Hey everyone, Shawn, Sav, and Mu. And today we're going to show you how to clean up around
those greens and give you a couple of options. For those of you who have a tendency to have the chip
yips, you get a little stabby, and you duff a lot of chips. That means that you're not
using momentum to execute your chips. And we're going to show you two different styles of grip
that are highly effective anatomically to help you win this job. You don't want to miss this show
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I'm going to start and show you the standard chip. So we're going to do a chipped face
on and a chip down the line. And you're going to see the absolute musts that you need to have to
anatomically have a correct chipping action. And then you'll never have to
worry about technique because you just let it go. And it all happens all by itself. And then
Munashe who has been chipping up a storm lately. We went cack-handed or, cross handed or lead-hand,
low lead hand, low, like in pudding. And you notice a chipping action is like a long putt.
So if you have a cross-headed chipping stroke, or you've never tried that before, and you
you're really terrible at chipping, you'll see another option there. That's going to open up
a new chapter for you around the greens and Sav. She's just going to look pretty doing it for us.
All right. A few simple rules. Every instrument is designed by humans for
humans, whether you do fishing or you're slashing through bamboo shoots with a machete,
the tip of the sword would never come first. The tip of the fishing pole would never go first.
It's always the hand that comes first, then the handle, then the body. And then finally the tip
that catches up out here. So if I was going to cut through a bamboo shoot, beginning of the cut,
end of the cut. And there's where the sword would catch up to the hand we're releasing
through now chipping because it's still not a very big movement. You'll see how the arms maintain the
same shape back and through notice where you see the club catching the turf right by my back foot.
There is actually a sweet spot as to far forward. Your hands can be with each instrument.
If you're too far forward, it'll gouge. If you're not far forward enough,
you'll have to push on it. That's what you skull it over the green,
or you get too far underneath the ball and the ball ends up short sound familiar. So
what we're looking for is the ball right off the back foot. If you've got a narrow stance,
see that now observe where the club wants to cut grass. Now, if I go a little wider,
notice that spot hasn't changed. Notice if I go feet together, notice that spot
hasn't changed. So there's a very specific spot where the club wants to hit the ground. That's a
B, if you look at an intermediate point, if I've got a spot in front of the ball, I was wanting
to pick a spot no more than a foot in front of the ball to get myself aligned with my target.
So here I'm going to stay a little left of that intermediate point.
So notice the blur of my club as it passes over the ball and to the left of the intermediate
point. So where's the club actually hitting the ground when my club is moving in that direction
and I want a nice deflection along the ground. There you go. So now I want the ball at the
back of that. So if I let the weight of my arms cut grass in that direction, I'm going to have
a very suitable up and down. That's a foot and a half away. That's an easy tap-in for my par.
So as far as technique is concerned, this is really important. Many of
you have been told to keep the lower body still. That's a massive mistake.
If I'm going to toss a ball. So let's say I got a ball in each hand and I got Sav-on this side.
I got Mu on that side. If I want to toss them these golf balls, but not move my body.
That's how it's going to go. My arm is going to crash into my body, my elbow collapses and
the darn thing's going backwards. So if I want to toss that way, notice how my body has to open up.
You do this perfectly. If you're going to toss a softball, or if you're going to go bowling,
if I'm tossing a softball towards you, notice how my left shoulder is moving back. This way,
your brain actually has to go to the ground and use the ground to get your body out of the way.
So your arm has full access to the target. So a chip shot is very simple, a little more weight
on the lead leg, about 60 40 in favor of that lead leg. And we're going to one for you. One for you,
one for Mu, one for Sav. See how my right hand is facing sad. My left hand is ready to
go towards Mu. My left hand just went towards Mu. My right hand is ready to go back towards Sav. So
Watch it. Now left-hand under, right-hand under, let it go. Let it go. So notice
I'm not allowing my left arm to hit me going back and I'm not allowing my right arm to hit
me coming through. So notice I'm going up and down and I'm, my hips are moving freely. My legs
are moving freely. So I'm just going to let the weight of my arms hang here from the shoulders.
