For most club golfers, improving your short game does not require hours and hours of repetitive laborious practice.
The simple drills detailed below will focus on not only improving your technique but also on developing your touch and feel.
Check Your Wrists To keep you strike consistent you need to have a solid, reliable and repeatable chipping swing.
If your wrists are prone to breaking or over hinging; then you are going to his a lot of fat chips.
This usually occurs when you try and lift or flick a chip into the air.
You can push an old shaft into the end of your wedge.
Purchase a purpose made attachment for the end of your wedge, or even use a bamboo cane from your garden.
This will force you to keep your hands in front of the club head when you make your chipping swing.
If you try to flick the ball up in the air, the extension to the shaft will hit the side of your body.
Make The Practice Realistic There is absolutely no point whatsoever in giving yourself a perfect lie, time after time when practicing your chipping.
If you missed the green with your approach shot in a competitive round of golf then you are not going to get a perfect lie all the time.
More often than not you will be faced with a lie in the scrub of even a bare lie, so it is essential that you practice your chips from these lies.
My preferred way to do this is to walk into the rough surrounding the green and just drop a handful of balls down, and just play them wherever they come to rest.
Fight the temptation to place the ball on a nice piece of turf or tuft of grass.
It will take you no time at all to figure out just how to adjust your stroke to get the cleanest strike from different types of lie.
Stolen Drill From The Putting Green You will hear people talking about improving focus when putting.
The drill for this tends to be putting to a tee peg on the green.
This is also a fantastic drill to heighten your focus when practicing your chipping.
The principle is exactly the same.
Stick a tee peg in the ground in the green and chip to that rather than the hole.
This smaller target than usual will force you to be more precise.
In your minds eye when you go back to chipping to the hole is will look like a dustbin (garbage can) lid.
Well, a bucket at lease!! Stretch Yourself By now you should be coming towards the end of your 1 hour practice session.
What i want you to do, is to really stretch yourself.
Give yourself some super challenging positions to chip from.
Short side yourself, chip over bunkers.
Give yourself uneven lies, uphill, downhill on the side of a hill.
As you set yourself and work through these challenges, you will start to develop a feel for each of these shots.
This will repay you in spades when you are back on the course trying to build a score.
Finish What You Started When doing these drills, whenever you are chipping to a hole I recommend that you hole out.
This adds some realism to the practice.
It will also help to improve and sharpen up your short range putting.
Putting out also gives you an excellent gauge as to your progress by giving you some measurable results.
Getting up and down is always a good sign.
The simple drills detailed below will focus on not only improving your technique but also on developing your touch and feel.
Check Your Wrists To keep you strike consistent you need to have a solid, reliable and repeatable chipping swing.
If your wrists are prone to breaking or over hinging; then you are going to his a lot of fat chips.
This usually occurs when you try and lift or flick a chip into the air.
You can push an old shaft into the end of your wedge.
Purchase a purpose made attachment for the end of your wedge, or even use a bamboo cane from your garden.
This will force you to keep your hands in front of the club head when you make your chipping swing.
If you try to flick the ball up in the air, the extension to the shaft will hit the side of your body.
Make The Practice Realistic There is absolutely no point whatsoever in giving yourself a perfect lie, time after time when practicing your chipping.
If you missed the green with your approach shot in a competitive round of golf then you are not going to get a perfect lie all the time.
More often than not you will be faced with a lie in the scrub of even a bare lie, so it is essential that you practice your chips from these lies.
My preferred way to do this is to walk into the rough surrounding the green and just drop a handful of balls down, and just play them wherever they come to rest.
Fight the temptation to place the ball on a nice piece of turf or tuft of grass.
It will take you no time at all to figure out just how to adjust your stroke to get the cleanest strike from different types of lie.
Stolen Drill From The Putting Green You will hear people talking about improving focus when putting.
The drill for this tends to be putting to a tee peg on the green.
This is also a fantastic drill to heighten your focus when practicing your chipping.
The principle is exactly the same.
Stick a tee peg in the ground in the green and chip to that rather than the hole.
This smaller target than usual will force you to be more precise.
In your minds eye when you go back to chipping to the hole is will look like a dustbin (garbage can) lid.
Well, a bucket at lease!! Stretch Yourself By now you should be coming towards the end of your 1 hour practice session.
What i want you to do, is to really stretch yourself.
Give yourself some super challenging positions to chip from.
Short side yourself, chip over bunkers.
Give yourself uneven lies, uphill, downhill on the side of a hill.
As you set yourself and work through these challenges, you will start to develop a feel for each of these shots.
This will repay you in spades when you are back on the course trying to build a score.
Finish What You Started When doing these drills, whenever you are chipping to a hole I recommend that you hole out.
This adds some realism to the practice.
It will also help to improve and sharpen up your short range putting.
Putting out also gives you an excellent gauge as to your progress by giving you some measurable results.
Getting up and down is always a good sign.
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