Two Options on Uphill Chip Shots, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Two Options on Uphill Chip Shots, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

You will often find when you get a chip shot from around the green that just the nature of the way the greens are designed. Now the chip shots are very rarely flat, you will often get an up hill chip shot because generally the greens are built up on the plateaus and you have got a chip the ball up on to that surface. So quite often you will get a chip shot that has quite a steep incline, now judging the way the ball comes off that incline can have a massive impact on how the ball releases and rolls towards the flag. Quite often playing from the incline is actually a little bit easier because it takes the grass away from the back of the ball, so you can have a nice easy swing into that ball getting a cleaner contact and if you are on a lofted up slope and often that up slope but actually added to the loft of the golf club and it will just popup a little bit higher. So we can set ourselves with a nice lofted club, leaning into the hill a little bit making a nice even stance maybe a slightly widest stands just to help you with the balance, hands forward and just chop the club down into the back of the ball and that will just pop the club up nicely. Chose a lofted club, let the loft on the hill increase the loft even more pop it up nice and high and it will stop fairly quickly when it lands on the green so you can fly that most of the way to the flag.

Alternatively if you are on an upslope and you want to release the ball a little bit more across the green as more of a chip and run you have to be careful that the loft is always going to trying and fight that, the loft is trying to go up, you are trying to keep it forwards. So you can use a slightly more less lofted golf club, maybe a nine or eight something like that, play that ball back in your stance lean quite aggressively into the hill here to produce a nice hands forward position we don’t want to be getting caught by lifting and scooping, hands nicely in front quite a lot of left knee bend because the hill will be up here to you so then from this position you push that forwards, get it down on the surface, get it rolling and skipping. You might feel that club would just bounce into the soil as you hit into the slop that because you are quite steep, that’s fine let that happen don’t expect a big follow through, it will feel a little bit jabby but hopefully that ball will come out as low as you want it and release at the green.

But when you are practicing your chipping and your pitching shots don’t always practice from a perfectly flat line because that’s not realistic be good at chipping particularly of up slopes because you get lots of those shots when you are out on the golf course.

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You will often find when you get a chip shot from around the green that just the nature of the way the greens are designed. Now the chip shots are very rarely flat, you will often get an up hill chip shot because generally the greens are built up on the plateaus and you have got a chip the ball up on to that surface. So quite often you will get a chip shot that has quite a steep incline, now judging the way the ball comes off that incline can have a massive impact on how the ball releases and rolls towards the flag. Quite often playing from the incline is actually a little bit easier because it takes the grass away from the back of the ball, so you can have a nice easy swing into that ball getting a cleaner contact and if you are on a lofted up slope and often that up slope but actually added to the loft of the golf club and it will just popup a little bit higher. So we can set ourselves with a nice lofted club, leaning into the hill a little bit making a nice even stance maybe a slightly widest stands just to help you with the balance, hands forward and just chop the club down into the back of the ball and that will just pop the club up nicely. Chose a lofted club, let the loft on the hill increase the loft even more pop it up nice and high and it will stop fairly quickly when it lands on the green so you can fly that most of the way to the flag.

Alternatively if you are on an upslope and you want to release the ball a little bit more across the green as more of a chip and run you have to be careful that the loft is always going to trying and fight that, the loft is trying to go up, you are trying to keep it forwards. So you can use a slightly more less lofted golf club, maybe a nine or eight something like that, play that ball back in your stance lean quite aggressively into the hill here to produce a nice hands forward position we don’t want to be getting caught by lifting and scooping, hands nicely in front quite a lot of left knee bend because the hill will be up here to you so then from this position you push that forwards, get it down on the surface, get it rolling and skipping. You might feel that club would just bounce into the soil as you hit into the slop that because you are quite steep, that’s fine let that happen don’t expect a big follow through, it will feel a little bit jabby but hopefully that ball will come out as low as you want it and release at the green.

But when you are practicing your chipping and your pitching shots don’t always practice from a perfectly flat line because that’s not realistic be good at chipping particularly of up slopes because you get lots of those shots when you are out on the golf course.