Bending the left wrist and allowing the shaft to get out of line with the left arm.

We never want to do that, do we?

Bounce and the shortgame? It means nothing to me except for bunker shots and heavy rough.

For a fairway shot I can't see what effect bounce has.......in fact it can be difficult to hit a cut up shot with too much bounce on the club.

Bounce would only be useful if you were hitting the ball fat.

Yep, hit it fat, slice it around the greens. That will give you soft shots, which is very useful. Also allows you to avoid humps and bumps, whereby you can land the ball close to the hole and it will stop.

The shot is actually with ball at your left foot, towards the pinkie toe, with a slicing action through the shot, favoring hitting it fat, rather than thin. Works great inside 50 yards. Works better with a gap wedge than lob wedge, unless in the ruff, where you will need speed to get through the grass and a higher lofted club.

Try it.

As someone who is terrible at chipping. :crybaby: would you recommend Stan's book as a good start? Or maybe some other DVDs etc out there? At the moment I guess I mostly try to hit down on the ball. Sometimes with disasterous results.

Oh! I just found the big thread on this :) :salut:

As far as hitting down on chip shots, the more you hit down on them the less margin for error you have. If you lean your weight left, have your hands way forward and pick the club up and hit down you have to catch the ball just perfectly not to hit it fat or thin. My feeling is that the flatter plane Utley recommends will almost immediately result in consistently better results, no more terrible shots provided the left wrist is kept flat through the impact interval. I power my short game shots with the right forearm, keeping the left wrist flat throughout and allowing my arms to work more around me. This makes clean contact much simpler than some other techniques. You can do a search for Seve Ballesteros on youtube, seeing his technique never hurt anyone.

Matt

Bad chipping is a sign that there is something wrong with your full swing. A chip is a small full swing- Impact is Impact in both cases- the Geometry is the same. Solve your chipping problems by improving your Stroke with Basic and Acquired Motions.

Learn where the right arm has to live at impact, even against its will.

Thanks Matt, I will check out Seve.

I do try :) but am still learning. The margin for error in chip shot is very frustrating when I get pretty much get to the green, or edge of, in regulation then mess up a little chip. For that matter so is putting. :( I am in my 3rd year from starting golf and have a lot to ingrain, and still make a lot of errors.
Thanks, I will check out Lynns videos again for the basic and acquired motions.