Why You Need This:

I like to give everyone some games to enjoy the journey of becoming a scratch golfer from time to time…

This game is not only great for chipping practice but also “chipping uphill” and on sloped greens…

Every once in a while you need to take training “lightly”…

Step back and enjoy the fruits of your labor…

This game will hone your skills on placing the ball where you need on a sloped green and also offer you some fun practice in this area of your golf game…

Get it close to the hole and place the ball for an easy up hill putt.

Watch this video now to take your “chipping uphill” to another level and master your range and accuracy for draining putts on sloped greens!

What's Covered: drill/game to improve your chipping for sloped greens

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:16

Video Transcription:

One of the most frustrating things you can do, is you get up close to the green on a par 5 in two, you’ve chipped your ball up, and now you leave your shot where you’re above the hole.

So the green is now sloping away from you, and you’ve got a really tricky downhill slider, and you end up missing the short birdie putt, even though you were only four feet away.

Now let’s imagine instead of being four feet away above the hole, now I’m four feet away below the hole.

I have a straight uphill four-footer, it’s going to be much easier to make.

Whether you’re talking about chipping from close to the green, or you’re 60 or 70 yards away, we always want to be conscious of where the uphill putt’s going to be, and try to hit the shot that’s going to give us a nice, short, easy, uphill putt.

So what we’re going to do for this drill, we’re going to build on the inside the club game. We’re going to start out at level one with 15-foot chips.

We’re going to put out five balls around the edge of the green, and I’m going to go ahead and chip up, and I’m going to chip between two strings.

So just two normal pieces of nylon string. I’m going to have one one-foot outside the hole on the uphill side, I’m going to have one three feet below the hole, directly downhill.

So if I’m putting from here, this is a straight up the hill putt. I know that this green is fairly level, but as you start to get on more severe slopes it’s going to be even easier to see this.

So these two strings are going to kind of make a square, or a box, and I’m trying to chip inside this box.

So even if I get here, and I leave it two foot away from the cup but I’m on the wrong side, that doesn’t count.

It’s got to be inside that little box there, and I’m going to go ahead hit a few shots to demonstrate this, and show you both good and bad shots.

OK, so on this first one, let’s go ahead and I’m going to chip one, let’s imagine this is level one at 15 feet away.

I know this is a little bit longer, but I’m going to hit this first shot. That one stayed on the correct side of the hole, so now I’m inside of that box.

Now let’s imagine I hit one a little farther to the right, I’ll just kind of chip one out to the right there real quick.

Even though that’s not too far away from the hole, it’s on the wrong side.

That’s kind of a tricky downhill putt, the one on the left is much, much easier. So the second one doesn’t count.

I’m going to hit five shots in varying spots on the green. I’m going to make sure I get at least one point out of five.

One point meaning it’s in the square. If I make the shot, it’s going to be two points.

Then I’m going to move on to level two which is 25 feet away, which is about what we have here.

Then I’m going to have to make one out of five points on level two, and then level three, as long as I get one out of five in level two, I move on to level three.

If I don’t get one out of five on level two, I move back to level one, I have to start all over.

Level three I’m going to go 40 feet, and I have to get one point out of the five random shots I have there.

Now just like we talked about, there’s beginning levels, making one point out of five, as you get more advanced, you’re going to get two out of five, that’s pretty good.

Three out of five is what I would consider to be scratch golf level, you’re going to be a really good golfer if you can get three out of five from 15, 25, and 40 feet.

Four out of five is pro level, because now you only have a very small area around the hole to leave it in to.

If you get five out of five, that’s pretty good chipping.

So work hard on this, see how many you can get, it’s going to make you a better chipper, and you’re going to get a whole lot more birdies.

Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.