Improve Chip Shot Impact with Michael Breed
Chipping
Chipping Made Easy
Chipping looks simpler than it is. Mimic Castle Pines Golf Club PGA Director of Instruction Don Hurter’s foolproof setup and simplified stroke to bring consistency to your short game and shave shots off your score.
Chip This Way
Chipping is a small swing that does not involve the wrist and very little weight transfer. In many ways, it’s like putting. But chipping also offers more club variety, depending on the lie. Instead of grabbing the same wedge for every shot around the green, try practicing with different clubs. With each shot, pick a … Read more
Should You Chip with a 7-Iron?
There is no shortage of chipping tips and advice for your short game on this site (see here, here, here, here, here just to name a few). When you find yourself missing a green in regulation, you also have no shortage of decisions to make. You need to choose the type of shot to play, the club with which … Read more
Distance Control Tips: Chipping & Pitching
Accuracy and consistently around the greens is no doubt something that can keep 20-handicappers from becoming 10-handicappers, and 10-handicappers from becoming single-digit handicappers. No matter your skill level, wouldn’t you love to be able to manage your distance control around the green just a little bit better? If the answer to the above is an emphatic YES(!), then … Read more
Chipping Tips – Lakewood Golf and Haven Moses
In the fourth video of Lakewood Golf’s 6-part series, Fox Hollow and Homestead Head Golf Pro Craig Parzybok shares chipping tips along with Denver Broncos Ring of Fame wide receiver Haven Moses, Lakewood’s Kim Montague and Colorado AvidGolfer‘s own associate publisher Chris Phillips. Chipping. It’s an area of the game that even Parzybok confesses is the scariest shot for … Read more
A Recipe for Collared Greens
Short-game wizardry concerns more than just chipping and putting. It’s also about being prepared for situations that aren’t straightforward. Take, for example, when your golf ball presses against the collar of the green; it sits on a clean lie but the tall bank of grass right behind it precludes making a clean putting stroke. There … Read more
Chipping: Choosing the Right Club
Do you automatically reach for the same club every time you miss the green and need to chip? Whether it’s your pitching wedge or 60-degree lob wedge, the answer for many of us is “yes.” You may have heard different tips on how you could chip with your 7-iron or hit a nice little flop shot with your … Read more
Watching Your Weight on Pitches and Chips
Many people struggle with being too shallow when hitting pitch or higher lofted shots around the green. This tendency results in bladed, thin, dropkicked, or fat shots. It’s important to understand what your arms, hands, and wrists are doing, but I’ve found two of the keys to improved pitching and chipping are your left and … Read more
How to Hit the Perfect Flop Shot
Most golfers love to try to hit the flop shot. It’s the result that is usually not as loved. For many amateurs, the result is sometimes a chunk just in front of you. Other times, it’s a skull well over the green or even a shank off the hosel. But it’s that one perfect flop … Read more
