The Best Drill for Senior Golfers to Improve their Chipping Chip Coins (Video) - by Dean Butler
The Best Drill for Senior Golfers to Improve their Chipping Chip Coins (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay, now we are going to talk about chipping and how to improve your chipping technique. And this involves putting a coin down on the floor, which we are going to come in a minute. But I just want to basically describe the setup of what you should be doing when you are going to chip a golf shot. But first of all, let's go for the setup, because we need to get the setup right to make sure we can do this exercise right. The club should be behind the ball, hands down the grip nice and light, hands forward, feet quite close together with the ball in the middle of the stance and the left foot setback just ever so slightly. So you have got an open setup and the weight 60-40, so that's the setup.

Very simple, very clear, nothing complicated. So we are leaning on that left hand side, now the whole idea of chipping is to get that club going back nice and low and coming back in nice and low. So the loft of the club can do the job for you. So if I just go back nice and slow, that ball now just jumps up into the air, because the club is doing the work. Let's say you have got a problem with this and you think, I can't do it. But if you put a coin down on the floor, you can imagine a coin is so much smaller than a golf ball now. So if we set ourselves at the same setup again and focus on trying to hit the coin, which is so much more thin, now isn't it, it's so much thinner. If I set myself up again and I swing it back and through, you can see the coin has gone against the wall, we are not going to lose it. The coin has gone against the wall and what I would say to you is, just imagine how many times you need to hit that coin, a dime, a pound coin, whatever, you just hit a coin. If you can hit a coin, surely you are going to hit a golf ball which is 1.68 inches. So practice with a coin, you have got the technique, you have got the knowledge, it’s that simple. If you can hit this, you can hit that all day. Go and enjoy.
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Okay, now we are going to talk about chipping and how to improve your chipping technique. And this involves putting a coin down on the floor, which we are going to come in a minute. But I just want to basically describe the setup of what you should be doing when you are going to chip a golf shot. But first of all, let's go for the setup, because we need to get the setup right to make sure we can do this exercise right. The club should be behind the ball, hands down the grip nice and light, hands forward, feet quite close together with the ball in the middle of the stance and the left foot setback just ever so slightly. So you have got an open setup and the weight 60-40, so that's the setup.

Very simple, very clear, nothing complicated. So we are leaning on that left hand side, now the whole idea of chipping is to get that club going back nice and low and coming back in nice and low. So the loft of the club can do the job for you. So if I just go back nice and slow, that ball now just jumps up into the air, because the club is doing the work. Let's say you have got a problem with this and you think, I can't do it. But if you put a coin down on the floor, you can imagine a coin is so much smaller than a golf ball now. So if we set ourselves at the same setup again and focus on trying to hit the coin, which is so much more thin, now isn't it, it's so much thinner. If I set myself up again and I swing it back and through, you can see the coin has gone against the wall, we are not going to lose it.

The coin has gone against the wall and what I would say to you is, just imagine how many times you need to hit that coin, a dime, a pound coin, whatever, you just hit a coin. If you can hit a coin, surely you are going to hit a golf ball which is 1.68 inches. So practice with a coin, you have got the technique, you have got the knowledge, it’s that simple. If you can hit this, you can hit that all day. Go and enjoy.