7 Proven Chipping Drills to Boost Your Consistency on the Green
Chipping the ball close to the hole is great, but can you do it three times in a row?
You’ll find that the more time you spend on the golf course, the more you realize that the most consistent players are the best players.
Chipping drills can be worked on at home or on the driving range. If you need to get your chipping action under control, these are the best drills to work on today.
Key Takeaways
Bookmark this page so you can go back through and take a look at these drills right before you head to the driving range.
In the meantime, here are a few of the most important things to note about the golf chipping drills.
- The lead wrist in chipping should be flexed or flat going through impact, wear your HackMotion to measure your wrist angles, if they get too extended you won’t be a consistent ball striker.
- Try some one arm chipping, learning the motions of the left and right hand individually can sometimes be easier than learning them together.
- An alignment stick is a great drill to help with chipping drills, keep one nearby when you head to the driving range to work on your chipping.
- Practice chipping with several different clubs, you’ll want to have a few different options when you get to the golf course.
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7 Chipping Drills to Help You Improve Consistency
Trail Hand Open Drill
There is a fine line in chipping between keeping your hands forward and stable and ensuring you also rotate through the club.
The position of the lead hand flexed through impact doesn’t need to change. However, when the trail hand gets a little overactive, you may run into some trouble.
This drill has you keep your trail hand open as you chip. You may like it enough to just start chipping like this!
Grip Down On the Club Drill
This video from Free Online Golf will help you stop flipping your wrists in your chipping. Combine this drill with your HackMotion wrist sensor and you’ll see how quickly you can learn to make clean contact with the golf ball.
Simply hold the club down by the clubhead and then make some half swings and check if the club is in the appropriate positions.
One Arm Chipping Drill
The one arm chipping drill from Chris Ryan is a little more complicated than other chipping drills, but that is potentially what makes it more effective. For this one, you will hold the club with just your trail hand.
Your lead hand will hold the trail arm in place. As you swing the goal is to make clean contact with the golf ball but also never allow the arm to separate from the body.
The more you work on this the easier it is to get consistent on your chip shots.
Alignment Stick Drill
This video from the Art of Simple Golf gives you a great drill for using an alignment stick to get better at chipping.
The alignment stick goes under the lead arm. The idea is to keep it in place as you swing.
This will help you hit more crisp shots and eliminate shots like the flip or skull. If you struggle to know just how much rotation is needed for chip shots, this drill should help.
Angle of Attack Drill
Consistent chipping requires a consistent angle of attack. If your angle of attack feels like it’s upright on one shot and too shallow on the next, try this drill from MeandMyGolf. The drill encourages a downward strike.
All you will need is an alignment stick set up about six inches behind the golf ball. The goal is to ensure you hit the ball first and not the alignment stick.
This should help you get a slightly more flighted wedge shot, not something that launches too high and is difficult to control.
Right Elbow Drill
The right elbow (or trail elbow if you aren’t a right handed golfer) needs to stay close to your body during the backswing.
If this arm becomes disconnected the golfer is more likely to lift the club up instead of swing it back.
With the right elbow drill, make sure you pay close attention to where the arm travels in the follow through as well. Sometimes, focusing too much on this elbow position could leave you taking the club too far inside.
Y Drill
The Y Drill is a golf chipping drill that works very well for new players. If you have never played golf before and are trying to learn what the basic chipping motion looks like, this is a great drill to practice.
Over time, you will have to work on this drill with different clubs in your hands and backswings of varying lengths.
As a newer player the Y Drill should help you get those clean and crisp chip shots that get the ball close to your target.
Final Thoughts
Unless you hit 18 greens in regulation, chances are you will have at least 5-8 chips per round. Imagine if each of those could land right next to the pin and leave you a tap in putt.
The goal here is to be able to repeat the same motion and, in turn, have that help you repeat the same shot.
There’s an added bonus in becoming a better chipper; you’ll also become a better ball striker because the impact is the same.
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