Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about chipping but we want to talk about strategy chipping. When we get around the green and miss the green just barely we should probably get most of these up and down. So what I like to tell people is that we need to make chipping a strength not a liability because we were this close to the green we should have a reasonable chance to get up and down unless degrees kind of going like this it's a tenths mile you know the tenths of a mile on the back of the green. We'll be doing that the 1st thing we have to do is make sure that we're set up correctly and we have also been through that we have the right club still we can use that putting stroke feel we're not having to compromise our stroke to get there or to stop it from going too far.
That's the 1st and 2nd thing we want to do is we want to really look at where we should leave the golf ball on the green. Most greens like this been back to front so we probably want to leave the ball under the hole with uphill right to left putt and we have that uphill right to left putt. Statistically we make more of those right handed players. So remember once you get up and what you have the correct club always strive to leave that ball on the proper place of the green and when you do that you're going to have a much better chance of making those puts because they are statistically the easiest putts on the green. If you have a day full of downhill left to right sliders I promise you're going to miss a few and that's not a lot of fun.
2019-04-25 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney and today I want to talk to you about chipping but we want to talk about strategy chipping. When we get around the green and miss the green just barely we should probably get most of these up and down. So what I like to tell people is that we need to make chipping a strength not a liability because we were this close to the green we should have a reasonable chance to get up and down unless degrees kind of going like this it's a tenths mile you know the tenths of a mile on the back of the green. We'll be doing that the 1st thing we have to do is make sure that we're set up correctly and we have also been through that we have the right club still we can use that putting stroke feel we're not having to compromise our stroke to get there or to stop it from going too far.
That's the 1st and 2nd thing we want to do is we want to really look at where we should leave the golf ball on the green. Most greens like this been back to front so we probably want to leave the ball under the hole with uphill right to left putt and we have that uphill right to left putt. Statistically we make more of those right handed players. So remember once you get up and what you have the correct club always strive to leave that ball on the proper place of the green and when you do that you're going to have a much better chance of making those puts because they are statistically the easiest putts on the green. If you have a day full of downhill left to right sliders I promise you're going to miss a few and that's not a lot of fun.
