Chipping Ball Position Golf Tips

Video Transcript

"O.k. in the closed stance that we have right here where my feet are aligned with; are parallel to the line of flight to the ball and I have the club at somewhat of a neutral, even a little closed. I want to have the ball somewhat centered underneath me so here's my left instep which would be about right there; so the clubs, the balls a couple balls south of the; my instep. So if I have too much of my back foot I can hit that and there might be times where that’s an appropriate stance. Sometimes if I have a ball going straight down hill I'm going to come off my back foot but for a typical closed stance, pretty typical tripper pitch I want the ball somewhat off my left instep but a little bit back and then it; it's reasonably far away from me and I'm bending the knees down, and so I'm good and balanced; and I just take a nice little back swing and I pop the ball up. So if I want to hit the ball further I just swing harder but if, if you mess around; you got to find out where a good comfortable spot for the ball is. See if it's too much off my front foot I can control it but it's just adding another variable to it. So we want to maintain a nice pendulum motion on these chips so the best spot to strike the ball is somewhat in from the left foot; probably about that much and that should be a good spot. But experiment with it because what works for me might not be perfect for you."