Chuck Cook Towel Drill for Chip Shots

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

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Great Phil Rogers once gave me a great technique for using the towel drill to make sure that your square pinches are done correctly. And so what he did is he would have me hit different shots with different clubs to make the numbers work, and if I did my square pinch correctly, they would fit exactly. So using the 8-iron, what we'd do is fly the ball 1 part in the air and let it roll 5 parts. Then we'd take the 9-iron let it go 1 part in the air and roll 4 parts. And then take the pitching wedge, 1 part in the air, 3 parts on the ground. And then the sand wedge, 1 part in the air, 2 parts on the ground. And then finally, the lob wedge, 1 part in the air, 1 part in the ground. So it's a very simple way to check my technique and make sure that I was using the right technique with my square pinches. If I could do this with every club in the bag, I knew that my technique was correct. So I've asked Lane to step up and let him go through this exercise. And so he's gonna start with the 8-iron, and then every shot that he hits with each of the clubs, he's gonna use the square pinch technique, try to land the ball on the towel and make it finish within one club length of the flag. So first with the 8-iron. Now we'll go to the 9-iron. What you'll notice that the 9-iron, because of the extra loft, will fly slightly higher and roll not quite as far. And now we'll go to the pitching wedge, and each subsequent club will be doing that. The pitching wedge obviously will fly a…