Use Putting Set Up And Putter Stroke To Correct Chipping Problem - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
Use Putting Set Up And Putter Stroke To Correct Chipping Problem - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay. So maybe you’re actually struggling about chipping around the green, and if so I want to give you some simple, very simple advice here of how to improve that chipping. When people struggle with chipping there are all sorts of faults that could actually happen but one of the big causes is this actual swing, the actual stroke that people put on the shot. If I pull out a putter and we set up to the ball, our arms would be hanging straight down from our shoulders, they could be a bit behind obviously. The ball position would be slightly ahead of sensor. And from here we would be focusing on slightly swinging the club with our shoulders like a pendulum pulling backwards and forwards.

So the idea would be we keep that putter nice and low to the ground by hitting go nice and low the clip comes in and just hits it ever so slightly on the up. So you can imagine if there was a nice sort of morning dew and we did that we’d have a trail in the dew going back and we’d have a trail in the dew going through the ball because we are just swishing the grass with a putter. So that’s a putting technique. So how do you put that into the chipping? Well here’s a typical club that you might use a number seven iron; set ourselves up in exactly the same way. Remember what I just said in the same way set up as if it were a putter. So set yourself up, ball position the same if you want to you can use either a normal golfing grip or even your putting grip is whatever you feel more comfortable with and from here you want to focus and keep getting ourselves over the ball. And I want you to focus on the shoulders and the arms hanging straight down. So we are focusing on everything being together back and forward so if I do this over the golf ball watch the technique of the shoulders, keep the club low, keep the club low and the loft of the seven nine has just thrown the ball up in the air and its really that simple. You could also play this with either a High Breed or you could actually use a Fairway Wood that is exactly the same way you see this quite often with the tour pros now on the circuit playing a shot from just off the green and might use a three-wood or a four-wood or a seven-wood and again it’s the same thing they will go down the grid because obviously up here their arms will be open and that wouldn’t be the length of the putter. The same setup but the same techniques are from here again. The advantage of the wood is the slight little canvas sole so if the grass wasn’t as nice as a perfect line maybe you might think I’ll just go with one of these woods, the three-wood, five-wood, seven-wood. Again from here just swing from the shoulders, shoulders back, shoulders forward and that little three-wood loft mine here is a 15 degree just thrown that ball up in the ball is running up towards the hole. So if you struggle with chipping incorporate your putting styles and technique and you can use any of these clubs so a nice 7-iron a fairway wood or a hybrid, any of those and you should get results pretty quickly. 2013-12-11

Okay. So maybe you’re actually struggling about chipping around the green, and if so I want to give you some simple, very simple advice here of how to improve that chipping. When people struggle with chipping there are all sorts of faults that could actually happen but one of the big causes is this actual swing, the actual stroke that people put on the shot. If I pull out a putter and we set up to the ball, our arms would be hanging straight down from our shoulders, they could be a bit behind obviously. The ball position would be slightly ahead of sensor. And from here we would be focusing on slightly swinging the club with our shoulders like a pendulum pulling backwards and forwards.

So the idea would be we keep that putter nice and low to the ground by hitting go nice and low the clip comes in and just hits it ever so slightly on the up. So you can imagine if there was a nice sort of morning dew and we did that we’d have a trail in the dew going back and we’d have a trail in the dew going through the ball because we are just swishing the grass with a putter. So that’s a putting technique. So how do you put that into the chipping?

Well here’s a typical club that you might use a number seven iron; set ourselves up in exactly the same way. Remember what I just said in the same way set up as if it were a putter. So set yourself up, ball position the same if you want to you can use either a normal golfing grip or even your putting grip is whatever you feel more comfortable with and from here you want to focus and keep getting ourselves over the ball. And I want you to focus on the shoulders and the arms hanging straight down. So we are focusing on everything being together back and forward so if I do this over the golf ball watch the technique of the shoulders, keep the club low, keep the club low and the loft of the seven nine has just thrown the ball up in the air and its really that simple.

You could also play this with either a High Breed or you could actually use a Fairway Wood that is exactly the same way you see this quite often with the tour pros now on the circuit playing a shot from just off the green and might use a three-wood or a four-wood or a seven-wood and again it’s the same thing they will go down the grid because obviously up here their arms will be open and that wouldn’t be the length of the putter. The same setup but the same techniques are from here again.

The advantage of the wood is the slight little canvas sole so if the grass wasn’t as nice as a perfect line maybe you might think I’ll just go with one of these woods, the three-wood, five-wood, seven-wood. Again from here just swing from the shoulders, shoulders back, shoulders forward and that little three-wood loft mine here is a 15 degree just thrown that ball up in the ball is running up towards the hole. So if you struggle with chipping incorporate your putting styles and technique and you can use any of these clubs so a nice 7-iron a fairway wood or a hybrid, any of those and you should get results pretty quickly.