Proven Chipping Techniques to Save Par Every Time (Perfecting Your Short Game Book 1)

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More than , people tried golf in England between April and September , according to new figures. This will really help you make the most of your winter range time, and have you ready to hit the fairway running in Still, if you can get your second shot anywhere near the green, get your third one onto the green to a distance where you can at least two putt, playing to a handicap of 18 is no problem. But for any high handicapper who regularly makes mistakes in his long game that cost him at least one full shot lost balls, OoB, chunks that travel 15 yards, etc.

ULF does make a great point…But.. Ive noticed that working on my wedge game has made my full swing blossom as well. I wear my wedges out practicing. My weakness was my second shot. Mid and long irons scared me to death. Practicing with my wedges did wonder for my tempo and contact.

I started noticing my 7-iron was feeling crisper and my longer clubs were getting better and better. Practicing the long game is necessary but but wedge play is critical for whatever score you end up with. Keep practicing with your wedges and your full swing will benefit too. Golf is hard , thats why we love it. Hit Em Good Yall. With my golf I also found that frustration and the mental side of things was also a big impact on my scores. One or two bad shots could cost me in a round. She knew how angry I used to get on the course sometimes whacking my clubs on my trolley and once again she came to my rescue.

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Some great comments on this thread also. I totally agree with Mark Broadie if you are a pro but think that telling club golfers to do the same thing is very unrealistic. Granted an extra 50 yards would improve any golfers chance of shooting lower scores. Regular amateurs who have an understanding of the game may already have reached the limits of length off the tee if they hold a decent handicap. Add to the fact that most regular golfers are at an age when pro golfers are past their physical peak. If your golfer is a teenager then he would be best served finding as much length as he can but not when you have already said goodbye to Even if you made the pursuit of perfecting the long game their is still the small matter of getting up and down on the greens you will miss when you reach that lofty professional standard.

I also agree with this article that due to circumstances for most of us golf is a pass time and not a career.

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Time is limited and I know I have made the most improvement in the last two years when I upped my short game practice. Benefits of a big garden paid off. Dropped my handicap 14 points. I still work on my long game but know that at this point in my life the gains are minimal. More accuracy is realistic gaining swing speed not so much. As someone else pointed out to truly have a short game you need a lot of different shots.

Why are there so few places to practice realistic short game situations? Whats more, while there is a charge for range balls, the putting and chipping area are FREE. Now thats a deal!

No question I truly support those facilities and usually hit a bucket of balls and also practice the around the green shots. Interestingly, its noticeable that typically the chipping green is practically deserted compared to the driving range! No question every part of the golf game is important. I think it also depends on where your game is at and what you need to most improve on.

As far as [egad! I think short game is deceptively hard to improve. On the other hand, I think that if one is in reasonable shape and has a reasonably sound swing, it is possible to play pretty good golf. To me the key is the 2nd shot for most par 4. That said practising driver is so much fun and so satisfying for me, and something that I leave to the end of the practice session.

I usually try to play 9 holes a week, solo, yellow ball vs white ball, and these challenging short game shots opportunities arise frequently. The problem with golf is that no shot is discrete. Good shots put you in position to score. Unless one can avoid that type of shot completely like avoiding sand , it pays to work on the part of the game that one is weakest at. It also prevents multiple bad shots that happen in a row because of one real stinker. I tend to think for the average hack like me with limited practice time, it should be spent: For the quickest and easiest way to drop strokes, perhaps we should be going to the practice green.

I assume that not many. Related to this have these persons able to lower they handicap faster than others who practice more driver and long clubs? My point is that there is no real help of short game unless you are able to get near green in regulation. You don't have to drive over yards from tee and make spoon approach. But you need to get decent opening to decent location so that you have some short of opportunity to get GIR by mid irons if not wedges.

Then learnd to get out from bunkers. Those are minimums you need to learn before you can really get benefit of great short game. My teacher used to take rookies to the European Tour and he always tells me that Ian Poulter has the swing of a club champion. But whenever he takes out a wedge during the round he always takes 2 shots, never one more. In my heydays I never considered my self a good ball striker but I was able to play competitive golf and do ok. My reason was the short game. Growing up my dad ran a public 9 hole course with a seperate 9 hole par 3 course.

