- Do you duff your chip shots?
Are you struggling with just general consistency
when you're round the green?
It's horrible, because it affects your confidence.
Well, in today's video, we take Jimmy
through a live lesson.
At the start of the lesson, he was duffing his shots,
really inconsistent.
And by the end of it, he was striking it
so much more consistent
with some simple things that we know are gonna help you.
- Yeah, do you know what? It really did.
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So let's start the video
and see if we can stop you duffing your chip shots.
Okay Jimmy, so we've got a pretty simple shot here
to the white flag.
Let's hit a few shots.
What club are you using there, first of all actually?
- I got my 52. - 52, okay.
- So let's play some shots,
and we'll go through this.
We've some slo-mos all ready.
And then we'll just hit a few shots
and we'll see if the normal patterns arise.
That was nice.
Remember before when I said don't chip it in
on your first shot, on the video?
But that was very good, well done.
All right, let's play a few more.
Okay, let's go again.
(indistinct), that one feel different?
- It did, yeah, a little ground first.
- Ground first on that one.
Okay. - That's the one.
- That's the one.
And would it be more that one than the other one?
I don't wanna give them names.
- No, it's- - It's more the duff?
- It's generally that one, yeah.
- Okay, okay.
So when you are hitting the shot,
what are you actually trying to do?
- Yeah, I mean, in my mind,
I'm trying to imagine just making good ball first contact,
trying to hit down through the ball.
- Okay.
- I really just am trying to avoid
taking a bunch of grass before it.
- Okay.
And just so we're aware on that, as well,
hitting down into the ball and down through the ball,
and then not taking a lot of grass,
that's actually quite hard to do.
So it's almost a little bit of a conflict there.
When people are chipping and they're going bad,
it's probably 'cause they are trying to drive down
into the back of the ball.
And you can see from your set
if it looks that way.
The shaft is being leaned forward,
the balls are a little bit further back in the stance.
So I suppose the one thing that I wanna say to you is,
how about if we could actually
hit the ground here and still hit a good shot?
Would that sound nice?
Oh, that expression there. "Yep.
"Give me that, please."
Okay, so I'm actually gonna go through that now.
So I'm actually gonna encourage you
to try and hit the ground before the ball.
We could say try and duff it,
but I'm actually gonna encourage you
to hit the ground before the ball,
and we'll see what actually happens.
Andy, if you could just hold that a sec.
So what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna move the golf ball further forward
in the stance.
I'm gonna bring the club shaft
quite a bit more upright as well, okay?
So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna move that out of the way.
Now all I want you to do is to swing back and through
and just brush the ground for me.
Might take a few shots just to get that brush.
Okay, again, just relax it there. Start again.
And again, we're up nice and high.
Feels really weird, doesn't it, that?
- It does, yeah.
- It's so strange when you do this for the first time.
You'll probably need to really exaggerate it.
Or do it in front of a mirror,
or get some video feedback,
'cause it will feel really strange.
Okay, we may move you in a little bit close
when there's a ball there, potentially.
So again, brush for me.
Hit that brush.
Okay, so, ball is actually ever so slightly forward.
We can mess around with the ball position a little bit
as we go through this.
Club really high.
Everything else that you do,
and for now, I just want you to brush the grass.
Okay.
That was nice. Tell me how that felt.
- Felt good.
It was a little off the toe.
- A little off the toe? Okay, cool.
All right. Good.
Let's go again, I'm just gonna move you there.
So again, ball forward.
Handle nice and high. Give me a brush.
Maybe a little out of toe again?
- Yeah, a little bit.
- And look, that can actually happen
when we get the shaft a little bit more upright,
and it actually does offer that to happen
a little bit more, which is fine though,
'cause lots of great chippers get the ball
ever so slightly out of their toe.
- I think a lot of issues come for most golfers, as well,
is when they are literally trying to hit down
on their chip shots.
As soon as golfers try and hit down on the chip shots,
they put the ball back,
the club is descending too much.
The issue is then the club just digs into the ground,
and you can really get that horrible duff
where the ball just goes nowhere.
What Pierce is trying to do now
is trying to almost create this more of a...
Not necessarily a down, more of a level hit here,
where we can use the sole of the club
to brush the ground.
