Distance Control Ladder Chipping Tips

In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins offers a ladder drill to help improve your distance control when you chip.

Transcript

00:00So a brilliant drill to help you with distance control especially on those longer putts if

00:08you're somebody who tends to hit the ball to get it to get to the flag on long putts this

00:12will be brilliant for you. You don't want to hit the ball if you're working out that a little putt

00:16is going to be a little hit and a big putt is going to be a big hit it's very hard to control

00:20how much hit to give it. Much easier to do length of stroke so for that I tend to use this ladder

00:26drill it also gives you a fantastic idea of the pace of greens if you're visiting different courses

00:30so the first one I'm going to do is just going to be a very small tick tock so almost like a metronome

00:37in my head I've got this one two rhythm tick tock I'm not going to look to see where my balls go

00:43so that I'm not influenced as to how hard to give it some so keeping the same tempo the first putt

00:48is very small tick tock the next putt slightly bigger tick tock the next putt slightly bigger

00:58and the next part is your bigger one and what you should end up with is a nice fairly even Stevens

01:09ladder all the way up the green what you would then do is you then remind yourself of the length of

01:14stroke that you took and you worked your way back to your target that you started next to

01:19and that should really help with your distance control

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