A few simple tips to improve your greenside chipping

[VoidOfEnigmas]

1st tip. This is what I Think is the most important tip you can have, practice with EVERY club chipping and know how they are going to fly, release, bite, everything. Learn to chip with more then 1 club.

2nd tip. Stabilize yourself and get leaning forward. A very simple tip for making sure you keep your weight forward is to place your left hand on your hip if your a right and visa versa for lefties. It puts your weight slightly forward and helps you get set for your shot.

3rd tip. NEVER DECEL, the worst thing you can do for a chip is decelerate into the shot, just like putting.

Easy tips but give them a try :-D

[sean_miller]

Assuming consistent contact (a huge assumption I know) the biggest tip I got this year was from Dave Stockton. Someone posted the video here somewhere.

He said to pick a trajectory - high or low - not in between. I used to do that years ago and wondered why my chipping had declined. Now when I pick a landing spot I pick a trajectory and then go. Much better results.

[VoidOfEnigmas]

good tip but these are more tips for beginners that I'm posting, I do a few lessons a week with beginners and run a junior clinic once a week and i'm just trying to post a few good tips a day. If you guys want more advanced please let me know :)

[sean_miller]

Originally Posted by voidofenigmas

good tip but these are more tips for beginners that I'm posting, I do a few lessons a week with beginners and run a junior clinic once a week and i'm just trying to post a few good tips a day. If you guys want more advanced please let me know :)

It was a good tip when I was a beginner too. Not every chip needs to fly all the way to the hole and not every chip needs to get on the green as soon as possible. Sometimes a low bouncing 9-iron a few feet short of the green results in a makeable par putt and sometimes a pitch that lands 1/2 way between the fringe and the pin is close enough. The only difference between a beginner and a veteran is the beginner "should" choose the chip with the largest room for error. Even if that chip is a putt.