The #1 Chipping Secret (It’s Easy)

The #1 Chipping Secret (It’s Easy)

In this chipping lesson, Padraig Harrington shares the #1 fundamental that every good chipper knows and that is: you must keep your weight on the lead foot at address and in the backswing because there isn’t enough time for a weight transfer like in a full swing.

what I tend to see with a lot of amateurs is they set up reasonable, but as they go to hit the golf ball they want to get it in the air and they fall back onto the right leg so essentially their center of gravity they’re stiring them as they’re coming in to hit it is going backwards if this is going to go backwards you’re going to hit behind the ground and get that double hit so for me because in this Chip Shot you don’t have that much time to transfer your weight I like to see amateurs set themselves very much on their left leg so as you can see once I set up on my left side my sterer moves right on top of the ball or even left of the ball so watch what happens when I take a practice my practice swing is actually about 4 5 in left of the golf ball whereas most amateurs as they’re coming in their practice swing is brushing the grass 8 in behind the ball if you continually practice like this you’re never going to get a good contact your hands are going to be very active all sorts of funny things are going to be happen you might get the knees going if you’re back here so you’re going to get a lot of this even have a fresh air like I just did there whereas if you sit on your left hand side and always make sure your practice R is left if you’re chronic even making sure it’s a foot left of the ball once you’re on that left side sit up there then you can hit that nice quality strip

what I tend to see with a lot of amateurs is they set up reasonable but as they go to hit the golf ball they want to get it in the air and they fall back onto the right leg so essentially their center of gravity they’re stiring them as they’re coming in to hit it is going backwards if this is going to go backwards you’re going to hit behind the ground and get that double hit so for me because in this Chip Shot you don’t have that much time to transfer your weight I like to see amateurs set themselves very much on their left leg so as you can see once I set up on my left side my sterer moves right on top of the ball or even left of the ball so watch what happens when I take a practice my practice swing is actually about 4 5 in left of the golf ball whereas most amateurs as they’re coming in their practice swing is brushing the grass 8 in behind the ball if you continually practice like this you’re never going to get a good contact your hands are going to be very active all sorts of funny things are going to be happen you might get the knees going if you’re back here so you’re going to get a lot of this even have a fresh air like I just did there whereas if you sit on your left hand side and always make sure your practice R is left if you’re chronic even making sure it’s a foot left of the ball once you’re on that left side sit up there then you can hit that nice quality strip