Has anybody tried this tip?
A short chip from off the green where you take off your right hand immediately after impact to make the shot softer and shorter?
Has anybody tried this tip?
A short chip from off the green where you take off your right hand immediately after impact to make the shot softer and shorter?
I haven't tried that, Air. But I have tried to chip with reverse overlap grip.
That quickly became my favorite for low chip'n run when I really felt like I had a chance of making it. So much better for aiming.
But this method has more potential as well.
This weekend I produced a chip from about 8 yards that I've never pulled off before. I had downhill lie and downhill landing area on the green, and very little green to work with. I opened the face of my lob wedge, sliced under the ball with forward shaft lean. The ball came out low with abs breaks on or so it seemed. It stopped pin high and I had a tap in where I was expecting an 8 yard return.
In practice I can hit all kinds of greenside shots with reverse overlap grip. But I was pretty decent at most of them already and I still don't trust the new method for all situations. But perhaps I will do everything with reverse overlap inside 50 yards in two years from now. There's just something about having the extra control with the trailing hand.... And also I'm wondering whether I'm perhaps executing a "left handed swing" per TGM here too....
I haven't tried that, Air. But I have tried to chip with reverse overlap grip.
That quickly became my favorite for low chip'n run when I really felt like I had a chance of making it. So much better for aiming.
But this method has more potential as well.
This weekend I produced a chip from about 8 yards that I've never pulled off before. I had downhill lie and downhill landing area on the green, and very little green to work with. I opened the face of my lob wedge, sliced under the ball with forward shaft lean. The ball came out low with abs breaks on or so it seemed. It stopped pin high and I had a tap in where I was expecting an 8 yard return.
In practice I can hit all kinds of greenside shots with reverse overlap grip. But I was pretty decent at most of them already and I still don't trust the new method for all situations. But perhaps I will do everything with reverse overlap inside 50 yards in two years from now. There's just something about having the extra control with the trailing hand.... And also I'm wondering whether I'm perhaps executing a "left handed swing" per TGM here too....
You are a lefty, if I remember correctly? Does that have bearing on these shots?
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