Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
We are going to look here on how to cure a chili dip golf shot. Now a chili dip golf shot is just purely a shot where you’ve hit the ground, you’ve struck the turf first and then you’ve gone into the golf ball. So what happens with this shot because the club had strike in the ground to early and you strike in the ground about here the club head digs into the turf it really slows the club head down because the speed in the club head is getting transferred into the turf. So either you completely stop before you get to the ball depending on how early it is that you’ve hit the ground before the ball or you'll manage to get through the turf but really just tap the ball out. So the shot is not going to be a great golf shot it’s not going to go very far it won't go particularly high. So we are going to have a look at how to cure hitting the ground and striking the turf before you hit the golf ball. To get your best golf shot you want to hit that cleanly so this drill here is going to encourage you to strike down into the ground where the golf ball is rather than hitting the ground on the right of the golf ball. So to do this simply take your head cover place it in line with the golf ball and the target, but to the right of the golf ball if you are a right-handed golfer. And you want to set that head cover up just so that it's to the right of your right foot as you are going to play your golf shot. Okay so setting up in this manner is really, really good the club head is on the target line but it's just to the right of my right foot. If I swing back and I'm now going to strike the ground before the ball what I'll find is I will hit that head cover.
So I want to take some practice swings here and work on striking the ground I'll just take the ball out, I'm going to work on striking the ground without hitting that head cover so just hover your club up above the ground swing your club back so you don’t move your head cover and then as you swing in work on hitting the ground but on the left of that head cover. As I said if you strike that head cover then you would have hit a chili dip you would have hit the ground and then the ball. So just work on doing that until you are happy that you are hitting the ground on the left of that head cover where the ball would be. And then once you are feeling more comfortable with that stop that drill of quite slowly so you get the feel of how to move the club head in so that you are not hitting that wood cover. And then once you’ve got used to that reintroduce the ball and you can actually hit your golf shot. So you‘ll certainly really improve your strike you get a much crisper connection with the ball and you stop hitting the ground which reduces the distance that you can hit the ball. 2014-01-13 Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
We are going to look here on how to cure a chili dip golf shot. Now a chili dip golf shot is just purely a shot where you’ve hit the ground, you’ve struck the turf first and then you’ve gone into the golf ball. So what happens with this shot because the club had strike in the ground to early and you strike in the ground about here the club head digs into the turf it really slows the club head down because the speed in the club head is getting transferred into the turf. So either you completely stop before you get to the ball depending on how early it is that you’ve hit the ground before the ball or you'll manage to get through the turf but really just tap the ball out. So the shot is not going to be a great golf shot it’s not going to go very far it won't go particularly high. So we are going to have a look at how to cure hitting the ground and striking the turf before you hit the golf ball. To get your best golf shot you want to hit that cleanly so this drill here is going to encourage you to strike down into the ground where the golf ball is rather than hitting the ground on the right of the golf ball. So to do this simply take your head cover place it in line with the golf ball and the target, but to the right of the golf ball if you are a right-handed golfer. And you want to set that head cover up just so that it's to the right of your right foot as you are going to play your golf shot. Okay so setting up in this manner is really, really good the club head is on the target line but it's just to the right of my right foot. If I swing back and I'm now going to strike the ground before the ball what I'll find is I will hit that head cover.
So I want to take some practice swings here and work on striking the ground I'll just take the ball out, I'm going to work on striking the ground without hitting that head cover so just hover your club up above the ground swing your club back so you don’t move your head cover and then as you swing in work on hitting the ground but on the left of that head cover. As I said if you strike that head cover then you would have hit a chili dip you would have hit the ground and then the ball. So just work on doing that until you are happy that you are hitting the ground on the left of that head cover where the ball would be. And then once you are feeling more comfortable with that stop that drill of quite slowly so you get the feel of how to move the club head in so that you are not hitting that wood cover. And then once you’ve got used to that reintroduce the ball and you can actually hit your golf shot. So you‘ll certainly really improve your strike you get a much crisper connection with the ball and you stop hitting the ground which reduces the distance that you can hit the ball.
