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Chipping from the rough is a challenge. The problem is the tall grass: it wraps itself around the club and twists it at impact. But making this chip from the rough can turn two strokes into one, so if you're serious about lowering your handicap, you must master this shot.


Before the swing, here are some steps you take to properly position yourself for the chip shot:

Move the ball forward in your stance.

Move your hands down the club and grip it firmer than usual.

Shift your hands and body slightly forward.


If you're dealing with a long chip shot, plan for more roll.

During the swing:
Hinge your wrists to produce a steeper swing than normal.
Hit the ball with a slightly downward blow, brushing the grass after impact.
Focus on swinging through the ball, since the grass will prevent your club from doing so.


If the grass is really thick, play the chip like a greenside bunker shot. Open your stance and clubface at address, causing the ball to come out higher, but with less roll. Now swing away, focusing on allowing the clubhead to come through the ball, as before.


To practice this shot, place a ball on the fringe of the green where the grass is longer than an inch. Instead of hitting the ball, practice just sweeping the tips of the grass. Use a low sweeping motion, employing just your arms and shoulders. After ten sweeps, address the ball and chip it, using the same motion. Now, place the ball in higher grass and repeat the sequence.


Chipping from the rough isn't easy. But executing the shot correctly gets you out of trouble, creates makeable putts, and cuts strokes from your score-all while building confidence in your game and lowering your handicap.

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Description: A chip shot is played where you are lying so close to green that you can neither lift the ball nor you can go with a putter. Try out these tips and see good results yourself!


Many people confuse the term chipping with pitching, but in fact, they are two different shots. A chip shot is played where you are lying so close to green that you can neither lift the ball nor you can go with a putter. So a chip is a "type of" putt with an iron.

For chipping, you require to choose the club very carefully. The most important thing is to pick up a point where you want your first bounce of the ball. Depending on the type of green and slope, apply enough power to get the ball to the point you marked in your mind. That's all what good chipping is all about.


One very important thing about chipping is that do not limit yourself to just one club for chipping. Vary your clubs as required in different circumstances. Most of the golfers like to use 7- or 8-iron for this purpose but this just limits their choices as far as playing a chip shot is concerned. Try out 5-iron and you will see very good results as well.

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I've said it often: over-tightness in your golf grip is the most common cause of errors in golf. Too much tension in your hands inhibits your swing, creating poor wrist action and short-circuiting your power.The net effect of "tight hands" is that you will be inconsistent on the course.

U.S. Open Champion Jim Furyk has two golf grip remedies: the double interlocking group or the double overlapping grip.With the double overlapping grip, you wrap the last two fingers of your right hand over the index and middle fingers of your left hand.With the double interlocking grip, you interlock the index finger of your left hand and the last two fingers of your right hand. Using either the double overlapping or the double interlocking golf grips, you will be able to:

Eliminate pressure on middle fingers
Increase pressure on last three fingers of left hand
Increase leverage of the right hand grip
Set the club on the backswing
Hold the lag on the downswing

The next time you are frustrated on a practice round, instead of getting drawn into your frustration, try a new grip instead. The new golf grip will naturally reduce tension in your hands without you trying to do so deliberately. It will also get your mind off your last shot by giving you something constructive to try on the next one.

Description: Grip is the first step in learning how to play any "stick game". So concentrate on your grip, and you'll improve your game!

Grip is the first step in learning how to play any "stick game". As only our hand creates a connection between our body and the stick/ club. So to learn any game perfectly, we must concentrate primarily on our grip.

Using a proper grip helps in making a strong and more effective connection with the ball which helps in covering great distances as well as in controlling the ball. In golf, not only learning proper grip, but also the coordination of hands with body that is important.

One of the very common mistake that golfers make is they tighten or loosen up one of the hands in grip which makes the shot to hook or shank (as called in golfing terminology). The tightening of the leading hand would cause the ball to shank and tightening of trailing hand would cause the ball to get hooked.

Below we have provides you with some basic information about how to improve your game.

Ten Finger Grip
This is the simplest grip to hold the golf club but is not used by most professional golf players. Known as "the baseball grip", it generates a lot of power in the shot.

Place the little finger of trailing hand close to the index finger of the lead hand and cover the lead hands thumb with the center of the palm of trailing hand.

This is mostly suitable for players who experience joint pain, have weak hands or arthritis as well as for beginners.

Interlock Grip
This is the most commonly used grip by beginners as well as amateur players. This grip makes the club lock in the hand of the player which results in excellent conversion of energy from body to ball.

Take the little finger on the trailing hand and interlock it with the index finger on the lead hand. The thumb of lead hand must fit in the center of the palm of the trailing hand. (See image for details)

But one thing about this grip is that you can easily get carried away due to tightness in grip. The most important thing about this grip is that you have to strike a perfect balance between your body and hands. This grip is mostly used by people with small hands, weak forearms and wrists.

