How To Chip The Ball Closer Every Time – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
How To Chip The Ball Closer Every Time – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain not only the importance of chipping the golf ball close to the hole every time but also some really good focal points of how to improve your chipping game. Clearly chipping the golf ball nearer to the hole should encourage your scores to come down as your putting will be made easier. However, many golfers don't place enough of a priority on this aspect of the game. Here Matt and Pete will encourage you to focus on the landing area of your chipping and pitching shots. This, in turn, should encourage you to chip the golf ball nearer to the hole and therefore improve your overall short game prowess.

Inches inches away Pete I know it wasn't bad at all. So today's title we're all looking at how to chip it better and there's a reason why you were just hitting that ball towards that headcover there Pete so I'm going to hand over to you and tell us why you've just been doing that. Well it is something I do quite regularly but when I'm practicing my chipping is I don't necessarily come on why go on the ground and try and land the ball rolling near the flag what I do is throw a marker heads over that is here yeah sometimes it's either a towel or just an air we were grounded and I try and chip the ball on to the area is sort of a landing area exercise right and I think by landing the ball in a more consistent spot. I'm actually a much better the chipper definitely because I would consider to some golfers are saying you know you're lining up for a chip shot we've got a flag Yeah what are you looking at Bob looking at the flags and I was in between do you want to hit the ball for the fly not I don't want to hit the ball to fly I want to land the ball a lot near it's in a young let it roll to the fly surface fast green or it's got a slope to it the flag is irrelevant I'm landing it to the left hand side and 20 feet short yeah and rolling it around the victim so can't get out of course to think about the slopes on some of the green time last year for 16 targeted on 16 walks on stuff that reminded out of hi guys to form 16 the flag was not in his eye when he was lying almost always back to it the news it was how do I do it well he's down on the right hand side he's looking up there but what Heidi's doing that if he looks an area on the swing path to grass the fleck of a leaf or something and then yeah that's my line that's what I'm going to find you to be landed on that area on the rest you just sped down so he's ready to greet us like you would read a green if you were posting and as you know if you're going through this I was playing the shots in my mind now right I'm not building an image of what you're doing just fine not the and target you saying I need to land it here what's the green target when I am picturing good chips.

I've had and almost got a story board running through my mind of where a need to land it how it's going to roll and react and I feel confident. I think something we're quite used to doing with putts. Yes when with putting we don't always look at the flag read a line of take out book we place it all offline and to back to the target when we chip we kind of focus on the fly claim of the flight but I've been here before my head cover out that I'm going to practice trying to land my full of I did that within one where you must think yeah it was yes couple of invective isn't it which on a landing in and around that side my focus I was looking at that target practicing the light the swing that goes correctly to the target I then go ahead and use it and hopefully I'm close you know it's there when I go on the golf school I put my mind I think we had calls us on the green Yes I landed next to my mind and we had cover and if I read the brake and the roll of the green nicely and so yeah it ends up a lot takes work out of itself it's the focus on getting it stoned getting that stoned out if you can pick a you know even if it was a little of the size of my head if you pitch even 20 30 yards out he can one down last time you know if you had a pull that was the length of this map now to be had I fancy a hole in a few of those you know you'd be happy to look at the tape is to not focus necessarily on this tip anyway on on chipping technique but here focus on the visualisation with a degree shot routine working out a landing area pitching a landing and I think you'll be about a chipper as a golfer.

Definitly yeah certainly you know if you if you don't so it's you know as a as I said to you that I'm building these scenarios in my head and if we think of it you know the junior scenario when you were a junior golfer if you were looking to play when you were there and it was with your friends around the chipping hours hours it was all different scenarios wasn't it. Not technique based not lots of it right what shipping off a downslope to this thing it was right then it landed in that spot to release out so a fantastic tip that I would say not very technical one but something that's really going to get your mind work. Going to help you get a little bit more focus and really dialed in and shoot into the shot your playing so give it a go whether it is a towel head cover it could be a hoop or couple of clubs start to put some landing zones out on the chipping green or whatever your practice ground is and see how the ball reacts Once you've done that and hopefully from there you should start to see that your chipping game really improves and you start to have really short putts as you go through it.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer explain not only the importance of chipping the golf ball close to the hole every time but also some really good focal points of how to improve your chipping game. Clearly chipping the golf ball nearer to the hole should encourage your scores to come down as your putting will be made easier. However, many golfers don't place enough of a priority on this aspect of the game. Here Matt and Pete will encourage you to focus on the landing area of your chipping and pitching shots. This, in turn, should encourage you to chip the golf ball nearer to the hole and therefore improve your overall short game prowess.

