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In this Golf University "Tip from the Pro" I'm with Craig Tapp
the head pro at Meadow Springs Golf & Country Club in Western, Australia
Where he's going to teach us how to stop chunking the ball when we chip
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We've had Fiona from Dawes Ville, right? She's writing in she's having issues with a chipping
She's been chunking a lot and a local pros been saying something about bounce
What is bounce and what relevance does it have? Really? Good question, Andrew
there's so many people out there that clean playing golf for quite some time
and they don't really understand that the design of the club and the numbers on the club
So am I sand on here? It's pretty standard
I have a 54 degree loft
And I have a 14 degree bounce in there
Bounce is actually the angle from your leading edge to the back edge
So that you can see there's quite a mount of lean there
other clubs might only have four degrees and they're very flat
So what happens is when we pitch the ball we want to use that bounce
So would you like 'no should go for that apply the shot?
Okay, so we've got the bounce here
So the importance of it is if we would have our clubs straight up and down in that sort of direction there
The bounce would hit first, so we would blade the ball straight over the green before we'd chunk it fat
So the idea is we're going to get the shaft leaning. This is the key shaft lean the club will now come down
We'll hit the ball and we can use that bounce to throw the ball up in the air
So once we get ourselves set to enable us to get the shot fling
gonna play the ball a little bit back in our stance
Just a little bit of a shuffle in there and the important thing here Andrew is not to use your hands
If you use your hands, we're gonna lose that shaft lean. We're gonna get the full shot
So what we want to do is swing our arms
And we can see that Club bouncing at the bottom there
So I'll go ahead along and hit the shot here for you lean the shaft
Weight to the left side swing my arms
And we get a nice crisp pitch a little bit of spin there quite a flat shot to that way
Yeah with lots of spin in it That's because we got the shaft lean
What we don't want to do is go this way and then we'll get the guts or the Duff
So use the bounce to your advantage get a bit of shaft lean
And so you're pitching improve. Okay, let's have a go
So I'm leaning the club forward yet so ball towards the back your standard stance yeah, no hands
I don't even like to see feet a little closer together, right?
Okay a little bit more further back with you the ball position.
There we go near you got some sharp lean, okay
Nice little arm swing. Let's use the bounce Oh
Almost went in
not bad very good and you'll find you'll get a lot of consistent pitch shot
by you're using the shaft lean
If you hit a bad one You'll know you've come through too far
You're giving it a little bit of a help and lose your shaft lean
So for all the punters out there
Make sure you got your shaft lean a bit of downward pressure and what you're chipping improve.
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