Butch Harmon has teaches Golf Digest an easy way to start hitting better chip shots.
Transcript
Do you struggle with your little chip shots
around the green?
Gosh I hate to say this word, have the yips?
Let me show you what happens and then I'm gonna show you
how you can get out of it.
Well when you have the yips what happens is
as you come into this chip your left arm
just stops and freezes, and you just
scoop at it with your right hand.
Those of you who have struggled with this shot
know the feeling because you're like this.
You usually will bone it across the green or hit it fat.
So here's what I want you to do.
I want you to hit some chip shots
and as you come in, just let go of the club with
your right hand and keep your left arm going.
Because the yips are caused when the left arm stops
and the right hand takes over.
This is what it looks like.
Normal setup, ball back, hands forward,
let the left keep going.
If you let the left arm keep going,
you get out of those yips.
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We met Butch and his son in Portugal about twenty years ago and a nicer man you couldn’t wish to meet
I’ve recently tried the claw putting grip for my chip shots. It works fairly well.
I'm very new to golf. I started my chip shots using only arms and got fairly accurate but not consi started to use all shoulders and waste no arms at all, controlling club speed with shoulders only and I'm now pretty consistent. Not sure.
If i'm doing it right but at least my power and distance is consistent
Great tip. So why does it take others 37 minutes to say the same thing?
I like it. Just wondering if that same move would hold up on the golf course
Generic! Im being generous ????
Thin to win
Don't know if I can trust a guy that wouldn't do a second take after that shot
Instructions unclear, my club flew half way across the green ????????
Them yips boiiiiiii
imagine how many people who would have been good at golf without lessons
Better yet, hit it like a putt and never break your wrist. It's not hard.
honestly thats not a great video, the most important thing with chiping is know what lie youre going threw, swing either aggresivly or sofly to let the bounce cut threw the grass, then as you practing and know youre swing speed then you replacte the shot again but focus on keep the club head square at impact and bending your knees whilst creating a rocking motion will alloy you to have consitancy around the grounds. there a lot more to it othere then just keeping your wrist square lol
That's funny, I was doing that today before watch this video and it actually helps
That’s why Daly practices single handed chipping constantly with a beer in the off hand.
This helped me win 100 bucks at a backyard party.
You have to take a divot. LOL. Chipping and bump-n-runs are the best part of my game, unfortunately.
best dang lesson i ever had. yip pinch blade skull fat flop no more! cant thank you enough
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This might be the worst lesson I’ve ever had. “Skulls balls across green”
Excellent, pretty sure he thinned that though ????????
Only problem is the chip he hit was clearly thinned. I’d have liked to see the result!
Wish my golf course looked as nice as this. Would love to see this technique on muddy fringes with holes and divots.
High hands will cause the flip, keep the hands low and locked in and you’ll never ever get the yips
Simple but brilliant
The yips don’t happen because the lead arm stops. Actually, the lead arm stops because of the yips.
Sounded like it was a shank ?
No Butch that is not why yips happens
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