Hale Irwin explains how to chip from tight lies | Golf Instruction Tips | Golf Channel

The shot we're looking at here, Dave, is one where we've got a little bit of green slipping through here and most of the time we see a lot of fans around the country and Priam's where we play and some of our members of the club they really try to lift the ball to get it up in the air and when they try to lift it that's when they get in trouble until they hit the thin one and it runs off the green and we're all done. that or trying to pick it up we could release it early and hit it hard, so I think what people really need to remember is that when they have this shot, when you hit a ball, the ball goes up, don't try to pick it up, that's what the ball is for. club loft and shaft flex, that's what it's for, so when you're practicing or if you have this shot at your club or wherever you play, just remember that you can If you want to play the ball a little bit toward the heel, you might want to open the club up. a little bit but go ahead and hit it down, it's okay because when you hit down the ball goes up and when it goes up it has a certain amount of backspin so you'll have a shot that will react when it hits a nice soft green , so once again play the ball just in front of the center point, leave the blade open and keep that weight pretty much on the left side, so you have a downswing and you will have a ball that will come out much more predictably than the others that we've seen when you talk about opening the face so close, adding more bounce to the club and maturing at home.

They have to be committed to that shot, otherwise they will finish, that's true. I think one of the things we're seeing now and the reason you see more 60 degree wedges and we saw recently at the Ryder Cup the 64 degree wedges is that they create a lot of loft and they don't have that bounce, but The thing is, you're right, when you open a club, it tends to want to open, if we can do it right, it tends to want to open. You see the leading edge coming up off the ground, so you have to be careful that, again, why you want to hit that downswing, you have to try to match the descent of the club with the angle of the blade so that it doesn't bounce off. and that's what we saw on the first ball I hit, you see the club going, the balance of the club hits the belly and comes out, so what we really want to try to do is compensate for that with a little bit more pronounced entry into the ball. and the ball goes up to the blade it goes up there nice and smooth so don't worry if you have it open a little bit we're not asking you to open it like that but open it up if it's square this is very open just do it a little bit because Doing so will add a degree or two of loft to the club, which is more than most people need anyway.