Common Complaint: Scooping the Ball

When it comes to chipping, especially when you are chipping over sand, there is a natural tendency that many people have, which is often to become so uptight with the idea of generating height for the ball that you end up scoping at the ball, attempting to help it into the air, but failing rather than actually generating any good for your swing. For some, this simply comes as a result of plain ignorance of the proper technique and it ends up landing a lot of people in trouble unnecessarily.

1 - The ball often tends to be positioned far too far forward in your stance. The hands end up behind the ball, as well, and this is bound to cause greater problems even beyond the scooping problem. From this address position, which is awkward from the start, it is really only going to get worse for you rather than better in any way.

2 - The impact generally becomes a scooping action at the point where the club head is traveling upward and into the middle of the golf ball. Rather than producing any height for the ball as you may have intended, instead what you are going to end up doing is sending the ball scuttling down along the ground in a haphazard manner.

3 - Tragically, in your effort to create height, you are perpetrating the outcome that you were actually attempting to avoid, which is a bunker shot before you achieve your next putt.

The Solution:

This is where it becomes important to know that you can hit down in order to create height. The sooner that this concept can be grasped, the better off you will be, improving significantly upon your short game in the process. The following solution is an excellent exercise for this cause.

1 - Trust the loft on your club face to do the job that it was intended for. Set the shot up with the ball in the center of your stance, and put your hands comfortably ahead of the ball at that point. Your left arm and the club shaft should be forming a straight line that leads right down to the ball.

2 - Once you have established at the address, maintain the relationship completely through the swing. The hands should lead the head of the club into the ball, encouraging a strike that is crisp and downward.

3 - This will utilize the effective loft on the club face, ensuring that you create the necessary amount of height on the shot. Soon the fluffed chips that were previously embarrassing will be no more and instead you will be getting the chipping height that you were looking for all along.

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Originally posted 2009-09-11 03:29:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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