Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today were going to talk about chipping. We all know that chipping involves getting the ball to roll in the green like it does a putt the quicker you get on the green the more accurate you're going to be we know that we need to put the ball at our right toe we need to anchor our hands and weight forward but here's the most important thing that most people forget. Remember once we do this it is now a putting stroke and the reason why it's a putting stroke if I have my 9 right here and I make these particular motions over and over all my shots should go exactly the same distance with this particular club.

So therefore when I grab a lower lofted club and I make the same putting stroke motion those 7 irons will go their own distance but they'll always go the same distance a 7 iron goes. The same thing for a 5 iron same thing for a lob wedge the bottom line is when you're chipping always makes sure that with the club you're using you figure out a comfortable stroke so all the balls to go the same distance if you can do that then you look at greens you go that's a wedge that's a 9 that's a 7. That way you can come a lot more efficient and a lot more consistent with your chipping because let's face it if you hit this close to the green you probably should get it up and down more often than not.