are chippers legal

[Wildrover]

...and yet if you can't hit a 3 iron your quite happy to use a hybrid?

....if you can't open up a 56 wedge to perform a lob then your happy to use a 60 degree one?

Come on, the rules are quite simple and they are clearly not illegal so all this "frowned upon" etc is just dreadful double standards.

But using a hybrid or lob wedge doesn't actually physically alter the way you play the shot, you still have to put a good swing on it. If you can't chip or pitch then all you have to do is buy one of these monstrosities and just make a putting motion with it. And yes I know you can do something similar with a hybrid or fairway wood but that is adapting a club designed for something else, not using something that has been designed to overcome your deficiency by fundamentally altering the way is played. Can you imagine what the outcry would be if some miracle club was invented that was legal and made you hit every fairway at 275yds out but all you had to do was make a putting action to achieve it?

 

[BTatHome]

Can you imagine what the outcry would be if some miracle club was invented that was legal and made you hit every fairway at 275yds out but all you had to do was make a putting action to achieve it?

yes, everyone would buy one.

Not really that much different that buying a straighter/longer driver at the moment.

sorry but the arguement that its not the same stroke is really not going to cut it, there are no rules to say what stroke/swing you must use for the golf shot ... jim furyk would be banned if there was

 

[bobmac]

My only problem with them is they only have one loft.
Sure, you can move the ball position around to change the flight a bit but what happens if you want to chip it over a bunker or bush etc ? Can you get Lob chippers? Sand chippers? Pitching chippers?

 

[Airlie_Andy]

I used to use a chipper for shots around the green when just in the fringe and only want to pop it up slightly and get it rolling. Don't use it anymore but I have no problem with anyone who does. It still needs a bit of skill to get it right anyway. It's certainly not a magic club.

 

[Wildrover]

They are the Devil's work and nobody will convince me otherwise.

 

[DaveM]

I heard that people who use chippers sit down to wee??????

 

[Monty_Brown]

They've been around for years and I can't help thinking that if they were SO good, everyone would have one by now. Really don't mind if people want to use one.

I probably thought the same about belley and broomhandle putters 10 years ago though....

 

[stevie_r]

They are the Devil's work and nobody will convince me otherwise.

and people who carry 4 wedges are the devils spawn - or just very susceptible to marketing

 

[stevie_r]

I heard that people who use chippers sit down to wee??????

i've heard that those that use long putters do too - but forget to pull their clothing down first

 

[Younglast516]

No .... it's because only woosies use them ... learn to pitch and chip properly!



Chris

so you shouldn’t use a long putter either because it might get frowned upon. What a jerk! Oh and it’s ok to have 3 wedges in the bag. If a legal chipper Makes you score lower then isn’t that the goal of playing. What about a rescue club? Come off your high horse and let people enjoy the game!

 

[Younglast516]

I’ve also read that a chipper can’t have line up markings like a putter does, and only one club can have a putter grip with line up markings. Most chippers have the markings.but haven’t been able to verify.

 

[rosecott]

so you shouldn’t use a long putter either because it might get frowned upon. What a jerk! Oh and it’s ok to have 3 wedges in the bag. If a legal chipper Makes you score lower then isn’t that the goal of playing. What about a rescue club? Come off your high horse and let people enjoy the game!

Are you chasing the record for resurrecting the oldest thread. If you had waited 10 months, it would have been 10 years since the last posting.

Mind you, ChrisD hasn't changed a bit since then.

 

[Steve Wilkes]

If Chippers or Chip Masters were made by Callaway or TaylorMade and cost £179 each, Everyone would have one in their bag

 

[virtuocity]

@chrisd getting his just desserts a decade later is sooo 2021

 

[Blue in Munich]

Are you chasing the record for resurrecting the oldest thread. If you had waited 10 months, it would have been 10 years since the last posting.

Mind you, ChrisD hasn't changed a bit since then.

As one of his carers, he is definitely more senile, and yes Jim, that is possible.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

so you shouldn’t use a long putter either because it might get frowned upon. What a jerk! Oh and it’s ok to have 3 wedges in the bag. If a legal chipper Makes you score lower then isn’t that the goal of playing. What about a rescue club? Come off your high horse and let people enjoy the game!

So you come on here with no knowledge of any of the personalities and start slagging people off. If you knew @chrisd you would realise his comment was tongue in cheek ?

 

[chrisd]

Are you chasing the record for resurrecting the oldest thread. If you had waited 10 months, it would have been 10 years since the last posting.

Mind you, ChrisD hasn't changed a bit since then.

I have aged 5 years in the last 10 Jim ??

 

[chrisd]

As one of his carers, he is definitely more senile, and yes Jim, that is possible.

It's all proportional though BIM, cos you're less useful as a carer as you also gallop on to the same needs as me ??

 

[Dibby]

...and yet if you can't hit a 3 iron your quite happy to use a hybrid?

....if you can't open up a 56 wedge to perform a lob then your happy to use a 60 degree one?

Come on, the rules are quite simple and they are clearly not illegal so all this "frowned upon" etc is just dreadful double standards.

Golf is so strange with things like this.

Coming up with a system to add or remove shots from your score, and claiming you've won a competition based of that, even though others played the course in less strokes - perfectly fine.
Outside of competition having multiple tees, so those not as skilful or not able to hit as far can start closer - standard practice.
Having all kinds of oddly shaped putters and compared to tradition huge drivers with ultra lightweight shafts - no worries

Having a club specially designed to help you play short shorts around the green - abhorrent, absolutely unthinkable, definition of cheating and goes against everything the game stands for!

Weird bunch!

 

[Younglast516]

Are you chasing the record for resurrecting the oldest thread. If you had waited 10 months, it would have been 10 years since the last posting.

Mind you, ChrisD hasn't changed a bit since then.

Never to late for an opinion. I can beat most people with my putter, chipper and rescue. Play the course not the club!