Chip & Run - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Chip & Run - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

It may not be a glamorous part of the golfers game but it can have an amazing impact on their ability to reduce their goals scores. In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how improving your club selection when chip and running, as well as having your hands high during the set up, will improve your chipping. This coupled with a technique where you pick a spot on the putting green and a proper visualization technique should all help you chip and run the golf ball like a tour pro.

So one of the common overlooked short game shots I think would be the chip and run shot it's not one we see a lot on television. We see a lot of the the sort of Phil Mickelson high flying spectacular soft landing golf shot but the chip and run itself is actually a really functional and easy to do shot. We get a couple of basics right you know I think that would functional exactly the word that was on the tip of my tongue. It's not a glamor shot it's not a Hollywood shot but for the club golfer in particularly It could be a little work horse. Could employ this shot 5 6 times every round to really good effect where hopefully if missing the green we can just kick back on one putt two putt we can really change the scoring rather than that thin shot that shoots over the other side of the green that gets in trouble. Definitely I you know you if you it's almost very very close to a putt and it's probably not many times we miss strike a putt. So we can play a chip shot that's very much like that I think we've got some really good solid chances of getting it close to the hole and keeping those strokes down. So as a chip and run shot Pete what if you were going to demonstrate your setup or a starting point what would we be looking for?

You're exactly right that when you talk about it's almost like a putt and you make the point you know you never thin or fat a putt. So we're aiming for a simple up to the chip shots and hopefully trying to eradicate any thins and fats from this chip shot. My starting point here is a lot in a 8 iron now we can choose any club really from a sort of 4 iron through to a sand wedge but for the chip and run stuff we're looking to the nines and down we don't want the ball to go very high we want to go low when we want to run the chip and run section here I am going to set up just facing onto this camera here. With a relatively narrow stance much more similar to how I would do if I was putting compared to how I was chipping at all pitch so almost a putting stance how much you get a really lift the handle in the air there. Hopefully from the front on camera we can see how the how the handle sits up a lot higher and the club would very much sit on it's toe. It doesn't sit flat it doesn't sit on the heel it's very much on the toe end. So different addressed you normal full shot and how the club sits is totally different to how you full shot would sit? Yes very much so remember there for my grip is lightweight slightly different my grip sort of sits almost like a putting grip and I even employ one finger down the shaft right rather than my sort of normal distance away low hands using lots of wrists and a different thing is I don't want to use my wrists. I want my chip and run shot to feel very one piece very solid very metronome back and through without the feeling of freedom in the wrists here. Excellent what would we go for then where we were looking next in this stroke?

Sometimes to do a chipping pitching going to talk about a lot of body weight been forwards was a lot of a turn through with the body weight and that's not really too applicable to the to the chip and run the bump and run shots. I'm going to play this shot more with my high hands and then my rocking backwards and forwards motion almost like the putting stroke I might have 10 percent body weight on my left side and then it's much more of a putting stroke through and I land the ball short and it runs out. Excellent and you might also notice the length of back swing there Matt wasn't very long it wasn't a big back swing at all and there was very little wrist hinge in the back swing the club came back here to here so I'm still accelerating I'm still driving the club through. Worst case scenario here would be panicking and stopping and potentially duffing the ball that's not going to work too well. Definitely if I can just set you up here and you really touched on a fantastic point there. If we see from this camera now what we all noticed here is Pete set up a sort of created a triangle now with his arms in as you've made your stroke there if you just move it back for me you still have this connection of the triangle we're not getting any fall because we're not making a massive arm swing. Now if you were to show them a follow through in what we see again here is you can the same connection throughout the stroke. It's not that you've got loads of your arm rotation as in like you putter stroke. The face isn't going to be rotating a lot so you just keeping that little rocking motion gets that face just where we need it to be a slight bit of the body weight and you're able then to deliver a really nice crisp blow and see that we just get that nice little chip and run shot. The poorer version of that would be would be this wouldn't it but you know the elbows have separated it got away and we've lost that connection. So a feeling there is keeping the elbow straight into a triangle back through and actually finishing still with my triangle pretty much pointing the club where I want the ball to go. Keeping my balance solid through position as I as I chip it forward to let it run out.

Excellent and so you've got an 8 iron out there would you use a sort of rule of thumb is it running 50 percent and flying 50 percent or is there anything that you sort of clear up to the viewers is a good rule of thumb? Sometimes difficult to put a number on it due to the speed of the green but I think you're around about right there if you consider the lob wedge he might fly 90 and roll 10 percent and then coming back down through the wedges we might lose 10 percent per club we get here we're still looking around about 50/50 landed half way roll half way. Like I said depending on the speed of the green it might be different. A good way of thinking about that would be to imagine that you have the ball in your hand and you going to throw the ball on the green to help you visualize and assess the shot land it half way and roll it half way just gets the ball rolling to the edge of the practice green here now I can go ahead and recreate that same chip shot with my with my chosen club. Excellent next one you know and I think the shot that we're going to see a lot of control from is you've done very easy to just a perfect spot. So some really good stuff in there so very much like a putting stroke we're not going to set up as if it was a normal chip a normal chip shot we're getting a little bit more of a handle a bit more upright maybe change a grip to something like your putting grip and then keeping that connection throughout the swing to deliver the crisp blow and see a lot more consistency in these chip and run shots.

