One Tip That Will Change Your Chipping FOREVER! | ME AND MY GOLF

- Today we are going to share with you a tip that

will

change

your

chip

forever

. - Yes, we're going to talk about how aiming to hit the

golf

ball could damage

your

chip, plus make sure to stay with us until the end of the video for a cool giveaway. Hi, we're Piers and Andy from Me And My Golf. Now, if you really want to up your game this year, you need to hit the subscribe button and hit the notification bell to get notified about our latest videos. Andy, let's get right into this. Let's do a chip shot. - Well, here I also have a nice tight flag on the 12th in Asbury. - Very nice, maybe a little random bounce, but that's pretty decent. - Exactly as I planned there. - Pretty decent.

Well, look, when we see someone chip for the first time, the big question we ask them is, look at the missing shots and say, what was your intention on that shot? So, Andy, what was your intention in that shot? - Well, this may sound strange because many people don't believe us when we say this, but my intention when I play this shot is to hit the ground. I'm not trying to hit the

golf

ball. And this may sound really strange, because a lot of people who chip think, well, I need to hit the golf ball. But if your intention is to hit the golf ball, we'll show you how that could harm your game, because many of the best players in the world now focus on hitting the ground and using the golf club in a very different way than how they normally do. previously taught or trained. - And it

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sound strange to you if this is the first time you see this, but we saw it from a great golf coach, very good at short games, Stan (mumbles), a few years ago when we made a video. with him, Andy, and he was talking about making his students fall to the ground, and it was kind of a lightbulb moment for us, as it helped us with our short game, and it really helped a lot of our clients with their short game as well. .

And, furthermore, many of the best players in the world are using this technique. Andy, it hasn't always been like this, has it? The last 30 or 40 years. - Definitely not. - Totally different. - And we also train it and play like that. We have been told that we have to put the ball back into position and that we have to hit the golf ball to make chip shots. Well, that can work, but it might not be the most consistent way to play this, because you need to be very precise, and if you do it wrong and you're hitting down, we know the club can hit the ground sooner. the golf ball and the ball might go a yard, or we get a little nervous and then it goes around the back of the green.

Again, we've all been there, we've all done it, and what we're going to show you today will really take away that anxiety and allow you to be more consistent, even on bad shots. - So we're going to apply the old technique, because we're saying this can obviously work, but, as Andy says, you have to be precise. - So you'll see here, ball back in position, shaft forward, I'm going to try to hit the back of the ball here. - And it wasn't that bad, maybe hit it a little hard, but it's pretty good. He went down a little bit, they controlled him a little bit. - Exactly. - Not bad. - So you can see how low it was, but there was a lot of interaction with the ground, the club almost sank into the ground, but it was okay because I received the ball first.

If I had hit the ground first, I'm dead. - You're dead, you're dead. Now look, there will be some people watching this, like I said before, for the first time, are you two crazy? What are you saying? Hit the ground and not the ball? But why is it so good to fall to the ground? - Well, first of all, it releases something, I guess anxiety or tension, but the key is how we do it and this is what the best players in the world are doing now. What they will do is return the club to a more neutral position, the axis.

So it doesn't lean excessively forward, because as soon as we lean the axle forward, we expose the leading edge, and then the leading edge wants to dig in. So what we're really going to do is use the bounce of the club, so that when we hit the ground, the club actually slides, joins the golf ball and you can even hit the ground a little bit earlier, it still slides and You still make good contact. Where if you hit the ground early with the axle that's like that, it's dead. Really, the key to all of this is how we return the shaft and use rebound at impact, and there are many different ways.

I'll do it differently than Piers, you've got Tiger, you've got Jason Day, Steve Stricker, we'll look at some examples, they all do it very differently, but they use the bounce angle of a club in a similar way. - What I like is that you mentioned anxiety. Now, if anyone has ever had a problem with splinters, it's because they're afraid of falling to the ground. Well, you'll be afraid of falling to the ground if the sticks come in like that. - I've had it. - We've all had it. If the sticks come in like that, you're going to be afraid of hitting the ground, so this is really good because it can alleviate that anxiety, and if we have someone who has the howlers, the first thing we want is for them to get comfortable hitting. soil.

You mentioned some great players there, Andy. Let's review how they would do this. - Okay, well, let's look at two different styles. So we have Jason Day and Steve Stricker, who are very wrist-passive and body-oriented. Let's take a look at what they do. So in their kind of setup here, very neutral in their setup, no excessive lean or axis tilt, but the way they're going to use the club is they're going to largely govern the movement with their body. As you'll see here, everything very much works together, and it's strongly driven by the body, the shoulders, the hips, everything together.

And this really allows them to use the bounce and control their distance while doing so. - It seems like there are a lot less moving parts almost when that happens. - Yes, a lot less moving parts, which is good. Let me play a shot and show you what it looks like. A little higher you can see it. And simply brief. Hit the flag. So a little bit higher up in the loft, because now we can see, use the soul of the club to slide under the golf ball. So that's one way, and I'm still there, returning the club to a more neutral position that allows me to do that.

Now, look at someone like Tiger Woods or Brett Rumford, who, Brett Rumford, if you haven't heard of him, is an incredible player but he has an incredible short game, probably one of the best in the world. . And what they do differently is they don't necessarily just go by their body, but they create a little more stability on the way back and more release. So, they'll use some dolls on the way back. Now, if I just drive with the body here, I'm creating too much camber with the axle. So what they're going to do is they're going to have a little bit more wrist, but the key to getting the club back to its neutral axis is to not let go of the angles.

