In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins offers some advice on which club to use in different positions as you chip around the greens.
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00:00So a lot of people lose a lot of shots around the greens, they've hit a couple of decent
00:08shots to get here, yet somehow still walk off with a six or a seven.
00:12And usually that's down to pool club selection or pool shot selection if you like.
00:16So when you find your ball around the green, ask yourself one question, if someone was
00:21going to give you a winning EuroMillions lottery ticket, if you could throw the ball close
00:25to that hole, how would you do it?
00:27I bet none of us from here would go up and over and lob it as high as we can.
00:30We'd all give it a bit of lawn bowls and roll it along the ground.
00:34That gives you the answer to the question of what club you should be putting in your
00:37hand at that point.
00:39We want something with less loft on here, we want to be doing a short little chip shot
00:43that runs the ball in.
00:44There's absolutely no point taking our sand wedge out, flying it as high as we can in
00:48the air, because for that we're going to need quite a big swing, and we all know if that
00:52goes wrong there's quite a lot of momentum there to carry your ball further out and over
00:57at the back of the green.
00:58So small, compact swing is much, much safer option.
01:02So that's one of the best ways to work out what club to hit from what place.
01:10So here's the perfect opportunity where if we had that ball in our hand and we were going
01:14to throw it, we're going to have to be a bit cute with it and pop it up high and get it
01:18to stop quick.
01:19So that tells us that we need to choose something with a lot of loft on it.
01:22So possibly the most lofted club in our bags might be a sand wedge, might be a lob wedge.
01:27The biggest thing to remember with these clubs is they put the ball in the air for you.
01:30The only thing you've got to do is make sure you get the turf, so you get what's underneath
01:34it.
01:36And all you need to apply to this is a nice little tick-tock action.
01:41So just back and through.
01:44And the ball will pop up in the air because there's loft on that club, not because you
01:47were trying to help it.