I played the par 3 all the time. Never played the big course until I was 13 or so. I played that par 3 course from when I was 5 years old starting with an old cut down 5 iron and as I got older with different clubs. One of the holes was right beside the house so i put in countless hours chipping and putting.

The other week I played a casual 9 holes with a guy I just met. Ended up shooting even par 36 and I missed 5 GIRs. Yep got 5 up and downs. Besides practicing the short game has always been fun practice to me. Not a very long course, but very quick greens and some tricky fairways. So we played 18 and I shot an 81, 42 on the front, 39 on the back. We decided to play the front again but this time I only used a 6 iron, sand wedge and a putter. I shot a 42 on the front. No driver, no fairways, or long irons. I had a few less putts the second time around but I attribute that to being closer to the green and knocking my chips close.

I can pound yard drives with ease, get my timing down at the range and flight 7 irons almost identically. On the course i am the same, when my timing is on, i can score well, when its off, mid 80s is easy! You have people with limited time who: I sense a little of a defeatist attitude towards learning the full swing as well. This is a ridiculous and stupid article ,misleading with that. Before playing the short game ,you have to be there ,meaning close to the green! My short game is outstanding ,but I experience great difficulties to get on the greens in regulation.

My drives and fairway woods are straight as arrows ,but much too short. All great players are long off the tee. He would pace up to where he wanted his drive to land ,always a flat surface. So stop misleading good golfers with your biased comments. I am certainly not saying never to practice with your irons or driver. Since we are adding our personal stories, I thought I would talk about two golfers that I play with a lot just to illustrate a point.

But he adjusted his game accordingly. Player 2 hits the fairway almost every time with his driver yards , and routinely will hit about greens per round. He does have a solid short game, but ball striking is clearly the strength of his game, and he certainly embodies the advantage that Mark Broadie talks about. He definitely has eclipsed the 10, hour mark in his lifetime for practice. I see this guy after rounds hitting balls for an hour trying to correct whatever swing mistakes he might have made during the round.

In the end, you do have to know your own game, and try to spend your time where you think you can impact the most amount of change.

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And let me just throw in there that I spent the better part of my teenage years relieving my angst by banging away on the driver at the range, nothing wrong with that. Personally I feel I should spend most time on my mid irons. When you are not driving long enough, your second shot usually involves a mid iron for short Par 4, and a hybrid or even a 3 wood for longer Par 4s.

Dare I even mention Par 5s? It would be a driver, 3 wood, and a you guessed it — a mid or long iron on a bad day. A wedge would be useful when you missed the green… short….. But the root cause of the issue is, my driver is not good enough, I must hit some more balls with my driver!!!! Therefore the depth perception was totally different from playing nearly every day in Illinois as I looked out onto the Serra Nevada range. What I noticed with the Pro golfers in my foursome was this. Everyone had a bad shot from time to time, but when it came to wedges. These guys were settling the ball only a few feet from the hole every time.

What appeared to be an given bogie. There wedges took over and the magical pars and birdies appeared. I walked away learning a whole lot from the Pros I played golf with, and they were a great group of guys. A lot of feedback here. Good job getting us thinking. The main thing that I would like to say, is that we should all be honest, brutally honest.

We know where our weaknesses are, but we all know what is more fun for each of us. Bite the bullet, and spend the time on your weaknesses. And yes, the short game is incredibly important. I definitely do NOT spend enough time on my short game and I know this is the area which is going to help me salvage a round..

But as someone else said, I detest hitting wedges off mats. Its really starting to help me again. The confidence is coming back which goes through the whole game. Now all that said.. The most important shot is the drive. Without a good drive in a good position, you are always struggling and having to rely too much on the short game or the yip stick. A good drive relieves the stress. I practice my driving the least because I have most confidence in this part of my game. Thanks to the equipment I am longer now yds.. I turned 60 this year and have shot my best games, breaking 90 this year for the first time, did it in 8 rounds including a best of 84 on a par 71 course from the gold tees yds!

Its been a fun golf year! I hate hitting on the range. I only do it a small percentage of the time unless I need to work on a swing fix; even then I do not spend more than 15 minutes at a time on my swing. Spending more time is not going to help my game anyway. The short game is critical for me.

It makes no difference if I hit good drives or average drives; the score depends on my ability to combine good pitches, chips and putts. But in a couple of weeks, my short game will become a mess. I have to practice my short game hard after a layoff, and I know that the first round after that layoff will be worse than normal. I guess that I am the average single digit player when it comes to practice, but maybe for a different reason. Yes, I must accept the fact that my scores maybe worse, and I should try different practice techniques to make short game practice more interesting, but today with the ground snow-covered, all I want to do is go the dome and pound those balls.

