Chip OR Pitch

[19th]

How do YOU define a 'pitch' as opposed to 'chip'.

I always think a 'pitch' is lonely as it should often have 'and run' along with it.

This shot I see in my mind as being, say, a seven iron landing 60%(ish) to the hole and running out the other 40% - never being higher than shoulder hight to assist the run.

A 'chip' however I see in my mind as a rather more lofted shot with little run attached to it. (I chip over the bunker onto the green, very little forward run)

However to confuse me more I carry a 'pitching' wedge which does not allow much run and if hit correctly, sits down well on the green.

The reason for this musing is that on reading some offerings on the playing of golf I find 'chip' and 'pitch' confuses the writer (I think) and therefore confuses me!

Help required!

 

[Fyldewhite]

I think it's the opposite. A pitch is a shot through the air that stops fairly quickly and is usually played from 30/40 yards out at least. A chip is a lower controlled shot with the aim of getting the ball on the ground at a specific point and running out like a putt or stopping quickly with spin if hit from further out.

 

[bobmac]

A chip is a shot played from just off the edge of the green.
It spends most of it's journey on the ground and is played with little wrist hinge.
A pitch is a longer version of the chip played with a more lofted club and spends more time in the air than on the ground and a bit more wristy.
They can however overlap when a shot can be played as a long chip or a short pitch

 

[The_LHC]

How do YOU define a 'pitch' as opposed to 'chip'.

I always think a 'pitch' is lonely as it should often have 'and run' along with it.

No, it way always "chip and run" when I was being taught, that's the one that runs most of the way along the ground.

This shot I see in my mind as being, say, a seven iron landing 60%(ish) to the hole and running out the other 40% - never being higher than shoulder hight to assist the run.

A 'chip' however I see in my mind as a rather more lofted shot with little run attached to it. (I chip over the bunker onto the green, very little forward run)

However to confuse me more I carry a 'pitching' wedge which does not allow much run and if hit correctly, sits down well on the green.

The reason for this musing is that on reading some offerings on the playing of golf I find 'chip' and 'pitch' confuses the writer (I think) and therefore confuses me!

Help required!

You have your definitions the wrong way round, a pitch goes through the air and stops quickly, a chip is the opposite.

 

[Oddsocks]

easy this one.

A chip, something im pretty good at

A pitch, something i can never gauge the required power level correctly

 

[USER1999]

What's the difference between a chip, a pitch, and a shank?

 

[Deleted member 1147]

What's the difference between a chip, a pitch, and a shank?

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[StrangelyBrown]

It's only a name, I can execute either shot with equally bad results.

 

[Oddsocks]

What's the difference between a chip, a pitch, and a shank?

a shank is normally the unintended but totally expected outcome.

 

[DCB]

What's the difference between a chip, a pitch, and a shank?

about half an inch

 

[The_LHC]

easy this one.

A chip, something im pretty good at

A pitch, something i can never gauge the required power level correctly

Which is interesting because I'm the complete opposite, I can visualise the flight of a pitch to just short of the flag and stopping in a couple of bounces, so I can gauge the power required quite easily, but I really can't visualise a low chip and run of the same distance, so I just can't judge the strength.

Mind you I can't putt from off the green either, even a foot of fringe to go over leaves me with no idea how hard to hit the putt, but a putt of the same length but all on the green I have no problem with.

 

[Smiffy]

I really can't visualise a low chip and run of the same distance, so I just can't judge the strength.
Mind you I can't putt from off the green either, even a foot of fringe to go over leaves me with no idea how hard to hit the putt

I'd laugh at you if we were playing together

 

[The_LHC]

I really can't visualise a low chip and run of the same distance, so I just can't judge the strength.
Mind you I can't putt from off the green either, even a foot of fringe to go over leaves me with no idea how hard to hit the putt

I'd laugh at you if we were playing together

You wouldn't need to, because I can't do it, I don't do it, in both situations I'm happier with a PW in my hand, tends to work for me.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I agree with Bob's assessment but I can cock them both up with equal aplomb. My latest speciality is getting the divot further than the ball on both chips and pitches.

 

[jammydodger]

For me a chip is something i'd do from around the greens and a pitch is a longer shot that can be up to 90/100 yards

 

[SwingSlow]

What's the difference between a chip, a pitch, and a shank?

Pitch and shank both have the same 45 degree angle of departure from the club, but one is in the vertical plane and the other in the horizontal.

 

[MashieNiblick]

What's the difference between a chip, a pitch, and a shank?

Chip and pitch are what you do on the practice ground, shank is what do you on the course.

 

[richart]

I don't have a chip, i just have a putt from off the green. As for a pitch, i usually leave myself with a chip after i have played one, and back to the putter. Not that i have got the yips with my short game.

 

[SharkAttack]

A chip is something you eat with battered fish and a pitch is something 22 grown men run about on chasing a ball for ludicrous ammounts of money on.

Shark

 

[ScienceBoy]

Chip- back of stance, hit through the ball trying to keep the club along the ground

52 wedge = 1/3 flight 2/3 run
60 wedge = 2/3 flight 1/3 run

Pitch- ball normal place in stance, grip down on club

PW = 3/4 flight 1/4 run
52 = 4/5 flight 1/5 run
60 = fly to hole

All based on flat ground and flat green