greenside chips are easy when you use this technique (live lesson)

in today’s lesson, i say goodbye to skulled chip shots that shoot past the green. i hit higher softer chip shots with an easy to learn technique.

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If you’re greenside and you happen to do this a lot of the time, then this lesson is for you. We learn how to hit some higher, softer shots, and the technique for this green side shot is actually not too different from the rest of the game. There’s a lot of similarities. We want to be focusing on hitting down. We want to get the head out of there, and we want to focus on getting great contact with the ball. Tim demonstrates that once you have this basic technique down, you can get creative with this type of shot and it’s very adaptable in your setup, how you adjust your club face, just you have to have those basic fundamentals down, but then you can do a lot with this type of shot. So once you get that, then you can see where like the creativity lies is like there’s really no wrong answer like how I do this. If I know that I can control the spin, then I can also probably do a bunch of cool things with it. Like I can hook spin this thing. If I’m like throwing the face in, I can cut spin it. If I like want to get the ball to stop a little bit softer, I might cut spin that thing so the ball like really doesn’t have a lot of um so it’s just a softer landing. I can take this high bounce shot and actually turn it over and create like a draw release on the back end of it. if I start to get, you know, creative in how I deliver this thing. There’s no wrong answer if you’ve got really good contact. You can kind of do whatever you want. I can hold that loft off and we can hit really low punchy shots with it or we can kind of throw that loft in from the same setup and start to get that ball to climb a little bit more, but my interaction with the golf ball was the same. And guys, if you’re new here, my name is Chonger. I’m an average golfer with the goal of trying to get the scratch. If you haven’t already, hit the subscribe button and follow along on this journey with me as I document my weekly lessons, talk about different gear and gadgets that help me improve, and so much more. So, I hope to see you guys along with this journey. And let’s roll this lesson. How are these greens responding? Firm rolling out. a firm bounce but still spinable, right? So, same um same type of shot here. Back in stance, hitting down, creating some spin so that ball can actually grab. I don’t really need the height here. I don’t think this is going to like I don’t think that’s going to do me very good on this shot. softer back there where it lands. But I think for this one it has to be something that maybe we can kind of take in a little lower second hop check. So when the greens are playing faster, do you want more spin then or? N let’s say this. If the greens are receptive Yeah. fast. Um the first bounce is probably going to be skid. The second bounce it’s like the surface area rejects the golf ball. So like the ball bounces like this off of it. So like only a dimple like touches it and it might be spinning at 10,000 RPM or 5,000 but it’s like only one ball touches and there’s nothing to grab on. The second bounce gets more surface area touching the ground. It will probably like grab into it. So that’s why you see like in really soft conditions it just like the ball just grabs in the ground. It almost kind of comes backwards right away. It literally just like holds itself. So on these ones you’ll see like first bounce skid. Yeah. second bounce grab if you’ve kind of pulled it off nicely, if you’ve kind of got the spin on it. Um, realistically, if they get so firm that they start rejecting the ball, like the ball’s just bouncing off of them, then your only chance of slowing it down is apex is height. Okay. Spin isn’t going to work. It just won’t grab. Okay. So, I should still I think let’s still kind of keep like the shot that we were hitting on the range. Okay. Let’s kind of keep that shot going here. Just see what we get with it. Yeah. Right. just to to think like if we’re going to that that one that I was kind of going in the direction of, you’re landing it in maybe like the shadows or a little bit past the shadow. That one I Yeah. Yeah. I Yeah. Yeah. eyes moved. So taller. Yeah. More um Right. That was supposed to be a Right. But that’s you moving. That’s you moving this way. This way. Like this. And then now you’re close to the ground and the club swings over there. So this is where you want to stay right like right back here. Go ahead. Take your setup like you’re ready to go. Yeah. Mhm. I feel like I’m moving away from it. Yeah. Great. Away from it and up and out of there. Nothing is going down at this thing except for the club. Right. So you’re moving away from it. This was just very fast relative to the practice swings you came up with. This just moved really sharp and fast. I think that’s one thing I struggle with in the sense of I don’t think that it’ll get there. So then I think I in my head I inadvertently speed up. So then I think that’s I have to kind of do a better job of visualizing, right? