Instruction

Gatorman · 2022-05-29T03:47:40+00:00

I cannot chip anymore. Zero confidence. Any good short game hustlers out there????????? I have decell issues I have skul across the green issues (feel like I...

DonM

Step One, quoting Golf Sidekick: GIOTG!
Get It On The Green. I remind myself of this a lot when I’m looking at some cutesy situation. A 30 foot putt is not a crime.

It takes a lot of pressure off. And if you’re a bad chipper, you’re feeling pressure on every chip. Use any club, any shot, that gets it on the green. Build from there.

Gatorman

DonM
I skull it on and over....
I did work on chipping yesterday from a tip from here... I am going to practice again tomorrow

DonM

The only life changing chipping technique I’ve found for bad flippers is to hold the club like an armlock putter. So, grip down and have the upper part of the grip pressed against your arm above your wrist. Your lower hand will be partly on the shaft.

Be upright; Stand the club up onto the toe. Now, chip. Work on being smooth with your motion. It works. One old guy almost cried when I showed him how to do it.

darpar

DonM Be upright; Stand the club up onto the toe.

Kind of like this!

bogeypro

mikeintopeka
I posted that video last fall, definitely some good sound info there ..... and I like Kisner's sense of humor. Pretty sure it was posted by Halnorth on 4GEA

scotts33

DonM You think so? I feel the opposite.

I am sure others could agree with you Don. I found the easiest with Floyd's upright chipping/putting set up with a old time blade iron. Maybe it's me.

ptjn1201

Subsonic I hadn't done this in over 40 years, but when I was a kid, I'd do it now and then out of dicey lies. I had a poor chipping day Thursday and was at the range yesterday and tried the toe down method again and I hadn't even seen this thread. The grass has been really lush around the greens the last couple of weeks and the ball's been settling down, and I've been trying to be too cute. I'll have to work on it a little more this week.

rsvman2

ptjn1201 if you are close to the fringe, don't forget to try the bellied wedge approach. It works amazingly well and it surprises me how many people have never tried it or even heard of it.

ptjn1201

rsvman2 I often use the bellied wedge approach on the green -- seem to putt about as well with it 😃

Gatorman

Sarnella

It is the pitch shot, but the tip from here showed Kisner, and that was good info. I tried one hand and only put 2 dents in the back of front door. LOL

backinit

Get that confidence back!

Sneakylong

Gatorman

https://www.squarestrikewedge.com/

https://www.golfspan.com/gear/clubs/wedges/square-strike-wedge-review

As a last resort you could try one of these. Never tried one myself, but used to play with a guy who had one and loved it. Years ago I played with a guy who had a chipper club.

I think it had an 8 iron loft with a putter like sole. Worked well around the greens. Same idea. Helps with fat a skulled chips.

Eguller

If anyone wants to try a hybrid or fairway from off the green, I highly suggest practice ( for distance contriol ).

KCee

One of my playing buddies has one of those Cleveland Smart Sole wedges that works pretty well. He never seems to commit to any club for chipping, but I've tried it and it is effective IMO.

I pretty much use SW or LW. Most of our greens aren't large enough to run a 7i a long ways. I do use the bellied wedge regularly on a few holes where the collar is thick and the green is so sloped that even decent shots always seem to trickle right up to it. I have even putted with a bellied wedge in 3 club tournaments when I felt the SW was more valuable (and better performing) in the bag than my putter lol.

braveheart

Majority of chipping is done with an 8 iron.
To go over bunkers or in thicker stuff I’ll use my gap wedge.

johnnydoom

I'm going to need to try out Kisner's advice.

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