We have a lot of discussion about why we aren’t big advocates of hinge and hold chipping for most amateurs, so we decided to discuss it in further detail today.
If you’re looking to get Tour Precision in your short game, visit:
Good chipping can turn your round of golf from good to bad. It can take a score from something a hair over 100 to breaking 100. It can take your nine holes from a few strokes over 45, to a few strokes under. Getting the ball closer to the hole helps immensely.
On the PGA Tour, they measure all facets of the game.
Great driving and great iron play are the keys to playing great rounds of golf. But efficient chipping holds those rounds together.
And chipping isn’t always so easy.
PGA instructor Todd Kolb—the Teaching Director at USGolfTV—has been working with golfers on their game for over 25 years. Through the years, he’s seen it all around the greens. He’s seen the duffs and shanks. He’s seen many skulls. He’s witnessed golfers struggle with their chipping.
People think they know how to fix their chipping. But many of the pieces of advice moving through golf circles are flat out wrong. They are doing the opposite of helping golfers improve. They are hurting golfers. These tips are making them worse.
Good chipping can turn your round of golf from good to bad. It can take a score from something a hair over 100 to breaking 100. It can take your nine holes from a few strokes over 45, to a few strokes under. Getting the ball closer to the hole helps immensely.
On the PGA Tour, they measure all facets of the game.
Great driving and great iron play are the keys to playing great rounds of golf. But efficient chipping holds those rounds together.
And chipping isn’t always so easy.
PGA instructor Todd Kolb—the Teaching Director at USGolfTV—has been working with golfers on their game for over 25 years. Through the years, he’s seen it all around the greens. He’s seen the duffs and shanks. He’s seen many skulls. He’s witnessed golfers struggle with their chipping.
People think they know how to fix their chipping. But many of the pieces of advice moving through golf circles are flat out wrong. They are doing the opposite of helping golfers improve. They are hurting golfers. These tips are making them worse.