So the body is a little quieter and there's a little more independent movement with the club head and a release of the club head. So there's a little bit of dolling involved, which is fine, but really the key is understanding which one you're going to be and experimenting to figure out if you need dolls or you need a body. But if you use your wrists, then you need to have a little more release. - Let's go to the Rumford method, Wood. - Okay, then you will see here much calmer with the body. I'm really going to feel (mumbles) adjust the wrists.

A little harsh on that, and again, we have to remember that if I'm bringing the dolls closer together that's a velocity, and you can see there, because I created some dolls there that increased the velocity there. So again, it takes some exercise, but the key is what will be most consistent for you. - Yeah, and you can see when you do all those shots there, the only one where you dug the ground a little bit, obviously, was the one that leans forward. As you can see, the interaction on the ground is quite good. Well, look, again, for all the viewers at home, what's up with the drills?

Well, we have some exercises that we can... - Okay, well, the first thing is the intention. So, I want you at home, first of all, to

change

your way of thinking. Your approach will be great. So, I'm going to place a tee pin on each side of the golf ball, and we're going to put it, imagine a line between these two tee pegs, and I'm going to leave two inches between where the ball would be and that line. Now, my approach when hitting these shots is to allow the club to land between the tees and the ball.

This is strange now. The key when you do this, if you do it like this with the axle forward and you hit the ground, again, it's dangerous. So, it's going to train you to try to hit the ground, and you can see that every time I do this now, my focus is to brush the grass, and if I do it with a good bounce angle, it's a great effort. , big difference. And I don't feel like I have that pressure to be that precise, and I don't get choppy. - And it makes a lot of sense to us, and I think, again, there will be some resistance on your part, but, guess what, when you get over that, there will actually be less resistance literally on the ground when you're swinging the club through it. . - I really tried to hit that ground first, that was my natural swing, which, for me, is, I would say, somewhere in between the two swings.

I like to use a little wrist to create a certain sensation. - Now, I'm going to come in here, I can't get too close, obviously, but I was watching where you hit the ground, you hit the ground level with the tee pins, and the ball is an inch and a half. beyond those? - Exactly, yes. - Incredible. - Exactly. So let's look at a couple of exercises that will help you feel where we need to be through the golf ball. So the first thing is to take the golf club, choke it, I want you to feel like you're in your position so your arms are naturally hanging down and you're going to hit it right on the left hip. .

Okay, so it's touching lightly there. Now from here you're going to do a backswing, whether it's passive with the wrists or a little bit more with the wrists, the key now is here, as I swing down to impact, I want to return the Place the butt of the club back into the same place, again where the left hip is. So as I do this and pass, I have the release of the club, or I just have the release of the body. So the nice thing about this is that whether you have wrists or not, it allows us to get the club back into that position, where the axis is neutral, and it allows us to use the bounce. . - So whatever backswing and downswing style you have, this is the same, right? - Exactly. - It still works very well. - So you'll see that I have the same feeling here, now you'll see that the butt of the club is still pointing to that front hip, now I'll do my swing again here, and I'll just hold that. finish.

Once again, the intention is to touch the ground. And you'll see I ended up there with the butt of the club pointing toward my hip. Once again, attack wisely, little ground first in that case. Alright. The margin of error when you do this will be much greater. - Would you say, and I want to ask you the question because it came up short, would you say you didn't hit that one well, or maybe it was too heavy? - Maybe a little too heavy, but even that was a good shot. - Better than there, right? - Definitely better than there. - Because with the old technique, if you weigh a little, it's literally in front of you. - I was there before too, I don't want to be there again.

Okay, so the next exercise is really simple: it will make your arms and body work together. I got this from James Ridgeyard, a great short game coach. So in your setup, you'll go with just your right hand, and from here, you'll maintain the connection with your trailing arm to your body. Now from here, what we want to do is go back and through, and just maintain that connection as we go. What we don't want to do is have the arms move too far away from the body, because that can cause us to take the leading edge and cause the clubhead to move too far away from the body.

So it really helps us use rebound and use our body in a great way, and graze the ground in the right place. You'll see here, the axle almost comes loose a little bit beyond me. - And, I repeat, this is also very passive. There's not much going on with his wrists, he's just literally turning his body. Fairly good. - A little harsh on that, but really nice contact, a little bit of ball and ground together, which was nice. - It's surprising how good you can get at that exercise. You're thinking, you're breaking a hand, that's crazy.

But you can actually get pretty good at it. - And these are designed just to give you sensations. All of these exercises are literally sensations that make you feel different, or, if you do this exercise and then feel like you are doing more of this, it highlights where your tendencies and your techniques are going. . So those are all sensations that you can then make to the shot, that you can say, okay, I feel this right arm connected now, or the butt of the club pointing towards the hip, all designed to give you a better feeling. . - Yeah, I think the key for us with this is that once you have this different intention, if you can say I'm going to practice some strokes brushing the grass,Then simply replicate that on the golf ball.

You'll probably find that you'll get consistent results, no matter where you hit the ground. - Bad guys will always be better doing it this way, than when you actually tilt the axle forward and get the digging action, which we don't want. - Well, then fall to the ground before the ball, who would have thought? Well, we also said there would be a cool giveaway. So, would you like to win a Taylor Made, Milled Grind 2 wedge? Well, guess what, you can. All you need to do to enter the contest is subscribe, hit the like button, and then from there leave a comment.

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