Malaska - Getting the Ball in the Air Chip Tip
Unlock the secret to effortless loft around the greens with this essential chipping lesson from renowned golf instructor Mike Malaska. If you consistently struggle to get your golf ball airborne on chip shots, leading to duffs or thin shots, this video is a must-watch. Malaska breaks down the funda…
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- Instructor: Mike Malaska
- Category: Lessons
- Topic: Short Game
Transcript preview
So now we're gonna start chipping. So we're gonna get the ball in the air. So The first thing we wanna remind us of, Of how Does the ball get in the air? Well, it doesn't by lifting it. So Here's What we're gonna do. If I take This club and I go 1, 2, 3, I go Four grooves Up in the face and I put a dot. Now here becomes the task. I've got a ball that fourth Groove, I'm gonna put that fourth groove on the back of the ball. I mean, that's the task. Now the ball gets in the air because There's, There's an angle in the face. So there's Law. As soon as you start trying to get under it to lift the ball in the air is when you start to Have trouble. So as soon as we start Hitting chip shots, We're gonna look at that Dot because What we're trying to do is put That dot On the back of the ball. That that's critical. And what's really interesting, when I get people focusing on that dot, hitting the back of the ball, A lot of the Underneath hit it, Fat goes away. So The first thing is visual Of where The ball's gonna hit in the face. So that dot hits the back of The ball, not underneath it. The ball rolls up The face and gets in the air. Now we're gonna start doing our chipping with just your right hand and, and I've found that chipping with one right or left hand is really important. Now you can do this with both hands, but I wanna start with The right because It's gonna reinforce a fundamental in the game. So now we're going to chipping. So I'm gonna…