When To Choke Up On The Golf Club (Video) - by Pete Styles
When To Choke Up On The Golf Club (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now let's have a look at some certain situations on the golf course where gripping down on the golf club or effectively chopping up is actually going to be beneficial to you. One the first reason is actually quite relevant for me today that it’s very windy out here today.

So gripping down on the golf club I am actually going to see a lower ball flight is slightly more penetrating flight, it’s not going to fly too high and it’s not going to swirl around in the air too much, so gripping down is going to help that lower ball flight. Next scenario, it might be under a dangerous situation. So that’s why I've got 150 yards into a green but I've got water on the both sides. Simply by chocking up on the golf club I genuinely feel like I've got more control, I've got more ability to get an accurate and a really good strike and I should be able to keep that ball in play a little bit more regularly by chocking up as long as I use the relevant club to make sure that I am still going to maintain that same distance. But another really, similar to that one really. Danger on both sides of the fairway, but if I am playing a tee shot into a narrow fairway, I want to make sure that I am going to hit that fairway. So if you’ve got trees down both sides from my tee shot I might fell like I want to sacrifice a bit of distance to gain a bit more accuracy so it can even chock down on my driver. So take your driver but just grip down a little bit. You are probably going to loose 20, 30 yards of total distance but you should feel like you can gain some accuracy out of that so particularly where its narrow fairway with danger both sides you could actually grip a little bit down on your driver. Well another situation might be when you are playing a severely downhill shot. So genuinely we've got a down hill shot its quite nice for a golfer to hit that shot then launch it miles in the air, it flies for miles in the air, swales up in the air and then it falls a huge distance down into the green down below. That might look lovely but it might not be that much efficient. If you an keep the ball a little bit lower to ground again particularly windy conditions, keep it lower to the ground a bit penetrating in flight, you are going to negate the idea of that slope quite so much so actually chocking up on the club for the downhill shot making sure you grip down poke the ball forwards rather than flying it way up in the air on the downhill hole it will still fly high enough effectively the flow will fall away from it when it lands on the green it will still have plenty of spin plenty of stop. But that lower ball flight will just give you a bit more control. And that’s four great opportunities where you can choke up on the golf club to gain more control. 2016-07-18

Now let's have a look at some certain situations on the golf course where gripping down on the golf club or effectively chopping up is actually going to be beneficial to you. One the first reason is actually quite relevant for me today that it’s very windy out here today.

So gripping down on the golf club I am actually going to see a lower ball flight is slightly more penetrating flight, it’s not going to fly too high and it’s not going to swirl around in the air too much, so gripping down is going to help that lower ball flight.

Next scenario, it might be under a dangerous situation. So that’s why I've got 150 yards into a green but I've got water on the both sides. Simply by chocking up on the golf club I genuinely feel like I've got more control, I've got more ability to get an accurate and a really good strike and I should be able to keep that ball in play a little bit more regularly by chocking up as long as I use the relevant club to make sure that I am still going to maintain that same distance.

But another really, similar to that one really. Danger on both sides of the fairway, but if I am playing a tee shot into a narrow fairway, I want to make sure that I am going to hit that fairway. So if you’ve got trees down both sides from my tee shot I might fell like I want to sacrifice a bit of distance to gain a bit more accuracy so it can even chock down on my driver. So take your driver but just grip down a little bit. You are probably going to loose 20, 30 yards of total distance but you should feel like you can gain some accuracy out of that so particularly where its narrow fairway with danger both sides you could actually grip a little bit down on your driver.

Well another situation might be when you are playing a severely downhill shot. So genuinely we've got a down hill shot its quite nice for a golfer to hit that shot then launch it miles in the air, it flies for miles in the air, swales up in the air and then it falls a huge distance down into the green down below. That might look lovely but it might not be that much efficient.

If you an keep the ball a little bit lower to ground again particularly windy conditions, keep it lower to the ground a bit penetrating in flight, you are going to negate the idea of that slope quite so much so actually chocking up on the club for the downhill shot making sure you grip down poke the ball forwards rather than flying it way up in the air on the downhill hole it will still fly high enough effectively the flow will fall away from it when it lands on the green it will still have plenty of spin plenty of stop. But that lower ball flight will just give you a bit more control. And that’s four great opportunities where you can choke up on the golf club to gain more control.