Distance Control Ladder Chipping Tips

In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins offers a ladder drill to help improve your distance control when you chip.

Transcript

00:00So a brilliant drill to help you with distance control especially on those longer putts if

00:08you're somebody who tends to hit the ball to get it to get to the flag on long putts

00:12this will be brilliant for you.

00:14You don't want to hit the ball if you're working out that a little putt is going to be a little

00:17hit and a big putt is going to be a big hit it's very hard to control how much hit to

00:21give it.

00:22Much easier to do length of stroke so for that I tend to use this ladder drill it also

00:27gives you a fantastic idea of the pace of greens if you're visiting different courses.

00:31So the first one I'm going to do is just going to be a very small tick tock so almost like

00:36a metronome in my head I've got this one two rhythm tick tock I'm not going to look to

00:42see where my balls go so that I'm not influenced as to how hard to give it some.

00:46So keeping the same tempo the first putt is very small tick tock the next putt slightly

00:53bigger tick tock the next putt slightly bigger and the next putt is your bigger one and what

01:06you should end up with is a nice fairly even Stevens ladder all the way up the green what

01:11you would then do is you then remind yourself of the length of stroke that you took and

01:16you worked your way back to your target that you started next to and that should really

01:20help with your distance control.