So you are starting to hit the ball rather well. Yet you have still struggled to get an effective weight shift.

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The golf teaching tool is conventional way of chipping the golf ball. You could use a 5 iron, a 7 iron and a 9 iron to chip with. I like doing this, 5 for the long chip shots, 7 for the medium chip shots, and 9 for the short chip shots.

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I’m going to describe two very different golf shots to you. One is called a pitch shot with loft, and the other is called a chip shot with run. Now what’s the difference?

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I found an interesting article that provides a mathematical model that explains why a golf with a hitter swing, like Craig Stadler, can still create distance compared to the swinger, like Ernie Els. The article is called “A technique for additional clubhead speed“. It is not a light read it does explain why a shorter length swing can generate the same clubhead spped as a normal length swing.

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A common problem for many golfers when they swing is they lose the flex in their trail or back knee. The flex in this knee helps the golfer maintain proper balance, posture, support, and allows the golfer to swing the club on a better plane.

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This third instalment of Stop Slicing works on the path of the club once more. It also works on flattening the plane of your swing. Both factors are inter-related. To help create an inside path we need to flatten the plane.

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The second step in eliminating the slice is to swing the club on an inside path. Most slicers have a tendency to swing the club on an outside to inside swing path. To counter balance this tendency, we are going to swing the club extremely inside to out.

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The one step in learning to square the clubface at impact is to swing the hands and arms in the correct manner. This aspect is often overlooked in today’s teachings. Too often the rotation portion of the swing is over emphasized. Today’s drill looks at swing the arms in the correct manner after impact.

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Tee Drill
This drill promotes the proper arm and hand action in the pitch shot. Place a tee in the butt end of the grip. Set up in your address position and swing to the 9 o’clock position and stop. Look at the tee and notice where it is pointing. Ideally it should point both towards the ground and the golf ball. Now swing through the 3 o’clock position and stop. Look at the tee. It again should point at both the ground and the golf ball.

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Acceleration in Bunkers
A common problem golfers have in bunkers is having the clubhead stop in the sand during a bunker shot. This problem is caused by a deceleration in the golf swing. To properly splash a ball out of a bunker the sandwedge must still be accelerating through the sand. These two drill will encourage the golfer to keep the club accelerating through the sand.

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