And I'm going to use the weight of my arms to cut a dandelion stem in the direction of my target,
or just simply shave grass in the direction of my target. So
get my intermediate point. I'm going to go over the left edge of that. Move that a little more
forward. So I don't hit it because you're going to see how the club stays along the ground.
Let momentum cut grass and in that direction
feel the weight of the arms. Let the weight of the arms cut grass
that way. Oh, come on. Let's go in the hole. See how pretty that is. Once I'm set, I'm just letting
wait. I'm a witness to wait, cutting grass and that direction. So from the face on, this is
what it looks like. There's my intermediate point. I'm going to go a little left to that.
See how my arms aren't colliding into my body. Feel the weight of the arm club unit,
Let momentum cut the grass in that direction.
So if I cut grass with the sole of the club, so if this cuts grass,
the ball will meet the center of the face. And because I've got my ball in the right position,
opposite my back foot, I'm going to catch the ball first, then ground. So a little pitfall here.
One of the things you don't want to do is never want to face the ball.
So if you face the ball, now you're going way out to the right. If I face the ball,
put the ball back in my stance, and face the ball. Now look at me, my stroke has gone way off course.
So I face my center and I just bring the club back. I don't have my intermediate point,
but I'm going to let momentum cut the grass in that direction. And that's all we need to do.
So let's have a look at Sav. Alright. So Sav picked an intermediate point here,
a divot in front of the ball, right So you've got a 56 degree. You're going to land it in the first
third. So a good course of action would be to land in the first third and roll
the other two-thirds toward the hall and pick a club. That's going to allow that to happen. So
she went with a 60-degree. It would end up short 56 should be good,
Not bad. So that was about four feet past the hole and just
blew by a little bit of your landing area. So a little less momentum.
There you go. Sweet. Look at that. So if you find a difficult to use the weight of the arms
and club and you feel that you're constantly, you know, using manipulation, there are some
tools on the market that really help out. One of the clubs that we use at our academy is the lag
shot. So you've got a lag shot wedge here. It's a 54-degree wedge. Yeah. It's very heavy. It's
Very heavy.
So you got some nice heft, so you can feel the weight of the instrument,
Especially with those little chips, like, you know, the short chips that
everyone feels like they have to push on. And even I've done that before. So like
you actually have, you slowed down.
So you're using the weight of your arm instrument
to cut the dandelion stem softly to make it land right
As the word
Softly is the word. So now make sure you got your intermediate point.
Good. Do you see your landing spot?
Yeah. All
Right. Sweet. Very nice. So
With this particular club, if you use hands because the tendency here
and what people don't realize is that a chip shot is a kinetic chain. So if you're using the weight
of your arms and club, you're actually going to use the legs to get out of the way of that
momentum. Right. But if you feel like, oh my gosh, I gotta be careful. I gotta watch out.
And then you get very stick Handley. Then you're canceling the body's motion. So
now you end up hitting yourself twice and that's what diverts your club offline and,
and forces you to stick, handle it. So that's what we don't want. So you'll notice when salve
takes her to set up, she's using, she's feeling the weight of the arms and club and she's using
that weight to cut the grass. Oh, that's sweet. Get in great shots. Have one more.
See if I can get it in.
Let's see if you can get it in.
Sweet. Look at that. You chipping a lot better with that tool. That's something.
but it's nice. Cause I sometimes struggle with the little ones like those short chips,
The short chips and the others will also, struggle with
pitch shots. So anytime you have a 40 to eight 40 to 80-yard shot, Mu.
And for those of you, yeah, stop pointing at, okay, you're going to make him feel bad. No,
He doesn't have to feel bad.
So in the bunkers, I know a lot of people have struggled in the bunkers because you've got a
heavy wedge and you can't force it and you got to use momentum. This is fabulous. And the bunkers as
well. So, what Mu is going to show you is that his dominant hand is this trail hand. And this
happens to a lot of you. You tend to pick the club up in the backswing, you know, that hinge and hold
the problem with that is so if I look at the proper arc of a swing, so if I was a lawn mower,
here's my lawn mower. I'm cutting grass. The center of the blade is here on my shoulder.
