CHIPPING | Paddy's Golf Tip #1 | Padraig Harrington

Well, my first lesson on my YouTube channel will be about the chip, I have been on tour for years and I see that many people have the same problem when it comes to chip and there are 99 people who struggle with their chip. this is wrong most of them are trying to find a solution by changing the position of the ball they are using more knees they are using more hands they are breaking their wrists they are not breaking their wrist but if this is out It will always take a horrible compensation to correct it. The gold medal winner and champion

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er of the year is Podrick Harrington, so okay, my first lesson on my YouTube channel is going to be a chip for years.

I'm on tour. and I see a lot of people have the same problem when it comes to

chipping

and 99 of the people who struggle with their

chipping

do this wrong, most are trying to find a solution by changing the position of the ball they are using. more knees, they're using more hands, they're breaking their wrists, they're not breaking their wrist, but if this comes out it's always going to require some horrible compensations to correct, what you really need to do is put your body into action. in the right place and then your hands, arms and wrists will start working in sync, so how do you know what I'm talking about?

I'll show you, okay, while I'm here, most people when they play and I'm just going for an absolute standard chip shot here everything is as neutral as possible, so when most people try to hit the chip, They will try to help the ball go up and the moment you try to help the ball go up, you are going to support your sternum. The center of gravity will move back and that will cause you to hit the ground four, five, six inches behind the ball. Now, someone who hits the ground at four or five and six inches is going to get all kinds of crazy hits on the

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ball and then they're going to start compensating with their knees and their hands, they're going to try a lot of different things, they're even going to hit the ball back here, which It works for a couple of chip shots, but after a while you get used to it.

Also what I'm saying is if you have any pinching here on the right side, if there's any weight on the right side, any lift up here that's moving the bottom of your swing back too far behind the ball, we want to make sure that our center point of gravity is basically at the top or to the left of the ball in terms of that line, so we want to be sitting and now you can see that my divot is behind the golf ball. None of this caused my hands to be overly active. When you get up in this position, no matter what you do in the backswing, if you use a lot of wrists or if you don't lose them, they will always come back in a straight line under your sternum and you will choose the ball up, so it's okay instead of this pickup action back here, so for most people to practice this, you can practice sitting on the left side, maybe take the weight off your right foot as much as possible, always practice rocking forward, watch your divot and that Not bad advice on the golf course.

I don't like to tell anyone to keep their head down and record any shot, whether it's a long or short shot because it doesn't come naturally, but when it comes to chip shot, you can watch your divot and that keeps your head down the long enough without getting anxious and without having to hold it down for too long, so be careful with your divot, lean forward and you will always get that divot now. I can exaggerate that I look at my golf bag there I can exaggerate that I can be that far away and that would be a slice shot from a tight lie that I would have out there and I exaggerate like that okay but in Maine if you're just hitting a standard chip shot Normally, push the ball forward, push your weight forward and make sure you don't transfer your weight back while hitting it.

We like to position ourselves, this is one of the few shots where we actually get into the impact position. We set up here because we don't have time to transfer a weight on a chip shot, it's a pretty quick thing, so sit on the left side and remember that with a chip shot, a normal standard chip shot, you're not trying to get the ball in. the air, if there's something in your head, you're thinking I have to hit this ball low, maybe you visualize something in front of you and try to hit it below, the more you try to help a standard chip shut up the more you step back and hit here, now There is a very simple exercise for this, so you will get an alignment rod.

You know, I wouldn't recommend using a golf club for this unless it's a very old club because you could break it. shaft, so don't stick your graphite, your new graphite club down there because it will break the shaft, but put that middle, your stands inside your left hand, whatever you want, keep the ball forward, remember that when it comes to practice chipping, always practice with the ball further forward than you would use on the golf course because if you can play a chip shot with the ball forward it will encourage correct technique and if you can play from there you will have no problem playing from the chipping stance. mid year and you won't have any problems playing from the back ear stats, but if you just practice your chip shots, I have a 56 degree wedge like this, so I'm practicing with a seven iron loft here, well, maybe time an eight.

Iron Loft or so good, once I get good at it I will never be able to play the other shots so practice this one nine times out of ten and of course use the different chip shots on the golf course you are on . in the middle stands or even back here if it's a bad lie, but in general practice, with the ball forward, place a club six inches behind it, which means if there is a club behind it, I have to stay towards forward to get a good hit. The moment you see if I try to back up here, I'm going to hit the club and this hit it, now I can guarantee you that everyone who is struggling with their stumbles will not be able to do that last drill. hit six inches ah, let's say even less, let's say four inches for me, okay, you might have to start with six, okay, lower it and force yourself, as you can see, the ball stays forward, the hands are up, everything it's in a straight line if I was doing a slice shot my hands would be back but with a neutral straight square face everything square stays forward and I get that lovely shot and a lot of spin it's okay so once you have that position with your body, you are staying forward, you will always stay forward, okay, you are trying mentally, you are trying to keep the ball under something, you are never trying to help it up at this stage, okay, so we're just playing the natural neutral shot.

