Chipping club or 8 iron

[rapper]

Help..i am fluffing more chip shots from round the green with my 8 iron (i have tried other irons 9 and 7)and now i get nervous when i am face with a chip from off the green.
Should i persivier and practice with my irons or should i invest in a chipping iron I am an 18 handicapper and im in the older age generation,nearly 65 lol,?
My course as a lot of trees on it and i find myself with maybe 2/3/4 shots from under the trees back on to the fairway,i am told a chipper would be good for this shot,any advise please.Thanks

 

[HRC99]

A lesson is almost certainly cheaper than buying a new club and will be of much more use.

 

[Losttheplot]

Lesson to learn how to use the wedges.

 

[fundy]

grip down the hybrid and use this to chip out from the trees, the wider sole should stop you fluffing it as much

 

[philly169]

how do you grip your irons for chip and run?

I grip right down the club, hands infront of the ball, feet together and weight on the left side.

The just swing like a putt

 

[Oddsocks]

Short game lesson to iron out the quirks, and be creative around the greens by limiting your self to one club. At this time of year some pitches will die on a damp bounce and some won't. Try and think through the possibilities and play the percentages. I've gone from using a 52 on 90% if chips and pitches to ranging from a 58 down to a 7i, it's working a treat.

 

[JohnF]

stick with the 8 iron, over the years I got more and more in to using wedges, last year I got back in to the 8 iron after reading GM one month, found I was getting more closer to the pin.

 

[griffgolf]

Help..i am fluffing more chip shots from round the green with my 8 iron (i have tried other irons 9 and 7)and now i get nervous when i am face with a chip from off the green.
Should i persivier and practice with my irons or should i invest in a chipping iron I am an 18 handicapper and im in the older age generation,nearly 65 lol,?
My course as a lot of trees on it and i find myself with maybe 2/3/4 shots from under the trees back on to the fairway,i am told a chipper would be good for this shot,any advise please.Thanks

I had this problem last year now I am Mr confident around the greens

I now use my 6 iron with my putting grip,stance and stroke and works for me an absolute treat.

I hole or leave stone dead the majority of my chip shots around the green and is helping my scores dramatically

Just remember to do exactly what you would do for a putt including your putting routine but use your 6 iron.

Try it out

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I am still struggling so badly with my short game and getting myself so tense and bogged down in technique that any natural feel is lost. It should be such an easy shot. I have even gone to playing it with split hands to see if that helps. I'm even duffing chip and runs played (in my minds eye) as a putt

 

[bluenose10]

Try the hybrid as suggested above, I use mine from around the green sometimes and works wonders. Just use it as if you were putting...

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I don't think you'll find many on here advocating a chipper. I think most of us see it as a sign that you have given up

I would recommend a lesson and also practice with a hybrid. I use my hybrid around the green if I get a dodgy lie or I have a few yards of fairway to go over but I'm close to the pin and it works pretty well. The ball comes off the face a bit hotter than you will be used it for such a short shot so it needs a bit of practice but is a useful shot to have in your bag.

 

[FourPutt]

I find that there is no one size fits all solution. I vary which club I use based on how much carry/roll I need and what is between me and the putting suface.

I would recommend a short game lesson with a pro. One lesson transformed my chipping and putting massively. Once you get someone to tell you where you are going wrong, you can practice effectively. Without a lesson, you'll just be fumbling around in the dark!

 

[FourPutt]

I am still struggling so badly with my short game and getting myself so tense and bogged down in technique that any natural feel is lost. It should be such an easy shot. I have even gone to playing it with split hands to see if that helps. I'm even duffing chip and runs played (in my minds eye) as a putt

Homer, having not played with you yet I find myself curious as to whether you are as bad at chipping as you make out, or whether you are just overly critical on yourself. If you chip from off the green, what do you consider a bad chip? further away from the hole than 3ft? 6ft? etc Or are you actually regularly duffing chips etc?

Is your putting okay? If so, how about trying to use a 7/8 iron played as a putt? I know you mentioned above that you try that, but maybe a different approach would help? When doing that, I stand a tad closer to the ball than a normal 7 iron shot, grip down a bit and have the heel off the ground. I find that it goes slightly left of aim using this method, but once you get the hang of it you can adjust for that pretty consistently.

Sorry if that sounds like teaching you to suck eggs, just a suggestion and all that!

 

[Parmo]

Lesson to learn how to use the wedges.

+1

This.

 

[patricks148]

I always use a 9 iron for chipping. Got a range of shots i can hit with it, little thin runner, bump run. Not bad with it from about 100 yards in punch either.

 

[rapper]

thank you for all your advise much appreciated its obviuos not to go down the chipping iron road im off to the practice ground...thanks

 

[Matty]

I've noticed with my game that if I get a reasonable lie near to the green I'm thinking about technique, club selection and how much to swing. I then tend to execute a poor shot.

If I get a pretty poor lie and I have to improvise a shot I don't think at all about technique or swing and club selection is much quicker too. This tends to result in a better result.

So, I'd say stop thinking about it so much and just swing the club and strike the ball. I admit immediately that this is so much easier said, than done.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Same position as me, I should be shooting low 80s high 70s but my chipping has been letting me down. The cause is not accelerating through the ball.

Choose the shot that allows you to cover the distance but also accelerate through the shot. Trying to cosy it up with a limp whiff is never going to work!

Sometimes you will need a 56* SW, sometimes you will need to run it with a longer club. The three rules are:

1) If you can use a putter instead... DO!

2) Accelerate through the chip shot, done decelerate on the through swing or rush the back swing.

3) Do not try and hit the shot too far, club up instead but still swing within the putter stroke, yes it will go lower and run more, if you need to go high change to a pitch shot or a flop shot.

I am trying to learn these, remember the long vs short article in the last mag... Really it isnt about being good off the tee, its about how good at chipping and pitching you are!