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And just trust that the ball Yeah. So keep the the same motion there. Hit the ball in the center of the face. It’s pretty good. It’s going to roll out a little bit. So, this would be really good practice for you. Hit that inside one. Okay, make room so that only the inside one moves. Otherwise, you’re going to send that second ball into that pile of all the other ones over there. That was like the best contact that you’ve come up with, but we still just nudged that golf ball. Not to say that you want to hit it in the toe, but of the two options, heel and toe, it might be the more favorable myth out there than the heel. So, with those ones to avoid getting this outside one, am I thinking more swiping? No. No, I’m not. No, you’re just thinking like if my club was against a wall right there, then you now are entering that wall space, right? This has to feel like I can stay here. And in fact, if I go this way, it really slows everything down. If I go this way, it speeds up my arms and sends them through. Kind of softens my speed. So on most of the shots that I hit here, I’m really feeling like I’m kind of pushing myself up after the shot or making a little bit of room, but I’m still my swing path from the inside. Yeah. Uh but uh it’s on plane, let’s say. Okay. Right. So we’re not cutting across it nearly as much. It does have some vertical element because you’re, you know, back in the stance and you’re hitting down on the golf ball first. But we just want to feel like, so right now you’re set up a little bit on the heel. Yeah. And we want to make you like make it a little bit trickier for you. I think that’s about right there. That’s too much. Rolled in the hole. That’s great there. That might even just roll in on you, but it’s fine. Okay. Right down on it. Nice. Great contact. I think you lost your speed. Totally. I was just thinking would avoid the ball. Yeah. And I I think it was a great hit. If you were just thinking about great contacts and not hitting the ball, 100% pass, but we also have a target out there. More like I want to see what happens if you just like unabated. Does that club just shoot out there and catch that other golf ball occasionally? It’s a little scruffy. It’s going to work out nice. The shot itself, anyone with you would be like, “Good shot. That’s a great shot.” I know. I didn’t get the best contact. You’d be like, “Ah, it’s a good miss.” Yeah, that’s what it is. So, this is just weight. To me, this means that you have to get more on that left side. Yeah. Right. Really lean into it. Really hit down on this thing. There we go. Yeah, that’s nice. Because remember, it’s just like the range. And this is even like a better indication of it is I don’t really need the follow through very much. If I can kind of send all my energy down into this thing, it’ll pop the ball away from me. I don’t have to like continue through this shot. If I just line it up and meet where I want that golf ball, then I’ll get the contact that I want. Okay. Right. So, if I am I if I’m having to manage the whole follow through as well, I don’t think I I don’t think you need it as much. That ball’s off and on the face so quickly that if I can line up the hit on the back of the ball, I’m done. Yeah. Right. So, the follow through doesn’t have to be equal. It’s not a putting motion here. You can really kind of toss a little acceleration, drop that club onto the golf ball, tighten up that contact. Right? That’s the finish line for you is that strike on the ball. Not bad. You have a lining stick somewhere in your bag, don’t you? Yeah, I do. So do I. Um, we take a little bit more aggressive approach for your contact. So, it’s just low point control. You can do this with a towel, but I like the effectiveness and how mean it is to do it with an alignment stick. So, I might not need the two balls for this one. We might just do this, but I put the ball so that it’s up against my trail foot. Remember, the ball is positioned back in my stance. So, we’re a little bit more than a club head away. I should be able to from where I’m aiming just deal with golf ball first. Get pretty good contact on it. Low point up ahead. There’s a crappy grass. There you go. Good. Remember, you’re just getting to the ball, trying to get that contact lined up. Good. First one’s always scary. If you do hit the stick with this little swing, nothing really bad’s going to happen. But it’ll tell you that it’s not what you should be doing. Just so for a mistake, you’d rather hit the stick, right? Not too far back there, right? You want it so that the ball’s in a good position. Good. Weight forward is going to help. More vertical is going to help. Remember, you’re dropping that on that center onto the golf ball. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I felt the difference a lot. Yeah, sure you did. You could hear the difference. You could see it how you interacted with the ground and how that thing spun off of there. The only way I was able to avoid that was just to come straight and you almost did this at the end of it. It was like right like you like chopped that spin into the ball and you almost pulled your club back out. There’s none of this like this stuff at the end of it. Yeah. We’re just We’re done at that moment. You make it contact with the ball. Right. So, if that’s the way you hit every one of these shots, yeah, you’re hitting the ball before anything else. It does not matter what it’s sitting on. Doesn’t matter what’s behind it, you know, like maybe a little bit of what behind what’s behind it, but it doesn’t matter what the ball’s sitting on. You could hit this off a crappy lie, off of hard pan. You’re just hitting the ball first. Yeah. It’s really good. Nice. What a great sound. You can feel spin. You can like hear spin there. Yeah, that was awesome. And this is what this is 50. Is this 60? 