I've bought a chipper.

This thing can't turn up soon enough. I don't to miss greens by a lot. I could have used a chipper quite a few times today. Made a hash of most simple chip and runs.


Has anyone actually used a chipper with a loft of 16 degrees? most are 37 degrees or so.
 
Hobbit said:
I've never seen the results board at the club state that player 'x' won using a chipper, or any other club. Its a game of how many, not what's in the bag. If its works for you, crack on.

Wonder how many players have used a hybrid from just short or from the fringe...?
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Not me.




I don't carry any hybrids :D
 
garyinderry said:
This thing can't turn up soon enough. I don't to miss greens by a lot. I could have used a chipper quite a few times today. Made a hash of most simple chip and runs.


Has anyone actually used a chipper with a loft of 16 degrees? most are 37 degrees or so.
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I've tried my 16* hybrid as a chipper but no joy, maybe because the shaft is too long, i use my 7 iron.
 
i do remember an old member of Lee Park years ago had one with loft both sides so you could use it right and left handed.
would this still be legal now.?.[/QUOTE]

It wasnt liverbirdie or stu c was it? :eek:
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Yes and its our job as moderators to steer them back on track,
Now you are not helping us achieve this aim, in fact you are positively hindering it, so suggest you either stick to the thread subject or a seasonal 8 pointer for ignoring advice might just be delivered with our blessings.
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A very heavy handed response Phil.
This whole thread is a mystery to me ,only the player should be able to determine his choice of club.
It has bought out the worst in some of our usual suspects I fear.
Seasonal bad humour that I hope will disappear when spring appears.
Happy New to all of us ,good,bad and even the ugly.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
It does make me giggle when some go on and on about how poor their chipping is and will happliy spend a lot of money on constant lessons to still have a poor short game but then turn their nose up at the idea of using a club which could help their rubbish chipping
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No prizes for guessing where that thinly veiled comment was aimed but I'll let that pass. I wouldn't use one as a personal decision, something you need to respect and would rather worked hard on my game and find a way to move the short game forward. I simply don't like them and wouldn't feel comfy using one
 
I see nothing wrong at all with using a chipper to chip with if that is the choice of the player. Select your equipment so it enables you to play to the best of your ability. I have started to carry a 9 wood and do not feel bad for doing so. It may be a "ladies club" or an "old man's club" but what counts is the score.

No-one berates a golfer for using a 460cc Driver or a putter with an oversize head (like Jack Nicklaus did for many moons) yet you can only really hit a drive or a putt with them. They are really single use clubs just like a chipper.
 
craigstardis1976 said:
I see nothing wrong at all with using a chipper to chip with if that is the choice of the player. Select your equipment so it enables you to play to the best of your ability. I have started to carry a 9 wood and do not feel bad for doing so. It may be a "ladies club" or an "old man's club" but what counts is the score.

No-one berates a golfer for using a 460cc Driver or a putter with an oversize head (like Jack Nicklaus did for many moons) yet you can only really hit a drive or a putt with them. They are really single use clubs just like a chipper.
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I used a 7 wood for years until the shaft broke. I loved it. So easy to hit.
 
craigstardis1976 said:
I see nothing wrong at all with using a chipper to chip with if that is the choice of the player. Select your equipment so it enables you to play to the best of your ability. I have started to carry a 9 wood and do not feel bad for doing so. It may be a "ladies club" or an "old man's club" but what counts is the score.

No-one berates a golfer for using a 460cc Driver or a putter with an oversize head (like Jack Nicklaus did for many moons) yet you can only really hit a drive or a putt with them. They are really single use clubs just like a chipper.
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9 wood, top man!

Don't let anyone tell you it's a ladies or an old man's club, I'm still very young.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
No prizes for guessing where that thinly veiled comment was aimed but I'll let that pass. I wouldn't use one as a personal decision, something you need to respect and would rather worked hard on my game and find a way to move the short game forward. I simply don't like them and wouldn't feel comfy using one
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Seems a little closed minded for someone who embraces plenty of other methods of improvement. From neuro linguistic programming, aim point, on course lessons to specific short game lessons. It seems silly to completely discount the benefits of a chipper without ever giving one a go. Don't get me wrong. I applaud your experimental side. Ireland is quite some way behind England in terms of players being willing to take lessons. Ive never once heard or seen anyone having an on course lesson at my course for example.

Its obvious many of here have some strange views on a humble club designed to do a job in the scoring zone. There is as many people recounting stories of men and women becoming deadly with these clubs.


I would have zero qualms about pulling one of these out of the bag, clip it next to the pin and tap in.

Ive previously tried a cheap one which didn't work due to the poor design of the club. It stuck in the ground exactly like an iron. This one I have identified looks like putting with more loft. Big round sole looks the key.

The short game is the stronger side of my game. If this improves my up and down % in any way then I am onto a winner.

If it doesn't work then nothing is lost bar a few shillings.

the main problem is fitting the damm thing in the bag. Darn 14 club rule.
 
I chip with a hybrid, and it is so easy it is almost like cheating. Also means you don't have to ditch a club for a chipper. Just use a hybrid, assuming you have got one, and use it like a putter. It comes off the face quicker than a putter, so needs about five minutes practice to get used to it.:thup: It also seems to really annoy certain playing partners when you get good with it.:whistle:
 
I will update after it arrives. It has that little loft that it will be useless for anything other than chipping the ball a touch in air and getting it running pretty quickly. 16 loft.

As i say, pitching, flops and higher lofted chips are a strong point of my game. I am much more likely to get up and down from a chip in green side light rough that needs to be lifted over an obstacle rather than a straight forward flat chip from the fairway to a pin 25 feet away.

Ive tried many ways to play this shot. None with any great success.
 
I bought one a few years ago and didn't get on with it. I put in my locker for storage then one day I pulled my bag out of my locker to play a round.....then boom the chipper came out of my locker a second later and clocked me on the eyebrow and split it open, claret everywhere.....there's a lesson in there somewhere Gary :)
 
So my chipper turned up today. 16 degrees doesn't seem like enough loft.


Will take it to the course next time I am up there. Got a few days work coming up so will be next week before I get to try it.

Starting to think 30degrees might be more like the number id like.

Nothing ventured nothing gained. :rofl:
 
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