Part Four - Situations that Require a Chip

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Beore we get into the actual situations, how about you take a few seconds to just think about where chipping differs from driving and putting. It should be fairly obvious really.

For starters, chipping isn’t about knocking the ball as far as possible in a given direction. Admittedly, with practice your drive could become fairly accurate, but the sheer distance means that tons of factors come into play, reducing this accuracy. Chipping on the other hand is fairly short-range, and therefore can be done with much greater accuracy.

Unlike putting though, it isn’t about rolling the ball along the ground. Instead, the ball is actually lifted, and therefore not exposed to any terrain, or affected by it.

Reckon you can think of some situations that may need a good chip now? Yes? No? Well, how about we think about hazards on golf courses for a second. Whether they’re water hazards, or sand bunkers, they’re plainly in the way.

If you can drive over them, great, but what if the green is nearby and going for a drive will risk you overshooting it tremendously?

That’s where a nice, measured chip could help you get over the hazard, and accurately land your ball on the green, close to the hole. Sure, it isn’t easy to attain that level of accuracy, but it is immensely valuable to work on it. Incidentally, pitching works just as well for such situations.

Some beginners actually try to work their way around hazards, resulting in their score being affected. Others may try to chip, but not pull it off properly, in which case you may land in a bunker and be forced to chip your way out of that anyway.

See where all this is going?

Really, no matter how hard you try, it is pointless attempting to run away from it. Even if hazards aren’t in the picture, if you’re going for a shot to get up to a green that is elevated, you’re going to want to make a chip.

Honestly, the amount of situations where a chip is necessary, or valuable, just could go on and on.

How about we just assume that you’re sufficiently convinced that chipping is something that will improve your game immensely, and start looking at where and how exactly chipping can go wrong.

Look For Part Five: Basic Mistakes and Misconceptions about Chipping

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