Green Grass Golf Shop

Do you hit six inches behind every chip and pitch and not know why? Have you tried everything, seen every chipping video, tried every tip, but still your club manages to find the grass and dig in before the ball every single time you try to take a short chip or pitch stroke? Then don’t go anywhere, we’ve got the perfect tip for you today here on Chipping Chewsday! Now, I’ve certainly been guilty of this as an instructor myself, but I think a lot of your short game tip videos, some that I’ve put out myself, will ignore one very important part of your swing. That is the lower body and how that’s moving while you’re taking that chip or pitching stroke. When we’re sticking the club in the ground and laying the sod over the ball, hitting it thick every time, a lot of time in addition to maybe other things that I’ve made the subject of past videos, your legs are playing a big role in the reason that that’s happening. Next time you hit a chip fat or you’re warming up or you can’t hit anything but these thick shots, pay attention to your trailing leg here. For righty golfers, that’s going to be your right leg. For lefty golfers, it’s going to be your left leg. But far too often I see amateur golfers out here on the bogey golf tour trying to move their body like this. That right leg collapsing, and that brings your swing arc much further back, your low point much lower than where we had it at setup, leading to a golf club that hits the turf way behind the ball and takes way too much turf. One thing that I’ll do and that I’ll focus on for these really short pitch shots that helps a lot is my leading leg. My left leg being a righty golfer. Specifically, my left knee is my downswing trigger. If I’m really, really struggling with my contact, what helps me is focusing on stacking all my weight or most of it on my front side at setup and for the backswing, then feeling like my downswing trigger to start that motion is to just straighten my left leg as quickly as I can to start to deliver to the ball. It’s going to look like this here. When I can straighten one leg, it becomes incredibly difficult to collapse the other. Giving yourself one single thing to focus on for a trigger can help block out all the rest. The longer the swing is, the easier this concept to be to grasp for sure, but it can certainly help a lot on those really, really short pitches and chips as well if you get the hang of it. Be sure to like and subscribe for the next tip next Chewsday. We’ll see you on the course!