Chipping (low approach shot to the green)
The shortest shots, such as chips, are the most important in golf. Depending on your skill level, putting, chipping, and pitching—the three basic short game techniques—account for 50 to 70% of your score! This means that if you are new to golf, you can easily improve your score by 20% with these three techniques. In other words, a round of 125 shots becomes a round of 100 shots!
By successfully executing your chips, you will get short putts that are easy to sink on the next shot. You may not even have to putt at all if your chip ends up in the hole. Fortunately, the short game does not require exceptional power or flexibility. Anyone can excel at the short game. The best professional golfers devote up to 80% of their practice time to the short game. Why not you? What’s more, if you excel at the short game, you will inevitably become better at the long game. This is because the skills you acquire in the short game will carry over to your long game.
What exactly is a chip?
A chip shot, or low approach shot on the green, is a weak shot played from the edge of the green. The ball flies through the air for a short distance and then rolls like a putt on the green. This allows the ball to fly over uneven terrain and tall grass around the greens.
Cocking the wrists
The Foundation before technique
Before trying to fix a movement, many golfers benefit from clarifying what belongs to the mind, the body, and the motion itself.
That is exactly the role of The Socle – The Golfer’s mental and physical Foundation.
A necessary first step, calmly established, to put things back in the right order before any technical work.