What Jimmy's been trying to do
is avoid the ground completely
by hitting down on the back of the ball.
You need it to be absolutely spot on
to hit the shot, otherwise it can go drastically wrong.
- Okay. How about that one?
- A little bit better. - A bit better?
- Yeah.
- So here's the thing on this.
He's hit three shots.
You thinned the last one.
And you duffed the first two.
And look where they are, they're pretty close.
- Right.
- So here's the thing.
And when I asked you as well,
how did it feel, that first one?
- Yeah.
- You actually said, "Yeah, it was good,
"it was just a little bit out of toe."
You hit the ground that far before the ball.
Now with your old technique,
that would have been disaster.
It wouldn't have made the green.
So what we're gonna do here, what we're basically doing,
is giving you a more consistent technique,
which allows you to land your club on the ground,
brush through the ground, and then come out of the ground.
Okay, so here we go.
This is how we round it off.
And I want you to feel, I'm just gonna get in there,
that you sort of trap my hands there,
and I want you to swing back and keep my hands trapped.
So the only way you can do this now
is by turning your body a bit more.
Beautiful.
Okay, do that yourself.
So you're now just getting the body
to move a little bit more.
But give me the brush on the ground as well.
Again, up nice and high.
Get that brush.
Good.
So you can see when you're finishing the shot,
now you're turning really well.
And look, we saw this on Jimmy's golf swing,
he did so many good things,
so he does so many good things here
with his chipping action,
it's just a couple of things that are, you know,
leading you astray.
Which for a year of golf is actually amazing.
- I think it's interesting to talk about this as well,
is that what Jimmy, what you were trying to do
was you were trying to hit the ball only.
It's almost like, "I just wanna hit the ball."
And we always said there's two interactions that we want,
we want the club and the ball,
but then we also want the club and the ground.
So notice when I'm hitting the ground here,
I'm not just sort of brushing the top of the grass,
And you'll hear the difference in
how this sounds.
Notice what I'm doing here?
I've got an awareness of how the sole of the club
is interacting with the turf.
- Sure.
- And I would say on every short game shot,
you have an awareness of,
"Oh, I wanna feel the ground,
"I wanna feel how that club interacts with the ground."
That makes a huge difference on
your confidence on these shots.
'Cause then you're not going,
"I need to get this precisely
"just on the back of the ball
"and hit the perfect shot."
- Sure.
- It frees everything up to go,
"Oh, now I can really allow the club to glide
"and use the sole."
And I think, you know,
that's something you can put into these practice swings.
- I think exactly that.
I think we're getting to the side now.
So yeah, set yourself up to the side.
Ball forward, club shaft nice and upright.
We've got the thought process and the technique
of turning but make sure we get that brush
like Andy was doing just...
Beautiful. Beautiful.
- You almost wanna feel on this, as well,
almost wanna hear the earth.
There you go.
- You can see when you're doing this,
you're giving it a hair cut, effectively.
You're not scalping it, almost.
- You can just feel that club glide across
the surface there, yeah?
- Let's have a go.
Nice.
Again, a little bit off on the pace that time,
but the strike was fantastic.
- Perfect, perfect contact.
Good. - That's the one.
- And that's hitting ground early, too early,
but that's good, 'cause now you've got it.
Your margin for error now isn't so small.
Beautiful. Love that one.
- That was really good.
- There's the feel,
whether you can feel that.
Can you just feel like how the club's sort of landing and?
- Yeah.
- A little bit of glide. - A little bit of grass.
- There, that's it, that's the one for me there.
- It's almost like a plane landing,
and then taking off again. - Got it.
- So it hits the ground.
Lands on the ground, we don't hit the ground in a plane.
Lands on the ground, stays on the ground for a little bit,
and then comes up.
It doesn't go continuing straight down.
So hit me one more.
- [Andy] Beautiful.
- Again, so good.
And actually, a good element of check on it as well,
so it's actually a really good way
of getting a little bit more back spin
on those chips, as well.
- Perfect, great. Great stuff there, Jimmy.
- Thank you, guys.
- Really good.
- Great driver lesson as well.
I'm looking forward to seeing the results in that.
Guys, hope you enjoyed that.
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