60. Okay, it’s great. Yeah. Um, but if it was to this short on here, would I still do the same kind of style of shot or to get it high and spinny like to to stop it quick enough? Yeah. Okay. I think we probably could. So, this is my 58. Yeah. So, from where it is there, my setup. Now, I’m just going to do things a little different. Yep. Little circle, little open, a little more effort to hit it down to hit height and spin. And I just need to take off some speed from here. I just need to aim myself a little bit better. So there, right? Same sort of pop action. I’m done when it’s off the face. If I’ve thrown this in under the golf ball, no big crazy I don’t need I don’t need a follow through here. I don’t need to like, oh, I’m going to hit a flop shot and right like it’s too much to control. I just need to get that that direct action to throw the golf club and spin on the back of this thing. That’s terrible contact and it still probably works out better than me trying to like big swing flop this thing. So yeah, I think it is the same thing with a slight adjustment. We want your 60°ree to be like 65 degrees, a little open. Same with the stance. All right. And then you just want to throw that down. Right. And does it feel like it’s swiping across or is it just straight down? Straight down into it. Right. So the only thing that has to change is when you get to that down part, you got to be able to get that underneath the golf ball just to get the grooves underneath the golf ball. So we are maybe not hanging on to this low angle the whole way through otherwise that ball drives. We probably have to get a little bit of throwing that club head in and underneath. Right. So this is where Yeah, exactly. like a little bit of um well, someone described it to me like a match strike, you know, like this like like I it’s a short strike, but it goes right through the golf ball. Right down. That feeling kind of comes with the right hand just feeling like it’s That’s right. Yeah. Like Right. So, you want to strike this thing down. Keep in mind, we’re only going here, right? Yeah. Like right here. So, it’s got to be a much smaller version of that. Like, yes. Yes. to that technique, but you got to really throw that thing down and not as fast too probably, right? For sure. We’re not going nearly as far. Yeah, kind of. Right. Just going to get that contact a little sharper. Yeah. But if I was to miss it like that, I’d be happy. Sure you would. Right. But if I do this more, I’m standing over here. If I do it more with my loft and so now my face is really open, there’s a little bit more of a follow through on that one to kind of get through that shot. But I’m doing the same thing. How’s that? Right. So face is there. Right. Get off. Get out of the ground. All right. I’ll hit one here so you can kind of see too where my water bottle. I’ll go this way. Watch where my body goes in the follow through. It’s terrible contact. I’m over here. I’m not this way. Yes. So, still feeling like I’m standing up, right? I want to go get that posture up, that body up. Uhhuh. Yeah, there it is. Nice. Very nice. So, more is more is more is more is more, right? If I need super high flop shot, then it’s just more of this, more of this, and more of more down at this thing. That’s the same recipe. I’ve just increased uh attack ang well the attack angle is probably about the same but I’ve increased loft and maybe some deflection so I’ve started to open up a little bit more and with that was the ball still like kind of middle back position I’ll show you where that that is so you can kind of walk around and investigate so if I’m hitting this really high in the air super floppy shot here then you could argue that it’s there y right but I would also argue that that’s where my body’s pointing there it’s Clearly, it’s like it’s on my right hip. Yeah, I think that was when I was watching it from behind, I looked deceptive because it looked like your back foot. But I guess when you measure it based on Yeah, because I’ve kind of circled around this thing for where it is there and where I’m going to send this energy for me to get that like high floppy little shot. It still sits back in the stance a little bit. Still sits kind of here. It’s not there. Yep. Right. It’s if I’ve gone from here to open this thing up, kind of circled around this way, I can put it there. And if I splat this thing down, that gives me the high soft spinny one. Yep. Right. So, I’m still working my way through there in that space. Like the one thing we don’t want to lose ever on any of these shots is what we found on the range today that got you some real success in terms of delivering the club and controlling your distance and making good contact was that you just it’s ball first always. We are hitting down. We’re hitting the ball first. We’re throwing a little bit more energy. Kind of cut spin this thing, but that thump has to come straight down. Yeah. Good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice. It’s almost counterintuitive in my head. The more down you go, Yeah. it uh because I always feel like um it’s not going to go up. It feels like you have to almost force it up. But that’s actually contrary to kind of it’s just spin, right? Yeah. This is like, for lack of a better term, this is a racket sport and this is a ball. So this is like ping pong or tennis. When I go like this on a ping pong ball, bang, and hit it like that, it goes like this and hits the ceiling. Yeah. When I go like this, the ball dives this way. So, it’s like, how do I want to create this spin? I want to throw those grooves sharply down into the golf ball with a little bit of loft. I want to ramp it off the face, but it has to be running up the face. