– Do you duff your chip shots? Are you struggling with
just general consistency when you're round the green? It's horrible, because it
affects your confidence. Well, in today's video, we take Jimmy through a live lesson. At the start of the lesson,
he was duffing his shots, really inconsistent. And by the end of it, he was striking it so much more consistent with some simple things that
we know are gonna help you. – Yeah, do you know what? It really did. And look, if you haven't
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video is gonna help you with your short game
and with your chipping, then hit the like. So let's start the video and see if we can stop you
duffing your chip shots. Okay Jimmy, so we've got
a pretty simple shot here to the white flag. Let's hit a few shots.
What club are you using
there, first of all actually? – I got my 52.
– 52, okay. – So let's play some shots, and we'll go through this. We've some slo-mos all ready. And then we'll just hit a few shots and we'll see if the
normal patterns arise. That was nice. Remember before when I
said don't chip it in on your first shot, on the video? But that was very good, well done.
All right, let's play a few more. Okay, let's go again. (indistinct), that one feel different? – It did, yeah, a little ground first. – Ground first on that one. Okay.
– That's the one. – That's the one. And would it be more that
one than the other one? I don't wanna give them names. I don't wanna give them names. – No, it's-
– It's more the duff? – It's generally that one, yeah. – Okay, okay. So when you are hitting the shot, what are you actually trying to do? – Yeah, I mean, in my mind, I'm trying to imagine just
making good ball first contact, trying to hit down through the ball. – Okay. – I really just am trying to avoid taking a bunch of grass before it. – Okay. And just so we're aware on that, as well, hitting down into the ball
and down through the ball, and then not taking a lot of grass, that's actually quite hard to do. So it's almost a little
bit of a conflict there.
When people are chipping
and they're going bad, it's probably 'cause they
are trying to drive down into the back of the ball. And you can see from your set if it looks that way. The shaft is being leaned forward, the balls are a little bit
further back in the stance. So I suppose the one thing
that I wanna say to you is, how about if we could actually hit the ground here and
still hit a good shot? Would that sound nice? Oh, that expression there. "Yep. "Give me that, please." Okay, so I'm actually
gonna go through that now. So I'm actually gonna encourage you to try and hit the ground before the ball. We could say try and duff it, but I'm actually gonna encourage you to hit the ground before the ball, and we'll see what actually happens.
Andy, if you could just hold that a sec. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna move the golf
ball further forward in the stance. I'm gonna bring the club shaft quite a bit more upright as well, okay? So what I'm gonna do, I'm
gonna move that out of the way. Now all I want you to do is
to swing back and through and just brush the ground for me. Might take a few shots
just to get that brush. Okay, again, just relax
it there. Start again. And again, we're up nice and high. Feels really weird, doesn't it, that? – It does, yeah. – It's so strange when you
do this for the first time. You'll probably need to
really exaggerate it. Or do it in front of a mirror, or get some video feedback, 'cause it will feel really strange. Okay, we may move you
in a little bit close when there's a ball there, potentially. So again, brush for me. Hit that brush. Okay, so, ball is actually
ever so slightly forward.
We can mess around with the
ball position a little bit as we go through this. Club really high. Everything else that you do, and for now, I just want
you to brush the grass. Okay. That was nice. Tell me how that felt. – Felt good. It was a little off the toe. – A little off the toe? Okay, cool. All right. Good. Let's go again, I'm just
gonna move you there. So again, ball forward. Handle nice and high. Give me a brush. Maybe a little out of toe again? – Yeah, a little bit. – And look, that can actually happen when we get the shaft a
little bit more upright, and it actually does offer that to happen a little bit more, which is fine though, 'cause lots of great chippers get the ball ever so slightly out of their toe. – I think a lot of issues come
for most golfers, as well, is when they are literally
trying to hit down on their chip shots.
As soon as golfers try and
hit down on the chip shots, they put the ball back, the club is descending too much. The issue is then the club
just digs into the ground, and you can really get that horrible duff where the ball just goes nowhere. What Pierce is trying to do now is trying to almost
create this more of a… Not necessarily a down,
more of a level hit here, where we can use the sole of the club to brush the ground.
