Basic Steps to Perfect Golf. -- Link to Lesson 7 - Chipping.

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practice swings -chip07-- (Changed - 12/06/2007)

So let us try to get the feel of the chipping action:-

Take up your stance, which should be slightly "open" but with the shoulders held on the "Parallel to the Target Line" with the weight balance over the left leg.

Set yourself up to hit a few golf balls as follows:-

1) Make the chest muscles taut.

2) Hold your head in the "fixed frontal position"

3) Fix your head in a position so that is just behind the ball.

This head position must be rigidly maintained throughout the complete swing process.

4) Focus your eyes intensely on the pont where the golf ball is touching the ground -- focus on this point and you will make a cleaner strike of the ball.

When you are fully concentrating on the task in hand, slowly rotate the "Shoulders/Arms-unit" into the back swing until the clubhead has gone back as far as you deem necessary to generate enough clubhead speed in the forward movement without forcing the movement.

As you make the back swing there should not be any shift of your body weight on to the right foot. - Keep the majority of your weight poised over the left leg, your head fixed in the position over the ball and focus on the point that you wish the club head to strike.

At the end of your back swing - keep the head in the "Fixed frontal position" and take a slight pause so that you can reverse the Hip Movement before beginning the down swing movement -- continue to focus on the point of impact.

Then using the movement of the hips, rotate the whole body back to the original address position.

Once you begin the swing movement -- do not slow down the movement. - the speed is not important, but a steadily accelerating movement is essential.

Keep the head in the "fixed frontal position" and increase the intensity of the eyes focused on the point of impact.

As the clubhead approaches the ball, try to forget that the ball is in the way of the clubhead path -- visualise the clubhead acting as a wedge so that the club head simply force the golf ball and the turf to be separated.

You have to mentally obliterate the fact that there will be a resistance when the club head makes contact with the ball and the turf simultaneously.

Do not try to scoop the ball -- the downwards action of the golf club will do all the work -- imagine that the clubhead is swinging to the bottom of the swing arc.

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