Which Club Should You Use To Hit Golf Chip Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles
Which Club Should You Use To Hit Golf Chip Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles

This tip is all about using the right club to chip with. Now for a lot of golfers they have like that go-to chipping shot that whenever they are within 50 yards of the green, they just reach for the sand wedge. But I think there’s a little bit of a problem with that because different chip shots are going to ask you different questions. Some are going to ask you to hit the ball high and stop it quickly, some shots might ask you to hit the ball a bit lower and roll it out but picking the right club is very essential because we get so many chip shots in every round of golf. And we are probably chipping as many times as we are doing anything else, we might have to chip onto the green 18 times in around the golf unless you are very good at hitting your long irons onto the green. So learning how to chip the ball correctly is very important. The other consideration is, you’ve got lots of different clubs to check with, now effectively, every club in the bag is going to be able to hit the ball from here to that red sign.

I could use any club in my bag to do that chip or that pit shots. Whereas you find 150 yards away from the green and I'm playing off the fairway, there’s probably only one or two clubs that will be useful for me at that range. So if my 150 yards away, I take an eight iron, from 140 yards away, I take a nine iron, I pretty much know that because I can hit that shot over and over again. But here, 50 yards away, all of these clubs will reach and all of these clubs will give me a different ball flight and a different release and when the ball lands on the green, a lob wedge mark the high landing and stopping, my seven- nine might be low, lands halfway but rolls lower and pumps the green, and I like I said, the golf course is not always asking you to do the same thing. So during these next series of videos we are going to look a bit more in depth about which clubs you can use to chip the ball and why you should be using them. 2016-07-18

This tip is all about using the right club to chip with. Now for a lot of golfers they have like that go-to chipping shot that whenever they are within 50 yards of the green, they just reach for the sand wedge. But I think there’s a little bit of a problem with that because different chip shots are going to ask you different questions. Some are going to ask you to hit the ball high and stop it quickly, some shots might ask you to hit the ball a bit lower and roll it out but picking the right club is very essential because we get so many chip shots in every round of golf. And we are probably chipping as many times as we are doing anything else, we might have to chip onto the green 18 times in around the golf unless you are very good at hitting your long irons onto the green. So learning how to chip the ball correctly is very important. The other consideration is, you’ve got lots of different clubs to check with, now effectively, every club in the bag is going to be able to hit the ball from here to that red sign.

I could use any club in my bag to do that chip or that pit shots. Whereas you find 150 yards away from the green and I'm playing off the fairway, there’s probably only one or two clubs that will be useful for me at that range. So if my 150 yards away, I take an eight iron, from 140 yards away, I take a nine iron, I pretty much know that because I can hit that shot over and over again. But here, 50 yards away, all of these clubs will reach and all of these clubs will give me a different ball flight and a different release and when the ball lands on the green, a lob wedge mark the high landing and stopping, my seven- nine might be low, lands halfway but rolls lower and pumps the green, and I like I said, the golf course is not always asking you to do the same thing. So during these next series of videos we are going to look a bit more in depth about which clubs you can use to chip the ball and why you should be using them.