Click Here To Learn The Step by Step Putting System To Quickly and Easily Shave 9 to 11 Strokes Off Your Next Round

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As a beginner in golf, when you have poor results on the golf course, you simply can’t blame the game itself. There is for sure a reason behind its existence and you must be very aware of that from the very beginning. With this, you can easily avoid them the next time around;

Staying at a Very Far Distance From the Ball

When you take your body at a huge distance away from the ball, you need to stick your arms out toward the ball. When you feel you are trying to extend your arms “out” towards the direction of the ball, you are on the wrong track. This will lead you to a feeling of tension which you don’t want to happen.

When tension is felt, you will be blocked from having the feel of the weight of the clubhead. When you have a good sense of the clubhead, you also have good touch on your chip shots.

One more reason why you don’t want to stay away far from the ball is that the moment you move the clubhead, it will swing right away to the inside and beyond the target line. For sure when you chip, you want to make the club move straight back and through along the target line.

When the club is moving in or out the target line, you will definitely have a big trouble on keeping clean contact as well as having the shot on line.

Making Use of a Club With Extreme Loft

A chip shot is also a running shot. Whatever it is that you create during set up is done to push the ball forward at a low trajectory. If you always end up short of your target, then you have to make use of less- lofted clubs.

Failure to Keep Your Weight on Your Lead Leg

In order to make the downward strike smoother, you have to place at least 60% of your weight on your lead leg. By doing this, you will definitely improve your strike.

Playing The Ball Much Forward In Your Position

Finally, this tip is what beginner golfers almost forget always. Getting the ball much forward in your position will be an assurance that you are going to catch the ball when the club is swinging upward rather than down.

When this occurs, the thing which is most likely to happen is that you are going to catch the central portion of the ball with the lead edge of the clubface. Check if you are always blading your chip shots acroos the green, take a closer look at your ball position. It must be in the middle of the stance. It might have been the main reason why.

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Click Here To Learn The Step by Step Putting System To Quickly and Easily Shave 9 to 11 Strokes Off Your Next Round

I’m always asked by beginner golfers, what is the difference between a chip and a pitch?? The two shots can be defined in many ways, so lets discuss the difference between the two shots and when you’d decide to play them.

The first way a chip or pitch shot can be categorized is by the distance of the shot. Not by the overall distance of the shot but the distance you are from the edge of the green. A chip shot can be categorized as a short game shot that is played within 10 metres of the greens edge. To futher qualify the difference between the two, the flight of the golf ball must be considered. A short shot with a wedge that carries more than 50% of the total distance is considered a pitch shot. Under 50% will be a chip shot. You need to consider which club you are going to use. Pitch shots are generally played with a lofted club, usually one of your wedges. Chipping can also be done with a lofted wedge but the flight of the shot must be considered when deciding, as per the last rule.

The next thing to consider is the type of swing that is employed. At the risk of being too technical for beginner golf players, a chip shot will be a shot where no or minimal wrist movement is employed and the club won’t get past hip height. To take the club back further without employing wrist cock and elbow fold would be extremely uncomfortable for any player. Therefore, to swing further the wrists and elbows must be used to increase leverage. When you swing the club past the waist it is considered a pitch shot.

Now that all the qualifiers are out the way let’s discuss how to learn each shot. Believe or not a pitch shot is best learnt by doing a chip shot first. In a basic chipping action, little or no wrist or elbows are used. The club is moved primarily from the rotation of the body; back and forward. A pitch shot employs the same body rotation, as the hands move back over the trail foot the wrists and trail elbow start to cock and fold respectively as the body continues to rotate. The club is now levered into a supported position that has enough power and loft to flight the ball for a pitch shot. The same rotary movement is used to deliver the clubhead back to impact and the follow through. At no stage during the downswing does the body stop rotating and the hands flick at the ball. The rotation delivers the blow. This concept is one of the hardest for beginner golfers to grasp. I’m sure now you fully understand the difference between a pitch and a chip.

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