Thin chips aren’t a hands problem.
Most golfers try to fix bladed chips by “trusting” their hands more. Wrong target. The real issue is your weight stays stuck on your trail side through impact, so your body compensates by flipping the club to catch up.
Here’s a drill that forces the fix.
Split stance, lead foot slightly ahead, trail foot dropped back. Set 80 percent of your weight on your lead side before you even start the swing. Hit a few chips like this. You’ll notice you physically can’t flip through impact from this position, your body won’t let you.
Do this for 10 reps before you head to the course. It rebuilds the pattern your body needs, not just the swing thought.
Save this for your next range session.
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Golf high performance facility for the everyday golfer.
This drill could save your short game…
…but only if you actually do it.
If you’re chunking chips, blading greens, or praying instead of picking landing spots, this pool-noodle drill will expose exactly what’s breaking down in your technique.
Simple. Cheap. Brutally effective.
- Fix low point
- Improve strike
- Build real confidence around the greens
Save it. Try it. Then tag the mate who just can’t seem to figure out their chipping. 😅
You practice the bump and run because you’re good at it.
You avoid the flop shot because you’re not.
And then you stand over a tight lie with the pin tucked and your hands go cold… because your body has never actually been there before.
That’s not a skill problem. It’s a practice problem.
The shots that save the most strokes on the course are almost never the shots you practice on the range.
The flop shot. The downhill chip. The bunker shot from a plugged lie.
Hard. Uncomfortable. Avoided.
But these are the shots that separate a 18 handicap from a 9.
Three keys to the flop shot most golfers get wrong:
↳ Open the face before you take your grip — not after
↳ Put the ball off your lead toe
↳ Learn to swing longer and softer to allow the ball to@pop@ip softly off the face (this takes practice!)
Drill this for 20 minutes before your next round instead of dropping 10 balls and hitting the same chip shot you’ve done 1000 times.
Comment PRACTICE below and I’ll send you our free 60-minute practice plan, built around the shots that actually save you strokes.
You’ve had the lesson. You understand the concept. But under pressure, at full speed, it falls apart.
That’s not an intent issue. That’s a capacity issue.
Lateral stabilisation, force creation off the trail side, and the ability to accept load through the lead side.
These are physical qualities. And if you can’t do them… They have to be trained.
When the body can do it slowly, it can learn to do it at speed. That’s when the swing change actually sticks.
Comment PROGRAM and I’ll show you how we train it.
Loss of posture is one of the biggest killers of ball striking consistency we see.
Loss of posture is a compensation.
If your body can’t rotate to a position it doesn’t have access to, you have to stand up!
The fix:
- Build the mobility
- Strengthen the end ranges of mobility so it sticks
- Drill it until it’s automatic
Do this and you no longer need a coach telling you to stay in posture…
It happens naturally.
Comment “PROGRAM” and let’s get to work!
Hanging back kills consistency… this one fault forms a lot of the work we do in our gym programming teaching people to get onto their lead side.
Hanging back = no weight transfer, fat shots, loss of distance and no compression.
Golf isn’t about lifting the ball… the loft does that.
Your job is to move pressure forward in the correct sequence and finish the turn.
Step-Through Drill does this.
• Start with your feet together
• Swing back
• Step toward the target in the downswing as you take the club back past your trail leg.
• Finish fully on your lead side
This trains proper sequencing, gets your weight forward, and allows you to rotate your body to square the club and not flip the hands.
No scoop. No hang back. Just clean contact!
So many golfers with an “over the top” move have spent years trying to fix it with swing tips.
But the tips don’t stick, because the problem isn’t the swing…
When your trail shoulder can’t externally rotate, it has nowhere to go but dump forward. From there the elbow gets stuck and the upper body has to spin to square the club causing the club to pitch out.
That’s not a technique problem. That’s a mobility problem.
We fix it in three steps.
Create the range.
Build strength in that range.
Wire the new pattern into the swing.
Once the shoulder can actually do its job, the club finds the slot on its own.
No band-aid. No swing thought to remember on the first tee, just a body that moves the way it’s supposed to.
Want to learn the best mobility, strength, and pattern drills built specifically for golfers who want to fix the root cause. Comment “PROGRAM”.
Lino hadn’t trained seriously since college.
He assumed shifting his focus to golf meant his strength days were behind him.
Turns out he was wrong.
One block in — personal bests on squat, trap bar deadlift and bench press. Completely raw. No belt, no sleeves. Stronger than his powerlifting days.
And his golf game? Not a thing sacrificed.
Comment RESULTS to see more stories like Lino’s
OR Comment PROGRAM to get started
Lino hadn’t trained seriously since college.
He assumed shifting his focus to golf meant his strength days were behind him.
Turns out he was wrong.
One block in — personal bests on squat, trap bar deadlift and bench press. Completely raw. No belt, no sleeves. Stronger than his powerlifting days.
And his golf game? Not a thing sacrificed.
Comment RESULTS to see more stories like Lino’s
OR Comment PROGRAM to get started today
Clearing your lead hip is a must.
It is a key component to;
Better contact
More space
Further distance
This drill when timed properly should leave the click on the alignment stick just before contact.
Ensuring you’re clearing properly in the right order - hip, chest, arm and then club.
Comment “PRACTICE” and we’ll send you the 60min SGS practice plan. FREE!
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