- Do you struggle with distance control
and often leave your chip shot short?
In this video we're gonna show you the biggest reason
why this happens and we're gonna give you
two very simple fixes to help you chip
the golf ball closer to the flag.
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- This is episode three of How to Break 100
where we are taking Ashley through a series
of coaching to help him break 100 for the very
first time.
Today we're gonna transform his chipping.
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Right. Ashley, how's it going?
- You've had a couple of sessions now.
- Yeah. Getting better.
I mean, my last round wasn't very good
but I think short game played a big part of that.
- Okay. We often do this when we have someone
turn up for a lesson and we ask them
to rate themselves out of 10.
So on chipping, which we're gonna look at today.
How many outta 10 for yourself?
- Probably three or four.
- Okay. So we could do again.
- There is room for improvement.
- Loads of room.
- Pierce, what's yours?
- Oh, it's 10 I hit one warm shot it went in.
So 10. - 10 out of 10.
Let us know what you rate your chipping is
in the comments down below.
Is it above three, four or is it 10 like Pierce?
- First of all, one thing we wanna look at here is,
and we've seen you play some chip shots already.
So there's some things we know that we wanna look
in the technique, but before we get into that
what are you trying to do on this shot?
'Cause this is really important.
- I'm just trying to get it to bounce on the green.
- So first bounce on the green.
- And then roll out a little bit.
- Okay. And what club are you using for that?
- 60 degree wedge.
- So 60 degree, your most lofted club, isn't it?
- Yeah. It's the club I always use.
- Okay. And it's interesting you mentioned to me
that the last game you played
and often your chip shots were coming up short.
And sometimes you need to just look at the fact,
well if it's 60 degree it's gonna go higher
and it's gonna stop quicker.
Maybe we could go with less loft if we're leaving them short
and at least get it running more towards the hole.
So tell you what we'll do.
Let's hit some shots.
I am gonna take a few videos as you do this.
We'll have a look at the technique.
Yeah. Lots of height on that one.
Obviously quite a nice strike.
Okay. Let's go again.
- Beautiful shot - Good shot
- Be very happy with that one.
- Yeah. If you keep doing those,
you won't be a 4 out of 10.
- And this is just a really important part of the game.
Look, if you are struggling to break 100
you are going to miss greens.
Every time you're gonna get
you're gonna miss quite a few greens.
So having a decent short game where you can just chip it
on and two puts at the worst will make a huge difference
to your scores.
So working on this area of your game is just so important.
If you wanna break that, just the consistency of this
you'll see here bit of inconsistency in the distance
in the strike, and we'll go through some key things
today for you.
Sorta got away with that one a little bit ground first
but not bad.
- I'll tell you what we should do first of all,
let's just have a go with 54.
Cause I know that's the next wedge down.
Let's just try that first of all and go with that.
And it is kind of like, you know, the 60 degree is
kind of like the hero shot.
Isn't it, it's something that if it comes off
it looks amazing.
But the it's like a higher tariff, you know,
it's harder for you to pull off and we want to
make it as easy as possible for you to go
and play these shots.
And it's all about maybe picking one club to choose as well.
Ideally when you're playing your chip shots
and it might well be the 54 for you, we'll find out
- That's a good thing.
I was just gonna say there look really important
that we like people picking one club to chip with
unless you've got, let's say a, a really rough shot.
You might need some more loft then.
- Straightaway you can see a lower fight.
- Having one club will enable you to master that
and then understand how it's gonna fly,
how it's gonna roll what the lawn she's gonna be like.
So choose one club that you like to chip with
around the green, unless you've got a lie
that doesn't necessarily require that same loft really.
- Okay. All right. So tell you what we're gonna do.
Yep. Let's have a look at the technique.
As you take the club back
you can see the club goes around your body on the way back.
So what we would call inside
and then it swings out to the right.
So this is actually quite nice
of playing a draw or, you know
maybe some of the things we're looking at in your long game
but as soon as your club and Sean can see me there
as soon as your club comes around here
a lot and that's exaggerating it,
it's very easy then for it to catch the ground early
on the way down.
- Okay. - Does that make sense?
So if the club went up here like this exaggerating it.
- Yeah. - It would definitely
come down more like that
and hit the ground a little bit later.
But as soon as you bring the club this way it's a lot easier
for it to hit the ground before the golf ball.
- Okay. - Okay.
So that's the first thing.
So if we think about that straight away
there's something in there which could be
causing you to hit the ground before the ball.
But as we go back, I want you to watch the head.
So watch what the head does.
So it kinda drops down a little bit.
It's not the end of the world, but look what it does now.
It's coming backwards.
So it's now coming away from the target.
Now, if we think of this
we've already got the club coming around the body here.
As soon as I I'll come around here so we can see this
as soon as I now swing like this, again there's more chance
of hitting the ground before.
So we got the club coming around causing you to
hit the ground before, and you've got the head
coming back causing you to hit the ground before.
So it just makes sense that you want to hit the ground
before the golf ball.
- Okay. So what we're gonna do then Ashley,
if you can just take your setup to this
alignment stick that I put on the ground there.
So just take your setup to the ball.
So obviously as we know that you would from here
bring the club inside here and then from there
kind of almost swing it down toward the target line.