Maybe I will chip 5 of them. Let me be the first to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Golf should be fun before anything else. We can talk all we want about game improvement, and where is your time best spent, but the 1 goal of any golfer should be to enjoy yourself. Appreciate you saying that Jim. One of my favorite things to do is talk about golf even if it ends up being a heated debate. The whole reason I started Practical Golf was to help golfers achieve two goals:. I believe being a successful golfer is first and foremost about enjoying the game. Putter, I spend more time practicing putting. It's no wonder so many golfers get over a pitch, chip or bunker shot with demons in their heads.

The good news is that having a great short game is a skill you can learn, IF you have the right training. A great short game requires virtually no talent or athletic ability When you understand this one simple concept, you'll transfer your mediocre short game into one of confidence, earning the respect of your golfing buddies they may even start calling you a short game "guru".

You see, most golfers think that the secret to the short game is "mastering all the shots. In fact, it's this very line of thinking that almost caused me to walk away from the game entirely because my short game was so bad seriously I almost sold all my clubs on eBay. Up until about 5 years ago I struggled with the short game. I would duff chip shots, hit pitch shots fat, leaving the ball just in front of me, or thin the ball way past the pin. Other times I would hit the ball way to the left of the target. Then almost the next wedge shot I would hit the ball way to the right. I would leave the ball in the bunker sometimes.

As a result, my playing partners didn't have any respect for my short game and I didn't have much respect myself. I felt like I was some incompetent fool. In fact, it got so bad that at one point I took all of my wedges out of my bag, and vowed to play all my short game shots with just a putter and a 7 iron. It was far from ideal, but it was much better than what I was doing! The mini tours and probably your own golf course are filled with guys who hit it great from tee to green, but can't hit a decent pitch or chip to save their life. I know the feeling all too well You see, my ball-striking has almost always been top notch.

I typically hit a lot of flush iron shots, and I'm known as a good ball-striker. In fact, it was downright embarrassing to play golf, because I would hit quality shot after quality shot, but when I missed a green and had to get the ball up and down Since you're reading this page, I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about. Books, videos, lessons, even some crazy stuff that I don't want even want to admit to I had zero confidence and zero ability to hit even the simplest of shots around the greens. I was goofing off on the practice green one Friday night before my Saturday morning match, and something clicked.

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All of a sudden, I hit 5, 10, 15, 20 pitch shots in a row I had gone from a professional duffer to a short game wiz in less than 20 minutes. It was unreal I know this sounds like a load of bull, but just hear me out! Instead of being scared of every single short around the green I was not confident. Instead of just trying to get the ball somewhere on the green I was trying to hole every shot. Instead of being very nervous about people watching me play my short game shots I was now actually looking forward to showing off my razor sharp, newly-acquired mad skills.

The results were like a night and day. I went from screwing up around the greens to saving par consistently. I was leaving myself tap-in birdies on Par 5s. I even had less pressure on the rest of my game ball-striking and putting because I knew if I hit some squirrely shots, my razor sharp short game would bail me out. The same will happen with you too because the closer you hit your chips, pitches and bunker shots the lower your scores will be But you know what the best part was? My playing partners now respected and even feared my short game.

I had regained confidence and respect in my own game as well. Look the bottom line when it comes to improving your short game is this You don't need strength, power, or athletic ability whatsoever. You certainly don't need more tips. All you need to get it up and down from just about anywhere is the one secret I accidentally discover 5 years ago, which will give you unwavering confidence with ALL of your short game shots. It turns golf which should be fun into a dreadful experience.

Once I stumbled upon this secret 5 years ago, I knew that I had to share it with the world, which is why I developed my program called The Short Game Improvement Program. You see until now, this program has only been available as part of the comprehensive Online Consistent Golf School Program. And so much more! Oh and did I mention it is a complete step-by-step, easy to follow system? In fact, here are some results golfers have received that have been through my step-by-step program already Not too shabby, right?

They are just normal weekend warriors who needed to improve their short game, bought my product, and the rest is Last but not least, imagine yourself being the envy of your foursome when you hit a great pitch shot that skips a couple of times and checks up

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