Use Putting Stroke to Chip with a Hybrid (Video) - by Pete Styles
Use Putting Stroke to Chip with a Hybrid (Video) - by Pete Styles

If when you are chipping from around the side of the green you are having a little bit of a discussion with yourself by whether you should be putting it or you should be chipping it, it’s short enough to putt but actually there is a little bit of long tingly grass here that I just want to lift the ball over the top off so I want to chip that, but how about you can chip but with a putting technique.

So here I have taken my hybrid club which has just got enough loft on it to lift it over the fringed grass, but I want the control of a putt, so I actually take my putting grip and stance a nice narrow stance squared off with a ball slightly ahead of center, I would take my putting grip even with my fingers pointing down so my reverse overlap putting grip I will have my hands right at the base of the club to shorten the club to feel like a putter, most hybrid clubs would be about five to six inches longer than a putter so gripping right the way down, and then I use my putting technique my putting stroke so there is no hand or arm action in this necessarily, there is no leg action, there is no knee deep or anything like that it is just a very sort of metronomic tic-tock putting stroke.

And just as I click the ball there the hybrid club will just skim off the surface lift the ball just over the fringed grass and then get the ball rolling nicely forwards. If I have the hybrid back and I step down on it, it’s going to come out a little bit hard and it’s going to roll too far and actually when you getting used to chipping with your hybrid you need to spend a bit of time on the chipping or putting green just working out how far the ball will roll and release it’s not an easy thing to work out but just for the experience of hitting different shots up hill, down hill, harder and softer you get a feel for how you need to be hitching this, but it’s a hybrid club but with a putting technique there is my stance, there is my sets up and a little tic-tock and just chip the ball forwards, it clears the edge of the bay here and then just rolls out on to the putting green. Next time you are out to practice and you are trying to putt from off the green just try putting with your hybrid.

 2012-07-12

If when you are chipping from around the side of the green you are having a little bit of a discussion with yourself by whether you should be putting it or you should be chipping it, it’s short enough to putt but actually there is a little bit of long tingly grass here that I just want to lift the ball over the top off so I want to chip that, but how about you can chip but with a putting technique.

So here I have taken my hybrid club which has just got enough loft on it to lift it over the fringed grass, but I want the control of a putt, so I actually take my putting grip and stance a nice narrow stance squared off with a ball slightly ahead of center, I would take my putting grip even with my fingers pointing down so my reverse overlap putting grip I will have my hands right at the base of the club to shorten the club to feel like a putter, most hybrid clubs would be about five to six inches longer than a putter so gripping right the way down, and then I use my putting technique my putting stroke so there is no hand or arm action in this necessarily, there is no leg action, there is no knee deep or anything like that it is just a very sort of metronomic tic-tock putting stroke.

And just as I click the ball there the hybrid club will just skim off the surface lift the ball just over the fringed grass and then get the ball rolling nicely forwards. If I have the hybrid back and I step down on it, it’s going to come out a little bit hard and it’s going to roll too far and actually when you getting used to chipping with your hybrid you need to spend a bit of time on the chipping or putting green just working out how far the ball will roll and release it’s not an easy thing to work out but just for the experience of hitting different shots up hill, down hill, harder and softer you get a feel for how you need to be hitching this, but it’s a hybrid club but with a putting technique there is my stance, there is my sets up and a little tic-tock and just chip the ball forwards, it clears the edge of the bay here and then just rolls out on to the putting green. Next time you are out to practice and you are trying to putt from off the green just try putting with your hybrid.