Breaking Your Golf Score

Breaking 90
with Jonathan Yarwood

CHIP AWAY AT YOUR SCORE

Try using your putting stroke when you chip. It might sound stupid, but it's a foolproof way of playing the stroke. First stand as if the wedge was your putter - you can even it like you would your putter if you want to . Position the ball back a touch, shift your weight onto your left side and simply make a putting stroke. Practising with a head cover uunder your arms will help encourage you to make the stroke with your shoulders rather than flicking at it with your wrists.


PICKING YOUR SPOT

Good chipping comes down to more than just technique, feel plays a massive part too. A good drill is to pick a spot for the ball to land on and put a head cover there to mark it. Then work out which club will do the best job of landing a ball on that spot, before it rolls up to the hole. Don't use too many though, you want to hone your feel, not make your chipping robotic.


Breaking 80 ....