Inches inches away Pete I know it wasn't bad at all. So today's title we're all looking at how to chip it better and there's a reason why you were just hitting that ball towards that headcover there Pete so I'm going to hand over to you and tell us why you've just been doing that. Well it is something I do quite regularly but when I'm practicing my chipping is I don't necessarily come on why go on the ground and try and land the ball rolling near the flag what I do is throw a marker heads over that is here yeah sometimes it's either a towel or just an air we were grounded and I try and chip the ball on to the area is sort of a landing area exercise right and I think by landing the ball in a more consistent spot. I'm actually a much better the chipper definitely because I would consider to some golfers are saying you know you're lining up for a chip shot we've got a flag Yeah what are you looking at Bob looking at the flags and I was in between do you want to hit the ball for the fly not I don't want to hit the ball to fly I want to land the ball a lot near it's in a young let it roll to the fly surface fast green or it's got a slope to it the flag is irrelevant I'm landing it to the left hand side and 20 feet short yeah and rolling it around the victim so can't get out of course to think about the slopes on some of the green time last year for 16 targeted on 16 walks on stuff that reminded out of hi guys to form 16 the flag was not in his eye when he was lying almost always back to it the news it was how do I do it well he's down on the right hand side he's looking up there but what Heidi's doing that if he looks an area on the swing path to grass the fleck of a leaf or something and then yeah that's my line that's what I'm going to find you to be landed on that area on the rest you just sped down so he's ready to greet us like you would read a green if you were posting and as you know if you're going through this I was playing the shots in my mind now right I'm not building an image of what you're doing just fine not the and target you saying I need to land it here what's the green target when I am picturing good chips.

I've had and almost got a story board running through my mind of where a need to land it how it's going to roll and react and I feel confident. I think something we're quite used to doing with putts. Yes when with putting we don't always look at the flag read a line of take out book we place it all offline and to back to the target when we chip we kind of focus on the fly claim of the flight but I've been here before my head cover out that I'm going to practice trying to land my full of I did that within one where you must think yeah it was yes couple of invective isn't it which on a landing in and around that side my focus I was looking at that target practicing the light the swing that goes correctly to the target I then go ahead and use it and hopefully I'm close you know it's there when I go on the golf school I put my mind I think we had calls us on the green Yes I landed next to my mind and we had cover and if I read the brake and the roll of the green nicely and so yeah it ends up a lot takes work out of itself it's the focus on getting it stoned getting that stoned out if you can pick a you know even if it was a little of the size of my head if you pitch even 20 30 yards out he can one down last time you know if you had a pull that was the length of this map now to be had I fancy a hole in a few of those you know you'd be happy to look at the tape is to not focus necessarily on this tip anyway on on chipping technique but here focus on the visualisation with a degree shot routine working out a landing area pitching a landing and I think you'll be about a chipper as a golfer.

Definitly yeah certainly you know if you if you don't so it's you know as a as I said to you that I'm building these scenarios in my head and if we think of it you know the junior scenario when you were a junior golfer if you were looking to play when you were there and it was with your friends around the chipping hours hours it was all different scenarios wasn't it. Not technique based not lots of it right what shipping off a downslope to this thing it was right then it landed in that spot to release out so a fantastic tip that I would say not very technical one but something that's really going to get your mind work. Going to help you get a little bit more focus and really dialed in and shoot into the shot your playing so give it a go whether it is a towel head cover it could be a hoop or couple of clubs start to put some landing zones out on the chipping green or whatever your practice ground is and see how the ball reacts Once you've done that and hopefully from there you should start to see that your chipping game really improves and you start to have really short putts as you go through it.