You should feel the bottom of the golf club contacting the ground. It’s like a chopping motion with the clubhead working up and then abruptly down. At impact you want to feel the clubhead get down in the grass. Once you’ve got a feel for the backswing you can start to work on the bottom of the swing. Take a few practice swings and get the feel for the wrist hinge and the club working up. If your club goes inside or behind you on the backswing, you’re going to catch too much grass on the downswing. If you “pick” or “scoop” your shots around the green, playing from long grass will be next to impossible without making adjustments.Īs you start the backswing feel your wrists hinging upwards so the golf club works up and away from you. It has has to come in at an angle so that it hits the least amount of grass possible before hitting the ball. The thing to remember when chipping from thick rough is that the swing needs to be steep. So you’ve judged the lie, picked the correct club, and adjusted your setup. Both of these things aid in steepening the swing, which helps to drive to golf club down and through the thick grass. The last two setup adjustments are to position the golf ball 2-3 inches back of the center of your stance and to put more weight than normal on your front foot (ie: 70%). This will also help prevent the clubface from closing through impact. Slightly opening the face accounts for the clubface closing at impact.Īfter opening the clubface make your grip pressure firmer than normal. When that happens the clubface closes making it easy to hit easy to hit the ball low and left. The reason is that the thick rough will slow down the momentum of the clubhead. In order to do this successfully there a few changes we need to make with the setup. The goal of the swing when chipping from thick rough is to drive the clubhead down and through the grass. We will make a few adjustments in the setup and swing that will allow you to hit the ball lower with this club. Otherwise stick to a sand wedge or something similar. If the lie is decent (ie: sitting up in the grass) an eight or nine iron will work. A lower lofted club usually results in shots that come out left, too fast, or even don’t come out of the grass at all. Because of this, using a lower lofted club such as an seven iron doesn’t work very well. Hitting good chip shots out of thick grass requires clubhead speed and loft. Once you have a good idea of the lie you can better judge the shot. Feel how thick the grass behind the ball is, then take a few practice swings near the ball to feel the resistance of the grass. A great way to judge the lie is to place your club a few inches behind the ball (not close enough to move the ball). If there is a thick clump of grass behind the ball, you’ll have to hit the ball harder than a cleaner lie. A ball sitting at the bottom of the rough will require a steeper swing than a ball sitting up in the rough. The thicker the grass the more force will be required to extract the ball. When judging a lie the things you are looking for are how thick is the grass, how far down in the grass is the ball sitting, and what’s behind the ball. There are different types of grasses and levels of thicknesses. Here are four things you can do to have more success when chipping from thick rough:
Shots from thick rough around the greens are difficult but if you use the correct technique they can be manageable. Welcome to the wonderful world of golf! There is good news it doesn’t have to be this hard. With your spirits diminished you proceed to hack the shot 30 feet and past the hole and in your upset mental state, three putt for a double bogey. You’re thinking easy par until you get to the ball and realize there’s a problem: your ball is sitting at the bottom of five inches of lush bluegrass. So you’ve hit a couple good shots a long par four and you’re just a few yards off the green.
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