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. So once you get that, then you can see where like the creativity lies is like there’s really no wrong answer like how I do this. If I know that I can control the spin, then I can also probably do a bunch of cool things with it. Like I can hook spin this thing if I’m like throwing the face in. I can cut spin it. If I like want to get the ball to stop a little bit softer, I might cut spin that thing so the ball like really doesn’t have a lot of um so it’s just a softer landing. I can take this high bounce shot and actually turn it over and create like a draw release on the back end of it. If I start to get, you know, creative in how I deliver this thing, there’s no wrong answer. If you’ve got really good contact, you can kind of do whatever you want. I can hold that loft off and we can hit really low punchy shots with it or we can kind of throw that loft in from the same setup and start to get that ball to climb a little bit more. But my interaction with the golf ball was the same ball first and then I can do kind of whatever I want there. So with that short one though and if I did want to get more height does that so that just involves being just a tiny bit more open bit more open face or is it more speed just to get it higher? Speed’s a scary one. Speed. Okay. So speed speed’s a scary one for this because if I don’t hit it perfect then it’s all over the place. So here’s one with open face and kind of slow uh tempo. Right. So, I kind of got it. Okay. I think I could do a little bit better if I slow this down and get that landing. So, there’s slow tempo. Yeah. That’s pretty That’s pretty great. Yeah. Right there. I like that slow tempo for this shot. Y. And here’s like a little bit more uptempo version of it where I’m going to throw my spin into it. The problem with that is is if I get it like one groove high, it just goes too far. And if it goes too far, then it’s, you know, I’d argue that the the shot for this is, okay, if I had a ball in my hand and you said toss it onto that green and don’t let it roll long, you’re probably not moving quickly. Probably like bean bag toss. So, we can do the same thing where we hit down on this thing. We just move a lot slower. You know, you’re going to hit the ball first. So, you can move as slow as you want. Yeah. Right. You can move really slow and soft. You’re gonna hit the ball first. I think if anyone wants to get good at a shot this long, they probably have to get good at being able to hit like like a one yard shot with great quality. That was awful. A one yard shot with great quality. So that’s like one yard of carry and maybe two yards of roll out. So you want to be able to do that and then know that nine or 10 yards away is doable. Shouldn’t feel like you have to take everything off of it to go really soft. Okay. So, like slower, longer, slower. Grip pressure is loose. Contact is perfect. What we’re hoping for. Okay. If you get that shoulder out of the way a little bit sooner, this one. Yep. Then you won’t hit it low and right. You get that shoulder out of the way. Help you rotate out of there. You’ll be able to kind of get that face. Yeah. Right. Right. So, get that shoulder around you quickly. Out of the way. Great. Soft hands here. Soft toss. Nice. Yeah. Good. Okay. Good. Right. head can stay, but the more I can get that shoulder going this way, the higher I’m going to be able to sort of like work across that golf ball without having to like swipe my hands this way. If I just do this, I can kind of pull across that face and just sort of let out some of that gas so that now all that energy is going forward. It’s just cool because it’s all the same. We’re all just we’re just trying to hit the ball so sharply. And then now delivering club face at different angles is a little easier to find or a little easier to kind of figure out how we do it. No, I just wasn’t down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was nice. That was nice. Yeah. I think uh I can it’s see it. It’s just you just have to hit down and kind of just uh Yeah, that was So then what? So that shot y right had intention. You wanted to hit a good shot there. It screamed off the huzzle and went straight sideways. So by your own sort of reasoning, how could that shot happen? Where was your brain? Were you what were you thinking about? I wasn’t thinking about contact. Not at all. Probably. You’re thinking maybe like turn your shoulder, move your hands, do whatever. So, you probably did, but it completely removed you from the task of, hey, I got total control of this golf ball. So, that’s when the move isn’t yours. It’s like it’s a pseudo version of it when you’re still like learning the dance steps, but haven’t quite put it to music yet. Yeah. I feel like the ones that I like you have to do I you have to do more in the creation aspect and then when you get to it like so there should be more here to be like okay I want to hit this. Okay so the face has to be like that because I want to be able to get it kind of through like that as I come through that face can’t go through that way otherwise it’s going to go over there. I’ve got to be able to get that. So if I can turn through here this way then I can take that face that’s open and I can kind of throw it underneath the golf ball a little bit. But I’ll do that here a couple times. Okay, that and we’re going to slow it down, connect to my target. That’s a good little landing spot. Okay, then I can get to the golf ball. Okay, now I’m going to zone in. Try to get my try to get my contact good. Perfect example here. Try to get that down. Gosh. There we go. Closer. Maybe not the best, but at the end of the day, I think couple of good little sideways golf balls there. What bounces on this, Graham? 