Use chipping to improve your full swing says Keegan Bradley!

Use chipping to improve your full swing says Keegan Bradley!

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To be a good chipper, you have to learn to control the arc’s bottom to make good crisp contact.  Reaching the bottom of the arc too soon results in hitting behind the ball, and reaching the bottom too late results in a skulled or “bladed” shot.  Neither is desirable.  Keegan Bradley is a staunch believer that if you can learn to control the bottom of the arc in your chipping, it will carry over to your full swing and further enhance your golf game.  Thanks to Keegan Bradley and Max Adler of Golf Digest for this interesting article!

 

I’ve always played my best golf in the summer.

I won the 2011 PGA Championship in August, and my other two tour wins were in August and late May. Could be from growing up in Vermont. After shaking off the rust in spring and getting my body used to playing again, I always felt the pressure of about a 10-week window to shoot some low rounds and prove to myself I was getting better. Now that I play the tour and live in Jupiter, Fla., my life is perpetual summer. Still, there’s a part of me that expects to hit that mid-season form my buddies and I used to talk about.

When it’s deep into the season and you’re not playing well, it’s frustrating. This is when it’s time to revisit some basics. To me, the basics are driving and chipping. If you can do those two things well, you’ll be hard to beat. It’s rare to mess up a short iron from a fairway that badly. And if you can chip the ball to a foot, your putter doesn’t matter.

Keegan Bradley vs The drone – You know who’s going to win!

How important is ball position – Extremely important!

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