So if you identified the technical reasons why you are hitting the shank chip shots, if you've addressed the mental reasons why you might be nervous over these shots. What we then need to look at is how you can actually practice your shot, and practice your chipping technique to stop those heel strikes. Now there's lots of different things you can do. There's also different mental approaches and technical changes that you can make. But this drill is certainly a very, very simple way of actually tackling the whole subject.

So what I've done here is I've just set an alignment stick straight down and parallel to where my target line is. And I've just set my ball, so it's just a little bit on the inside. Now what this does is it gets my toe of the club resting pretty much just up against the edge of the alignment stick. Now that's important because I'm using my alignment stick as a guide as far as my backswing and through swing is concerned which actually relates to target line which I’ll explain a little bit more in a moment. But the first thing I want to do is get myself set up correctly.

So I am setting the ball in the middle of my stance. I'm having about 60% of the weight on my front foot. And I'm leaning my handle, so it's just opposite my left thigh. I am keeping my shoulders nice and square to the target line. I'm not letting them open up. So what I'm going to be doing from there is I'm going to be taking this club. And from my vantage point if I look down and I want to be seeing the toe of my club tracing along the actual alignment stick as I take it away. Now what this does is it stops me taking it too outside and returning it steep.

And it stops me moving it too far on the inside. So I'm taking it away. I'm tracking it along the edge of that alignment stick until I am reaching this halfway point here. Now if you've identified what you're doing in your chip shots, if you're coming too steep or if you are coming too shallow what you can actually do is use this drill to actually identify that a little bit more and to practice the opposite. So for example if I'm coming away from the ball too steeply, and returning the ball too steeply what I can do is take the club away, tracking it along the alignment stick.

And then on the way down moving it a little bit more from the inside, contacting the ball and chipping it down towards the target. Again set up, track and get away, trying to return it a little bit more from the inside path and then chipping it down towards my target. If you're doing the opposite, so you're actually hitting the ball more from the heel by coming too much from the inside, you can very simply switch it around. Get yourself set up, take it away tracking more along the outside of the alignment stick, and then trying to get that club returning more on the outside of the alignment stick as well.

Just by using this very simple drill, you can address if you're taking it too much outside the steep, too inside and too much to the outside. A very simple way to do it, a very simple way to practice it, and it’s certainly something you can do straightaway to try and improve this problem.