Practice green - chipping aloud or not

I suffered from great confusion at my old club, when I joined there was two signs at either end (entrance to the area) that read "No Chipping or Putting Allowed".

By May they had disappeared. Being a regular to the area I noticed this within a few days and also that suddenly every around me started chipping AND putting!

I enquired and found out it was not allowed between October and May but allowed over the summer months!
 
bobmac said:
The chances are she was probably right, there was a sign that said no chipping or pitching.
Are there any buildings/windows close by?
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yeah the clubs house is next to it but i was chipping away from it down the hill, and there may have been a sign that said no chipping or pitching but it is not there now or for the 4/5 months ive been a member there.
 
Garush34 said:
yeah the clubs house is next to it
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Thats why there's no chipping allowed.
If you allow chipping, people will also pitch and lob and all it takes is one thinned lob shot or a shank and your've got a ball bouncing round in the bar.
To cover themselves they just put a blanket ban on any shots from off the green in any direction, so putting only.
 
Garush34 said:
haha yeah, i was kind of taken a back when she spoke to me about it cos i knew there was no sign and cos ive been chipping there when the club secratery has been past and chatted to me aswell as one of the greens keepers.

shes kind of put me off a wee bit tho, cos im a younger member at the club (21) and there arent many others around my age that ive seen so dont know whether she was just being moany cos i was of the younger generation to her and she thought shed try to put me in place so to speak.
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whole lot of possible scenarios - however, as you have explained it, she seems to have been trying to help you rather than anything else. she came back, she explained that there used be a sign but accepted that it's gone now - all consistent with someone trying to be helpful

now, as the whether she was right....it's also entirely possible that there used to be no chipping, hence the sign, but that a change of policy now permits it hence the sign was removed and no-one has picked you up on it before etc

either way it doesn't seem like the end of the world. ask the club sec and, if it's no, ask for a sign and and request an alternative. many many clubs don't have one so don't be surprised.
 
thanks for the replys guys, ive sent an email to the club asking what the rules are and what can be done if chipping is not aloud on this green, i.e. can they put another green down by the bunker and the range, and also asking for a sign to avoid confusion in the future if it is not aloud.
 
Please say when you wrote to them you spelt it 'allowed' rather than 'aloud'...we are all thinking it!!!
 
The green with several little flags is to practice putting on, the green with one flag & a bunker is to practice bunker shots from & the one with one flag & no bunker is for practicing chips on, simples!...and if you only have one or two of the above then practice what it's set up for

Them's the international rules of common sense :D
 
We have quite a nice putting green near the 1st tee.
There's a sign saying "No chipping onto practice green"

A while back I saw one of the guys from the shop chipping and then a week later, the Pro was chipping.

Seems it's one rule for some.......

We have nowhere to practice/warm-up before 9.30. That's when the par 3 course "opens" - plenty of scope for chipping then but no bloody good if you're off at 9.25.....
 
I once had a chipping lesson with the pro and at the end of the 1/2 hour he distributed a bucket of balls round the green and told me to practice away. As soon as he had gone in the greenkeeer came and told me it was not allowed and I had to stop.
 
my club has a green with about 5 pins and a bunker.....needless to say if im chipping and there is someone putting im always aiming the opposite direction from then just incase i thinned one.... can be nervy if theres some kid chipping when your putting though, a quick death stare usually stops em trying to drops balls on you from the clouds
 
Our club has a putting green and a chipping green. The chipping green is in front of a shed away from any danger apart from you have to walk past it through a spindle sort of walkway to get to the first tee.

Will never forget and old fella chipping on there as two ladies were going through the walkway and Boom he thinning one and it hit one of the spindles. Needless to say the two ladies werent to happy! :lol:
 
Like many others have said we have a practice putting green (with "No Chipping" sign) and a seperate chipping green nearby.

My brother was over from Germany for Easter and we were warming up before going off on the Saturday, he was practicing chipping on the correct green and caught one a bit thin which rolled across onto the putting green, an old boy growled "that sign says no chipping onto the putting green" at him - the look on my brothers face was a picture .......he'd not got dialled back into the British sense of humour:rofl:
 
I have an added difficulty to the murky rule of 'can you cant you':).

At our place you are allowed to chip onto the putting green but....only from one side and from the side that is toward the clubhouse. I reckon it is so that the people in the bar can critique you.

There was a guy chipping on from the other side last weekend -good player off about 6 and only chipping on from about 5 foot away - everything went within a foot of the nearest pin (better than my putting for sure) and I counted about 5 people in 15 mins tell him he was on the wrong side - he was wetting himself by the end of it.

I think its one of those ....why - please explain rules.
 
bobmac said:
Thats why there's no chipping allowed.
If you allow chipping, people will also pitch and lob and all it takes is one thinned lob shot or a shank and your've got a ball bouncing round in the bar.
To cover themselves they just put a blanket ban on any shots from off the green in any direction, so putting only.
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Spot on. Ours is no chipping too as it is at the back of the clubhouse and lots of glass to break.
I only want to play little 10' bump and runs with an 8 iron, but not everyone would be sensible.

It reminds me of kids.

Dad: "Don't play with that ball in the lounge."
Kids: "But we're only rolling it along the carpet."
Dad: "OK then, but nothing more than that."
Kids: "Yes Dad."

In half an hour they're throwing fastballs at each other the length of the room with windows behind and just missing the lights.

You'd think in their 30's they'd have learnt by now!
 
I raised this same issue on another thread. I cannot chip onto my clubs practice green. I do practice chipping in my own back garden, but for effective chipping practice you have to chip onto a good putting green. I think too many golf clubs make rules just for the sake of making rules, with no practical justification.

Not many clubs have the luxury of a putting green and separate chipping green. Common sense and common courtesy should be the natural rule. Don’t chip onto the practice green when it interferes with other members practice or if there is a safety issue.
 
If you can chip on the course greens then why not on the practice greens? It kinda blows away the argument that chipping damages them.
 
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