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Different chip shots around the green and short rough can call for different types of clubs. Just curious as to which clubs everybody uses to chip with (EX: 5 iron, 7 iron, 9 iron, PW, SW, etc.,) and why? Feel free to include the type of lie, if that influences your club choice.
Thanks for reading and your comments! |
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| # 1 5/6/2010 9:17:42 AM |
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6-iron hit towards the toe from tightly mown fringe.
A-wedge from light/heavy rough. |
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| # 2 5/6/2010 9:22:27 AM |
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I use my aw and use a putting stroke and try to bump and run onto the on a flat lie
when a bunker or green above the ball I try to hit 56 wedge and get on green. |
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| # 3 5/6/2010 9:43:09 AM |
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Chipping from a good lie with no trouble in line to the target, I prefer to keep the ball closer to the ground. Depending on the distance, I use anything from a 7 iron to a sand wedge. But if the lie is bad, in taller grass, or the need to fly a bunker, I typically use a sand or lob wedge.
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| # 4 5/6/2010 9:55:27 AM |
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I'm only useing a PW and a 52. How close is the pin on the green and what do I have to get over.
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| # 5 5/6/2010 10:53:46 AM |
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Like your statement, different situation requires different play with different club selection.
Main thing is to get the golf ball onto the green surface and roll towards the cup. |
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| # 6 5/6/2010 11:19:30 AM |
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this week i started chipping and putting from 50 feet or more with a 7 wood,it works!
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| # 7 5/6/2010 12:02:40 PM |
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Like your statement, different situation requires different play with different club selection. Main thing is to get the golf ball onto the green surface and roll towards the cup. Yep, whatever gets the ball on the green soonest and rolling towards the hole. |
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| # 8 5/6/2010 12:29:43 PM |
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dude, inside of 50 yards, is the 52 and 56 degrees, if I have room to work with on the green is the 52, if I dont and have to stop the ball is the 56 with a descending blow to get the spin, between 50 and 100 is the 56 to stop the ball quick. i have never used either the 6,7, 8, 9 or PW for chipping unless is a trouble shot and I have branches overhead that prevent me from getting the ball up in the air.
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| # 9 5/6/2010 2:36:50 PM |
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dude, inside of 50 yards, is the 52 and 56 degrees, if I have room to work with on the green is the 52, if I dont and have to stop the ball is the 56 with a descending blow to get the spin, between 50 and 100 is the 56 to stop the ball quick. i have never used either the 6,7, 8, 9 or PW for chipping unless is a trouble shot and I have branches overhead that prevent me from getting the ball up in the air. So if youre say, 6' off the green and the pin is 40' away, you're taking a wedge? |
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| # 10 5/6/2010 3:23:51 PM |
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dude, inside of 50 yards, is the 52 and 56 degrees, if I have room to work with on the green is the 52, if I dont and have to stop the ball is the 56 with a descending blow to get the spin, between 50 and 100 is the 56 to stop the ball quick. i have never used either the 6,7, 8, 9 or PW for chipping unless is a trouble shot and I have branches overhead that prevent me from getting the ball up in the air. So if youre say, 6' off the green and the pin is 40' away, you're taking a wedge? do you mean 6 inches off and the pin 40 feet away, am putting, if you mean 6 feet off and the hole 4o feet away I am chipping with the 52. |
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| # 11 5/6/2010 8:35:05 PM |
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I have actually always used wedges for chip shots. If I use a 7 iron I really overhit it and just can't get the touch and speed that I can with my 56 degree and 60 degree. I'm not gonna listen to you all when you tell me to use a mid or short iron instead because I've tried it before and was much worse than I was with my wedges.
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| # 12 5/6/2010 8:39:36 PM |
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i do not experiment with alot of different clubs. i have a 56* wedge that use everywhere from inside 95 yards. i use that club on all pitch and chip shots unless the ball is sitting up in the rough and i need to clear an obstacle - then i use a 65* wedge for a flop shot.
I try to change my set up to the ball to accomodate the circumstance by increasing or decreasing the loft of the 56*. |
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| # 13 5/6/2010 8:45:29 PM |
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dude, inside of 50 yards, is the 52 and 56 degrees, if I have room to work with on the green is the 52, if I dont and have to stop the ball is the 56 with a descending blow to get the spin, between 50 and 100 is the 56 to stop the ball quick. i have never used either the 6,7, 8, 9 or PW for chipping unless is a trouble shot and I have branches overhead that prevent me from getting the ball up in the air. So if youre say, 6' off the green and the pin is 40' away, you're taking a wedge? For me, yes, if i can't putt it, i use the 56 by delofting it and running it up or if there are too many ridges to putt through and there's a flat area and the ball is sitting up, i'll flop it. |
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| # 14 5/6/2010 8:54:21 PM |
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I use my 56 degree everywhere for a chip. I, too, just do not have the same touch with a 7-iron bump and run than playing the ball high with a 56. Just how I learned to play. I guess I typify American golf...what is the bump and run those English play?
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| # 15 5/7/2010 12:00:18 AM |
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I used to like chipping with my sand wedge, but as I've gotten better at the game I have discovered the advantage of keeping the ball lower (lower than what you can comfortably de-loft a sand wedge to, mind you). I'll use a PW for most chips of reasonable length, but then I'll use anything up to maybe a 6-iron as the chips get longer.
You gotta get the ball low and rolling when you chip. Reason? The ground is the only thing on the golf course you can trust. When you look at the ground, you can see exactly where the ball will go as it rolls. When you try to flop and stop, you just never know where that first bounce is going to go (not to mention you gotta be super precise with your landing spot). The sooner you get the ball rolling, the better you can send it on the line that gets it close to the hole. |
