Golf Tips & Repetitions

Series Summary

Though Musselburgh, Scotland is home to The Old Links, oldest golf course in the world, golf is rumored to have begun in the Netherlands in 1297. After seven hundred years it still follows the same basic premise: hit a ball into a hole using a stick; the person who gets it in the least number of hits, wins. Today, a golfer may have any number of sticks, called clubs, made up of wood, graphite, or titanium. Each club has a specific use depending on the type, whether it’s the driver for an opening long ball, the wedge for shots out of the sand trap, the putter for the last short shot into the hole, or a variety of irons for anything in between. Pitching and chipping are two types of shots that most people think little of but have an even larger effect on your score than driving or your approach shots. In this free video clip series this golfing expert, Hill Marks, is here to show you some great ways to improve your chipping and pitching quickly so that the next time you hit the links you'll be shooting scores you only dreamed of. So watch these free videos and we'll see you out on the greens!

Video Transcript

"OK, so now here we are, here's the green. Our shot is a little short so it's not as easy as being right next to the green. You got to chip from there usually, too. But here we definitely have to chip or pitch. So you can see we got a sand trap to our right and to our left. But we've got a clear view of the green. So from where we're at right now, I'm about thirty yards from the end of the green. But the green's pretty big so I might have thirty yards to the green and then another twenty or thirty yards to the pin that I want to aim at. So these are very delicate shots because they're not a full swing. Where I have somewhat of an idea of what my distance would be on every shot. So this is a shot that only through endless repetitions where I am going to get the feel for each shot. So I have to just hit ball after ball after ball. Cause if golf was that easy everyone would be good at it. But we have to sit here and practice and work on our different shots. But this is the most, but these are the most valuable, that was a pretty long chip but that's what you have to do from this distance. So the only way you're going to develop the skills here is by hitting a lot of balls. So I've got a nice big basket here just for this distance shot. And now if you don't have time for this you might not want to hit that many but you got to hit a few from this distance every time you chip. So only through endless repetitions, that's what Lee Trevino said, is he got good by hitting millions of balls."