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**bestonlinepharmasy2** · 11-30-2010, 04:52 PM

Really, it depends on what shot I want to play. If I want to get the ball up in the air, I play closer to my front, but for most chipping, the ball is off my back foot.

This is me too. I change depending on the trajectory I need, but my basic chip shot is with the ball back.

Well there are a number of shots around the green where you will be using your wedges. However if a straightforeward chip shot I will have the ball forward in my stance, with my weight on my front foot, the club face open, and accilerating through the shot. I have found that chipping this way gives me more soft landings on the green. Especially helpful for those mid length chips where you have to get it over a bunker or some sort of hazard and then land it softly on the green.

I don't call this a chip. This is what is traditionally known as a pitch. A traditional chip is a low shot that runs out at least a little, depending on how much you spin the ball. A pitch is a higher trajectory shot (not a flop) used to carry farther (such as over an obstacle - bunker, rough etc.) and land softer. For a pitch I too will play the ball farther forward and use a higher lofted club... 8I or PW for a chip vs. GW or SW for a pitch.

I'll qualify that by saying that I learned the game long before the advent of the LW, when a high loft SW was 54°. The traditional terminology has gotten somewhat lost in the plethora of wedges available today, but for the purposes of descriptive clarity I still stick with the traditional usage.

11-30-2010, 04:52 PM	#14
bestonlinepharmasy2 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 514 Senior Member	Really, it depends on what shot I want to play. If I want to get the ball up in the air, I play closer to my front, but for most chipping, the ball is off my back foot. This is me too. I change depending on the trajectory I need, but my basic chip shot is with the ball back. Well there are a number of shots around the green where you will be using your wedges. However if a straightforeward chip shot I will have the ball forward in my stance, with my weight on my front foot, the club face open, and accilerating through the shot. I have found that chipping this way gives me more soft landings on the green. Especially helpful for those mid length chips where you have to get it over a bunker or some sort of hazard and then land it softly on the green. I don't call this a chip. This is what is traditionally known as a pitch. A traditional chip is a low shot that runs out at least a little, depending on how much you spin the ball. A pitch is a higher trajectory shot (not a flop) used to carry farther (such as over an obstacle - bunker, rough etc.) and land softer. For a pitch I too will play the ball farther forward and use a higher lofted club... 8I or PW for a chip vs. GW or SW for a pitch. I'll qualify that by saying that I learned the game long before the advent of the LW, when a high loft SW was 54°. The traditional terminology has gotten somewhat lost in the plethora of wedges available today, but for the purposes of descriptive clarity I still stick with the traditional usage.
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