Strike your chip shots crisp

1)      Chip Shot Ball position – center or slightly left of center

Having the ball positioned to the right makes you tilt your spine away from the target, raising your left shoulder and lowering your right.  Creating a descending strike will be much more easily achieved if your spine tilts towards the target keeping your left shoulder low.  The first time you do this, you will instantly feel how much easier it is to strike down on the ball.

2)      Chip Shot Weight position – Left foot

It is not a new concept to place your weight on your left side –  it is how you do this that needs to change.   By positioning the ball in the centre, or slightly left of centre in your stance, you will be able to lean your upper body towards the target; it is the upper body leaning to the left that will place the weight on the left foot, not moving your lower body to the left.  During the swing, you should keep your weight in this position.  There should be no weight transfer.

3)      Chip Shot Swing – Keep the right shoulder high

Keeping the right shoulder low through impact makes it very difficult to strike down on the ball.  Because of your new set up, you will need to turn your body through impact in a different way than before.  By keeping your right shoulder high and turning through impact, you will be able to strike down on the ball very easily.

Transcript

Hi, this is Robin Symes. I’m going to talk about chipping. In particularly, this tip is aimed at anybody who’s struggling hitting their chip shot solid.  I’m going to take a guess that if this is you, you’re probably trying to put the ball more to the right in your stance, hands to the left, put your legs to the left, position your weight on your left foot.  But you see, this position nearly always creates the fault where, your upper body, your spine will be leaning too much away from the target. Your left shoulder will be too high and you’ll be reducing the loft on the club.   So, through the impact zone, you will be trying to increase the loft of the club, left shoulder will be getting higher and spine will be actually going away from the target. It’s this movement which makes it difficult to hit the ball solid consistently.  Trying doing the opposite. Position the ball, center or left of center, I prefer a little left. I’m going to put my upper body to the left, position the weight on my left foot.  And then the key point is, through the impact area I’m going to keep right shoulder moving high towards the target. This will ensure my upper body never backs away from the target, and it’s this movement which ensures I can hit the ball solid every time.  The ball to the left, upper body left and I’m going to keep my right shoulder high moving towards the target.  This tip will ensure that you have better contact in your chip shots consistently.