How To Use The Bounce and Never Duff a Chip Again

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hi guys welcome to this Chris Ryan golf

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video we're going to do a video here

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covering a short pitch shot so just off

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the green we're sort of going to carry

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the ball maybe 10 15 20 yards let it

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land and roll out the flag we're going

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to talk about the golf club the

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different parts of the golf club and how

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they interact with the ground when we

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strike the golf ball and when we can use

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these shots from which ones are best for

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certain situations so the two areas the

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golf club we can talk about at the

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leading edge where the sort of the

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clubface meets the sole so this part

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here and then the balance of the golf

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club which is the sole part here where

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the loft would normally be written on

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and we can get certain different bounces

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on that area there so we can have sort

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of low bounce maybe four five six

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degrees right up to about twelve

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thirteen fourteen degrees so the

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different parts of the club we can use

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in different situations for different

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things

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what I would like you to try and do when

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playing these short pictures is try to

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utilize the bounce of the club a lot

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more now the only way we can utilize the

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bounce of the golf club is when the club

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shaft is fairly vertical vertical is

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looking from the camera as soon as we

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start to put some lean towards the golf

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club sorry towards the target

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so the handle gets closer we start to

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bring in the leading edge now the

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leading edge is you can probably see

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from this it's a lot sharper and what

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that's going to do is it's going to dig

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into the ground a lot more and it's

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going to mean that you have to be a lot

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more precise with your contact

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especially in sort of this time of year

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now when the ground conditions are

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changing certainly getting a bit wetter

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if we start to play these shots with a

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forward lean in the golf club bringing

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the leading edge into play if we can if

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we strike the ground slightly too early

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we're going to get the golf club sort of

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digging into the ground and that ball is

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probably not going to go much more than

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a couple of feet so we can get them all

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close with that method but it just means

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we have to be a lot more precise if we

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can start to use the bounce the golf

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club it brings it gives us a lot more

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margin for error it's called the bounce

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because that's exactly what it will do

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as we strike the turf with that part of

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the club it will bounce now generally if

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we're playing with the club shaft a lot

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closer to vertical we will often find

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that the approach is a lot more shallow

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so the golf group is closer to the

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ground prior to impact and then

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obviously under the golf ball at impact

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if we play with a handle for wood you

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tend to get the

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for a very steep position here it comes

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a lot more down there's a lot more

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interaction with the ground and again as

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I've just said that brings a lot more

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miss strikes into play so if we want to

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strike the golf ball with the club shaft

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fairly neutral we should probably start

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there okay there's no point starting

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over here and then trying to return it

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to a different position so with these

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shots here we want to really try and get

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the starting position to mimic the

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impact position as much as we can now my

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personal preference would be to have a

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little bit of weight on the left side so

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I've got a little bit more weight on my

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lead leg and as I take my starting

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position you can see that the shaft is

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fairly close to neutral I know there's a

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little bit of lean towards the target

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but that's okay as long as it's not too

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excessive you should also notice that

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the handle is a little bit forward okay

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it's not way way over here but it's

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definitely not too far back I would

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probably rather have the handle in line

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with the club head or even a little bit

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further back then too far forward okay

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so from this position here we can keep

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the weight on the Left we can just move

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the golf club back and through and we

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can start to use the bounce of the golf

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club what you're going to find is no

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matter what the lie whether it's a tight

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lie sitting down or fluffy grass this

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method will give you a pretty good

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result most times so I'm just going to

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show you a couple of these different

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shots I want you to watch the

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interaction with the ground when I play

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them the first one is with a lot of

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shaft lean this way okay

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and as we strike this golf ball you can

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see there wasn't really any

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follow-through what's over the golf club

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as my golf became quite steeply into the

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golf ball hits the ground no

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follow-through now luckily I managed to

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strike that ball first but I wouldn't

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have had to have been far out and that

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the golf ball would have probably gone

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three or four feet in front of me this

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one going to play it weight on the left

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shaft is a lot more neutral and I'm

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going to try and use the bounce of the

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club and we get a much softer ball

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flight there's no divot and the golf

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club continued through now the added

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benefit with the second one is that

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we're playing with a bit more dynamic

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lock the dynamic loft is the loss that

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we present to the golf ball so not

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necessarily what's written on the bottom

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the golf club but what we actually

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present the golf ball if I play with a

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bit more dynamic loft that's going to

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give me a higher takeoff angle it's

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going to give me a steeper drop angle

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I'm going to get a lot more control over

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the golf ball the first one with a

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handle forward using the leading edge

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the ball is going to come a lot quicker

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get a bit lower ball flight to get the

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land it's going to take off a lot more

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difficult to control

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so for these shots around the green

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these sort of 15 20 yard pitch shots if

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we can start to get ourselves set up

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weight on the left side handle pretty

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much in line with a golf club itself and

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we can start to feel that we use the

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bounce of the club keep the body turning

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and we're going to get some much better

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results if we can do that okay good luck

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give it a go hopefully you'll get some

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closer results

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