Re: Chipping styles

Tom K wrote:
"Mike Dalecki" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44h6v7F2781mU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Howard Brazee wrote:

I have read people recommend various chipping styles - some closer to
putting, and some closer to pitching.

I believe that it is easier for beginners to improve with a putting
style, but don't know which is best for more experienced players.

What I am starting to believe though, is that the more I do partial
swings of any lengths - including chips and pitches, the better I get
at partial swings of all lengths. So that my practice chipping and
pitching will help me with my 80 yard bump and run with a PW.


I don't know how most "best" golfers do it, but I know that Bruce Newman advocates the bump-and-run chipping style--get it on the green and rolling with as little carry as is reasonable.

For whatever reason, I *like* how chipping with a lob wedge feels. I'm not so confident with, say, a 4-iron. The funny thing about that is I'm much better in terms of results with the 4-iron, or any mechanism that uses the method Bruce does.

When I first started fooling with this, I played off the lob wedge against the bump-and-run style. Ten balls hit with each style, see what ends up being closer.

The bump-and-run style produces better results. So that's what I use.




Question...

What if you did the same 10 balls with each style, but from a different location to a different hole with each ball. Can you be as accurate with roll without hitting a few previous shots to gauge the roll pattern?

I'm thinking I'm going to try the same 10 balls a few times, but only 1 chip and 1 bump and run... then move to a different hole on the practice green and try again (in the other sequence). Then see which is more successful.

--Tom



We should probably clarify terms. I don't see there as being any differnce between a bump and run and a chip. The distinction I'm talking about is using a wedge to throw the ball somewhat near the hole, and let it release to the hole. In the lexicon I know, a chip travels further on the green than it did in the air. Usually, the bump and run travels a large fraction of the distance to the hole while rolling on the green.

I've done the comparison you note above in a modified fashion--our practice green has two holes, and I'd hit to each of them, both methods.

Regardless of how I've tested it (and, BTW, if you want to argue there's a practice effect with bump and run, why wouldn't there be one w/ a wedge too?), the chipping--the bump and run--is superior for me. Greatly so, in fact.

Ultimately, what happens is that I have to practice this enough to get the right feel. I've found, during play, that I can be uncannily accurate w/ the bump and run, both in distance and direction. I've also switched back and forth from round to round, trying mostly a little bump and run, and the little pitch to the hole approach. Bump and run wins for me, hands down.

In retrospect, it seems clear to me why bump and run (chipping) is superior for me. With a wedge, where I'm throwing the ball near the hole, I have to be right on two things: How far to have the ball fly, and how much spin I put on the ball. If I don't get both correct, I'm not close (unless I screw up both and they cancel out :).

With a bump and run, I don't have to to that. There's only one variable I have to control, and that's the force I put on the shot. Spin is not relevant--those balls don't check.

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