Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about the proper club selection when your chipping. You know I tell people it is very very important that when you set up the chip shots you that you use your putting stroke type of feel. I always want that same cadence that same one to type motion because what's going to happen is if I use that part of true feeling I'm going to get a more consistent distance control and more consistent impacts in the bunker. Then if I was to try to hit this one easier hit this one harder and all of a sudden do a lot of things that are probably shouldn't be doing.

Now if you play and practice every day and you have a lot of touch a lot of feel sure you can get away with using one club. I would probably recommend it is to change clubs and to get ourselves in a condition where we don't have to work very hard to get the ball to the hole. So what I tell people is to change clubs to control your distance and when you do that you can keep that same kind of stroke feeling it's so easy to replicate when you're chipping shots and I promise you are going to find the ball more closer to the hole than not.