Essential Golf Chipping Advice: 5 Tips to Elevate Your Game

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so today five tips that can absolutely

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transform your chipping

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so we're about to get into the golf

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season you've had a winter maybe you've

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not played as much golf

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maybe you've practiced your swing but

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you haven't done with short game

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you've got back out on the golf course

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and these shots are giving you a little

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bit of trouble you've lost your touch

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you've lost your feel and you

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potentially lost a little bit of

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technique well today we're going to

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transform your chipping

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with five tips that you can use to help

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you

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up and down from here a little bit more

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of this community right let's get

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started with tip number one

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so tip number one is just don't be

Tip 1 Dont be a one club wonder

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a one club wonder get to know

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your bag of clubs so many times people

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say to me chris

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what club should i chip with i can't

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answer that question because it just

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really depends on the situation now for

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this video

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we're talking chipping which for me a

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very very short shots like we've got

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here where

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i'm very close to green and for this

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type of shot i'll be using a variety of

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clubs

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move back another 10 15 yards to what i

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call short pitch shots

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and i'm probably going to be using the

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same club for most

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but from here i really need to get to

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know my clubs

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i've got a bag full of clubs there which

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all do a different thing i need to know

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what they do

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so i've got myself here a 56 degree

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wedge

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now a 56 degree wedge

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a little bit long might work okay from

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here

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but what if the flag was another you

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know 15

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20 feet further on that green well here

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i've got my

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eight iron

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and you can see that ball does a

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completely different thing when it gets

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on the green

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so there's not really anybody can tell

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you what club to use

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what you need to do is just get really

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friendly get familiar with all the clubs

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in your bag and figure out what they do

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like you've got lots of options there

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your job is then to figure out on the

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golf course which

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is the best option but don't be a one

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club wonder

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use all the golf clubs in your bag get

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to know what they do

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and vary that club based on the

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situation that is the first point

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so important unfortunately not enough

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golfers do that

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the golfers obviously almost want to be

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told what club to use to take that

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decision away from us we can't do that

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we have to pass it back to you

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you need to go and do the practice get

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the information and then make the best

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decision

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as to what club to use based on the

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situation that you're in tip number two

Tip 2 Set up for success

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set up for success so many times

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when i look at a golfer chipping before

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they even move the club away

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i can kind of predict it's not gonna be

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a great shot just simply because they

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haven't created the right right

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they haven't created i should say the

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right relationships

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around the golf ball it's incredibly

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difficult from there if you don't do

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that you're just relying

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heavily on your skill and talent and if

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you don't have a lot of skill and talent

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the result is often poor so we need to

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make sure our setup is correct

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now for a chip shot and like i said

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remember we're talking about these very

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very short shots around the green where

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you would vary the club

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there's a couple of things i want you to

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focus on i want the sternum

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so the buttons are in shirt or the zip

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on your top to be

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slightly in front of the golf ball

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the best way for me to do that is to put

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a little bit of weight on my lead side

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so notice how

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that then hangs slightly in front of the

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golf ball and the ball would look a

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little bit back in the stance

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that's the first thing the second thing

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would be to have a little bit of

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lean forward in the golf club i pretty

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much want the butt of the club

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underneath that sternum so if we drew a

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line from the sternum straight through

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the butt of the club

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they should both be in front of the golf

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ball now when i do that

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i've now created a great relationship

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for me to be able to do a couple of

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things

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it's enabling me to work the club a

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little bit more upwards in the backswing

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a little bit more downwards which helps

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me with the strike i want a slightly

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negative attack angle here a little bit

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of a downward strike

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and it also helps me get my shoulders a

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little closer to level

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that is absolutely what we need to avoid

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yet this is possibly

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the most common setup that we say ball

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looks back handed is forwards

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but just look at where my buttons are

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and the tilt across my shoulders

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really difficult to play golf from here

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the club often wants to go on the inside

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it stays too low to the ground

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really easy to kind of hit those really

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poor strikes

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like that so set up for success make

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sure that the sternum

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and the grip of the club are slightly in

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front of the golf ball and your

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shoulders

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are fairly level that's the best way

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for you to guarantee

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the strike on those little chip shots

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around the greens

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and that one almost went in point number

Tip 3 Get in close

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three

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get in close don't be scared of that

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golf ball

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this is an a-time now i wouldn't really

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use this for the flag

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that's in front of me so if we visualize

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that flag being another you know 15-20

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feet onto that green and i decided that

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eight-arm was the golf club

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it's a relatively long club it's sort of

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getting close to the middle of my bag

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and it has what we call a lie angle now

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the lie angle

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is the angle formed between the sole of

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the club and the club shaft that lie

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angle pretty much

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dictates where i should stand

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the golf club is pretty much sold out

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the club is at its angle and i would

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stand

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here to hold that golf club that's great

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for four golfing but i'm not using that

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golf club

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for a full shot i really want a shorter

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shot clearly a little bit more finesse a

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little bit more touch

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so don't be scared of that golf ball get

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yourself in

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super super close you'll notice that

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i've stood really close almost like i'm

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putting here now

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because the golf club is a little bit

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longer than our daily ideally like

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let's go down the handle a little bit

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but getting enclosed does

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so many things the first thing it does

