What Swing Style Causes Chipping To Deteriorate??
Most of us when we’re young tend to be quite good at our short game. When we’re young we tend to have limited bad experiences on the golf courses. This means less trauma that we might experience after playing several years or a decade. Also we tend to have full control of our faculties, in particular our hands during our younger years. This all means that often bad technique with the short game can be disguised a little because we we can tend to make great compensations through our hands without fearing the result.
As we get older however, bad technique can start to overtake your short game without an inability to be able to compensate. This can seemingly pop up out of nowhere and be left bewildered how your short game could be this way where once you felt you were such a great ‘chipper’. At first you can become stubborn and try and keep doing what you usually do in terms of set-up and swing mechanics. After practicing more than you ever have, you realise that it hasn’t gotten away. In fact you are usually worse off because now you have further embedded the wrong technique and have given yourself more bad experiences.
The best piece of advice for in particular your short game, is to book a lesson with a coach. Now after seeing this same story play out countless times throughout my coaching time, there is a particular swing that causes the short game to decline severely. The swing is one where the path works too in-out. This means that on the downswing, the club tends to move too far to the right. The reason why this path causes problems is mainly because there is such a small margin of error on mis-hits. When swinging the way, the leading edge tends to get exposed and thus you will be more likely to ‘fat’ the shot or ‘thin’ the shot.
Now the reason why you ‘chip’ this way mainly comes from what you do with your full swing. If you’re someone who has this path with your full swing, in particular someone who is severely in-out, you will tend to encounter problems with your chipping more often. Now in order to fix this problem and starting to chip back at your best, the first part is to practice turning your body back and through. You really want to feel the rotation especially on the follow through. The second part is you want to open the face on the backswing whilst keeping the clubhead in front of the hands. You do all this and will start to use the bounce again (the middle section on the bottom of the club) and return back to having chipping as your strength.
If you’d like any further help please with your ‘Chipping’ contact myself at David Waters Golf located at Emerald Lakes Golf Coaching Centre.
