Chipping is used when you are a few feet off of the green & want to land the ball on the green as quickly as possible and have it roll the entire distance to the hole.

1) Start with a narrow stance;

2) Weight is on your forward leg;

3) Knees slightly flexed, angling toward the hole.

4) The shot is relatively short and crisp, take the club back, it’s going to come up a little bit going back and then hit the ball not the grass first, and

5) Then keep the club face VERY LOW after impact.

This sense is going to give you a lot of control.

Weight on the left side, hands ahead, knees flexed. Let’s not choke down too much on the grip because we want to make sure we feel the shaft.

This is to prevent too much movement in the body, keep your hands are ahead of the club face.

You can see this at my address position, the way the shaft is angled forward.

Your hands remain in this position throughout the entire shot;

- when less than 20 yards to green, chipping - otherwise pitching (rule)

- 7 iron chip , chip 15' , roll 15'

- feet fairly close together (3 inches between heels)

- hands well forward

- club taken back by hands (left arm) only

- right elbow rest on right hip , very close to body

- open stance , weight on left foot

- quarter turn (HINGED THE WRIST A BIT AND THE KNEES FOLLOW NATURALLY THE MOVEMENT OF THE HANDS TOWARDS THE TARGET) , hit ball first

- keep club head low to ground for follow through at finish

- let the hands lead the clubhead through impact.

Whenever the situation allows, putting rather than chipping,
chipping rather than pitching and pitching rather than lobbing.

FOR BARE LIE (DEAD BROWN GRASS...SOLID AND FLAT)
USE IRON 6,7 OR 8

FOR FAIRWAY ( FLAT GREEN GRASS),
USE IRON 6,7,8,9, OR Pitch

FOR LIGHT ROUGH,
USE IRON 8,9 OR P

FOR HEAVY ROUGH
USE P