Chipping practice

[drawboy]

Does your club have adequate chipping practice facilities eg a practice green of some description? The clubs I have been a member of recently have practice putting greens, as all have but nowhere to practice chipping onto. I find this the hardest aspect of practice as you cannot really do it anywhere but to a green or closely mown area.

 

[pigmeister]

We have a putting green thats in front of the club house, which is for putting only, no chipping. We have a practise ground which has a green with four pins on it so you can practise chipping, chip and runs and your bunker play. You can also putt on this green, it has nothing done to it throughout the year apart from having the mowers set up on it yet it is the best green on the course? We also have a green with two pins on it that you can pitch from 90yds in. This also has rough around it to practise those burried lies.

 

[Tiger]

The range I go to has a putting green but you are permitted to chip from the sides.

 

[MarkHK]

We have a good chipping pratice area, it used to be the ninth green when the course was only 9 hole. It is behind the first tee so you can have a pratice while waiting to go off.

 

[TRS30]

My club has a practice chipping area with three different lengths of grass, fairway, little & heavy rough, two bunkers, green side and about 25/30 yards. Is also another practice area which you hit up to about 150 yards.

Only thing we don't have is a full driving range which would be nice.

 

[BrianDamage]

I tend to use the bowling green just around the corner from my house. Matter of time before someone puts a stop to that I'd have thought.

 

[USER1999]

Yep, all practice facilities are fine. All I need to do is use them.

 

[ball_basher]

you could always go to your club at first light and go strait to over to the 18th green before anybody reaches it, i dont know if your club will allow this but its worth trying

 

[colint]

We have a separate field, about 80 yards long, with a green and bunker for short game. I'm planning on changing clubs next year because the course is hopeless in the wet, but not sure I'll find somewhere with similar practice facilities.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We have a practice bunker and some flags on the practice ground at 50 yards but they aren't mown like a green. We can chip onto our putting green and there is talk of a small 30-40 yard short game area with a small dedicated green

 

[RGDave]

We have a chipping area, but the "green" is more mowed area with a pin....not great.
Chipping around the putting green is banned (for all) but ignored by the assistants.

I once played at a club that used an old green

http://www.moseleygolfclub.co.uk/index.php

possibly the best practice area I've ever seem at a club.

 

[pokerjoke]

We are very fortunate to have a 180 yrd range in the middle of are course with a massive green with two flags and a bunker 30 yrds short of the green.Also it has two hitting mats.Its surprisingly quiet at this time of year and i have been out on my own for two hours or more and havnt seen a soul.Perfect.

 

[Imurg]

We have a nice green by the first tee but we can't chip on it. But we do have a great 9 hole par 3 course to work with. Its a few hundred yards away but if I want to I can wander over and chip to my hearts content. And the greens there are kept to the same standard as the main course. In fact most of the greens are trickier on the par 3 course!
Biggest bugbear is no real full shot practice area. All we have is 2 nets close to the first - no range.

 

[jammydodger]

Theres a nice kidney shaped green at our place with one end raised higher up. You can chip around it to your hearts content. I even go off across the road and hit some 30/40 yd pitches into it when no-ones about.

Theres also a smaller putting/chipping green near the first tea.

Theyve also just built a pitching green that should be open this year too.

Add to that a piece of land thats about 260yds long and 80/100 wide and you've got all the practice facilities you need , I may even see EasenGrace up there this year

 

[painterboy]

Have a couple of Par 3's (you can use them for chipping)max 16o yards.
Very handy to warm up.

 

[leewestrudd1]

my club has an excellent shortgame area,it has a long undulating green about 80 yrds in total with half a dozen flags scattered about the green,4 bunkers of different depths and distances from the green,3 greenside and one about 30 yrds away,fairway length grass all around then thats surrounded by rough,theres also rough around the greens and it 100% replicates the course unlike the last club i played at where the practice green was slow and the greens on the course were lightening quick

 

[CrapHacker]

No chipping facilities where I practise.

 

[Timh27]

We have a driving range, bunker, putting green, and a little chip and run practice ground which is just a few mats with a flag 20 yards or so away.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

We have a 3 bay covered range about 180 yds long with a short game green and 2 bunkers beside it.

We are allowed to chip onto the putting green in front of the clubhouse but no flop or lob shots etc.

 

[Parmo]

We have a pitching green and we are told to use that for chipping, but the problem is after the pitching onto it it's kinda battered so I used to chip and run on the edge of the putting green until I got caught