One of the biggest bad habits that I see in relation to chipping the golf ball is people trying to help the ball in the air and scoop the ball into the air. And I always have to reiterate that it’s the club’s job to hit the ball in the air. It’s not your job. And a lot of people full foul of this because they’re scooping at impact, trying to help the ball go high and there’s flicking action with the wrist, sends the club down early and up early. And that way they’re going to hit the ground fat or top the golf ball to a very detrimental strike that they’re going to cause problems with your results. So we want to try and utilize the feeling of having the hands much more in front of the golf ball and hitting down to get a nice crisp strike. And here’s a great exercise that will help you with that. If you take your normal pitching wedge and just slide your hands pretty much halfway down, maybe even two-thirds of the way down, so you’re holding very much towards the head of the golf club. And then, take your normal grip here and feel like you’re setting up as if you would do to chip. The shaft of the golf club running nicely down the left-hand side of your body for a right-handed golfer, your ball is in the center and your hands are nicely, your head and your body weight is a little bit left side. Now, the shaft of the golf club will just run away from the side of your head, maybe touching the side of your head, either of those is fine. You make a little back swing and it would just move slightly away from your body, and then make a little bit of a follow through turn. Now, it’s important that in the follow through turn the shaft of the golf club is nowhere near my body. If I do this correctly, I turn through and it doesn’t hit me. If I turn here you’ll see how the shaft runs away from the side of my body because I haven’t released with my left wrist. If I was in the habit of scooping and flicking, you can feel how that golf club just turns and bangs into my body as I try and scoop my left wrist. As soon as you would feel that club hit you on a short chip or pit shot, you can appreciate you must be using too much conduction. So grip it two-thirds of the way down, practice little chipping actions and make sure the shaft doesn’t hit you. Then if I take that into my normal golf swing set up and chip the ball, you can see in the follow through position here that the shaft of the golf club would still bypass the side of my body. Yet, if I was to get this wrong and I was to use a scooping action in my wrist, so I flick this, you can see how this shaft would absolutely cut me in half. So you can almost imagine there’s a laser coming out at the top of the shaft of your golf club and you want to keep that laser pushed away from you. And if you were to flick and scoop, that laser cuts you in half. So, maybe it’s worthwhile just before you practice chipping the golf ball in the practice ground, you grip down, you have four or five swings here, pushing away and not hitting yourself. Then, when you practice, you chip the ball, you stop in your finished position, watch the ball land, then refer back to the angle of the shaft and make sure it’s away from your body, not cutting you in half. Any time that the lasers chop you in half, you’ve scooped and you’re risking a bad contact on the chip shots.