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**MondayBlues** · 09-28-2009, 09:29 PM

Greens keepers know as well as anyone else that there is no rule against using something other than a putter on the green. The game is designed to score as low as you can, using the best club for the shot at hand. Yes, you should try to do as little damage (if any) to the green as possible. But as mentioned above, the design of the green contributes to club selection based on where the golfer's ball ends up on the green.

I played at a course 2 weeks ago where one of the greens has a sign posed that chipping on the green is NOT allowed. It's a long green with at least an 8 foot rise from the front to the back tier. Apparently they had problems with players taking chunks out of the front when trying to reduce the necessity for actually reading a putt from there when the hole was cut on the back tier.

So while it's true that the Rules of Golf don't prohibit it, many courses do NOT allow it, and that is just for the protection of the course. It's simply a bad habit to get into. We aren't pros... we aren't playing for thousands of dollars. Even in a tournament, its still a few bucks in book money.. not worth destroying a part of the green over. Most amateur golfers simply don't have sufficient control over the clubhead to be able to chip without hitting the ground, so it's crazy to allow unrestricted chipping on the greens of a typical public course.

09-28-2009, 09:29 PM	#13
MondayBlues Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 429 Senior Member	Greens keepers know as well as anyone else that there is no rule against using something other than a putter on the green. The game is designed to score as low as you can, using the best club for the shot at hand. Yes, you should try to do as little damage (if any) to the green as possible. But as mentioned above, the design of the green contributes to club selection based on where the golfer's ball ends up on the green. I played at a course 2 weeks ago where one of the greens has a sign posed that chipping on the green is NOT allowed. It's a long green with at least an 8 foot rise from the front to the back tier. Apparently they had problems with players taking chunks out of the front when trying to reduce the necessity for actually reading a putt from there when the hole was cut on the back tier. So while it's true that the Rules of Golf don't prohibit it, many courses do NOT allow it, and that is just for the protection of the course. It's simply a bad habit to get into. We aren't pros... we aren't playing for thousands of dollars. Even in a tournament, its still a few bucks in book money.. not worth destroying a part of the green over. Most amateur golfers simply don't have sufficient control over the clubhead to be able to chip without hitting the ground, so it's crazy to allow unrestricted chipping on the greens of a typical public course.
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