Weekend Golf Tip

Control your chipping distance

By Chuck Cook

Golf Digest Teaching Professional

Here's a practice drill that's used by many teachers, with a modification that makes this version very effective.

Lay a damp towel just on the green and hit chips that land on the towel and end up within a club-length of the hole. Dampening the towel not only keeps it from blowing away in breezy conditions, it also more realistically reproduces how the ball reacts on landing.

Hitting the towel will also tell you if your trajectory is correct.

Move around the green and change clubs depending on the lie and the distance to the hole.

Have a nice weekend and happy golfing everyone.