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Tom's Featured Tip: Effective Chipping
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
Today's featured tip is short but extremely effective if you're willing swallow your ego and give it a shot.
Last weekend I went on an annual golf outing at the Conley Resort in Butler Pennsylvania with some friends. It's been going on for over 20 years, and here's a shout out to Frank Broderick for continuing to run it even though he recently moved to Arizona. Everyone had a blast.
While playing with several different players, I noticed that almost all of them were chipping with very lofted wedges almost every time a chip was in order. The correlation was that most of them had worse than average results with those very lofted club selections.
Some players act as if it makes them less manly if they don't chip with a very lofted wedge because that's what the pro's do.
Here's a rule of thumb to follow for better than average chipping results: if you aren't practicing your chipping for at least one hour once per week, then don't try to be a "one club" chipper. Use a flatter club instead, and don't be afraid to chip/putt with a hybrid, or a 6, 7 or 8 iron.
A chip/putt is just what it sounds like.
- set up as if you were putting,
- grip way down on the club,
- crowd the ball so that the club shaft is a bit more vertical than normal for that club,
- play the ball forward of center in your stance,
- stroke the shot like a putt, not a downward chipping stroke.
Leave the "one club" chipping mentality to the pro's and those players that have the time to practice with it. Your scores will get better with chip/putting, and that's what good chipping should accomplish.
Try it, you'll like it.
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Love your practice, own your swing, own your health,
Tom
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Tom's Bonus Tip: Freeze The Triangle
For simplicity, all advice on actual swings or drills is provided from a right handed perspective.
I like to teach players that when they set up for putting, that their arms, wrists, and hands, all stay fixed - or frozen - during the stroke.
When you set up correctly this way and simply rock your shoulders to feel a pendulum like putting stroke motion, you will develop rhythm, consistency, and control.
When you start to gain mastery of the motion, all you need to do is make a longer swing for a longer putt, and a shorter swing for a shorter putt.
That's when you will truly start to "own" your putting stroke.
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Love your practice, own your swing, own your health,
Tom
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Tom Tucker
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