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Video Tutorial: Chipping Practice

Written by  Andrew Wild on Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Bad chipping and pitching can be very frustrating, and of course it can ruin your golf scores even if your long game is good. 




When you're on a Power Tee system, you can actually use the tee peg itself because it's nice and strong, to be able to improve your chipping. Let me show you how.

Quite simply, place the ball around twelve inches behind the tee peg, in line with where you want to chip to. The object of the exercise is this: you go ahead and chip the ball, but you've got to keep the club head low enough, tracking the ground enough, so that it will connect with the tee peg. 

If you've done that, then you know that the club has worked shallow enough through the mat to give you a good strike. If you do the action that I showed you at the beginning, then what will happen is that because the club is coming up above the tee peg, you won't get that connection. 

So what we need to do is to set it up in a way in which the ball is just behind the tee peg, and then focus on striking the ball but keeping low enough that it connects with the tee. 

By doing that, I've struck the ball perfectly in the middle of the club and the club stayed low enough to connect with the tee - so I've got both things right. Providing I hit the tee I know I've changed the angle of attack of the actual club so I'm going to get more control on the golf ball, and better strikes. The result of that is a much better short game, and probably lower scores too.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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