And often this will, as we said
it'll cause you to hit the ground here before the ball
because it's a low flat swing.
But also it will make the head come back as well.
- So just set up again for this.
So just have some practice back swings now
and you're gonna swing the club back about to my hand
but don't touch my hand and you're gonna feel
that it's almost tracing and the gap between your club
and the alignment stick is gonna stay quite constant.
- What Pierce is doing here is just getting the club
to be a little bit more up on the way back
that allows the club to descend on the golf ball
a little bit easier.
And then the next phase is really getting the club to swing
in from the target line, the amount of golfers
that we coach when they're chipping
and they're trying to swing the club down the target line
towards the hole, and it just causes this all the time.
So if you're chipping and you're thinking
that the club needs to stay straight, then you're
gonna have some issues, allow the club to move in.
And as the club moves in from the target line
you'll see the head and the body moves forward.
So many golfers are doing this
and I'm sure there'll be a few of you out there.
- Just take your set up. We've got that.
Now what we're gonna get you to do is to get your
right foot, sorry. We're gonna get both feet together.
And then we're gonna get right foot up onto its toe.
Now the good thing with this is now
we're still gonna be focusing obviously
on the alignment stick on the way back.
The good thing with this is now if your head goes back
this way now what's gonna happen.
- I lose my balance. - You gonna fall over.
So that's the last thing we want to do.
So let's just have some practice swings,
brushing the ground focusing on literally
following the yellow line and just not falling over.
Let's see what happens.
- Call this the Flamingo drill.
Flamingo chipping drill.
- Keep going. - Really good for training
with consistent strike.
- Chipping is all about getting that strike
and that confidence.
Doing this drill really enables you to get that
consistent spot on the ground
which we know is really important on these shots.
- I've got so many examples of people who have done this
and just chipped this way.
That has literally been the way they've done it.
You may need to soften it off and just go,
so it looks like a normal stance.
So the heal is only ever so slightly in the air.
But at the moment we're gonna go extreme. Yeah.
Let's hit a few shots.
All I'm gonna say to you then is, foot up on its toe.
Follow the line and then hold your finish.
- Don't follow the line on the way through though.
- Yeah. Sorry follow the line on the back swing. Sorry.
Hold you're finish. Hold you're finish. Hold you're finish.
- This 54 as well Ashley, yeah?
- This is 54.
- Let us know in the comments down below.
What's your chipping club?
Is it a 54?
That was lovely.
He's holed it. He's holed it
He has holed it there. Oh no he hasn't.
- A fly got in the way. - What is yours? 52, 54, 50.
Let us know in the comments.
Completed it. - How can you say that?
It hasn't gone in.
- It went in, but it came back out.
- That would be like one of those course logs,
No, it went in, hit the cup and came out.
- Well, that was really nice.
Oh wow. It just snagged up in the fairway there.
- Horrible banks.
- You just keep going at your own pace.
Again, look we're starting to see, you know,
we've got three obviously we've cleared the green off here.
We've got three golf balls, very close to each other now,
as far as consistency of distance.
And that look, get the strike right.
Then that will start to happen a lot.
And it's easier to do it
with a little bit less loft as well.
- Notice the flight of these as well Ashley.
What it looks like, lot lower, Yeah.
So you've gotta start seeing the shot in this way.
I'm gonna stand here just to.
- Yeah. Good.
A lot less head movement back now.
- I'm just gonna come in quickly as you do that.
I wanna do a practice swing with you.
Just I'm gonna encourage a feeling for you.
So take your set up.
Good. Come to the side of the ball.
Good. So as we swing through here,
notice where that club comes.
- Yeah. - Yeah. More left.
Really important, we can see there from doing that.
The head moves in the body turns through.
Beautiful.
- Look at the finish there.
You're sort of facing the target.
Great strike, lovely trajectory as well.
- So again, just follow the yellow stick on the back swing
- Hold it
- Much better. - Very nice. Really nice.
Love the difference in the flight there.
You know, most people are trying to help the ball
up with the short game shots.
We're not really, we don't need to help it
up with got plenty of loft.
We just wanna get it going forward and get that contact.
- Have a breather for a second.
And we are gonna go to a normal stance now.
As soon as you put your foot back in place now
your head has got license to drift again.
So we probably wanna make sure that we've
got a little bit of weight on this lead side now.
Which you will feel as though you're very good
at doing now anyway, but just feel as though when
you're playing the shot, that it just sort of
stays there throughout.
So as you swing back, yes, of course the club goes
up the yellow line, but you keep the weight
on that front leg.
- Okay. - Okay.
Let's have a couple of doing that.
We'll assess it. See where you're at.
- And much better through swing on that.
- And that I wouldn't say that was even the best of strikes
but look at the consistency of it.
- This is the beauty, if he would've done that strike
with your 60 degree, where would that have gone?
- Straight off the back.
- It would've gone over the back. Yeah.
But because now we've took the speed out
because the lower loft, the poor strike
there is a foot away.
That's the difference in club selection.
- That's nice. - Beautiful.
- Really nice.
Look at these, how close these are getting now.
With a lot less effort, the swing shorter
the image and the trajectory is different
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