So you notice the club keeps cutting grass right under the shoulder. Watch how, and why the bottom
is on that. So I've got a very wide bottom that prevents me from sticking it in the ground.
So the key here with the right ball position and staying low along the ground with long
arms is you can't dig, but you don't want to shove either now because Mu was picking it up.
He's trying to go that way. It's very difficult. So momentum is going here and now he's got a
shove on it and it was kinda like a big mess. So now what he's doing is he's going cross-handed
or cack-handed. And when your hand, let's say, you're going to hammer something into a doorframe.
This is me hammering down. So notice how my hand is moving up and down.
But if I want to hammer that way, notice how my hands have to move in a different
area. So if you look at Fitzpatrick, a perfect example of a kack-handed chipper,
there are many out there on the pro tours. Watch how his lead hand is over the club this way.
And it's in a fabulous position to move linearly this way with the anatomy. So let's have Mu come
on in here right out of the gate. We'll do a chip that way. Face on. Okay. Look at how,
if you take this hand off, look at how his trail hand is moving in the same direction. That's
beautiful. Put your other hand on. Awesome. So now it feels like he's actually hammering this way,
right Yeah. Beautiful. Now, where did that cut Catch the ground
right here? So notice your feet are together. Yeah. So it's actually catching the ground behind
your foot, right Exactly. So that's where your ball position is going to be. Isn't it
good? So now let the weight of the arms cut the grass that way. Oh, that's sweet.
Yeah,
That came up beautifully. Didn't it All right. So now let's go see if you can put it in.
Okay. First one in, by, first one in doesn't do dinner.
All right. So here's the deal when you have your intermediate point,
right Yeah. So you check that out, do it again, and have a check your intermediate point.
So you do your practice swing, and you see where the low point is.
Very nice. And now how are you going to advance to the ball
Okay. So many of you don't do this. Many of you do this here, you do a practice swing,
and then you reach for the ball. That's like going bowling. Here's my practice,
swing, and bowling. Then I, and I go here to try and go bowl down the center of the alley.
So now his arms are actually hanging from his shoulders and he's going to use the weight of
his arms to cut the grass that way. Oh, beautiful. So technically that was sweet. Just less momentum.
So you can, you can close the face a bit more. You've got your 60-degree here.
Good. So close the face a little bit more and see if you can do a little draw chip.
Okay.
That's it. So when we're in the rough like this, the leading that doesn't matter for leading edge,
it's only when you're on really short grass or you're on Bermuda grass on, you know,
when the grain is against you. So here there are no problems. You can close the face,
play little draw chips, so it can run and let momentum, basically what you want to
do is land the ball right over here. All right. Oh, that's perfect. Get it.
Oh,
Awesome. Thanks for the lesson. Right. And that's great.
So, in terms of the path between draw and fate,
is there a difference in terms of situations that you would use it
no. on a pitch, yes. Okay. So when you're pitching, you would play the ball more
centered in your stance. Okay. Because now we're activating the wrists, but when you're chipping,
the ball always stays on the back foot. So if it's an open-face chip, yeah. It feels like a fade,
but with a drawing setup. Okay. So you're cutting through the stem with an open
face and the direction won't change by the way. Right. So this is people think that, okay, here's
my standard chip. If I open the face 45 degrees, they think it's going to move out to the right,
but it actually won't see how the ball keeps going straight because it's such a glancing blow.
The ball can only go in the direction of the path. Right. So if you notice, when we close the phase
that projected the ball a little more forward, so that would be your draw chip, same ball position.
You just closed the face more and you have the opportunity to do that here. When the grass is
longer, if you have rough around the greens and or if you have a delicate downhill chip,
then you would open the face and then cut through the dandelion stem. In essence, what you're doing
is sawing through the dandelion stem from heel to toe. Okay. For a fade. Yeah. And that takes, it
puts a little more spin on. It takes a lot less. It takes the compression off of it and it lands
a lot softer and trickles to the hole. Alright. Okay. So hope you enjoyed that. See you next week.