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Like a Pro.
This one-hand chipping drill will help you shave strokes
around the green.
I highly encourage my students to practice one handed chipping
for two reasons. First, it gives them the exact feel of
a proper chipping motion. Second, it develops a feel for
the proper impact position for the full swing.
The way to achieve this is short and simple. Set up with
a sand-wedge with the ball positioned on the instep of the
back foot.
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With
a neutral grip the clubface in the backswing should be somewhere
between an open clubface ( palm facing up) and a closed clubface
(palm facing down). Tilt the handle and grip of the club slightly
forward of the ball with your right shoulder higher than normal
(for a right-handed player).
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backswing has very little movement of the grip. The backswing
is a swinging of the club-head with a feel of wrist hinge
with a soft or a small hinge of the arm. I want very little
arm and body motion on the way back. The wrist needs to
swing the clubhead back and experience the angle of the
clubface.
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proper change of direction and impact will occur when you
can learn to hit the ball without swinging the clubhead,
but instead swinging the handle. In the transition of backswing
to impact, it will feel as if you change the direction via
the handle of the club before the clubhead is finished in
the back-swing.
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This lagging of the clubhead behind the handle into the impact
will accomplish three things. It compresses the golf ball.
It moves the bottom of your swing forward, which keeps you
from scooping or “chili-dipping” the ball. The
proper lag also de-lofts the clubface, which allows you to
hit low-running chips with a sand wedge.
During and after impact, the arm begins to straighten and
the wrist will remain hinged throughout. Never let the clubhead
get ahead of the handle – even after impact. Your body
should turn in the downswing and through impact.
Great Golf, Neil Wilkins |
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