Proper Golf Chipping Set Up (Video) - by Pete Styles
Proper Golf Chipping Set Up (Video) - by Pete Styles

It's been said that if you can’t chip, you can’t score. And I think that really highlights the importance of how we all as golfers must chip the ball at some point. Very rarely, even the best golfers in the world go round and hit all eighteen greens in regulation. So most times on the golf course, you are going to be chipping and for the high handicappers, it could be chipping on every single hole unless you're good at hitting your longer or mid-irons onto the green in one shot. When you get around the green, those chip shots are not going to be the things that set up the putts. So being a better chipper makes you a better putter, because you're putting from closer to the hole.

When you watch the world's best players they get up and down so frequently it's almost a surprise when they don't get up and down. Up and down is the idea that they chip the ball onto the green, and then they hold the putt. So it’s up and down. The club golfer might be aiming for onto the green on two putts. And the thing we’re desperately trying to avoid is two chips or chipping on and then three putting. So basically from the fringes, from around the green when you're chipping and pitching, it should be two or three shots and you're in the hole. Chip on two putts, that’s okay. Chip on one putt, brilliant, tour player standard. Two as in you’ve doffed one or you’ve missed the green, and then a couple of putts. That’s taking you four shots. That’s too many. Or chipping on and then three putting, that’s taking you too many. That’s taking you four shots as well. So from around the green on and down in two needs to be your aim. So when you're out on the golf course next time just consider how many of these little chip shots do you get, where it's just back and through. Only hitting the ball this amount of power. You should be good and accurate to those shots. There is no difference physically between how you can play that and how Rory McIlroy can play that. Okay physically he might be able to hit the ball three hundred yards and not yourself. But when you're around the green he doesn't have that physical advantage. So if you can be good from around the green, it will really start to pay dividends in your golf scores. 2016-10-20

It's been said that if you can’t chip, you can’t score. And I think that really highlights the importance of how we all as golfers must chip the ball at some point. Very rarely, even the best golfers in the world go round and hit all eighteen greens in regulation. So most times on the golf course, you are going to be chipping and for the high handicappers, it could be chipping on every single hole unless you're good at hitting your longer or mid-irons onto the green in one shot. When you get around the green, those chip shots are not going to be the things that set up the putts. So being a better chipper makes you a better putter, because you're putting from closer to the hole.

When you watch the world's best players they get up and down so frequently it's almost a surprise when they don't get up and down. Up and down is the idea that they chip the ball onto the green, and then they hold the putt. So it’s up and down. The club golfer might be aiming for onto the green on two putts. And the thing we’re desperately trying to avoid is two chips or chipping on and then three putting. So basically from the fringes, from around the green when you're chipping and pitching, it should be two or three shots and you're in the hole. Chip on two putts, that’s okay. Chip on one putt, brilliant, tour player standard. Two as in you’ve doffed one or you’ve missed the green, and then a couple of putts. That’s taking you four shots. That’s too many. Or chipping on and then three putting, that’s taking you too many. That’s taking you four shots as well.

So from around the green on and down in two needs to be your aim. So when you're out on the golf course next time just consider how many of these little chip shots do you get, where it's just back and through. Only hitting the ball this amount of power. You should be good and accurate to those shots. There is no difference physically between how you can play that and how Rory McIlroy can play that. Okay physically he might be able to hit the ball three hundred yards and not yourself. But when you're around the green he doesn't have that physical advantage. So if you can be good from around the green, it will really start to pay dividends in your golf scores.