Chipping and pitching accounts for 34% of your overall game!
Technique
- Open stance (optional - feet, hips, shoulders aligned left of target RH player)
- Choke down on club
- Club face always at target
- 50/50 putting stroke with some hip turn and legs
- PHA-TICK sound and ELVIS
- Hit down and through
- Accelerate and trust the loft of the club
Chip
- NO WRISTS
- 70/30 weight lean
- Hands and weight forward of ball position
- Ball back
- Putting stroke with legs
- 7 iron through wedges
- Low safe shot with "room to run"
- View chipping videos
Pitch
- USE WRISTS
- 60/40 weight lean
- Hands middle
- Ball middle
- Mini-swing (hips and legs)
- All wedges
- Higher trajectory shot with less role
- View pitching video
Mental
- Check the lie
- Pick landing area on the green
- Read greens like a putt: high ground, get it in the hole
- Get it on the green ASAP
- Hole it!
Drills
- Practice different distances with a variety of clubs
- Uphill and downhill shots