12. Okay. Does it matter for this shot? Uh, if you’re hitting a ball first, I don’t think it does. Kind of does, but so what would I hear? This one eight. Hit hit a shot with this one. Just out of curiosity. Do all the same things. [Music] So, go for a big thump on this one. Is that easier to hit it high? I think so. Yeah. So, the short answer is you have 12 degrees of balance right there. when we open it, it pushes that pushes more bounce into it. So, if we do that, then we really have to like cancel that potential of that bounce or we have to know that it’s coming, know that some of those some of that interaction is going to come. So, when I hit a shot with your wedge, I have to really maybe see from here because I know that there’s a bounce cap right there. That 12 degrees is right there. So, if I just do this to it, it’s going to kick into the golf ball. But if I can push my hands ahead, open this thing up, and then do that as I go through. So I can keep my hands ahead, then I can keep the bounce from really kicking into it. So I don’t want to release my hands too soon here. So I should be able to Uh-huh. It’s there for sure. That bounce is there for sure. We want to go this way. So I’m throwing this that way down onto the golf ball. So for these shots then is it almost better if I take my 54 which has less bounce and really open it up or you could just take your 60 like this. Yeah. And play like a little chip shot. Okay. Right. You don’t I don’t think you need to like wipe across it as much. I think the loft is almost 60 there. It’s there. That’s pretty high and soft. I don’t know how much more we need out of that, but that’s me hitting down on it first. It’s a little hinge and release kind of action here there. The bounce just got in a little bit. Saved me from digging, but that’s probably enough for this shot. If I go into like the full flop shot with this, I just have to be careful because if I lay yours open and then go to try to bounce it on the ground, I have to really flip my hands underneath it to like time where that bounce is. That’s it. Totally possible. Yep. Totally doable. but might be some of the reason why some of these are catching. Um, yeah, let’s hit one or two more. I think overwhelming message here is pretty clear. We’re hitting down on the golf ball. You have enough with the tools in your hand that you can create all these shots and the better contact is going to lead you to uh way more control around the greens here. Might not be the most exciting shot that you’re coming up with, but it’s probably going to work really, really nicely for you without you having to do too much. So that simple shot that you were just doing, was that just more uh back foot just not even doing too much? Just right. Putting it Yeah. face on the ball. Just Yep. Yeah. You position that maybe just a a touch more forward. Stand uh stand a little like, you know, get your head a little taller. Uh through the hit, I should say. Right. Right. eyes are still focused there, but just kind of like getting yourself up. There you go, right? Like pretty great shot. I mean, obvious if I was faced with that, I’d probably play it like that. But yeah, kind of like we talked about on the range. Like the best version of the shot, the best one that’s going to work the the most consistently for you is probably the simplest one. Less moving pieces, less of like, you know, a notebook on how to get there. more of you just being like, “Okay, I’m gonna just, you know, basically punt this thing a little forward. Nice. Nice.” Yeah. Yeah. Simple technique, very effective. It’s good. It’s really good. So with the different bounces and stuff like that for my because I I think originally the higher bounce is usually more forgiving typically. Right. Well, and like let’s say this, this is the firmst the golf course is going to be and this will stay this way for like two months. Yeah. And then the rest of the year, probably about eight or nine months of the year, we’re in what we consider soft conditions where now we’re not like, hey, you got to really slide this tight to the ground. You’re thinking like, don’t dig. Yeah. like, “Give me a little help because I know the ground’s going to release.” And that’s why your scoring wedge has that 12 degrees of bounce. Bunkers, rough, soft conditions, that little cap there is going to give you some forgiveness to kind of keep you from digging in too much. Yeah, for sure. So, for a couple of times throughout the year, you might have to just make a little adjustment to get that thing to sit a little closer to the ground. Thanks for making it to the end of this video. I do think that my short game is slowly starting to come along. It’s definitely something I do still need to work on, but I do think that working on it is of great importance, and I think that will be the key to helping lower some scores. We will have a in-depth bunker lesson coming up, but you probably have also been on the lookout for part three of the driver series, so that will be the next video on this channel. So, be on the lookout for that. Hopefully, you guys are enjoying these lessons. And yeah, if you’ve enjoyed it, smash that like button, subscribe if you aren’t already, and I’ll see you guys in the next video. Thanks for watching. Peace. So I got my lot. [Music]