Vardon Overlap Grip
This is the most commonly grip used by great golfers and professional players. The grip creates immense control on the direction as well as requires less effort to hit the ball to great distances.

Take the little finger on the trailing hand and place it between the index finger and the middle finger on the lead hand. The thumb of the lead hand should, as usual, fit in the center of palm of the trailing hand. (See image for details)

This balanced grip surely helps in maintaining the equilibrium but is not suitable for beginners as they can easily lose the grip of leading hand.

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Hitting a golf ball far can be a very pleasurable experience as you watch the ball penetrate through the sky and land deep in the fairway. There are many things that need to happen to accomplish this feat. It will require good mastery of swing mechanics to be able to consistently hit the golf ball far and straight. Here are some tips to help you master your driver.

Slow down your swing:

It sounds almost contradictory to actually slow down the swing in order to hit the ball farther. Remember that club head speed must occur through the hitting zone. Most amateurs create the most club head speed before the club head even gets to the hitting zone so when the club head does get to the ball the club head speed is much slower than it could have been.

It does not take huge muscles to generate great club head speed. Simply make sure that your backswing is slow and deliberate. Also the downswing must feel just as relaxed. This will allow you to develop supreme control over the club since a slow relaxed swing will usually be much more repeatable than a rushed one.

Stop at the top of the swing:

This can be difficult to do at the start but many of the longest hitters stop for a second or two at the top of the swing before they start the downswing. They often start the downswing with a slight shift in body weight towards the target. This helps to create more leverage and increases lag which is important to create maximum club head speed.

Maintain balance:

Balance is critical in executing any golf shot especially the driver. Remember that the driver is the most difficult club in the bag to hit so you need to be in control to hit this club well. If you find yourself losing balance after your swing then consider slowing things down until you do attain balance.

Accuracy must come first:

You cannot hit a golf ball consistently far if you are not also hitting the ball straight. Crooked drives rarely go very far so you must learn to hit the ball straight first. This starts with the wedge. If you struggle with the wedge then you will also inevitably struggle with the driver too as the longer swings are simply extensions of the shorter ones.

Make sure you are spending appropriate amounts of time on the shorter clubs because if you can master your wedge then hitting longer shots will become a lot easier. Also the level of confidence that you will have when hitting your drives will be much greater since you know that even if you miss a fairway or two you have the short game that can help you to recover so do not underestimate the power of increased confidence when you are about to hit your drives. Do you suffer from consistent slicing of the golf ball? Discover a golf slice cure system that can help you to get rid of that slice and hit straighter golf shots more often.

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What is the easiest shot in golf that all beginners can properly execute? It's the "gimme" putt. As the distance between the cup and the ball becomes greater, the tougher it is to make a shot.

Start Small.

Beginning with this idea in mind, you will see that when honing your golf skills it makes sense to start with smaller swings, then build up to the full swing. This is the reason why a person just learning the sport will learn and teach the body the correct motions iin developing an accurate and powerful swing by starting with the short swing. Trying to learn the full swing first makes it much more difficult to learn the correct muscle coordination that the full swing requires.

Learning to hit for distance and then accuracy is putting the cart before the horse. It works the other way around. Ultimately, accuracy will create distance.

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No golfer enjoys hitting slice shots and learning how to stop slicing a golf ball can be a difficult challenge even for those that get to practice and play a lot. There are a lot of things that can cause a slice so you really do need to understand your swing and what an ideal swing plane is that will not impart slice spin on the golf ball.

One of the biggest causes of the slice shot is having a swing plane that promotes an outside to in path of the club head. Trying to swing too hard can cause you to swing from the outside so make sure that you are swinging well within yourself. Once you feel confident and are hitting the ball straight you will naturally swing harder as you gain greater confidence with the mechanical accuracy of your full swing.

Using your right hand too much (right handed golfers) can also create an outside to in club head path that promotes a slice shot. Keep the right hand passive and use your left hand instead to initiate both the backswing and downswing. Getting the right hand involved too much can lead to an early release which can cause not only slice shots but also result in much less distance than you are capable of.

Lifting your head up too early can also result in hitting slices. Make sure you keep your head down as long as possible and let the momentum of the follow through bring it up. Tension in the golf swing can also lead to poor swing mechanics resulting in slice shots. Most golfers get tense when they start thinking too much so the best way to get rid of tension may be to simply quiet your thoughts when it comes time to hit the ball and simply look and react to the targets.

Rotating your hips too early can also lead to an outside to in club path. Be sure to make a lateral movement of the hips toward the target instead of rotating it. Your hips will naturally rotate once you complete the follow through. An open club face at the setup position can also lead to slice shots. Make sure your club face is square to the target at the address position. Slicing a golf ball is annoying.

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