Golf: Chipping Drill

Video Transcript

"Okay, this drill, it's a combination of the chipping drill and it's your feet together. So when you hit every ball, you're going to keep your feet together, and you can do this with your sand wedge, your nine iron, your five iron, your three iron, and your woods. I've spent countless hours hitting every club with my feet together. Now I read in a book that Hail Irwin, who's a two time US Open winner among all the other titles he's won. He would practice this drill exclusively for days on end and he's got one of the best swings in golf history. So the purpose of this is when I get up to the ball, I'm just going to use my sand wedge here but you can see that my feet are together. So what this helps do, it takes, if my feet are apart I can use my upper body to try to generate power but if my feet are together I can't use my upper body very much so I have to learn to use my hips and shoulders and to turn properly. So that was a really good shot. Very comfortable. So you start with your sand wedge or pitching iron and you just put your feet together and just hit endless numbers of balls here, so you develop the ability to use your hip and shoulder turn and this also helps improve your balance dramatically because a lot of times if your balance isn't good and you're driving a ball, you'll see you'll fall off the ball a little bit. So work this drill. I think this is one of the most important drills you can do. Keeping your feet together and just taking a nice swing, and you'll be amazed at how quickly it corrects so many swing flaws."