2018-11-13

It may not be a glamorous part of the golfers game but it can have an amazing impact on their ability to reduce their goals scores. In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how improving your club selection when chip and running, as well as having your hands high during the set up, will improve your chipping. This coupled with a technique where you pick a spot on the putting green and a proper visualization technique should all help you chip and run the golf ball like a tour pro.

So one of the common overlooked short game shots I think would be the chip and run shot it's not one we see a lot on television. We see a lot of the the sort of Phil Mickelson high flying spectacular soft landing golf shot but the chip and run itself is actually a really functional and easy to do shot. We get a couple of basics right you know I think that would functional exactly the word that was on the tip of my tongue. It's not a glamor shot it's not a Hollywood shot but for the club golfer in particularly It could be a little work horse. Could employ this shot 5 6 times every round to really good effect where hopefully if missing the green we can just kick back on one putt two putt we can really change the scoring rather than that thin shot that shoots over the other side of the green that gets in trouble. Definitely I you know you if you it's almost very very close to a putt and it's probably not many times we miss strike a putt. So we can play a chip shot that's very much like that I think we've got some really good solid chances of getting it close to the hole and keeping those strokes down. So as a chip and run shot Pete what if you were going to demonstrate your setup or a starting point what would we be looking for?

You're exactly right that when you talk about it's almost like a putt and you make the point you know you never thin or fat a putt. So we're aiming for a simple up to the chip shots and hopefully trying to eradicate any thins and fats from this chip shot. My starting point here is a lot in a 8 iron now we can choose any club really from a sort of 4 iron through to a sand wedge but for the chip and run stuff we're looking to the nines and down we don't want the ball to go very high we want to go low when we want to run the chip and run section here I am going to set up just facing onto this camera here. With a relatively narrow stance much more similar to how I would do if I was putting compared to how I was chipping at all pitch so almost a putting stance how much you get a really lift the handle in the air there. Hopefully from the front on camera we can see how the how the handle sits up a lot higher and the club would very much sit on it's toe. It doesn't sit flat it doesn't sit on the heel it's very much on the toe end. So different addressed you normal full shot and how the club sits is totally different to how you full shot would sit? Yes very much so remember there for my grip is lightweight slightly different my grip sort of sits almost like a putting grip and I even employ one finger down the shaft right rather than my sort of normal distance away low hands using lots of wrists and a different thing is I don't want to use my wrists. I want my chip and run shot to feel very one piece very solid very metronome back and through without the feeling of freedom in the wrists here. Excellent what would we go for then where we were looking next in this stroke?

Sometimes to do a chipping pitching going to talk about a lot of body weight been forwards was a lot of a turn through with the body weight and that's not really too applicable to the to the chip and run the bump and run shots. I'm going to play this shot more with my high hands and then my rocking backwards and forwards motion almost like the putting stroke I might have 10 percent body weight on my left side and then it's much more of a putting stroke through and I land the ball short and it runs out. Excellent and you might also notice the length of back swing there Matt wasn't very long it wasn't a big back swing at all and there was very little wrist hinge in the back swing the club came back here to here so I'm still accelerating I'm still driving the club through. Worst case scenario here would be panicking and stopping and potentially duffing the ball that's not going to work too well. Definitely if I can just set you up here and you really touched on a fantastic point there. If we see from this camera now what we all noticed here is Pete set up a sort of created a triangle now with his arms in as you've made your stroke there if you just move it back for me you still have this connection of the triangle we're not getting any fall because we're not making a massive arm swing. Now if you were to show them a follow through in what we see again here is you can the same connection throughout the stroke. It's not that you've got loads of your arm rotation as in like you putter stroke. The face isn't going to be rotating a lot so you just keeping that little rocking motion gets that face just where we need it to be a slight bit of the body weight and you're able then to deliver a really nice crisp blow and see that we just get that nice little chip and run shot. The poorer version of that would be would be this wouldn't it but you know the elbows have separated it got away and we've lost that connection. So a feeling there is keeping the elbow straight into a triangle back through and actually finishing still with my triangle pretty much pointing the club where I want the ball to go. Keeping my balance solid through position as I as I chip it forward to let it run out.

Excellent and so you've got an 8 iron out there would you use a sort of rule of thumb is it running 50 percent and flying 50 percent or is there anything that you sort of clear up to the viewers is a good rule of thumb? Sometimes difficult to put a number on it due to the speed of the green but I think you're around about right there if you consider the lob wedge he might fly 90 and roll 10 percent and then coming back down through the wedges we might lose 10 percent per club we get here we're still looking around about 50/50 landed half way roll half way. Like I said depending on the speed of the green it might be different. A good way of thinking about that would be to imagine that you have the ball in your hand and you going to throw the ball on the green to help you visualize and assess the shot land it half way and roll it half way just gets the ball rolling to the edge of the practice green here now I can go ahead and recreate that same chip shot with my with my chosen club. Excellent next one you know and I think the shot that we're going to see a lot of control from is you've done very easy to just a perfect spot. So some really good stuff in there so very much like a putting stroke we're not going to set up as if it was a normal chip a normal chip shot we're getting a little bit more of a handle a bit more upright maybe change a grip to something like your putting grip and then keeping that connection throughout the swing to deliver the crisp blow and see a lot more consistency in these chip and run shots.