Chipping Rough Lie Tips by PGA Teaching Pro Ged Walters
Chipping Rough Lie Tips by PGA Teaching Pro Ged Walters

One of the things when it comes to chipping around the green, is it doesn't always mean that you're going to get a nice, perfect lie on the fringe. Sometimes you miss the green a little bit more on you end up in some rough grass. So if we look here, the big difference, we've got that lovely lie here, which is the one we'd really want, and then we've got one here, which I call this the danger lie. This is the lie that you all like in the roof, but is the one that will cause you the most trouble, which we'll talk about in a second. And there's one here and you might not even be able to see it. That is where it's better you to write down in the grass.

So let's start with the danger lie. Why do I call it the danger lie? Because it looks like it's really, really nice. Yes, When I put the wedge down, the wedge really disappears. So the possibility that you hit the ball here and don't get the distance you need is really there. And more often than not, that means you're going to have to chip again, or you've got a really long putt or sometimes you've even got to play a bunker shot because you're trying to get it over a bunker. So how do we play the danger lie? We move the ball back in the stance more in line with your trail foot.

2020-08-03

One of the things when it comes to chipping around the green, is it doesn't always mean that you're going to get a nice, perfect lie on the fringe. Sometimes you miss the green a little bit more on you end up in some rough grass. So if we look here, the big difference, we've got that lovely lie here, which is the one we'd really want, and then we've got one here, which I call this the danger lie. This is the lie that you all like in the roof, but is the one that will cause you the most trouble, which we'll talk about in a second. And there's one here and you might not even be able to see it. That is where it's better you to write down in the grass.

So let's start with the danger lie. Why do I call it the danger lie? Because it looks like it's really, really nice. Yes, When I put the wedge down, the wedge really disappears. So the possibility that you hit the ball here and don't get the distance you need is really there. And more often than not, that means you're going to have to chip again, or you've got a really long putt or sometimes you've even got to play a bunker shot because you're trying to get it over a bunker. So how do we play the danger lie? We move the ball back in the stance more in line with your trail foot.