Try These Golf Chipping Drills To Improve Your Score

Golf Monthly

Drills that will help lower your scores.

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00:00so if you're one of those golfers that really struggles with releasing the club actually how

00:12how you strike the ball when you're doing these kind of short chip shots I've got a great little

00:17drill to just to give you the understanding of how the club passes the body now what we see we

00:22see two types of poor release patterns when when we're talking about these kind of short shots the

00:27first one is we've been told at some point that we don't want to use too much wrist so what we tend

00:33to do is get very wooden very kind of stiff with our whole upper body and our arms and we actually

00:40try and then hold the club off this is what we call a block release the opposite can happen when we get

00:45too kind of wristy and actually we get this kind of what we call this open sort of early kind of

00:52release pattern here where we actually return the club at the wrong kind of the wrong way so the

00:58drill looks like this what I want you to do is take your left hand off and just place it onto your

01:02lead thigh and I just want you to grip the club as you would normally with your with your trail arm

01:07and I want you to feel like it's really nice and soft and you're just going to practice making some

01:12swings where the club comes up going to let it just naturally drop let gravity do its thing and actually

01:18just get used to brushing the ground you can see the club is now releasing past my body it's exposing

01:24the bounce if I do it on the ball just as a practice it's here let it drop and let it naturally

01:30kind of release if I then take another normal shot put my hands back on a nice way to just transition

01:37from this is then just with your lead arm just try and do exactly the same thing but let's just grip

01:42this nice and lightly to start with just do a couple of practice swings let the club drop

01:47let it pass go past your body and then let's just try and do one onto the ball

01:52that's a great way to give you the understanding of how to the club releases past your body stops

02:00you thinning it stops you hitting all those terrible shots and start enjoying some good chips so this is

02:05a game that we call darts and very simply what I want you to do is to take six balls and I want you

02:10to throw them around the green at very random positions don't change their lie literally throw them

02:16and hit from where they finish and now the real pressure comes from this is you're only allowed

02:21to do this one time you're only allowed to do this once a day or however many times you come down and

02:26practice you can't have another go at it I want it to resemble you on a on a golf course with a score

02:32trying to get the best score that you could possibly do so all I've got set up here is a little circle

02:38just as a bit of a visual it's kind of a four foot circle I'm kind of imagining and all I want to try

02:43and do is how many balls can I get a random positions around the green close to that hole

02:48so if I have a little go let's see if I can just get one

02:51oh I mean that wasn't bad as a shot but I'm going to now take these balls I'm going to throw them at

03:02different locations around the green and I'm going to see what score I can get how many I can get in

03:06that circle so if you're one of those golfers that really struggles to make a good strike one of the

03:12things that could be happening is you're decelerating the club throughout the downswing

03:17now one of the things that I see a lot of sort of higher handicappers do they take the club so far

03:22back for such a short shot the brain is very good at kind of making its own kind of calibration

03:28and it kind of just goes well if I make a normal swing and I flush it I'm just going to nut it over

03:33the back so what will that what they do is they then naturally start to slow down unfortunately what

03:38then happens is the club is then decelerating to the point of when it strikes what really good

03:45chippers do is the complete opposite the club is actually accelerating past the ball so the fastest

03:50point of the swing is just past the golf ball so one of the really nice drills that I like to practice

03:55I've just got six balls here at the green and all I'm going to try and do is take a nicer kind of

04:00shorter backswing back I'm going to feel like I'm accelerating through I'm going to do a slightly

04:05longer finish so it's not going to be too far back nice and short longer finish through the

04:12whole idea with this is the club is accelerating towards the target now one of the problems that

04:17some people do when they try this for the first time is actually they go really too short and they

04:22sort of stab at it I still want you to keep your nice tempo your nice rhythm let that club fall but

04:29always make sure you're accelerating through to the target so this is a nice little drill just to give

04:35you a good kind of understanding of how you can select and choose different clubs based on the

04:40shot that you're just about to face so what I've got here is I've just got two kind of markers two

04:45kind of cones one really short and then one really closer to the hole and the idea being is just with

04:51four balls I want you to throw the first one and really get this kind of like childlike kind of

04:55instinct of actually what have you got to do to get the ball to start to land close to that first orange

05:01marker and then roll the rest of the way so what I'm going to do is try it first of all it's just a

05:06nice little throw close to there and let it roll out so now what I want to see is can I get the club

05:13to do that same kind of height and get that same kind of release so I'm going to practice going through

05:19some different clubs and actually let's see if I can mimic and copy that exact same flight

05:24so it was nice and low it's going to land hopefully close there and release out

05:30all right I've just hit that slightly bit too hard but I'm going to try the next one so with the next

05:38one I just want to see is can I get the same thing to go higher and stop faster so again if I was to do

05:44this shot I'm going to throw it nice and high get it so it's going to hopefully stop ready to be close

05:50so I'm pretty good at throwing it's the shot that's the problem I then get a nice lobway so I'm going to

05:55try and get a nice high one and I'm going to try and do the same thing get the club to mimic and copy

06:02what I've just did get nicely underneath it and let it release up to the to the flag try this with loads

06:11of different shots different distances and just get used to throwing one first so you can really feel

06:16what you need to do and then take different different clubs try different clubs and give this

06:21a go I promise you it will really help with your game

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