Chuck Cook Chipping Friction Chip

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• Instructor: Chuck Cook
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Chipping

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The late Davis Love once told me that there were 4 ways to stop a golf ball. One was what he called just lack of inertia. That's like you hit a putt and the ball is just hit with a certain amount of energy and it finally stops rolling. He says that's the most dependable way. The second way is by stopping the ball with trajectory. In other words, you would hit the ball high enough so that when it hits, it wouldn't roll very far. That's the second most dependable way to stop the ball. The third way is with spin, backspin. That would be the third way to stop the ball, and that's the third most predictable shot. And then the other one is by friction, and what he means by that is bouncing the ball into something to slow it down so that it— when it lands on the green, it won't go very far. And so that's the shot that we're going to talk about now. So here I am in a situation where I'm going to this flag, I'm in the trees, I've got to keep the ball low because there's another tree right in front of me. So the only way I can get this ball close to the hole is to bounce it through the grass, the short of the green. So as I take a look at the lie, I have a very, very bare lie, very tight lie. So that tells me that I must pinch this ball. Now, since I'm not trying to get it to go high and stop, I'm trying to get it to go low, I'm just gonna play with the clubface square. So this'll be a square pinch., and I'm gonna be using a club that…