Improving Your Short Game - Chipping tutorial

[JaymeeAwesome]

I'm noticing that recovery and spin don't matter as much as you think. I'd focus mostly on accuracy, power, and putting.

I wish more people will try out and approve my chipping methods. Maybe we can get this stickied.

[TripleCrown9]

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I must be doing something wrong, because my chip shots rarely, if ever, land close to the pin.

[JaymeeAwesome]

After all the adjustments you have to make a slow swing. Slow to the point where the game resets your backswing because you took too long. Have to be precise and you can overswing

[TripleCrown9]

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After all the adjustments you have to make a slow swing. Slow to the point where the game resets your backswing because you took too long. Have to be precise and you can overswing

Shortly after I posted, somehow I got a double eagle lol. I'm getting a little better, including hitting the flagstick a couple times, but I still need to practice. I did, however, get the course mastery Silver for Whistling Straits thanks to your tips.

[choadler]

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Good post. Going to give this a try. I had no idea that you could adjust anything by looking at the lie. I would attempt to compensate for it coming off of the club face due to the lie by adjusting my aiming to the left and right of the flag.

My approach shots have been rough, my chipping is ok, but my putting is rough. I am a 2 putter on average and it is killing my score.

[JaymeeAwesome]

With putting you can hold your backswing as long as you like and just flick forward when you are perfect and you will do fine. Also you can let go of the swing stick if you don't like your backswing speed. You don't have to fully commit on any putt til you are ready.

[Staticz]

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Awesome tutorial man! This is my first TW game since...maybe 08 so I'm a bit lost with the true swing mechanics.

Any other tips for a true noob?

[fishepa]

With putting you can hold your backswing as long as you like and just flick forward when you are perfect and you will do fine. Also you can let go of the swing stick if you don't like your backswing speed. You don't have to fully commit on any putt til you are ready.

That's realistic.


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[choadler]

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That's realistic.


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You don't have to play that way, it is a little unrealistic, but I just try to do a natural motion.

[JaymeeAwesome]

I have held my backswing a few times while on a real course. Or at least came back to the ball when it didn't feel right.

[HARTSTOPPER]

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Fellow Tiger Woods players,

I have put in over 1000 holes so far into this game and I have found a way to improve your short game, focusing on chipping alone. I guarantee your ball will land within inches of the hole if not in the hole, or your money back (*since you haven’t paid me anything, this means absolutely nothing). Please follow these steps.

Must follow rule: DO NOT FOLLOW CADDIE! Doing so will mess up this manual, but better, shot placement.

Step 1 – Adjusting to the height of the ball: While standing beside your ball, click on the left analog stick downward to look at your lie. This will tell you two things, the height of the ball and slope. For now, we can ignore the slope. The height of the ball has two attributes; Above/Below feet and Degree. These are very important.

Below Feet: Ball will shoot off the club to the right (opposite for lefty)
Above Feet: Ball will shoot off the club to the left (opposite for lefty)

Click your d-pad to the left or right based on the number of the degree. One degree above feet will require one click right. Three degrees below feet will require 3 clicks left. Use this as your base measurement.

Step 2 – Adjusting for slope of green: Once done looking at lie, push up on the left analog stick to see the slope of the green. Please add the following adjustments to the adjustment made on Step 1. This will be a two-part process.

Part one is to adjust for slope uphill/downhill. Use this as the golden rule. For every inch up or down, adjust the aiming marker up/down to the equivalent in feet. One inch downward slope; bring the aimer back one foot from current marker spot (not from the actual hole).

Part two is to adjust for break. We all use the green grid to make our putts, and this is no difference for chipping. Move your current aimer left or right according to break. This part uses some prior knowledge on how greens move. There is no math on this, so you will have to do your homework. Once this is completed and to your satisfaction please move onto step 3 as your aim is now perfect.

Step 3 – Adjusting the strike: Now that we got aiming out of the way, now it’s time to look at strike. Strike is at the bottom right corner and looks like a golf ball with crosshairs on it. For all shots we are to move the crosshairs slightly below the center of the ball. I find this to work the best so you don’t overshoot the shot. That is all we have to do here, so let’s move on.

Step 4 – Making the perfect shotThis last step requires you to make the shot as perfect as possible. I recommend slowing the backswing so in the matter of a second or so you can land on the perfect amount of power to add to the shot. If you find yourself going into the red, just let go of your shot stick and it will let you attempt again. You should keep doing this until you know you’re lined up perfect because overswinging will affect your shot and this tutorial would be useless.

Also check for perfect straight alignment. If you see a red backswing, I would follow the same method of letting go of the shot stick. If it’s not straight, you will miss! Also the tempo is important, try your best to get perfect tempo. I have landed it in with slow tempo, but not with fast tempo, so watch out.

So following these steps will improve your chipping game and you will hole out a lot more. I can guarantee this for up to 10 yards away from the hole no matter the lie. The bunker is an exception due to the height that you’re usually going against, but I have used these and still is a better shot than normal.

Please try these out and let me know how you do and if you see improvement.

I just chipped in a beauty of a shot thanks to these tips. I was on a 9 degree upslope, so I moved the marker 9 feet up. Two bounces on the green and right into the cup!

[JaymeeAwesome]

I just chipped in a beauty of a shot thanks to these tips. I was on a 9 degree upslope, so I moved the marker 9 feet up. Two bounces on the green and right into the cup!

Awesome job, glad to help!

[WindyCitySi]

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Fellow Tiger Woods players,

I pretty much joined just to tell you thank you on this. Helped my game alot!

[JaymeeAwesome]

Thank you very much.

[JaymeeAwesome]

Bump! It's been a while since this was on this front page.