Basic Chip Shot

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this concept video is the basic chip shot so the finesse wedge kind of blends

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the

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chip shot the pitch shot I just call it shots you know around 40 yards and in

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the basic chip shot is going to be more of a shot where you're going to hit it

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primarily with your pivot it's not going to be your high spinning shot it's

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going

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to tend to launch a little bit lower and have a little bit more run but it's

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also going to be a shorter swing in general that's going to give you much

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more of a consistency of contact so this is a best shot when you have a little

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green or a little bit of fairway or rough to carry but then you have a fair

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amount of green for the ball to roll as a rough guide I wouldn't hit it if you

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have less than 50/50 carry to roll split but if you have less than that you

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probably hit it with your sandwich or approach wedge okay so the basic set up

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is going to be the classic finesse wedge but we're going to put the ball just

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slightly more back kind of in line with your big toe of the trail foot or even

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all the way into the midfoot or possibly even the pinky toe typically when we

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do

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this we're going to stand the club up a little bit more vertical so that the

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heel is just off the grass or off the ground the toe doesn't dig so this will

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allow us to be a little bit more aggressive with hitting down on the ball

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that's part of why we can get away with having the ball position back if we

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have

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the club sitting flat the heel will have a tendency to dig into the ground

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where

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if the toe hits it will tend to slide through so even though we have the ball

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position back oftentimes I see golfers lean back like this and that really

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messes up their contact you still want to feel like your weight is a little bit

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more on the front foot but most importantly you want to feel like your

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upper body is on top of your lower body also oftentimes when the wall goes back

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I see golfers kind of put their hands too far back I still want the grip to be

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roughly in line with your left eye so we've got it set up a little bit more on

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the toe of the club club in line with the left eye and then this is going to

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feel

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a lot more like a steve sticker style where we're not going to have a lot of

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wrists and I'm just going to hit this with pivoting my upper body while staying

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on

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top of my lower body and the normally I would train two different distances

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with

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each shot if you recall the the goal in this program is you get solid contact

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then solid contact with a couple different distances with this club I

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actually like to do more like a 45 degree angle or like a 730 as well as a

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nine o'clock with this setup I don't really like to go and hit bigger shots

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yes it's definitely possible but if you have that much room I would usually

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recommend just going down to a longer club and and playing it still at the

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lower level so the two different distances I've got ball back I'm going to

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be on that front foot I'm going to do kind of the shorter one there and the

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the benefit of the shot I hit a little bit behind on that one but because I

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hit the toe of the club and because I kept my body going it worked out great

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it came out well the second version I would now we've got the ball back same

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setup and we're gonna bring it back to about hip height and again I'm just

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going

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to hit it with the upper body rotating making sure that my upper body covers

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so for a lot of golfers it feels like the arms stay in front but the clay club

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just kind of lags behind especially if you're used to having more of a of arms

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he hit which isn't the worst thing for some of your other finesse wedge shots

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but it's not my favorite power source for hitting the basic chip shot so get

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really comfortable with this shot there's a lot of times where this is the

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easiest stroke in general one of the philosophies that I have is the shorter

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the stroke the more repeatable it's going to be so oftentimes this simple shot

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here is the shortest and easiest stroke for any given short game shot if you

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have

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a fair amount of green to work with so I recommend working on this as part of

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your usual finesse wedge routine and then throwing that in the mix on the

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course

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when you have plenty of green to work with at least where you have to carry it

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less than half the total distance of the shot okay so in demonstration we'll

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walk

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through that setup so foot is turned out ball position back hands ahead leaning

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slightly forward with my upper body and then it's just a nice little turn of

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the

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upper body and lower body one thing that you can vary this is more of an

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advanced

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version but feeling a little bit of a turn down or almost closing of the club

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face can can make the ball release even more so if I didn't want to go down to

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my 50 my gap wedge if I wanted to do this with my sand wedge or my lob wedge I

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can get a little bit more release by feeling a little bit of turn down and

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release the club that's a more advanced version but if you're let's say below

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or maybe even 15 handicap I'd recommend adding that into the mix it's a good

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skill to have so practice this to get really comfortable with your basic

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chip shot