Chip Tip and Drill with Mike Davis

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• Instructor: Mike Davis
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Chipping

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Chipping is a very, very simple stroke that has been very, very poorly applied by a lot of golfers. On a chip shot, I want the ball by my right foot, tilted my head towards my left foot, and my hands under my chin. This creates a straight line down my left arm and the shaft, and all I do now is just turn my shoulders, and that line stays intact during the whole stroke. It becomes very, very simple to make solid contact with the correct setup. The two major errors I see in chipping are people who are trying to manipulate manipulate the club with their hands rather than just letting their body rotation, shoulders, just swing their arms around. Manipulation creates inconsistency. The correction is simply to let your shoulder rotation swing your arms, and your arms and club follow. Your hands should do nothing. The other one is I see a lot of guys that get set up so far forward that they just cannot make a solid strike on the ball. They have to manipulate to do that. Either their hands are too far ahead of their chin, which means their arms if they just turned, are going up, or they have to pick up with their arms and stick it down, or they get set up so far ahead that they're just too steep an angle coming down, and all they can do is kind of trap, chunk the ball. The club will never swing through lightly. Hands under your chin, ball by your right foot, lean forward a little, produces a slight descending blow, and that's all you want on a chip shot. Whenever you're practicing on a round of green, I don't like to hit from one spot to one hole. It…