Solving The Scoop In Your Golf Chipping In (Video) - by Pete Styles
Solving The Scoop In Your Golf Chipping In (Video) - by Pete Styles

The idea of scooping the golf ball with your chipping can pretty much be boiled down to what your left wrist does through the impact area. For the right-handed golfers it's the lead wrist. And a good chipping action will see the lead wrist remain pretty solid, pretty straight, most of the way through. It does hinges much later on in the technique, where as the scooping action would provide a wrist that hinges and bows a lot earlier into this position.

Just so you can see that in action I'm going to hit a couple of chip shots just sideways off the mound here. So a decent chipping action, I'm on my left side, I'm pushing through and you can see how my left wrist there has remained in one straight line, I made good contact with the ball. The ball chipped forwards nicely. Not mega high, but again, because I've got less loft off my club with my hands ahead, I don't particularly want or expect a high shot. The important thing is this line here. If I hit a shot now, the employ is a bit more a scoop. I'm going to lean back a bit more and my body weight comes back, my hands come back and I flick the ball and I really jam the ball super high up in the air, but I did catch that ball a little bit fat and you can see the big scoop in my left wrist effectively the wrist almost stops. The right hand does all the work. The ball goes in the air. Now there's occasions when I'm trying to hit really high cutie flop shots, that extra fast hand action might work for you. But you really do need a very good quality lie and more often than not, that scooping shot would probably produce fat shots or very highly thin shots that go shooting off through the green and there are not going to be good results. To be much better at chipping and pitching the ball, we are keeping that left wrist flat and straight and turning through here. Now that can be quite difficult to see for a lot of golfers by the time they've hit the ball they're so focused on what they resulted, they forgot to look at what that wrist did. So it might be worthwhile getting a friend to video you from the front on view. So as that video camera looks at me, video yourself from that angle and have a look at what your chipping and pitching techniques looks like to make sure you are not flicking, but you're turning through the ball better in this way here. So I think getting some video feedback of your pitching and chipping technique should avoid that left-handed scoop. 2016-10-14

The idea of scooping the golf ball with your chipping can pretty much be boiled down to what your left wrist does through the impact area. For the right-handed golfers it's the lead wrist. And a good chipping action will see the lead wrist remain pretty solid, pretty straight, most of the way through. It does hinges much later on in the technique, where as the scooping action would provide a wrist that hinges and bows a lot earlier into this position.

Just so you can see that in action I'm going to hit a couple of chip shots just sideways off the mound here. So a decent chipping action, I'm on my left side, I'm pushing through and you can see how my left wrist there has remained in one straight line, I made good contact with the ball. The ball chipped forwards nicely. Not mega high, but again, because I've got less loft off my club with my hands ahead, I don't particularly want or expect a high shot. The important thing is this line here.

If I hit a shot now, the employ is a bit more a scoop. I'm going to lean back a bit more and my body weight comes back, my hands come back and I flick the ball and I really jam the ball super high up in the air, but I did catch that ball a little bit fat and you can see the big scoop in my left wrist effectively the wrist almost stops. The right hand does all the work. The ball goes in the air.

Now there's occasions when I'm trying to hit really high cutie flop shots, that extra fast hand action might work for you. But you really do need a very good quality lie and more often than not, that scooping shot would probably produce fat shots or very highly thin shots that go shooting off through the green and there are not going to be good results. To be much better at chipping and pitching the ball, we are keeping that left wrist flat and straight and turning through here.

Now that can be quite difficult to see for a lot of golfers by the time they've hit the ball they're so focused on what they resulted, they forgot to look at what that wrist did. So it might be worthwhile getting a friend to video you from the front on view. So as that video camera looks at me, video yourself from that angle and have a look at what your chipping and pitching techniques looks like to make sure you are not flicking, but you're turning through the ball better in this way here. So I think getting some video feedback of your pitching and chipping technique should avoid that left-handed scoop.