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Article #405: Golf Tips On When To Chip Versus Putting

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Playing a chip shot from the fringe of a touch.
green versus putting through the fringe (3)Long grass and uphill to the hole.
can be a little confusing for the average You have to hit it harder to get it
golfer. A lot of golfers choose to putt through the grass with a putter and up to
for the fear of not being able to control the hole. Eliminate the chance of getting
the distance of a chip shot around a the golf ball caught up in the grass by
green, and lets not talk about choking a chipping out and over.
chip shot. More often than not the (4)Over 7 feet of grass between golf ball
confidence lies in the ability to putt and start of green, and hole is beyond
the ball. When do you decide to chip center of green.
instead of putt? Chipping over the grass will eliminate
A quick review of some your options will slowing the golf ball up if you have a
help in the decision process. The lot of green to work with.
circumstances have to be right to putt (5)Hole is beyond center of green and
the ball. Here are some golf tips to more than 20 feet.
consider and several situations to help The odds are higher on getting the golf
your decision on choosing to chip the ball beyond 20 feet with a chipper versus
golf ball rather than electing to putt. a putter.
You may want to chip in these (6)Sprinkler system directly in front of
circumstances. line to golf hole or other obstacle that
(1)Wet grass or thick grass. will affect the roll of golf ball.
The moisture or thickness of the grass is Eliminate possible deflection of golf
going to slow up the ball considerably, ball by chipping over the obstacle.
therefore weight of putt has to be (7)Too much rolling terrain in the first
determined to get it through the grass, 1/3 distance to the hole.
and once you get it rolling on the green, Taking most of the rolling green out of
the weight of putt it took you to get it play by chipping over will give you a lot
through the fringe may not be enough or less rolling green to read unless you are
too much distance for the golf hole. In very good at reading greens.
this circumstance there is too much You have the ultimate decision on your
weight control to consider. ability to play any one of these golf
(2)A very wet or slow green. club selections in these circumstances,
Chipping the golf ball will take a lot of but there is a good reason to think about
moisture out of play, and a slow green these circumstances before you choose the
forces you to swing harder with a putter club. I hope some of these golf tips will
to get the golf ball up to the hole, when help in your decision process, and your
the art of putting should call for a soft goal to save strokes.






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