Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about distance control with the chip shot. You know people come in here and they say well I've got my favorite club, my favorite club to go a certain distance. Well that's great but let me give you an easy way to do it once we get set up correctly, or back here is a way forward and we set up in a way we can repeat this motion. Wouldn't it make more sense to change the club as opposed to changing your stoke. So what I tell everybody to do is you should be set up correctly. If you use your putting stroke feel you'll get a certain distance from each club here.

Here is an 9 and it's going to go a certain distance but if I change the 7 iron and I make that same putting stroke feel and that same putting stroke cadence it's going to go a bit further. So really what I want to do is experience the different clubs. Now that does not mean that you can't use one of the successful clubs. It just means if you are going to need to practice. So what I would suggest with your chipping is basically to always use that putting stroke feel and to change clubs and let the clubs to work so you don't have to.