Chipping drills, any recommendations? | Golf Monthly

I play pretty much everything around the green with my 54*, sometimes I’ll loft it up and bit and sometimes knock it down, using one club doesn’t necessarily mean you’re one dimensional lots of tour pros are the same and the notion that you must play a certain chip and run with an 7, 8 Or 9 iron for example is not for everyone imo.

When I do a practice round a local club there are a couple of greens that have good undulations around them. I’ll play the hole as normal and then do a clock face drill - ie go around the green and play from different lies, side slope, down slope, bare lie, fluffy lie etc. Just 4 balls, 12, 3, 6 and 9 o clock around the edge, you’re not doing the green any damage close range and move onto the next hole. It’s all about variety in your practice imo. Hitting 10 balls from the same lie is fine but by the end you’re just using repetition that you might not be able to call on when asked out on the course because you haven’t just hit 4 of the same shots! So if you’re technique is okay by your own admission, you might benefit from having more imagination and the only way you can do that is experience of many different situations.