How Matt Fitzpatrick’s cross-handed chipping technique can help your short game
matt Fitzpatrick first used his cross-handed chipping technique in tournament play at the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow since then he has won the US Open prevailed at Harbortown added a further six victories on the DP World Tour and played on a second and winning Rider Cup team and we saw it again at last week’s PGA Championship where the Englishman’s tied eighth place was his best major finish since that memorable 2022 US Open win at Brooklyn in a sketcher day at the Halamshire that day he expanded on why he moved to the cross-handed technique around the greens and why it might work well for the club golfer the basics i started off using it for just basic chipping i had issues when I would break my wrists too much so I would take the club away on the inside and then the ball would fall off the face and you wouldn’t get the correct flight or the correct strike so I was getting one that would come up short and one that would go too far without any spin this was always a practice drill going back that I would use with Mike Walker and Pete Cowan they would use it to sync up the body because if you don’t then you end up shanking it so this makes me chip it correctly otherwise it will come off the hosel the biggest thing that I’ve noticed is it feels like there’s always a straight line from my shoulder all the way to the club head so with that you’re always keeping the radius the same when I was going with the normal grip the radius would get really narrow whereas with cross-handed it’s always staying the same and it’s an arc ball position that is obviously dependent on the shot and how you see the flight and how you want to manipulate that obviously the further you move it back the lower it’s going to be and the further you move it forward the higher it’s going to be for me I’ve just got better and better at doing left hand low i always felt comfortable with it but I think doing this now it definitely feels like I’ve got more variety i first used it in a tournament at the 2017 PGA
