Golf Chipping Lessons

The short game is what the PGA professionals know will get them to the top of the leader board, and they work on it disproportionally. If you can't manage your game near the green you have no hope of lowering your scores. They know that, and if you have any hope of improving your scores you should too.

Have you ever had a day when you were hitting the ball really well, just not where you wanted it go? Don't lie. I know you have. So the course I was on is mostly a links course where you lose your ball 6" off the fairway.

So I felt it necessary to feed the weeds with Nike banana balls. The starters have to have something to do when they're bored. Thank God for those chipping lessons. Needless to say hitting a green yesterday was harder than picking pepper out fly poop.

So, by practicing some simple golf tips on chipping, I had the confidence around the greens to salvage a score that kept me from taking up bocce ball instead of golf. I still find it amazing what a difference chipping instructions have made in my scores. Of course on days like yesterday my chipping salvaged what could have been a BP oil spill.

If you want to lower that golf handicap leave the driver in the bag and practice your chipping when your at the driving range. Since getting serious about my chipping I have lowered my score by an average of eight strokes. First thing I ever did that made a difference in my score. Never did that after taking swing lessons.

When I first applied chipping lessons it became apparent how I was making something so simple out to be so complicated. The swing for a proper chipping technique is the easiest swing to work on and conquer. Heck, this is something you can work on in the backyard! So...practice makes perfect. Chipping lessons will convince you how easy it is to shave strokes off your score.

I am 56 and recently retired with more time on my hands to enjoy golf more often. I have been golfing for 43 years. Some of those years were lean while I was coaching the kids in multiple sports. The best part of practicing the short game is you can do it for hours without muscle fatigue. This is important to me now that I have more time on my hands and less muscles everywhere else. But I will NEVER be too old for golf!