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

When you're on the greens and you get that really, really tight lie a lot of people get really scared. They get scared because they then think that they can't get the club underneath the golf ball. Let me tell you a little secret. You can't get it underneath the golf ball anyway.

If we think about the golf ball, it's on the ground, that means the ground is underneath it, and unless you're going to move the ground from that place, you're not going to be able to get on the golf ball. So if we think about it in a slightly different way, the golf ball is the earth. It's got a North and a South pole, and it's got an equator in the middle. If we think about trying to get the contact on the face between the equator and the South pole hitting chip shots off tight lies will become very, very simple.

2020-08-03

When you're on the greens and you get that really, really tight lie a lot of people get really scared. They get scared because they then think that they can't get the club underneath the golf ball. Let me tell you a little secret. You can't get it underneath the golf ball anyway.

If we think about the golf ball, it's on the ground, that means the ground is underneath it, and unless you're going to move the ground from that place, you're not going to be able to get on the golf ball. So if we think about it in a slightly different way, the golf ball is the earth. It's got a North and a South pole, and it's got an equator in the middle. If we think about trying to get the contact on the face between the equator and the South pole hitting chip shots off tight lies will become very, very simple.