Chuck Cook Chipping Cut Sweep
We catch up with golf instructor Chuck Cook to learn a few different chipping techniques and how and when to use them. This tip is all about the cut sweep and how to properly use this chipping technique.
Video details
- Instructor: Chuck Cook
- Category: Lessons
- Topic: Short Game
Transcript preview
The last shot we're going to talk about here is when you need ultimate height, when you want to hit that mega high shot, or that flop shot is what a lot of people would call this shot. This is where you want to really hit the ball up and make it just land absolutely dead. So this is the cut sweep, and in order to hit this shot, the one thing you must understand is that you must have a good lie. In other words, there must be some air underneath the ball for the club to sweep underneath the ball without bouncing into the ball. So if you have a good lie and you need to really hit a high shot, this is how you play the cut sweep. So as I set up, the first thing I would do would be to set up as if I was going to hit a square sweep, and then I would open the clubface to the degree I would need to determine the height I want to hit this shot. Now, if I just open the clubface, the ball would go to the right. So what I have to do then is adjust my body around to the left so that when I make contact with the ball, the ball will end up going to the target. So again, my clubface is open, and then my body's open so that the ball will end up going toward the target. Now, when I make my swing, I'm gonna be making it on a swing that's parallel to the line on which my body's aligned. I don't want to be swinging toward the target.. So I'll actually be swinging to the left of the target. The open clubface will make the ball…