Why You Should Use A Putting Stroke For Consistent Golf Chipping (Video) - by Peter Finch
Why You Should Use A Putting Stroke For Consistent Golf Chipping (Video) - by Peter Finch

A lot of people who don't get masses of time to practice can benefit from including in their short game a chipping technique which closely matches their putting stroke. Now a lot of people struggle with this idea because they feel that the putting technique, the chipping technique, the pitching technique, the full swing technique there are also differences between them and they need to be an individual process. With chipping especially short chips around the green by using your putting stroke with a very bare minimum of adaptions you can start to hit very successful shots. With the putting stroke generally speaking and putting is a very individual thing so this is an all inclusive. But what you want to be seeing is a stance which is just about wide enough to give you stability. You don’t want it massively wide. You don’t need to.

So this is about shoulder width apart for me. You are on the ball position just forward of center. And the arm is hanging nice and loosely. The eye is pretty much over the ball or slightly inside the ball. It kind of can depend on what type of putts that you are using. And then from here you want to be keeping the arms and the hands nice and still and just rocking the shoulders back and through to get a consistent roll, and a consistent movement on your stroke. Now if you were to switch over directly to your chipping shot so I've got a sand wedge here. And use exactly the same technique it wouldn't quite work. It wouldn't quite work because the clubs are totally different. You're not hitting it with a flat surface. You have loft here. You need to hit the ball first and then the turf. So to use a direct transfer from your putting technique to your chipping technique can be quite difficult. But with only a few small adaptations, you can make massive differences and actually hit very consistent shots and that's what we're going to speak about. So you know now that that's the chipping and the putting stroke together. They don't quite match up. But what we're going to look at now is how you can make those adaptions, how you can successfully hit those chip shot using more of the putting technique. And it can give masses of advantage to many golfers, so please keep watching and we will see how we can make these changes within your game. 2016-10-31

A lot of people who don't get masses of time to practice can benefit from including in their short game a chipping technique which closely matches their putting stroke. Now a lot of people struggle with this idea because they feel that the putting technique, the chipping technique, the pitching technique, the full swing technique there are also differences between them and they need to be an individual process. With chipping especially short chips around the green by using your putting stroke with a very bare minimum of adaptions you can start to hit very successful shots. With the putting stroke generally speaking and putting is a very individual thing so this is an all inclusive. But what you want to be seeing is a stance which is just about wide enough to give you stability. You don’t want it massively wide. You don’t need to.

So this is about shoulder width apart for me. You are on the ball position just forward of center. And the arm is hanging nice and loosely. The eye is pretty much over the ball or slightly inside the ball. It kind of can depend on what type of putts that you are using. And then from here you want to be keeping the arms and the hands nice and still and just rocking the shoulders back and through to get a consistent roll, and a consistent movement on your stroke. Now if you were to switch over directly to your chipping shot so I've got a sand wedge here. And use exactly the same technique it wouldn't quite work. It wouldn't quite work because the clubs are totally different. You're not hitting it with a flat surface. You have loft here. You need to hit the ball first and then the turf. So to use a direct transfer from your putting technique to your chipping technique can be quite difficult.

But with only a few small adaptations, you can make massive differences and actually hit very consistent shots and that's what we're going to speak about. So you know now that that's the chipping and the putting stroke together. They don't quite match up. But what we're going to look at now is how you can make those adaptions, how you can successfully hit those chip shot using more of the putting technique. And it can give masses of advantage to many golfers, so please keep watching and we will see how we can make these changes within your game.