Once your body is in position you can use as many hands as you want or none at all, like I said the club will always come back straight under your sternum, it would be the same on a driver, it comes back under, so if you are backing up on the driveway, your lowest point will be behind the ball and you will hit it, we don't want that with a chip shot because it leads to you missing the hitch, you have to stay to the left like this now, once you get comfortable with this , I use a reasonable amount of wrist in my swing, the more wrist generally the more spin you get because you can shoot it with a normal standard shot.

I have a little bit of wrist and a little bit of arms, it's just a little bit of a golf swing, that's really it with chip shot, it's just a little bit of a golf swing in this area, so again, a little bit of wrist, little arms, yeah , you can go a little stiffer if you want. For me, I just go up, which is always natural for you, sit on the left side in a good position and you'll get a little click there now, what was interesting, what was interesting there about that click and you know you hear this bounce, you hear this Something famous called bounce and I must say it is the most used word when it comes to chipping.

Well, then what is rebound? So I have a 56 degree wedge that is the leading edge. Anything below the leading edge is called a bounce, so yes This actually says it has 14 degrees of bounce, so overall there is a big bounce on this, so basically from that point to the lowest point is 14 degrees , so this wouldn't be great on rock hard streets, but that's what the bounce saves you. when you make a bad swing, okay, that's what it does, don't try to use the bounce, try not to use the bounce and then when you do like I did on the last one and I messed up a little bit, the bounce saved me and I finished . with the same shot you should not bounce the club off the ball, you should never hit the ground before the ball, you are going to hit the ball first and then, on a good shot, the bounce will go to the ground after you.

I already made your shot, so it makes no difference, but sometimes I do it wrong, like I just did it there and I hit the ground right before the ball and the rebound saved me, it bounced towards the club. I got this about the same. I shoot like I hit a good shot, but the key here is that I don't practice using the rebound. I practice never to use the bounce. Hit the ball. Clean the lawn. Second. Well, once we have the standard shot, okay, now let's go. I'm going to start picking right, that was a 56 degree wedge, so to me, where do you land the golf ball on a grid?

Well, this is the next day, so we have a good standard chip shot, so I always like to land. the ball on the green the reason is you landed off the green you can get a fun bounce sometimes you're going to have to land it off the green and even on one like this I would probably put this into contention pretty easily so if you can you know , if you can use your putter, use your putter and it's never a bad thing, but if you have to chip, that's fine, try to land and maybe it will land a yard, probably two yards later it's a safe bet that it doesn't pitch. on the edge you get a bad bounce so again I lean forward standard just a little flat green standard chip okay, I chip my eight iron 150 in the air and it runs four fifths, my nine iron chips are cut into quarters and run three quarters okay now in golf you use these slopes what I mean by this is always land the ball on the bottom of the slope so in this case if I carry the slope and I land on the bottom and I pick a club to do that, the ball will land there and run out of the hole, but if I leave it short it will hit the downslope and hit the same spot, so I'll probably need more loft for this, I'll raise my 64.

So to That pin, I'm going to move on, I think you're going to have to stop here, man, because you want to see it come down to the green, you can't see the ball, so it took the whole slope very well and almost almost. it landed okay, it landed on the floor, but if I missed the shot that I hit it there now, I actually hit the slope down and lo and behold, it ended up in the exact same spot, those balls landed maybe three yards away and they ended up in the same place because I used the downslope or the flat so if I go down a slope I land on the downslope but also if I go up a slope I land before the downslope and then if I hit it too hard , We have the benefit of reaching enough slope and you will end up in the same place and with modern greens and this is amazing, where all the modern greens designed the back of the greens or many of the pin positions in the bowls, so essentially you have a down and up slope so nice that you just put it in the middle of the flat part in the middle of the two, that way anything short will activate and anything long will stop, so you could have nine. yards of space and everything would end up in the same place on a modern grain, whereas on the old single green it was much harder to use those numbers I talked about earlier at a quarter distance for what was a quarter wave for an iron eight 50 away. so again try to land on the green try to land at the bottom of the standard technical slope just sit on the left side and stay there use as many wrists as you want or as few as you want that's up to you. your experimentation for me would use a little bit of both going back to the settings a little bit just so we're not too confused about the settings so again I'm on camera like this so if I was preparing again especially in the practice.

