Very good Clay!! I've found a little forward shaft lean is key but the one thing most people don't do well with chipping and that is 'releasing the club head' so the club can shallow out, the soft hands you mentioned helps with the release.

I have dramatically improved my chipping due to practicing these things. It doesn't seem real. You are one of my all time favorite golf channels!

Finally! This video will certainly save my future chipping in golf. The best I have watched. Thanks!

One recent investment I made - after decades of embarrassment with my short game - was getting a short game lesson. Many golfers get lessons to better the swing, but neglect the short game. I had gone thru a short game collapse with the “yips” with chips and pitches...and a nightmare out of the bunkers. I basically gave up the game because of it (hence the decades of embarrassment). But the short game lesson helped a lot! A lot of my woes stemmed from faulty set-up (right shoulder too low, I.e. like a normal iron shot set up). My still a work in progress getting my game back in shape. (But I no longer mentally roll up in the fetal position to execute a bunker shot!) so, now, I always like to check out short game secrets & tips!

Wow great video. Went straight to the range and almost every ball came off clean. Thank you🙏🏾 🙏🏾🙏🏾

At 3:01 I learned something so important. Keeping my feet close together so I can create the necessary body rotation. That a more open stance locks up the full body rotation. Like Hogan I have to write these thoughts down. Better to be remembering than to naturally be forgetting!

Good video - tricky shot... Your videos on compression and covering the ball - and how to square the clubface at impact - have also been helpful. Thanks .

This youtobe very good to improve my chipping. Thank you so mach mr Clay...👍👍👍

Thanks Clay..1st time viewer...appreciative subscriber! No greens I can pitch off of close buy so took your sand drill to the range and started building little piles on the hitting mat. Lots of funny looks until.....one guy came up to me and said ....brilliant, got any extra sand. :) (btw - I asked the range if I could put a little sand on their mats 1st)

Great. Well put and well done. The feet close and the rotation was key for me.

GREAT video.... this one is gonna be popular as i'll share it on my golf page ;)))))) LOVE IT...

Thanks Clay - getting the ball off the front foot ended chunk city for me!

More great tips , have them saved here can't wait to practise them , thanks Clay.

Fantastic short game tips! Thanks Clay!!!

Great job Clay. Your video is the best lesson I have seen...

It works! Help me so much. Thanks a lot Clay.

Might be one of the most important videos I've watched. It actually made some things click with my swing on every other club too. Thanks!

Great tuition video. Struggling at the moment, feel this will help.

Clay, you just saved my wedge game! No more putting from 10 yards off the green... hah. Thanks!

Clay has help me with my golf game ⛳️ thanks 🤠

You make it look so easy!

Hi Clay, I noticed that I hit the ball purer (both Irons and Driver) when I take one step to the right, having the ball almost at the left outer side of my shoe. I want to correct this obviously, but what does that mean in swing terms? Are my hips too fast or my arms, or am I off completely. Thank you and your team for the great content, time and effort you put into these videos.

Great drill, tips & video Thx Clay

Brilliant simple tip, thank you

Nicklaus used to grab an old club and hit short pitches off a sidewalk or cart path for practice. It's a great way to learn how to pick the ball and stop chunking. 👍 Try it if you can. I do recommend using a beat up old wedge and not your gamer though.

Great advice, well explained

Clay, is that a Hogan Equalizer ii in your hands? the sound and bite were amazing whoever it is. My new set (kirkland signature) are blowing my mind with their appearance as well as performance. Then i applied your basic techniques...BAM!!! My confidence level around the green has increased greatly. Kinda like when i was a kid playing with the old-timers; i'd out drive 'em but their ability to chip and putt beat my arse every time. Now i'm that old school dude paying it forward. Thank for a great video. GOD Bless!

Good information, thanks

Excellent video.

Great video!

Thank you! I'll give it a try. What I been taught is completely different and I've been very inconsistent.

I really like these “compilation” videos... please do this for ball striking too. Thank you for all the great content.

Does this work if you have to chip from taller grass aswell or do I need to change something?

Mike, a couple of questions, do you position the ball in the middle of your stance? 2, I have a hard time hitting the ball from the rough by to much under the ball. Any suggestions?

