Which club is best for chip shots? (Video) - by Pete Styles
Which club is best for chip shots? (Video) - by Pete Styles

Which club is best for chipping? It’s a great question this one, and it’s one that isn’t that easy to answer, because if I look in my bag there I wouldn’t really be able to tell you that I’ve got a favorite chipping club, I’m pretty much comfortable using any of the clubs in that bag and all of them to chip with. And the reason behind this is the chip shot you get on the golf course is never the same, its never the same distance, the same height, the same amount of flight, the same amount of roll, it varies an awful lot. And as a golfer it’s important that we use all the tools at our disposal to hit the right shot at the right time. So here is a little trick to help you decide which club you want to chip with. What I would like you to do next time you are on the golf course is imagine that you have got the ball in your hand when you are approaching a chip shot. So you stand at the side of your real ball and you imagine where I would throw this ball to, how I would want it to land and how I would want it to roll to get it to go near the flag.

Now if I have got a big bunker in front of me I would probably have to throw the ball high in the air over the bunker, land it on the other side and roll it a short distance to the flag. So that might be my sand wedge that I would use to play that shot, to hit the ball high and get it to stop. If I had this ball in my hand again this time with no bunker in the way, I could just roll it low, land it a lot sooner in front of me and scuttle a little there to the flag on the ground. I would probably change clubs I might even take something like a seven or a six iron here. I would play the ball in a similar fashion whether I have got a sand wedge or a seven iron, play the ball in the center, gripping down, leaning left, knocking back and through and just pushing it forwards. And because I have got a low lofted club, I am expecting the ball to go low and to roll quite a long way. If I had a high lofted club, the same swing would go high and roll a short distance. So there is no right or wrong club to chip with, but to help you decide which one is best imagine you are throwing the ball onto the green and then go ahead and replicate that shot with any of the clubs in your bag. 2015-03-31

Which club is best for chipping? It’s a great question this one, and it’s one that isn’t that easy to answer, because if I look in my bag there I wouldn’t really be able to tell you that I’ve got a favorite chipping club, I’m pretty much comfortable using any of the clubs in that bag and all of them to chip with. And the reason behind this is the chip shot you get on the golf course is never the same, its never the same distance, the same height, the same amount of flight, the same amount of roll, it varies an awful lot. And as a golfer it’s important that we use all the tools at our disposal to hit the right shot at the right time. So here is a little trick to help you decide which club you want to chip with. What I would like you to do next time you are on the golf course is imagine that you have got the ball in your hand when you are approaching a chip shot. So you stand at the side of your real ball and you imagine where I would throw this ball to, how I would want it to land and how I would want it to roll to get it to go near the flag.

Now if I have got a big bunker in front of me I would probably have to throw the ball high in the air over the bunker, land it on the other side and roll it a short distance to the flag. So that might be my sand wedge that I would use to play that shot, to hit the ball high and get it to stop. If I had this ball in my hand again this time with no bunker in the way, I could just roll it low, land it a lot sooner in front of me and scuttle a little there to the flag on the ground. I would probably change clubs I might even take something like a seven or a six iron here. I would play the ball in a similar fashion whether I have got a sand wedge or a seven iron, play the ball in the center, gripping down, leaning left, knocking back and through and just pushing it forwards. And because I have got a low lofted club, I am expecting the ball to go low and to roll quite a long way. If I had a high lofted club, the same swing would go high and roll a short distance. So there is no right or wrong club to chip with, but to help you decide which one is best imagine you are throwing the ball onto the green and then go ahead and replicate that shot with any of the clubs in your bag.