Chipping off mats

[tomshanks]

Had my first experience of a simulator this morning and on the whole was pretty impressed. My distances were all as can normally be expected (350 yard drives etc etc!!).

Played a few holes and was going great until I had to chip, I darn well struggled to even hit the screen off the mats! Shanks all over the place. My chipping is usually pretty solid but put a ball on a mat and I'm hopeless. Why could this happen?

 

[TheDiablo]

If you're anything like me and have a short game based primarily on instinct with a little bit of technique, chipping to a screen would be a nightmare! No way could I 'see' the shot I was trying to play standing on a flat mat in front of a screen.

If your short game focus on technique with a little bit of feel then I would imagine it would be slightly easier, although still a challenge!

Either way I wouldn't worry about it, those places are good fun for hitting the ball as hard as you can and pretending you're on a nice course, not for reducing your handicap!

 

[robert.redmile]

shanking chips is commonplace!

Things that help are, in no particular order, with some working more/or less for each individual

- strong left hand grip
- ensuring you take the club head straight back, straight through and across
- try pulling the grip through to the left after contact with the ball
- put more weight on front foot
- get your head and eyes in front of the ball
- focus on one dimple on the ball
- keep your head down until after contact

think............Up, down, across

 

[Robobum]

shanking chips is commonplace!

Hmmm. Really?

 

[rksquire]

By coincidence I was having a similar problem when this appeared last week: http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?82733-Please-Help-Ultimate-Chipping-technique

Tried, this as well as stumbling on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_v4VTzY0Mg

Tried at the range last week, much improved and good results on course. Also, realised I was dipping my left should on the takeaway, which was a shanking factor.

 

[robert.redmile]

Hmmm. Really?

probably not for you with your handicap, but search for "shanking chips" on google, you tube, golf websites and the depth of information that comes back suggests to me, that, yes, shanking chips is commonplace.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'm not a fan of chipping off mats at the best of times. Mind you I can shank off grass as well as a mat