Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
When we analyze different parts of the golf swing in the short game there's often areas where they're not really paying enough attention. One of those areas could be your shoulder alignment and how your shoulder alignment is different for two fairly similar related parts of the short game, but the shoulder alignment is very very different in these two areas and that's between the chipping and the putting so much chipping and putting the shoulder alignment is quite lively different even though the swing might look fairly similar so for a putting stroke everything should be square we're going to have the feet square the needs of the hips the shoulders or pointing lightly to the targets the club face pointing to the target and then if the shoulder square the back and through motion we will generally be taking the club towards the target most of the time so from here the club goes down the target line most of the time if my shoulders were twisted I often feel that my putting stroke would start to twist or compensate because the alignment of my shoulders so when you're putting try and get your shoulders square to target at all times.
However when you're chipping things can start to look a little bit different often when golfers are chipping which actually encourage them to have an open shoulder position. So as we set up to the ball here we try and chip the pitch the ball forwards my shoulders now playing way off line this way and it wouldn't really bother me if my swing path went out in and cut across the ball as long as my club face compensated for that by being more open now a club face been open in a putting stroke and cutting across would be pretty detrimental. It wouldn't be very consistent but in a chipping or pitching action having the face open and the path going left isn't too much of an issue because it adds more loft I would often hit flop shots and cut shots and high pitch shots with the body in the feet aiming nowhere near target my feet would be left my knees my hips and particularly my shoulders would be left my club face would be to the right and the ball would come out quite straight even though my shoulder aligned So when you're practicing your putting in your chipping consider that your shoulders don't always have to be the same with the putting stroke we want the shoulders nicely lined up square and straight to target with the chipping game we can have the shoulders aiming open so left for the right handed golfer and allow yourself to cut the ball into the air and that's how your shoulder position can be different.
2018-08-20 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
When we analyze different parts of the golf swing in the short game there's often areas where they're not really paying enough attention. One of those areas could be your shoulder alignment and how your shoulder alignment is different for two fairly similar related parts of the short game, but the shoulder alignment is very very different in these two areas and that's between the chipping and the putting so much chipping and putting the shoulder alignment is quite lively different even though the swing might look fairly similar so for a putting stroke everything should be square we're going to have the feet square the needs of the hips the shoulders or pointing lightly to the targets the club face pointing to the target and then if the shoulder square the back and through motion we will generally be taking the club towards the target most of the time so from here the club goes down the target line most of the time if my shoulders were twisted I often feel that my putting stroke would start to twist or compensate because the alignment of my shoulders so when you're putting try and get your shoulders square to target at all times.
However when you're chipping things can start to look a little bit different often when golfers are chipping which actually encourage them to have an open shoulder position. So as we set up to the ball here we try and chip the pitch the ball forwards my shoulders now playing way off line this way and it wouldn't really bother me if my swing path went out in and cut across the ball as long as my club face compensated for that by being more open now a club face been open in a putting stroke and cutting across would be pretty detrimental. It wouldn't be very consistent but in a chipping or pitching action having the face open and the path going left isn't too much of an issue because it adds more loft I would often hit flop shots and cut shots and high pitch shots with the body in the feet aiming nowhere near target my feet would be left my knees my hips and particularly my shoulders would be left my club face would be to the right and the ball would come out quite straight even though my shoulder aligned So when you're practicing your putting in your chipping consider that your shoulders don't always have to be the same with the putting stroke we want the shoulders nicely lined up square and straight to target with the chipping game we can have the shoulders aiming open so left for the right handed golfer and allow yourself to cut the ball into the air and that's how your shoulder position can be different.