What Jimmy's been trying to do is avoid the ground completely by hitting down on the back of the ball. You need it to be absolutely spot on to hit the shot, otherwise
it can go drastically wrong. – Okay. How about that one? – A little bit better.
– A bit better? – Yeah. – So here's the thing on this. He's hit three shots. You thinned the last one. And you duffed the first two. And look where they are,
they're pretty close. – Right. – So here's the thing. And when I asked you as well, how did it feel, that first one? – Yeah. – You actually said, "Yeah, it was good, "it was just a little bit out of toe." You hit the ground that
far before the ball.
Now with your old technique, that would have been disaster. It wouldn't have made the green. So what we're gonna do here,
what we're basically doing, is giving you a more consistent technique, which allows you to land
your club on the ground, brush through the ground, and
then come out of the ground. Okay, so here we go. This is how we round it off. And I want you to feel, I'm
just gonna get in there, that you sort of trap my hands there, and I want you to swing back
and keep my hands trapped. So the only way you can do this now is by turning your body a bit more.
Beautiful. Okay, do that yourself. So you're now just getting the body to move a little bit more. But give me the brush
on the ground as well. Again, up nice and high. Get that brush. Good. So you can see when
you're finishing the shot, now you're turning really well. And look, we saw this
on Jimmy's golf swing, he did so many good things, so he does so many good things here with his chipping action, it's just a couple of
things that are, you know, leading you astray. Which for a year of golf
is actually amazing. – I think it's interesting
to talk about this as well, is that what Jimmy, what
you were trying to do was you were trying to hit the ball only. It's almost like, "I
just wanna hit the ball." And we always said there's
two interactions that we want, we want the club and the ball, but then we also want
the club and the ground.
So notice when I'm
hitting the ground here, I'm not just sort of brushing
the top of the grass, And you'll hear the difference in how this sounds. Notice what I'm doing here? I've got an awareness of
how the sole of the club is interacting with the turf. – Sure. – And I would say on
every short game shot, you have an awareness of, "Oh, I wanna feel the ground, "I wanna feel how that club
interacts with the ground." That makes a huge difference on your confidence on these shots.
'Cause then you're not going, "I need to get this precisely "just on the back of the ball "and hit the perfect shot." – Sure. – It frees everything up to go, "Oh, now I can really
allow the club to glide "and use the sole." And I think, you know, that's something you can put
into these practice swings. – I think exactly that. I think we're getting to the side now. So yeah, set yourself up to the side. Ball forward, club shaft nice and upright. We've got the thought
process and the technique of turning but make sure we get that brush like Andy was doing just… Beautiful. Beautiful. – You almost wanna feel on this, as well, almost wanna hear the earth. There you go. – You can see when you're doing this, you're giving it a hair cut, effectively.
You're not scalping it, almost. – You can just feel that club glide across the surface there, yeah? – Let's have a go. Nice. Again, a little bit off
on the pace that time, but the strike was fantastic. – Perfect, perfect contact. Good.
– That's the one. – And that's hitting
ground early, too early, but that's good, 'cause now you've got it. Your margin for error now isn't so small. Beautiful. Love that one. – That was really good. – There's the feel, whether you can feel that. Can you just feel like how the
club's sort of landing and? – Yeah. – A little bit of glide.
– A little bit of grass.
– There, that's it, that's
the one for me there. – It's almost like a plane landing, and then taking off again.
– Got it. – So it hits the ground. Lands on the ground, we don't
hit the ground in a plane. Lands on the ground, stays on
the ground for a little bit, and then comes up. It doesn't go continuing straight down. So hit me one more. – [Andy] Beautiful. – Again, so good. And actually, a good element
of check on it as well, so it's actually a really good way of getting a little bit more back spin on those chips, as well.
– Perfect, great. Great
stuff there, Jimmy. – Thank you, guys. – Really good. – Great driver lesson as well. I'm looking forward to
seeing the results in that. Guys, hope you enjoyed that. And if you wanna check
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