Golf Lesson on Chipping, Improving your Contact!

In this sequence of pictures I would like to show you how to improve your chipping stroke. These instructions are for a right handed player (please transpose for a lefty). At setup have your feet fairly close together, ball position in the center of your feet or near your right foot.

Stand close enough to the ball that the toe of the club face is touching the ground and not the heel of the golf club. Favor a bit more body weight on the left leg. Approx., 55-45. Make sure your nose is slightly to the left of the golf ball.

On the back swing, use a putting stroke feeling. No wrist hinge. Keep your body weight still on the left leg.

During the downswing shift more to the left as your arms are swinging through the hit. Both should move in sync. As you hit the ball, your body weight should be shifting well into the left leg.

Golf club should travel slightly left of the target at post impact and the club face should not rotate over. Feels like the club face stays facing the sky. Try using a lob wedge, sand wedge, PW, 9, 8, 7 irons to see how the ball reacts when coming off the different clubs. If you would like further instruction on chipping in a live lesson environment, golf lessons can be booked for the Scarborough Family Golf Centre in Scarborough Ontario. Contact us! I would love to hear from you! Please let me know if there is a particular golf swing issue you would like me to cover in one of my blogs. I would me happy to give you my professional advice. Gary Kent “Hi Gary, Thanks so much for all your expertise and good humour. It’s hard to believe I had never picked up a club until a few years ago and now I am having the time of my life ,making new friends and playing golf at a level that seemed an impossibility when I started lessons with you. Have a great summer and thank you again.” Julia Collins, retired