If you Struggle With Chipping, Just Do This Before Every Chip Shot

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Short Game · Oct 3, 2026 · 147K views · 2.5K likes

Struggle with chipping, fat chip shots or thin chips around the green? In this Danny Maude golf lesson, you’ll learn a simple chipping technique that improves contact and distance control and helps you strike chip shots more consistently from tight lies, rough and higher shots around the green. The big difference between consistent chippers and golfers who struggle with their short game is often the direction the body moves through impact. Good chippers tend to stay over the golf ball and move positively through the shot, while inconsistent chippers often fall backwards and hit the ground too soon. Danny Maude shows you a simple setup using your most lofted wedge that encourages the clubface to square naturally through impact, helping you strike the golf ball before the ground without having to think about lots of complicated positions. In this chipping lesson, you’ll learn: • How to stop hitting fat and thin chip shots • Why golfers often hit the ground before the golf ball • How good chippers move through impact • Why opening the clubface can actually make chipping easier • How to use a 60-degree wedge around the green • Why the clubface should reduce loft through impact • How to create cleaner contact and more spin • How to hit a low spinning chip shot • How to hit a higher chip shot that lands softly • How to chip successfully from deep rough • Why leaning backwards causes inconsistent chipping • A simple chipping drill you can practise before every round If your chipping technique feels unreliable, the key isn’t necessarily adding more technical thoughts. This drill gives your body a simple problem to solve: start with plenty of loft and allow the clubface to square naturally as you move positively through the golf ball. The same basic chipping motion can then be adapted for low shots, higher soft shots and difficult lies in the rough. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 How to improve chipping and stop fat and thin chip shots 00:20 The chipping technique used by good golfers 00:41 Why poor chippers move backwards through impact 00:57 Why you hit the ground before the golf ball when chipping 01:15 How good golfers strike chip shots ball then ground 01:35 Why good chippers use a 60-degree wedge 01:52 Open clubface chipping technique explained 02:25 How to move through the golf ball when chipping 02:54 Why leaning back causes fat and thin chip shots 03:20 Simple chipping setup for consistent contact 03:40 Let your body naturally square the clubface 03:58 Forearm and clubface movement through impact 04:21 Chipping drill to square the clubface naturally 04:58 How to hit low spinning chip shots with a 60-degree wedge 05:14 Square vs open clubface when chipping 05:29 Why an open clubface can improve chipping consistency 05:51 How to hit a high soft chip shot around the green 06:09 High chip shot setup and ball position 06:25 Why catching a little grass can increase chip shot height 06:40 How to hit higher chip shots that stop quickly 06:59 Use the same chipping technique for different trajectories 07:13 How to chip from difficult rough lies 07:30 Open clubface technique for chipping from rough 07:46 How to create speed through thick rough 08:03 Simple rough chipping technique in action 08:29 Danny Maude Swing Coach app for golf swing analysis 08:46 More short game and bunker tips 09:02 Try the Danny Maude Swing Coach app free for 14 days ▶️ More Danny Maude golf tips, short game lessons and golf instruction: https://www.dannymaude.com 📱 Try the Danny Maude Swing Coach app FREE for 14 days: https://www.dannymaude.com/Swing-coach-app The Danny Maude Swing Coach app analyses your golf swing, identifies the movement pattern you’re using and gives you simple golf drills to help you improve while monitoring your progress as you practise. Currently available on iPhone. If this chipping lesson helps your short game, please give the video a thumbs up, subscribe for more simple golf tips and share it with a golfer who struggles with fat, thin or inconsistent chip shots. 📥 FREE PRACTICE GUIDE You don’t have to remember everything from this golf lesson. I’ve put the key points into a free practice guide for you. You can download here: https://www.dannymaude.com/struggle-with-chipping-try-this ○ Website: https://dannymaude.com Inside, I’ll help you understand what’s really happening in your own golf swing and give you a clear plan to improve — so you’re not left guessing what to work on next. Danny Maude ○ Website: https://dannymaude.com ○ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannymaude ○ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dannymaudefan ○ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dannymaude BOOK A GOLF LESSON ▶ EMAIL: support@dannymaude.com #GolfTips #GolfSwing #golf