How Your Chipping Stroke will Develop the Whole Golf Game

Whenever I practice my golf game the first place I go is always to their practice green, where I work on my chipping game. Every time we go off to practice we ought to start with basic fundamentals, and those fundamentals of the golf swing ought to be created from a solid cornerstone. The most primary part of the golf swing is found when we're chipping the golf ball. The club face in the course of the chip is going to stay square in the path of the swing so that you can hit your golf ball solidly.

It is difficult to hit a ball with any club with efficiency if a golfer can't hit a chip correctly. Every club in the bag is hit with the same strategy: the golf club goes back to some point in the back swing, depending on the distance a golf ball is to be hit. The club face at contact squares into the ball at a downward motion, strikes the golf ball as it speeds up with it, then comes into contact with the ground right after the golf ball has been dispatched on its way.

There are just a small number of golf clubs that we use during a game of golf in which the golf ball isn't hit with that movement. Given that golfers strike the driver with the golf ball on the tee typically the club head arc is a little more sweeping than more descending. With the sand golf shot or flop golf shot we are actually utilizing a little more wrist action within the swing. However with all other clubs we utilize a pinching action on the golf ball to the ground, and that is the most reliable method to hit the golf ball.

For getting a point across regarding golf I quite often like to draw on analogies with other sports. We sometimes can sort of switch on the light better when we will relate it to something that is a bit different. In this case if we were to use an analogy with basketball, chipping the ball could be somewhat like shooting a layup in basketball, and the tee golf shot would be similar to shooting a 3-point shot. Many of the same principles for shooting a layup we'll use for shooting a 3 point shot, however it's only done on a less complicated basis.

The chip shot is much like the layup in that way. It is rather easy to make this shot regularly since there is very little body motion, wrist hinge, or follow through with this shot. It's just a straightforward bring the golf club back and accelerate through the ball with the square face of the club. If you can achieve this successfully using a chip shot, this will be the foundation for almost all your other shots. Just build up your golf swing to hit the golf ball greater distances.