Put Yourself To The Chipping Test For Better Golf Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles
Put Yourself To The Chipping Test For Better Golf Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles

May I explain the theory of which club to use out in the golf course, that’s all well and good; but for a lot of golfers, they actually develop a bit of personal preference. They start to understand that they get on a little better with certain clubs than others. Either suits their eye better or suits their swing better. So I think one thing that would be while worth considering doing is, heading out to the practice green with a bunch of golf balls and a few different clubs and actually chipping on to agreeing a few times with different clubs and different balls to see how the results fair. So you can have three different categories of golf balls; so I’ve got a white one, a yellow one and a really bright yellow one here, but you could just mark up some of your balls; take about 15 balls out to the range or out to the practice ground, mark them out with a pen or a marker and just sort of pit them in three different categories; one, two, three.

Then go ahead and hit the first five balls with your most lofted club. So I’ve got my 58-degree wedge, so hitting balls with my 50-eight degree wedge; it’s generally going to send the ball quite high into the air. So landing out towards that mark, trying to hit that ball high into the sky. Pitches the ball up, when it comes down it’s going to land and stop fairly quickly; it’s not going to land and roll out too far. So I can hit five shots with that club and have a look at my results, then I will take my 50-degree wedge, which is effectively my gap wedge so it sits between my sand wedge and my pitching wedge, so if you’ve got a gap wedge you that for your next set of shots. What we would often find here is this flight which is going to be slightly lower; slightly more penetrating. So when that one comes down it’s going to land on the green, it’s going to roll out a little bit farther, it’s not going to come down quite as soft as my lob wedge. And then the last shot I’m going to hit here is going to be with a nine-iron. So a nine-iron is effectively representing, almost the sort of low bump and roll style of shots. So it’s not going to fly high; it’s going to land on the green, it’s going to release out a lot farther. So my consideration here might be that I have to pick an area that’s a lot nearer to me, and I am playing out a range here so its not necessarily going to roll out brilliantly when it comes down but ideally you could be doing this out on the golf course or out on a chipping green where you could actually hit from grass on to grass. But my swing changes here I hit the ball a little bit lower and it comes out, and it runs out as it runs upon the green. So I could hit maybe five or if I could have enough time, enough golf balls ten balls of each club then walk out onto the practice area and have a look and see what my grouping is like; see which ones have finished closest to the hole, see which ones we acted best to the type of shot I was trying to hit. Then when I next go out and play on the golf course, do I have my preferred high shot, middle shot, or low running shot; and that might be the club that I default to, to get the best results out of my golf course, with my chipping club selection. 2016-07-18

May I explain the theory of which club to use out in the golf course, that’s all well and good; but for a lot of golfers, they actually develop a bit of personal preference. They start to understand that they get on a little better with certain clubs than others. Either suits their eye better or suits their swing better. So I think one thing that would be while worth considering doing is, heading out to the practice green with a bunch of golf balls and a few different clubs and actually chipping on to agreeing a few times with different clubs and different balls to see how the results fair. So you can have three different categories of golf balls; so I’ve got a white one, a yellow one and a really bright yellow one here, but you could just mark up some of your balls; take about 15 balls out to the range or out to the practice ground, mark them out with a pen or a marker and just sort of pit them in three different categories; one, two, three.

Then go ahead and hit the first five balls with your most lofted club. So I’ve got my 58-degree wedge, so hitting balls with my 50-eight degree wedge; it’s generally going to send the ball quite high into the air. So landing out towards that mark, trying to hit that ball high into the sky. Pitches the ball up, when it comes down it’s going to land and stop fairly quickly; it’s not going to land and roll out too far. So I can hit five shots with that club and have a look at my results, then I will take my 50-degree wedge, which is effectively my gap wedge so it sits between my sand wedge and my pitching wedge, so if you’ve got a gap wedge you that for your next set of shots. What we would often find here is this flight which is going to be slightly lower; slightly more penetrating. So when that one comes down it’s going to land on the green, it’s going to roll out a little bit farther, it’s not going to come down quite as soft as my lob wedge.

And then the last shot I’m going to hit here is going to be with a nine-iron. So a nine-iron is effectively representing, almost the sort of low bump and roll style of shots. So it’s not going to fly high; it’s going to land on the green, it’s going to release out a lot farther. So my consideration here might be that I have to pick an area that’s a lot nearer to me, and I am playing out a range here so its not necessarily going to roll out brilliantly when it comes down but ideally you could be doing this out on the golf course or out on a chipping green where you could actually hit from grass on to grass. But my swing changes here I hit the ball a little bit lower and it comes out, and it runs out as it runs upon the green.

So I could hit maybe five or if I could have enough time, enough golf balls ten balls of each club then walk out onto the practice area and have a look and see what my grouping is like; see which ones have finished closest to the hole, see which ones we acted best to the type of shot I was trying to hit. Then when I next go out and play on the golf course, do I have my preferred high shot, middle shot, or low running shot; and that might be the club that I default to, to get the best results out of my golf course, with my chipping club selection.