I would have the ball at the level of the middle of my foot and almost up to my toe. It's okay, especially when I'm practicing. Get used to the forward ball and practice. Well, yes, at the tournament, I can bring it. back and play it inside my left heel and if I was under pressure I could play it here in a tournament on a bad lie on a divot under pressure, yes you can move it back, but don't practice this practice with the ball. forward as a good way to do this for yourselves if you're out in the country if you look at the barrier here imagine imagine let's say we're going to do it this way imagine it's a carved path and thatIt's grass when you spend all day practicing your swings very far away and you know if you hit here again you'll make it to the parking lot, you know, and it's the same thing at home if you have a rug and a floorboard like a hardwood floor with practice. hitting the carpet, so if that was hardwood and this would be a carpet, just practice brushing the carpet, okay, like this and you can see my technique there, remember I'm always in my head, I'm trying to hit it low, but my hands are working.

Luke Donald gave some great advice there and on his Instagram he said it's like a windshield wiper, so get used to the feeling of the wiper opening and closing all your wrists so you can see how shallow the stick is going down the slope. comes fromMy upper body leans towards it so my arms go up but the club becomes shallow because I can shoot but you will get it naturally if you sit forward like I said and the position of the ball will dictate it . If you push the ball forward, you will slide under it. now I have a great little tip for that, so for people who want to punch a lobster, okay, this is a cool little experiment that you can try at home, so if you're going to punch a lobster, the idea is that trying to slide the club under the ball, so I won't say you know our neutral shot is just getting a good hit towards the golf ball, David then with a high shot, you're actually sliding under it, so to hit it your posture.

To be a little more neutral, so you won't lean as much unless it's a close lie, where you would lean a lot to the left side, but in a normal situation, I'll give myself a good lie, you'll see. I'm starting the club still back, I'm starting to get more 50 50. and I'm going oh, I hit that a little hard again, the bounce worked in my favor, there I ended up with the same shot I was trying to hit. but I hit it too far back on that shot, that wouldn't be if, while you're getting away with it on the golf course, you wouldn't be getting away with it if you kept playing like that, that would cook up a very easy ending, an open ending. knife 40 yards above the green, so again I sit there naturally and then slide the club down.

Now you can see that a lot of people who use bounce will have that big divot whereas I had very little divot there. I just slid the stick down now. The way to learn how to do it is to make it easy for yourself, so use the roof or this is another way to do it, practice and put the ball on the tee right now. The point here, I'm not like that, it's so easy I could do it. This with him, I could do it with any club, well, any iron in my bag, but the goal here for you guys, again, to sit naturally, let the club sit, is to drink the tea and get some fresh air, is okay, then keep working, so we work. that tee gets lower and lower, okay, now it's down, I would still find that I have a little bit of golf ball, but eventually you keep lowering it now, that's very low, okay, now it's gotten a little bit heavy, now you can see that I had to work hard to get under that I didn't, I should be able to do it, but as you can see, as you go lower and lower, you're going to get a little bit of a golf ball in the face and that's going to give you the right experience.

I'm trying to slide down, but you won't. It would be rare for you to find a lie where you can slide the club down and this is completely it. It would have to sit very well in the rough, so don't try it. and slide down in those situations, but definitely practice like this and move on once you can do it from a tpeg, then give yourself a nice rest on the roof, so I'm going to refresh this like this, but then if I move a little bit a little tighter live so that was really up there yeah I could probably still do it yeah I can get to that not quite right but you get the idea that you're getting tighter and tighter with the same swing on which I'm definitely getting into.

Okay, here we go, but I couldn't do the same thing outside of this line, a very tight line and I have a perfect flat shot, so it's just a matter of lowering the height when you play a flap shot. learning what will work, so start cleaning it up and slide the club down and keep reducing the height of that tee until you can't slide it down anymore, then move to a good line, slide the club down and then keep lowering it. on the ground, keep sliding the club down, okay, that should give you, you have your standard shot, there you have your points to land on the grain, you have your slice shots, you have your usual practice drill. making sure when you're on the golf course watch, I'll say this when you're on the course, there's no question you have to watch the ground, watch every practice swing I make, it's left for the golf ball, you'll never do it.

I always keep an eye out for this in the car, you'll never see me take a lazy practice swing. A lot of people look at the target and practice and hit six inches behind the ball, the one thing they don't want. Do it, most people when they practice are like that and practice everything they don't want to practice, while I always practice with my head on the plane, always to the left, so that's the difference. You check that at home. yourselves, your practice rings are going to touch the ground way behind the ball, whereas my practice swings actually touch the ground with this part, this sole hits the ground there four or five inches in front of the golf ball , it's a little exaggerated, but that's not a bad thing, you might even want to exaggerate more and put your foot in front of the manifold at first and then just go in and take the shot without thinking, you can, like I said, if you need to think about it , can.

Do two things when you chip shot for me. You can watch the divots while you shoot. They'll give you a good shot so you can look at that David and then raise your head or like I like to do. on my chipset I just don't like to see the ball go up in the air, I like to see it land like that, I think I'll be done with that.