I Hired Justin Rose’s Chipping Coach…Everything I Learned on the Internet Was WRONG!!

Against all the rule books! Wow the results are crazy good…I hired James Ridyard the chipping coach who’s worked with Justin Rose and what I learned completely flipped my short game on its head. In this video, I reveal the biggest myths he exposed, the technique changes that actually work, and why most internet advice is steering golfers in the wrong direction. If you want cleaner strikes, more consistency, and tour-level control around the greens, this will help you fast.

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We’re in for a treat today. This is a lesson from Justin Rose’s short game coach, James Rard. And wow, when I say it blew my mind, it literally has changed my perception of how we should chip. Now, in this lesson, he talks about some key things, but I really want you to pay attention to shaffling because I think over the last 10 years, it’s become really like fancy to chip with the bounce. And honestly, in my chipping, this was making me worse. And I’m feeling like if this is something that I’m doing, then you’re definitely going to be in the same boat right here. So, listen carefully to what he says. He’s full of wisdom, simplicity, and he makes you work it out yourself. I feel the lesson you’re about to watch right now, you could literally go out and go through the exact same process. almost eliminate what’s working and what’s not working in your game and you’ll come out the other side hitting chips with spin that just almost rip the cover off golf balls. Spoiler alert, I actually got two in. Okay, people think shaffling is a really negative thing as in that’s going to be destructive, but every player that can chip and hit shots that you just hit, they deliver a lot of shafting. Like how how much just for reference if you were like showing like me here is it um if we put a number on it 10 to 15 degrees. Wow. On a stock shot wouldn’t be unusual. Okay. No, no one that can I say no one, right? There is an outlier, but I’m not going to say who it is, who can chip really well with basically zero shaftling. Okay. But everyone else I ever watch and work with, they’ve always got some degree. Like five would be low end, 10 would be very normal, 15 top end. I’ve been trying to get that out for like 10 years of playing golf. Yeah. Why? I don’t know. I just I remember going through this period as a kid and probably everybody watching this would would maybe relate to it. Like I went through this period of maybe watching PJ tour and it was like don’t put it back, don’t get shaffling, don’t chip like this. That’s how I used to ship as a kid and like you watch all these videos of PJ Tour of a throw the bounce at it, Phil Mickelson does it and D. Yeah. And I think that sort of bled its way into my game and probably bled its way into a lot of people. It’s a very typical story. Um we listen to commentators far too much first one and then we also listen to players feels. Now consider we’re talking about the very best best smallest percentage of players in the world. Most of them are very capable of delivering a lot of shuffling. Yeah. That’s why they strike their iron so well. That’s why they hit it so far. And you get to the short game and they feel like they’re getting rid of it. But you look at them, you measure them, they’re not. So their feels do something for them. But somebody that can genuinely, we’re talking your average golfer is very capable of doing this. Yeah. They start to feel that and they’re not producing what a tour player produces with the same feels. Hence why those feels for me is reducing drop kicks, fats, thins, pop shots that come up. Sometimes one that spins and then I stand here. I can’t then pick a landing zone and match where it goes and the height and the speed. Yep. And then you go around a game of golf and suddenly you you’re over your handicap by a lot. Yeah. I mean essentially what you’re doing with your fields, you’re changing your contact on the ground. Mhm. Like drastically ball to ball, but you’re also changing your loft very quickly. All right. So you lose your strike and you lose your flight. So, as soon as I feel like I take that off and and that feel here, that’s why I struck it much better. Yep. Yep. That that’s not going to be necessarily that’s not it. We can do more. But I think as a conceptually, you were already in a bad place. Okay. If your concept’s off, then there’s there’s very little conversation after that. So, we’ve got to get the concept right. Okay, that is a correctly launched ball. We just need to maybe tidy up a few things strikewise and get that as consistent as we can. Okay. And then we can build trajectories based on that technique versus having to start to do a lot of work to get the ball high. I’m interested. I want to get into this. Sound good? Okay. Keep it in. You can if you want. Keep it in. Do Do I go with what I just sort of our conversation? Yes, please. So, for everybody watching, I’m going to feel like this. I mean, that felt strike 10. Yep. Strike was fine. So just for reference, your attack angle has gone from minus 2 and three. Yeah. To minus 6 to 7 and a half. Oh wow. So that’s a huge difference. Yeah. My window’s 5 to 10. Okay. 5 to 10 down is where pretty much