Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
So if you are faced with a chip where the balls lying OK you've got plenty of room a decent size landing area. There's no reason there where you shouldn't just run the ball up and do what we call the old Scottish run up or chip and run. In this instance you can use a straighter face club of seven, eight, nine iron something like that that's going to hit the ball a little bit lower trajectory and let it run out a little bit more. How do we play this stroke? Well the first thing is it is more akin to a putting stroke. So we can go down the club you can even use putting grip if you wish. We're going to assume a stance that's a lot more upright so you'll see my body is a lot more vertical narrower stance and even sit the club a little bit on the toe don't forget the club is designed to sit at this lie angle, but now we're elevating the handle.
The handle is pointing more up at the chest we're gonna stand taller by standing taller that allows us to extend our arms and that can allow us to create more of what we call a one lever the stroke. We're trying to reduce all the moving components and make this shot as risk free as possible so by getting the shaft more up right by getting the arms straighter. Now we're going to make a pendulum motion a tick tock motion a lot of this is happening from the shoulders. So remember it's almost like a glorified putting stroke and then a little subtle adjustment in the stance we're going to play the ball slightly further back just behind the shirt buttons. So from here I can just use this stroke that's going to hit the ball slightly on the descent just trap it. Take a little graze or brush the turf and then it's just a question of getting a feel of how far back and through you need that stroke to go so let's give it a little go. So it's just a tick tock tick tock, and you'll get a feel for how far the ratio is about a thirty percent carry seventy percent roll obviously this depends on the speed of the greens you chipping to but get a feel of it almost feels like the putting stroke limited wrist one lever action. It is a very low risk shot and I think you have practice you'll find it quite effective.
2018-11-16 Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
So if you are faced with a chip where the balls lying OK you've got plenty of room a decent size landing area. There's no reason there where you shouldn't just run the ball up and do what we call the old Scottish run up or chip and run. In this instance you can use a straighter face club of seven, eight, nine iron something like that that's going to hit the ball a little bit lower trajectory and let it run out a little bit more. How do we play this stroke? Well the first thing is it is more akin to a putting stroke. So we can go down the club you can even use putting grip if you wish. We're going to assume a stance that's a lot more upright so you'll see my body is a lot more vertical narrower stance and even sit the club a little bit on the toe don't forget the club is designed to sit at this lie angle, but now we're elevating the handle.
The handle is pointing more up at the chest we're gonna stand taller by standing taller that allows us to extend our arms and that can allow us to create more of what we call a one lever the stroke. We're trying to reduce all the moving components and make this shot as risk free as possible so by getting the shaft more up right by getting the arms straighter. Now we're going to make a pendulum motion a tick tock motion a lot of this is happening from the shoulders. So remember it's almost like a glorified putting stroke and then a little subtle adjustment in the stance we're going to play the ball slightly further back just behind the shirt buttons. So from here I can just use this stroke that's going to hit the ball slightly on the descent just trap it. Take a little graze or brush the turf and then it's just a question of getting a feel of how far back and through you need that stroke to go so let's give it a little go. So it's just a tick tock tick tock, and you'll get a feel for how far the ratio is about a thirty percent carry seventy percent roll obviously this depends on the speed of the greens you chipping to but get a feel of it almost feels like the putting stroke limited wrist one lever action. It is a very low risk shot and I think you have practice you'll find it quite effective.
