Raymond Floyd pro golfer the deadly chip shot (Video) - by Pete Styles
Raymond Floyd pro golfer the deadly chip shot (Video) - by Pete Styles

Well, the best all time is I like to watch in particularly around the greens is Raymond Floyd. Now he's been spending full time working on his short game. He was a pretty good ball striker when hit the ball really nicely. But he still reckoned that he would miss about four greens per rounds. That's four opportunities where he could save par if he had a better short game then the next guy. So he devoted a lot of his time to his short game and I would suggest you do the same because chances are you're going to miss more than four greens in every round of golf. So if he can be a good little chip or in pitch around the greens that would help.

Now Floyd particularly liked the low running shots. He really worked on that advice of getting the ball down early and rolling towards the hole. Quite often on the uphill chip shots, he takes the flag out. He thought it is a good opportunity of making the ball because it was rolling towards the hole much like a putt. Occasionally on the downhill shots because he fell on ball would be rolling faster towards the hole, you'd have the flag left in just in case you could hit the flag as it run towards the hole. But in all of the uphill chip shots he had the flag taken and he felt like he could make he shot.

Although he's very good at this other shot, the technique was very simple as well. He wasn’t particularly complicated. He'd take not a particular loft in golf clubs so I've got an 8-iron here. He played the club quite a little bit on its tow gripping down and standing quite close, almost like a putting action. Then a fairly simple action of just pushing the butt end of the club ahead, so he knew that the wrist wouldn’t break down. There wouldn’t be a scooping or flicking action on this. It would just be pushing forwards. So if in the front on view, you'd be standing quite narrow with his feet, quite close to the golf ball nicely with the hands ahead and just a good pushing action here. So we haven’t got the flicking, scooping or dubbing the ground just pushing through. Get that ball down early. Visualize it rolling towards the hole like it's a putt. And if it's a nice uphill, chip shot, have the flag taken out, see how many holes you can make. And like Raymond Floyd did, dedicates enough time in your practice to your chipping and your short game because at some point you will rely on it.

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Well, the best all time is I like to watch in particularly around the greens is Raymond Floyd. Now he's been spending full time working on his short game. He was a pretty good ball striker when hit the ball really nicely. But he still reckoned that he would miss about four greens per rounds. That's four opportunities where he could save par if he had a better short game then the next guy. So he devoted a lot of his time to his short game and I would suggest you do the same because chances are you're going to miss more than four greens in every round of golf. So if he can be a good little chip or in pitch around the greens that would help.

Now Floyd particularly liked the low running shots. He really worked on that advice of getting the ball down early and rolling towards the hole. Quite often on the uphill chip shots, he takes the flag out. He thought it is a good opportunity of making the ball because it was rolling towards the hole much like a putt. Occasionally on the downhill shots because he fell on ball would be rolling faster towards the hole, you'd have the flag left in just in case you could hit the flag as it run towards the hole. But in all of the uphill chip shots he had the flag taken and he felt like he could make he shot.

Although he's very good at this other shot, the technique was very simple as well. He wasn’t particularly complicated. He'd take not a particular loft in golf clubs so I've got an 8-iron here. He played the club quite a little bit on its tow gripping down and standing quite close, almost like a putting action. Then a fairly simple action of just pushing the butt end of the club ahead, so he knew that the wrist wouldn’t break down. There wouldn’t be a scooping or flicking action on this. It would just be pushing forwards. So if in the front on view, you'd be standing quite narrow with his feet, quite close to the golf ball nicely with the hands ahead and just a good pushing action here. So we haven’t got the flicking, scooping or dubbing the ground just pushing through. Get that ball down early. Visualize it rolling towards the hole like it's a putt. And if it's a nice uphill, chip shot, have the flag taken out, see how many holes you can make. And like Raymond Floyd did, dedicates enough time in your practice to your chipping and your short game because at some point you will rely on it.

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