Does anyone chip with a shut body?

[MarkT]

As someone who's spent the past two decades using only their hands and knees to hit a chip shot I've just tried this on a lunchtime raid to the practice ground. If you are miserable around the greens then it might be worth a try - I managed to hit a dozen 54˚wedges without anything untoward happening (and didn't lose any balls). Gets the body involved far more and the right shoulder feels like it's part of the shot. Might be wrong but think they mentioned on the commentary that Otaegui does it on certain shots?

 

[bobmac]

Are you talking about a shot from just off the green that keeps low and runs most of the way?

 

[MarkT]

Are you talking about a shot from just off the green that keeps low and runs most of the way?

Yes, lots of run and a bit of hook spin but still a nice strike

 

[ScienceBoy]

For me it is understanding the difference between a chip and a pitch.

Quite often people think they are hitting a chip but throw in pitch elements and end up thinning etc.

Chipping for me is all about maximin roll and minimum flight, anything else is a pitch or a lob and should be hit like a pitch/lob.

In my opinion you do not chip a 60* by flying it to the hole and stopping it quickly, that is a lob. Also you do not chip a wedge 2/3 of the way to the hole and stop it quick, that is a pitch.

 

[Orikoru]

For me it is understanding the difference between a chip and a pitch.

Quite often people think they are hitting a chip but throw in pitch elements and end up thinning etc.

Chipping for me is all about maximin roll and minimum flight, anything else is a pitch or a lob and should be hit like a pitch/lob.

In my opinion you do not chip a 60* by flying it to the hole and stopping it quickly, that is a lob. Also you do not chip a wedge 2/3 of the way to the hole and stop it quick, that is a pitch.

This seems like absolutely nothing to do with what he's talking about. ?

 

[bobmac]

Yes, lots of run and a bit of hook spin but still a nice strike

I would never chip with a 54 deg unless I was very close to the flag.
I would normally use a 7-Pw for chipping, depending on how much green I had to play with.
But if whatever you use works, use it.

 

[ScienceBoy]

This seems like absolutely nothing to do with what he's talking about. ?

I didn’t know it had to, I thought replies could to be something vaguely relevant or an obscure tangent.

 

[garyinderry]

I can tell you my mate has to look over his left shoulder to see the flag when hitting a bunker shot.

It doesn't go well. Lol

 

[jim8flog]

I use lots of different directions for my body depending on the type of shot I am intending to play.

Same thing with club path.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Gary Smith and his linear method has some of his best students setting up slightly closed as it promotes a better body turn and rotation.

 

[bobmac]

Gary Smith and his linear method has some of his best students setting up slightly closed as it promotes a better body turn and rotation.

For chipping?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

For chipping?

Definitely for pitching and bunkers but he's not adverse to a very slightly closed stance for chipping. Something we discussed at length a few years ago when I had a linear lesson with him and subsequently whenever I play at Sutton Green where he's based

 

[Blue in Munich]

I think Stan Utley promotes a slightly closed stance as well.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/stan-utley-pitching

 

[MarkT]

This seems like absolutely nothing to do with what he's talking about. ?

I think Stan Utley promotes a slightly closed stance as well.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/stan-utley-pitching

This is brilliant, thanks

 

[TheDiablo]

@sam85

 

[Deleted member 1147]

For a chip and run I don’t use any body movement, or at least very little.

I set up slightly open and just move the club low, and back & through.

 

[sam85]

@sam85

I don't even know what the question means, but I am willing to try anything ?

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I think Stan Utley promotes a slightly closed stance as well.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/stan-utley-pitching

Thanks for that, 1 question, in the article have they mixed the numbers and the pictures up in the Takeaway Drill? Picture A looks parallel not 1 or I am getting myself confused?

 

[Blue in Munich]

Thanks for that, 1 question, in the article have they mixed the numbers and the pictures up in the Takeaway Drill? Picture A looks parallel not 1 or I am getting myself confused?
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Certainly looks like it.

 

[ScienceBoy]