How To Use Golf Training Aids To Improve Your Chipping
The 18th hole is a lengthy par 4 with a tricky elevated green. You’ve missed the green to the right on your approach. Your ball sits about 8 feet off the green in the first cut of rough. The lie isn’t too bad, but it’s a tricky shot.
The left-side pin is about 25 yards away and there is a tricky downhill slope leading to a bunker right behind the target. Unfortunately, your opponent and nemesis is in decent shape with a slick 20 footer for birdie.
Whoever wins the hole wins the round, bragging rights, and 5 skins. If you can chip this one close or somehow get it to drop, you can turn the tables and put the pressure on him. Of course, chip it a little too hard and it’s going down in the bunker along with your chances of getting those desperately needed bragging rights.
Are your chipping skills up to the challenge? Moments of reckoning like this come along pretty often in golf. Its the times when you wonder is your game good enough to pull you through. On tough courses, under pressure, many of these moments come down to hitting a good chip shot.
If your chipping is...