Improving Your Chipping
Hot Golf Tips – How To Improve Your Chipping
When setting up for a chip shot, there are a few important
things you should keep in mind.
To begin with, you should always keep your feet fairly
close together. By keeping your legs open less than one
foot, you will better distribute your weight between
legs.
Once you have settled into a proper stance, remember to
keep your hands ahead of the ball and make a short back
stroke to allow for the follow through. Also make sure
you do not decrease the tightness of your wrists.
In addition, you should keep your legs and upper body
perfectly still. Only your arms and shoulders should move
during the chipping stroke. If you do lose the tightness
in your grips and try to use it to gain some extra loft
during the stroke, you will more than likely de-loft your
club and miss, hitting the ball, but not gaining extra
height.
Some golfers see the chip shot and wonder about club
selection. Like any golf shot, it is imperative to
make sure you select the correct club. You can, of course,
use almost any club in the bag to chip with, but it all
depends on far you want the ball to roll. If, for example,
you want the ball to roll about 4 feet after it lands, you
should use the 7 iron. Each club downwards will roll an
extra foot, so the 6 iron will roll 5 feet and the 5 iron
6 feet and so on.
When chipping, you will want to get the ball into the air
and rolling softly onto the green to set you up for a
nice putt. But who knows: maybe you wont even need to make
the putt anymore; you can just chip the ball into the hole.