everyone that can chip lives. Below that gets a bit trickier. There are some outliers and there are some a little bit steeper, but that’s a really nice window to aim for. So for painting a picture, my club was working very much like this before, hence why it was bottoming out early. Y and now it feels like to me it feels like it’s more feels like you’re leaning it forward a great deal. Ridiculous. We’ll talk about how to maybe get better control over that. That was good. That felt really good. I’m surprised how much that sort of was soft on that third bounce. Yep. I mean, spin rate wise, yes. So, you started peing at more like 3 and a half thousand on a seven or eight yard carry down from your first couple of balls. You had a 900. No wonder I can’t spin it. I can’t spin it. Still just a little bit dropkicky, isn’t it? It looks like you’re having to almost slam the brakes on. Yes. To hold the lean on it. Yes. So that’s kind of what we say that’s kind of a manufactured shaft. It’s not coming in like an organic way. It’s not coming from how you move better. Yeah. You’re just using hands and wrist to really stop the club overtaking. It literally exactly how it feels. So you’ve seen the benefit of it, but I think we need to get to it in a maybe more repeatable, more golflike way rather than so manufactured. How? Please tell me. Help me out. Going to drip feed you bit by bit. Right. Set yourself up. Get yourself ready. Okay. I’m just going to move that so everybody can see this. Okay. Okay. So, first things first, I’m going to have you set up with the shaft just a little bit taller. What are your line angles on your club? Do you know? I think I think they’re probably two to four flat, I would think. So, it might actually look that heel raises up slightly, but we’ve got different wedges. So, if this is too flat for what we’re going to do, then we can always switch wedges. Okay. Um, so just set up a little bit taller. Get closer to the ball. Yeah. Yeah. Just a little bit. grip down the club a little bit if you need to. Okay. So, is that face, it feels like it’s pretty square at address, I’m hoping, and the heels maybe slightly off the ground. Yeah. I want you to put on a few more degrees of shaft lean than you have there. Yeah. I want it I want that butt of the club pointed in between your belt buckle and the bony prominence there on the front of your left hip. So, half between. Yeah. Okay. Wow. That feels ridiculously different. Okay. And then hit the shot. Yeah, please. Where should my weight be? Let’s go 6040 front for now. We’ll talk about weight a little bit. Okay, not bad. That felt different gravy, by the way. Yeah. Everything we’re going to do is going to lend itself to you striking the ball cleaner. Okay. With the ground there, as hard as it is and as bare it is, I can’t really have you using the ground before the ball. So, we’ve got to go close to ball first. That was nice. That was really good. I mean, look at the spin on that. You hear the sound at the end? Yeah. How’d it go in? It did. Yeah, I was too excited the fact that it actually spun. That was the ball dropping. It’s weird cuz it feels like it’s coming off faster but landing softer. Yeah. Yeah. The the speed thing. It’s really trajectory. You’re kind of a floaty low spin shot and now it’s coming out. It feels faster because it’s lower but there’s a hell of a lot more spin on it. So again, got I feel I’ve got 6040 this way and I’m just trying to get this to point here. Yep. And I my heel’s slightly off the ground. That was lovely. I just did it too hard. Yeah, just too much speed on that. Got a little bit excited. I mean, straight away the difference in that the way the feel the club feels it’s work on the ground. I don’t feel I’m not going to say 100% capable of not fatting it, but I feel like if you put me in a category now of where I felt like I was going to probably fat 50% and get the other 50% okay, I feel like I could get 90% right. Yeah. Yeah. You you essentially building in like a higher percentage of strike like success. Yeah. We’re moving a release away. Setupwise, I’ve got you taller, closer, right? So, you’re actually on a more vertical angle this way. Yeah. Means the club’s less likely to start working in. So, is that a really important thing? I know this is very much about me here, but like I see a lot of golfers, they would dress this like a normal shot. Is that why getting closer stops you taking it so round? Makes it harder to take it around and low, which essentially means it’s harder to swing out to the right, which means it’s harder to be too shallow. Okay. So, that’s why again strikes felt a lot better. Yes. Yeah. Good. That was mega. And I’m in. I mean, look at this. It’s the fact that the third bounce is softer. Yep. And what is really interesting here is I’m actually chipping with a square face. Before I’d have probably for reference like chip most my chips like that. Mhm. Like very very open. Yeah. With your wide sold 14° bounce club. Recipe for disaster. You’ve now turned into 30 by sitting it open. So the difference everybody watching there is I I would chip originally like somewhere like that and now I’m like this. Yeah. So we’re actually removing the bounce. Bounce is not not something that really is going to guarantee any kind of results