learn how to evaluate your lie and match it up with the right chipping club selection.
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Select the Right Chipping Club to Set Up Your Putt
You're not going to make many chip shots. Hopefully some, but not many. So your emphasis should be on selecting a chipping club that will help you get the ball in the proper position to make a putt.
I think he's gonna make that one !
Normally, you try to chip the ball as close to the hole as possible. But there are exceptions to the rule. A 6 foot, straight, uphill putt may be far more desirable than a 3 foot, breaking, downhiller. Pick the right chipping club to put yourself in the best position possible.
Pick The Right Chipping Club To Improve Your Short Game
In a round of golf, over 60% of our strokes are short game shots. But that's probably the part of our golf game that we practice least. It's so much more fun to launch monster drives on the range than to stress our back working on 5 footers. But, ironically, a 300 yard drive counts the same as a 3 foot putt.
There's no question, the most effective way to lower our scores is to get serious about our short game. Below are some sites that will help you with short game tips, techniques, and drills.
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