Rick Shiels – PGA Teaching Pro
The fat chip oh it's an awful shot you are close to the green you're thinking I've only got to get this on to the flag and I'm putting for par. Why do we do it, why do we end up hitting the ball so far behind the ball and the club just sinks it just goes into the floor couple of reasons, one of the main reasons is that because we feel like we've got to get the ball up in the air and we feel like we've got to get the ball elevated as a temptation to lean back. So if I've got my kind of body angle hit as you come into the shot almost a lean back action and you end up catching behind the ball trying to flick it up but it ends up going three yards in front of you and you're not happy Japheth. So couple of things you are going to work on is making sure that we stay more central, making sure if anything we stay a little bit on our left-hand side and strike just that tuff beyond the golf ball. So set up wise we are not going to put the ball back we are going to play smart bang in the middle because that's always a temptation from fatting I put the ball back but what ends up and then you end up getting even further behind it and fatting it even more right in the middle of your stunts. I would encourage you to put your weight on your left side more so 55% into this leading leg you are going to look at staying central if anything trying to stay on this left side a little bit so as I swing back I've kept that weight pushed into my left foot nicely. And as I come back into the hit I'm going to encourage myself to hit beyond the ball a little bit more. No temptation of trying to lift the golf ball up and down. I've got enough loft on this golf club to do the right shot so I know it's going to get up in the air if I hit the right shot. So set your ball in the middle I am going to lean forward so we're going to play a shot where I don't lean on to my back foot I stay on my front foot swing and hit and I've hit the ball first and then the tuff after and that was a great execution of the shot keep on that left hand side hitting through. That will stop you fatting your golf chips and it will make sure that third shot or the fourth shot into a par 5 gets really close to the hole.
2013-06-26 Rick Shiels – PGA Teaching Pro
The fat chip oh it's an awful shot you are close to the green you're thinking I've only got to get this on to the flag and I'm putting for par. Why do we do it, why do we end up hitting the ball so far behind the ball and the club just sinks it just goes into the floor couple of reasons, one of the main reasons is that because we feel like we've got to get the ball up in the air and we feel like we've got to get the ball elevated as a temptation to lean back. So if I've got my kind of body angle hit as you come into the shot almost a lean back action and you end up catching behind the ball trying to flick it up but it ends up going three yards in front of you and you're not happy Japheth. So couple of things you are going to work on is making sure that we stay more central, making sure if anything we stay a little bit on our left-hand side and strike just that tuff beyond the golf ball. So set up wise we are not going to put the ball back we are going to play smart bang in the middle because that's always a temptation from fatting I put the ball back but what ends up and then you end up getting even further behind it and fatting it even more right in the middle of your stunts. I would encourage you to put your weight on your left side more so 55% into this leading leg you are going to look at staying central if anything trying to stay on this left side a little bit so as I swing back I've kept that weight pushed into my left foot nicely. And as I come back into the hit I'm going to encourage myself to hit beyond the ball a little bit more. No temptation of trying to lift the golf ball up and down. I've got enough loft on this golf club to do the right shot so I know it's going to get up in the air if I hit the right shot. So set your ball in the middle I am going to lean forward so we're going to play a shot where I don't lean on to my back foot I stay on my front foot swing and hit and I've hit the ball first and then the tuff after and that was a great execution of the shot keep on that left hand side hitting through. That will stop you fatting your golf chips and it will make sure that third shot or the fourth shot into a par 5 gets really close to the hole.