if your form is poor. It’s something we actually want to take out more often than not. How come we hear the thing like the reason to use it then? How come how come it’s come this almost fancy word to use? Yeah. I I think it’s another misunderstanding and that again you watch really good players on television they stand here and it like a 20 yard little flat burning wedge and it goes into a slow-mo it gets right into the golf ball and you see it kind of burn the ground and the commentator said what the bounce the bounce didn’t dig at all you’re like that’s got nothing to do with the bounce the club’s probably still leaning forwards there’s no bounce that has to do with the player controlling the bottom of the swing well the bounce is not what does that so we’ve been fed a bunch of lies hey I I didn’t say it I That felt really good. That was like 10 out of 10 strike. That could be it again. Just filling the hole up. Fill the hole up. Now, joking aside, that was a good shot. What’s happened to your trajectories now as far as consistency goes? Well, they’re all now in like sort of that window as opposed to It’s a more consistent lower window. Yeah, we’re starting to see that consistency that you were striving for at the beginning. Yeah. Okay. I I want to push the bounce conversation just a little bit further. I want to get you to do a drill that’s gonna be great for your viewers to understand that bounce doesn’t guarantee anything. Okay, talk to me. I’ll come in there. Talk to me. Because interesting, I saw one of the videos that you put on YouTube was about like the bounce word. It’s quite interesting because it got a lot of comments on it. And I guess this is sort of the ideas with this drill, right? Close on it. Yeah. To get people to understand that bounce isn’t really what stops getting into the ground. This is extreme. Okay. This I haven’t done this off the ground, so this this will be interesting. Right. This ball is not going to stop by the hole. There’s no chance. I’m going to put a ridiculous amount of lean on it. So, say this club has six degrees of bounce on it to start with. Six. Yeah. My club’s leaning forwards 30. Okay. I’m going to try and hold it at 30. And obviously, I’m not going to take a divot. If the ground is soft, you can still do it. I’m just going to show that bounce really isn’t necessary to strike it. Sound of it. Perfect. It’s fine, wasn’t it? Yeah. It’s going to be a bit hot cuz I’m putting ridiculous lean on it. But bounce wasn’t needed, not necessary. And I didn’t stick the club in the ground. And why why why is this an important lesson for people to do? Because once they start to see that and realize that bounce isn’t what’s stopping the club digging into the ground, they’ll stop trying to increase the amount of it. So the faults that I’ve had essentially. Yeah. You were looking for a safety net that was actually making the game way more difficult. Yeah. Literally. So it’s going to be high ball speed, right? So you can keep the club speed quite low. Okay. I mean strike that was 10. Perfect, wasn’t it? Yeah. 10 out of 10. Okay. So no bounce, please. That I am genuinely taken back a little bit here cuz I have been trying to chip with bounce. I had this idea in my mind that I needed to end the race at the same time just because of what I’ve read and what I’ve done and and that’s almost got me worse. Well, it has got me worse. Oh, no doubt. you you’ve compromised strike in order to try and you’ve tried to build margin for error by using bounce and your strikes got worse. So the first thing for people to learn that having shaft lean is the best possible thing for their short game to get strike back. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Now obviously if you if you deliver shaft lean an excessive amount and this is the important point. If you have a lot of shaft lean and the club is still moving excessively downwards as in this end of the club. Yeah. It’s going to stick in the ground. But we’re kind of going to get into that what this end of the club should be doing. Okay. to actually control the bottom of the swing a little bit better. But essentially, if everyone is still pushing down with shaft and then it’s going to dig. The shaft will get the blame. Yeah. But it wasn’t a shaft’s fault. It was the movement. We’ll dig into that in a second. Say a couple more. Yeah, please. Like this drill. Uh yep. We just do it once. Just we don’t see any more of those. We can go back to just ripping the covers off balls at 30°. That’s fine. So there. There. That’s my setup now. I mean, that was so good. Just a little too hard. Yeah. I’m struggling cuz it feels like it it’s coming off better. I’m struggling to almost a little bit. All right, so we’ll finish these two balls off. So, carry this two steps onto the green. Let’s pick a landing spot. Okay, there we go. That’s a beautiful shot. It’s amazing how actually I could match that then. I mean, the ball flight looks about a third of the height it was when you started. I would say that is like me hitting a punch shot in terms of height. This could be in again. This could be in again. Awesome. So, we’re getting somewhere. Yeah. I feel like if that was it now, I’d feel a million dollars straight away. It is beginning to look a little less contrived as well.