A chipping golf tip...

focussing less on your feet.

Here is a good chipping golf tip: Don't be getting too focussed on your feet or the ball!

This also applies to pitching, putting, sand play, and infact the whole short game.

Why is this not pointed out often enough?

On this page I am going to discuss the feet.

If you consider any sport or physical activity, there's magic to be learned from what lies within.

This chipping golf tip can be adapted to all parts of the game. However, let's firstly look at a few other activities.

Consider the pool or billiards player who needs precision skills similar to the short game in golf.

He takes his stance, bends into the shot, makes a few lining up jestures with his cue and then makes his shot.

He has a pre-shot routine, makes a couple of waggles with his cue and fires.

This sportsman doesn't get over-worried about how he must address the ball. He just simply listens to his body and falls into a natural, and quite acceptable, comfortable stance.

I don't think he hears things like,

"Bend at the knees and hips, keep your back straight, let your arms and hands lie out in front of your body and for heaven's sake don't move your head."

It just doesn't happen!

And do you know what? I don't think I've ever seen anyone doing this awkwardly.

In general, the same goes for almost every human activity. Take the goalkeeper, tennis player, diver, wrestler, darts player etc.

In these sports the address position is not really taught. In any event not within a hundredth of the varied instruction that surrounds the golf stance.

Am I right or am I just plain right?

There are chapters upon chapters in thousands of books. I do believe there are also hundreds, if not thousands of video instruction clips on this.

And a golf pro can spend endless hours every season putting his students into the address position.

So, answer me this.

Why is it that the vast majority of amateur golfers, who feel they need to think through the taking of their stance, are without doubt the most awkward, strained, clumsy, tight and sorry looking sportsmen, in the address position, on the planet?

And through this chipping golf tip, I say it is because they feel that they have to checklist what they are doing with their feet, knees, hips, shoulders, head and so on, etc etc etc.

A goalkeeper, wrestler, tennis player, diver etc doesn't get over concerned whether "everything is lined up square" and they do adopt surprisingly adept athletic positions.

Learn to take your stance in this manner and feel just as comfortable and athletically correct as these other sportsmen.

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