Chuck Cook: Distance Control Chipping Game

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

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This next drill is a drill that the great Harvey Penick taught to Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw, and it's a wonderful drill to help you improve your touch. The purpose of the drill is that you start by hitting your first shot as close to the far edge of the green as possible without going off the green, and then the next shot you hit, you try to get as close to that ball as you can without going past it. If the ball goes past the ball in front of it, then you have to stop right then.. And the goal is, is keep trying to hit the next ball succeeding shorter, the next ball succeeding shorter, to see how many balls you can fit on the green. So consequently, you have to get each ball as close as you can to the preceding ball without going past it. It's a wonderful drill to improve your touch. Lane's gonna show us how to do it. He's gonna start off with an 8-iron and try to hit a square pinch going to the edge of the green, as close as he can without going off the edge of the green. A beautiful shot. Now this shot has to be shorter than that, but you still want to get it as close to that other ball as you can. Same club, just a little easier. You can see there, Elaine's got 2 balls in there. That's very, very good right there. This is not as easy as you might think, as Elaine makes it look. Same club again, just a little bit easier yet. So now he has 3 on the green. He's gonna change clubs now so that he doesn't have to maybe hit it as easy, or that…