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Still the issue is with your approach play if missing greens from 100 yards and under. That puts the pressure on the chipping and putting.
Maybe length isn't everything after all!
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Still the issue is with your approach play if missing greens from 100 yards and under. That puts the pressure on the chipping and putting.
Because I would have to buy a skirt at the same time! Actually I do own a chipper that my late wife used. I have tried it out on our practice chipping green late it the evening, when there was nobody watching, and I wasn't any better with that. Plus you get no choice of lofts, depending on how much rough you have to carry.
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Fair enough, you have too much pride to use a club that may help you. That is a deadly sin.
Ok, make some videos showing you hitting these poor chips and post them in the ask the experts section. There will be many on hand to help you.
If you can hit in between wedge distance pitches then you can surely learn to hit a variety of green side chips.
Ok, make some videos showing you hitting these poor chips and post them in the ask the experts section. There will be many on hand to help you.
If you can hit in between wedge distance pitches then you can surely learn to hit a variety of green side chips.
Capella
Journeyman Pro
If you can't chip with a nine iron or pw, you won't be much better with a chipper either. The only thing it helps with is lining the shot up a bit easier, but apart from that, the movement is pretty much the same. I have one, got it for dead cheap, tried it a few times (good thing I don't have to do it secretly in the last light of day 
), but really found it did not make much of a difference.
), but really found it did not make much of a difference.
I don't miss many greens from 120 yards in; that is one of the strong parts of my game. However due to ever decreasing length off the tee due to old age, I often find myself having to bash hybrids or fairway woods into the green, when I might expect to miss a percentage of them. I am not going to deliberately lay up to 100 yards because I have missed the green anyway if I do that!
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Confused ?!
You don't miss many greens from 100 yards - strong part
You struggle with your chipping - weak part
So your actions are
Don't lay up to 100 yards and instead try and get as close as possible and then try and rely on chipping ?
So you don't play to your strengths to play to your weaknesses
Seems your issues is your course management then.
If I can get a long iron, hybrid or fairway wood onto the green, which I would expect to do 60% of the time, then I won't have to chip and no problem. I don't understand your argument! If the green is definitely out of range, I will lay up to a full PW range.
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Not for me it isn't! I quite often take four or even five to get down. I am basically a high single figure golfer with a 28 handicap chipping game. Actually that is unfair on 28 handicappers, who often chip better than I can. I am not a bad putter though, and if I can, I putt from off the green to avoid having to chip. I don't know why I find chipping so difficult, because it should be the easiest shot in the book, but I seem to chunk them, thin them, and even shank them!
Im still confused
You can hit the green from 100 yards as that's your strong point
So why do you quite often take four or 5 to get down from 100 yards - especially when you putt well ?
You take on shots where you won't find the green regulary relying on a weakness instead of playing to strengths.
It's chip shots from the rough or semi-rough from within about 30 yards that I am rubbish at. If I am on a fairway I will putt onto the green if there are no bunkers in the way.
It boils down then to working on it and finding something that works. You clearly know where the issues lie, it's what you do with the information that will have an effect on the scoring
kid2
Money List Winner
Not for me it isn't! I quite often take four or even five to get down. I am basically a high single figure golfer with a 28 handicap chipping game. Actually that is unfair on 28 handicappers, who often chip better than I can. I am not a bad putter though, and if I can, I putt from off the green to avoid having to chip. I don't know why I find chipping so difficult, because it should be the easiest shot in the book, but I seem to chunk them, thin them, and even shank them!
Have a look at this pal. It's transformed my short game around the greens. Now you'll still be faced with an odd chip where imagination and feel come into it but once you spend a small bit of time with this it's practically foolproof.
And completely simple to do.
Plus there's no indecision over what club to chip with once you learn the landing spot for your ball..
http://www.ritson-sole.com/golf-tips/november-1997-for-chipping-try-the-6-8-10-method/