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is it starts to mean that the golf club

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sits a little bit more up onto its toe

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that's perfect for chipping this part of

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the golf club here is absolutely what we

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want to have interacting with the ground

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we do not want the sole or the heel

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becomes a little bit more dangerous we

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bring in a few poorer strikes or the

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option of some poor strikes

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so standing a little closer raises the

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heel off

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makes it much easier and especially when

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that grass maybe gets a little bit

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longer

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maybe in those fringe areas it becomes

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much easier for that golfer to move

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through the grass without being sort of

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interfered with too much

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the other things that it does is it

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helps that golf club move

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straighter back straighter through the

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further i stand away

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the golf club naturally works on an arc

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straight to back straight to through

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it's going to help you control the

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direction

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the club face is going to open and close

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far less again that's really going to

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help you with the direction you really

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want to get to the point where you're

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trying to hold these you know you might

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read it like a putt and

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having that club face open far less

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really really helps that again

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the further you stand the more the club

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works inside and open

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and then inside and closed becomes more

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difficult to control

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the direction and the final thing

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standing in closer does

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is it makes the club work a little bit

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more up and a little bit more down

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again if i stand miles away the club

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tends to stay much lower to the ground

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so just standing in closer just to so

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many goals good things if you had to

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take just

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one thing from this video that would be

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the one thing i would suggest

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but we're having a point number three

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standing in much much closer

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clearly i'm not going to hit towards

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this flag here but that's really going

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to help me

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be more consistent

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as they're clearly not going for that

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first flag but that would be a pretty

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nice shot

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low rolling to a flag widget at the back

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of the green

Tip 4 Keep your butt moving

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tip number four keep your butt moving

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let me explain this is what we call the

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butt of the club the butt of the grip

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and if we think about the shot we're

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trying to hit the ball's got to carry

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you know three to four five paces it's

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not particularly far

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so i can move the club head enough

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distance and with enough speed

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to create that carry with just my wrists

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so as you can see

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i'm just using my wrist and i can you

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know probably generate enough force to

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make that ball carry three to four yards

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when i do that the butt of the club

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doesn't really move there's not a lot of

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travel to it what do we see from the

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best chipper as well from the best

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chippers

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if i take one hand off so you can see we

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would see

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the butt of the club traveling a much

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greater distance i'm not using the

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wrists i'm using the body motion

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to create this chipping motion when we

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do that

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the butt keeps moving if it doesn't

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and you're that golfer uses lots of

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wrists

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that's when you can easily hit those

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shots lots of wrists you can thin it

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right the way through

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the back of the green and unfortunately

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you're often faced with the same

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shot again so it's really important

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that we try to keep the book moving and

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in order to do that as we said there

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it's just using a little bit of body

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rotation a little bit of body pivot and

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you know that ball is only going to

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carry three to four yards but it's still

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important that we engage that body

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use the bigger muscles take the wrists

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out and that is going to enable you to

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hit much much better chip shots around

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the green so

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keep your butt moving

Tip 5 Work on your performance

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and finally point number five is all

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about trying to work on your performance

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when you're out on the golf course

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you've gone through the first four

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you've done a bit of practice you're

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starting to chip a little bit better

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how do you ensure that you get the ball

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really close and give yourself a tap in

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well

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i want you to think about where your

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focus is the best players

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who chip the ball the best stare at the

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target

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glance at the ball the others

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potentially in this category

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stare at the golf ball glance at the

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target

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have you ever seen this goal from the

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golf course practice swings

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eyes are down here

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they shuffle in

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there might be a quick quick glance at

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the flag

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and that is about it that's a goal for

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very much focused on technique

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very much focus on what they're doing

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often a little nervous a little

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apprehensive not

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confident and they're really thinking

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about the technique the best players you

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watch them when they're in over the ball

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they're staring at the target

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they're building a picture of what

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they're trying to do where is that golf

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ball going to land

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how high is it going to do what's it

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going to do when it hits the ground is

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there any break on it they're staring at

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the target

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they step in there's a glance at the

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ball but it's back onto that target

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they're staring at the toilet they're

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absorbing

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what's out in front of you we have to

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feel and judge how hard hit the shot

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how can we do that if we're not really

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looking at the target

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hard to look at the target which hit the

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ball but our pre-shot routine we need to

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be absorbing what's in front of us

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starting to look at the point we want

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the ball to land starting to visualize

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those things we spoke about that is

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really

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the only way you're going to have the

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best touch and the best feel

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so once your technique is to a point

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where you're comfortable and you're

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striking the ball better

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you're a lot more confident make sure

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that you're glancing at the ball and

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staring at the target

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so let's go ahead and hit one practice

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swings are always a good idea first

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that's a great chance for you to do

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those things you just mentioned where

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we're sort of really starting to

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take in what's in front of me and then

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hopefully

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once we've got an idea what we're trying

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to do we can go ahead and execute

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and it's not in but that should be a

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pretty simple tapping

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so maybe you've just come out of winter

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you've not really hit many shots from

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here you've not had a lot of practice

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a little bit rusty techniques maybe just

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left you a little bit

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those five tips i really believe are

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going to get you back chipping

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at your best transforming your chipping

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much much better

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to have confidence that you can get up

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