00:05Hi, Dan Grieve here, head professional at Woburn Golf Club, here to talk about chipping basics so
00:08you can get that nice solid contact every time when you're on your fringe lie and you have a
00:13little bit of green to work with. So the good news here is if you do get a set up
00:16right you
00:17are 90% of the way there to making a good contact, doesn't make a bad shot impossible but it
00:21makes
00:21it difficult. So let's make sure firstly we don't stand too wide, let's trap the centre of gravity,
00:27let's make our feet really nice and narrow around about one club head apart when you're playing a
00:30chip and run like this. Ball position just back of centre, have a slight forward lean of the shaft so
00:37you don't lean it too much just a little bit is all you need and let's make sure that the
00:41left foot
00:42here is slightly flared out which is going to allow you to put your pivot line, your weight running
00:46from your left foot through your knee through hip into your shoulders. So you set that pivot line,
00:51that's the line in which you're going to rotate around. It's also important we make sure the left
00:56wrist here is nice and flat, we don't want to get too far away and start to create an angle
01:00here
01:00because this angle is likely to create too much wrist action. For a chip and run we're trying to
01:05take the wrist out, so nice and close to the ball and let's make sure this is nice and flat.
01:10Also your
01:10shoulders need to be level, we don't want to get too much tilt, let's save that for the long game.
01:14So nice and level in the way in which you approach you with the shoulders and if you get all
01:18those
01:18ingredients right, add a slightly lighter grip as well, most people grip it way too tight when they chip,
01:23you're in a good position to hit a nice running chip shot, make a nice contact and get that ball
01:28running close to the pin. And one of the lost arts in chipping is the ability to actually change your
01:33club to change how the ball runs out. So I'm never a great fan of players sticking to the same
01:38club
01:38all the time around the greens because you end up having to hit the ball so much harder to get
01:42the
01:42ball to the green. If you can just have this one chipping technique and change the club in your hand
01:47to let the ball react differently, that's a much easier way of getting the ball closer to the pin.
01:51So for example here I put a towel down on the green a third of the way on and there's
01:57two
01:57thirds between there and the hole so I'm going to try and do is land the ball next to that
02:00towel
02:01and see if I can get it to run two thirds of the way out. So nine iron in my
02:05hand here,
02:06normal chipping technique, land it by the towel and you can see how that ball is running out close to
02:11the pin. Now if I have other options, I mean that's obviously a good choice there, but if I wanted
02:16to
02:17get that ball on the ground a little bit sooner and run out, I've got my seven iron in my
02:21hand. Now
02:21a seven iron is around about a 25% carry and a 75% roll so I need to bring
02:26my target back or I'd
02:28like to land the ball. So you'll see this land a little shorter but the speed will be greater in
02:33the ball and you can see how that ball is now running out more towards the pin so another good
02:39option. Okay there's not particularly one way to do it, it's what you're most comfortable with but I
02:43think generally if you end up using straighter face clubs you're going to get a lot more joy.
02:48So I've now got a 56 degrees sand wedge in my hand and really I'm looking at carrying this around
02:53about 75% of the way so it's much more in the air. So it won't run that far at
02:57the other end
02:59so you can see how that is spinning more and not running as much. So I've just shown there's three
03:04different ways to chip with three different clubs and it's up to you to find out which you're most
03:08consistent with but I really would try and encourage you to get the ball on the green and running
03:12as soon as you can. So one final point, I do recommend that you do use the same golf ball
03:16that you practice with that you play with. It just makes sense, you're going to get the same feel
03:20that you're able to take to the golf course. So I use the Teleme TP5, I feel like it's really
03:24soft
03:25and gives me that touch around the greens but go out there, have a ball fitting with your local pro,
03:28see what's best for you and make sure you have that consistency between what you practice with
03:32and what you play with.
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