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Although everybody loves to stand on the driving range and bang the long drive, you can improve your scores faster if you spend a little time on your chipping. Every single golfer I know has a difficult time with realizing how important properly chipping the golf ball actually is to being able to shoot lower scores.
To improve your chipping the first thing that you need to do is actually allocate some of your practice time to it. The rule of thumb is that you should spend half of your practice time on your short game and half of your practice time on your full swing. Please understand that when the term short game is used that also includes your putting as well.
So now that you have allocated the time to improve your chipping, what do you work on to become better? Students usually have a very difficult time with setting up to a chip shot properly. It simply does not feel natural to them. Take a regular golf stance as you were going to hit a regular full iron shot with the golf ball in the center of your stance. Without moving your left foot, move your right foot so it points at the golf ball. This will give you the proper narrow stance with the correct ball position.
Your set up position should also have your hands closer to the target than the golf ball. In addition, you should have a little more weight on your left side for a right-handed golfer. This is where most golfers start to feel uncomfortable as this tends to feel a little awkward at first.
Now that you have a good chipping set up position, how should the club travel? As you practice place two clubs down aiming at your target line. The two clubs should be parallel to each other, should look like railroad tracks and just wider than the club head of the golf club that you are chipping with. As you practice, your club should not hit either shaft on the ground as your club works back and through.
Most amateurs do not understand how important the finish position is on every golf swing. It is no different while you are chipping. To be in the proper finish position for a chip shot, you need to make sure the shaft of your golf club moves past your target side leg. For right-handed golfers, this means the club must move past your left leg. In addition, you will want to be able to hold it there for a count of three seconds. Finishing in this position insures that you were accelerating the golf club through impact. As you watch the pros on TV, you will see each of them hold their finish position with the club shaft past heir forward leg.
Although it is tempting to only go to the range and see how far that you can hit it, You will improve and lower your scores faster if you split your times between the full swing and the short game. Improving your chipping will help you to feel more confident in your golf game.
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