Did you use the 60 degree wedge and hitting low because of little green??? If the pin were way back would I use the same technique

great video, its so hard to find good videos on pitching and chipping

Clay Ballard's lessons are outstanding especially for average Golfers. (That is because Marquee players have expensive coaches who complicate swing thoughts for fun loving golfers. I am sure it works for very skilled players but I am not one of them). I am an 18 handicap and 74. THe beauty of striking the ball is what you get when You learn from him. (for Eg. !5-20 yd gain on drives and Crisper Iron Shots and Short game, make a round a happier round. In Hindu Culture we offer our respects once a year to remember Our Gurus, and to you Gurus of Golf, which was yesterday. (like Clay Ballard or David Leadbetter Or Harry Zimmerman in Grand Cypress, Orlando) Namaste (meaning I offer my respects to you) Sanath Kumar

Nice lesson clay

What shaft are you using for your 3 wood and driver? Weight?

It needs so much synchronization… that it is difficult to do in stressed situation 😜 (more specificity with hard ground!)

Thank you.

Great video

Outstanding

Great lesson Clay always my weak area! Greetings from Uk 🇬🇧.

I thought I was the only person who did this it is a fantastic drill. The unfortunate part for me is there's not a lot of courses that I play that actually have that tightly mowed area. Once you learn to hit pitch shots off these types of tight areas that will be your favorite shot. The tighter the lie the lower you can keep the ball and the more spin it will have

When your stance starts open (at an angle relative to the ball's direction to the pin), then effectively the ball is not in the middle of your stance but rather it is at your back foot. Seems contradictory to your recommendation of keeping the ball in the middle of your stance. Any thoughts/details?

What is the loft and brand of the wedge you are using? I have been using a 52 degree, and every other wedge in my garage.

Love this Clay! Would love to see some course vlogs

10:44 instructions unclear, I am now a pilot. Thanks Clay.

I am writing this on my wifes account,,,, almost every video ive seen of yours Clay makes so much sense.... even at my golf club here in England I say to my playing partners when I have hit a good shot,,,, Clay is the man ! Thanks Clay keep the great instructions coming.... Brilliant

It looks like, when your feet are together, your stance is slightly open. Am I correct?

Clay Let me know what you think about Snagged Golf, Thanks Snagged Golf By Michael Anthony Coming Soon, Thx for the lesson.....

Going to try this right now - ill report back in 5 hours! Ok. I found this technique really good with my nearly 0-degree bounce 60-lob wedge. It is great out of any lie, even scrubby lies settled down in bumpy rough. My 58 degree Ping fairway wedge was terrible. It had too much bounce and too wide a sole to work. It has been designed too much for a descending blow, full shot. I found off the tight fairway lies, from further out than I want to use my 60 degree, I could use my gap wedge, without opening the face too much, but it is going to take a little more practice.

Is it me or is Clay Balllard the Butch Harmon to amateurs… I love this guys vids

Do you have your feet even or offset?

Makes sense why my chips are left of target. I’m gonna try opening up the stance and feet closer together

Everything is from an “ideal”, but tight turf position. What about bare spots, what about short chips from heavy rough, etc.? This lesson is great, but has a very narrow applicability.

You can practice the part at 11:00 without hitting off the green by hitting off a mat at any of your local driving ranges.

How far away should you setup to ball for this shot?

Good lesson Clay. This will help more people then a hitting it 300 yard video but I bet this don’t get near the views.

I will get kicked off my course if I was chipping off of the green (LOL!). Good lesson.

I can guarantee that if you do this drill but with your right arm not your left you will become a good chipper😉

I respectfully would like to see chipping lessons from the uneven rough.. Thank you.

Sand on the green so there is no roll out. They might have just been cored

Absolute newbie here...what does it mean to “keep the face open”? I think maybe it means to keep the hitting face of the wedge pointing more upwards and less towards the ball? Yes? No? Sorry, I’m a total beginner and just don’t understand open and face.

Wedgie? Oh, wedges. Sorry, back to my beer.

Why can’t you just use a 48 degree AW?

some of this is the same as Dave Pelz

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I like your videos but 30 minutes is entirely too long to watch

Chip out of the rough please

Stop giving away the secrets!😁

U lost some weight!

Seems counter intuitive to another top speed video that talked about wrist rolling while chipping.....confused now!

“There is only one way to chip the ball: the hinge and hold method.” - Phil Mickelson

Too much talking