It’s one of the areas of our game that gets the least attention, yet mastering how to chip it close to the hole is a skill that will save you many shots in a round. Every seasoned golfer knows this and spends countless hours practicing their short game, especially chipping and pitching. Practicing your chipping with 9 irons, 8 and 7 irons and of course sand wedge and gap wedges of different degrees, gives them the ability to chip it close more often, and get up and down from any area around the green.
These golf instruction tips for chipping it close, will give you a better, more consistent set up and swing to master this important aspect of your golf game.
The first thing we need to learn and accept is the proper set up for chipping. Our weight should be on our lead side, (the side closest to the pin) with the golf ball slightly toward the back of our stance, opposite our right foot. Your stance would be slightly open and narrower than your usual set up for a swing.
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shot around the green? In this pitching tips, we’ll have a look at what is available, and determine which pitching wedge is best to use. Today’s standard pitching wedge has about 48′ degrees of loft, and sometimes as little as 44′ degrees. Sand wedges, meanwhile, still have about 56′ degrees of loft, which leaves a fair amount of gap difference between them. When you consider that for each degree of difference, at 3 meters distance per degree, this adds up to a huge 24 meter gap. A massive hole, right in the middle of your scoring irons.
