Why You Need This:

This is a fun “Jump Rope Chipping Game” that helps your comfort level with different clubs when it comes chipping…

Along with helping your general chipping abilities, this game is great for building up your chipping confidence with different clubs and distances…

Also, you’ll get practice with ball control, coordination, and your “bump and run.”

Check out this video now to discover how you can make the ball “walk” up to the hole for an easy putt!

What's Covered: a drill/game to improve your chipping with different clubs

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:07

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, so in this chipping drill we’re going to learn how different clubs are going to control your trajectory differently.

They’re also going to run out a different amount. So here we’re going to start out with a 7 iron.

We’re going to use three clubs for this, a 7 iron, a 9 iron, and a sand wedge, or your 56-degree wedge. You could use a 60-degree wedge if you want to, that will also be fine.

I want you to set up on the front of the green, about a four-foot gap between two strings.

So we’re going to have one string about a foot or two on the green, another string four feet in front of that, and we’re going to be chipping to a hole.

I’ve just thrown down a golf ball to simulate our hole here, out in the distance.

I’m going to start out with my 7 iron, and I’m going to adjust either closer to the green or farther back until I get the right trajectory and the right spacing to where I can chip this ball, it’s going to land between these two strings and then roll out to that hole.

Again, I’m starting out with my 7 iron, you can use any low lofted iron, if you want to use a 6 or a 5 that’s OK also, and I’m simply going to play a nice little bump and run shot.

It landed in between the strings, right up beside the hole. Now from there, I’m going to go ahead and mark this down and I’ll move on to my 9 iron.

I’m going to take a couple steps back, I’ve already pre-spaced these, and now with this 9 iron I know that I could be farther back.

My 9 iron is now going to get a little more loft on it, it’s going to carry farther in the air, so I’ve added another four feet of carry distance, but the amount the ball rolls out is exactly the same.

So I can take this 9 iron, go a few feet back, I’m going to be able to land it in the exact same spot that I landed my 7 iron, and because it has more loft, it’s not going to roll out quite as much.

There we go, we see that ended up about where I wanted to be.

If I wanted it to count for a point, I have to be within a club length of this ball when I end up, so I can easily see I’m within a club length there, and I have to get my ball to land in this zone, between these two pieces of string.

So I’m going to do five shots with my 7 iron. As long as I get one point out of those five shots, I can move on to my 9 iron.

I’m going to do five more shots, I have to get one point with my 9 iron, then I’m going to grab my sand wedge and go farther back out again where I can still land it between these two strings, and be within a club-length of that ball and I have to get a point out of five shots with my sand wedge.

So now we’re adjusting from 7 iron to sand wedge, and we’re starting to get a really good feel for how far to carry, and how far to roll.

Remember, with every shot we hit with the chip, we want it to land on the front of the green then roll out to the hole is the general idea here.

So we’re going to do that one out of five, you’re going to get really good we’re going to get two out of five, then three out of five.

Three out of five is pretty tough on this one, because not only do you have to control your landing distance, you also have to control where the ball ends up and you’re changing your club.

So it gets pretty difficult on that one. If you can get four out of five, that’s unbelievable, that’s some really, really good chipping.

So practice these drills, work on your club selection, learn how each club is going to react to different situations, and you’re going to score a lot better.

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