Golf Chipping in Thick Grass: Ball Above Feet

Video Transcript

"O.k, so we've hit a shot, we're relatively close to the green, but the ball caught some thick grass and we're on the side of this hill. So, you can see the ball is above my feet which means that if I took a full swing, the club's going to land right into the side. So, I've got to shorten my swing here and now the ball because it's on this side hill, it's on this angle, the ball's going to go, tend to go to the left, so I have to aim to the right of my target to compensate for that. So, this ball's on this nicely angled side hill line with some decent grass on it, so I'm going to have to choke up a little bit to compensate since the ground is coming at me, and so I'm right here. So I'm going to stand a little taller than we do on the down hill ones. So, I'm standing a little taller, I'm going to choke down on the club but I've got to follow the contours here cause I don't want to slam my club into the side of the hill. So, here we go, I'm going to give it a try, I'm going to have a, I'm aiming to the right of the flag with a neutral face on the club and a closed stance with my feet. And, I got a little bit of side spin, the ball kicked, but stayed straight. So, I had the right distance, but I'm a little, I've got a relatively, I can make it, it's a ten foot putt, but they're not guaranteed. So, let's try that again, now there's really no chance of doing an open face here, the only thing I can do is a neutral face, or a closed face, so I'm going to close the face a little more, and I'm going to stand tall, but I'm going to bend the knees, and I'm going to choke down. And, that shot's right on target. So, you've got to practice this a bit, but these are very valuable shots to practice because if you don't have this, you can then go from trying to save par to trying to save bogie, you're, a double bogie cause a lot of errors can happen around the green."