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Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well and welcome back to the channel. So today's video is about the common faults that I see with the chip and run release 1. So the most common faults in setup and swing and also a little bit about how the golfer thinks in terms of the IQ. So if you tend to get this type of shot where you're hitting it way behind the ball, okay, or even blading it even more destructive, okay, I think this video is going to be for you. Let's get started. So what is a chip and run shot? Well, it's a shot that basically is flighted low and the idea is it's going to land, it's going to spin a little bit and then it will run out. Obviously the less loft you use, the more it will run, but it's your straightforward chip and run shot when you've got a fringe or a fairway lie and you're playing onto a green. Okay. So I'm just demonstrating that. You can see I've got a narrow stance. I've got my hands fairly high here and I'm just playing some little basic little chip and runs. You see they land and they just run out. I'm using a 56 here. You can do the chip and release one with every single club in the bag, depending on how much you want that ball to run out, a little bit of check and a little bit of run. Great for that front pin there where I need a little bit of spin. If I wanted to run the ball a little bit more, I wouldn't use this club. I'm going to go to a nine iron now. Let's say I'm going to the next pin. This is good when you want the ball to run out a little bit more. You'll see this won't have as much spin, but essentially the action is exactly the same. You'll see how that ball is running out towards the pin. Really simple way of chipping. It's the bread and butter shot. It's a shot I want you all to have. You shouldn't be messing up this shot. So these are the most common faults I see. I'll go back to the 56 while I explain things. So the most common faults I see in set up are the fact we're not set up specifically for a short game shot. We tend to get too much like we're hitting a full shot. Now let's say we're hitting a driver for a minute. We get fairly wide and we have a shoulder tilt. Like a shoulder tilt is really useful if you want to hit that shot up in the air and create that wind up and launch it up that way. Fantastic. But it's not good if you're trying to play a low flighted chip and run because the chip and run shot, we're looking for that low point that is in front of the ball. We're looking to hit slightly down on the ball and when we start tilting this way, it's very difficult for that to happen. So if you're hitting heavy shots or thin shots, there's a good chance you will look like this. And what I think a lot of golfers do is they're trying to do the right thing. They're trying to get the weight on the left and the byproduct of trying to get the weight on the left. Can you see what happens? We actually start to tilt back with the upper body. So it's a little bit tricky but what you've got to do is put your hand on your lead hip there and sort of push the pelvis in and you see how now the shoulder goes over and now I can start to level up my shoulders and now I can start to get my chest bone one, one and a half inches in front of the ball. It's really going to help me bottom out my swing there versus here. So that is without doubt probably the most common fault. In all the short game schools I do, I spend the first hour going around everyone and really just making sure they're getting more this way. They all think, they feel like they're kind of over here somewhere and when I take a picture, it actually is very minimal. So I advise you work on this in front of a mirror or a window, reflection of yourself or just put your phone down and look at it because that really is the only way to get the feeling of that correct position because you know what it's like trying to change things, it's tough isn't it and you're doing it for a long time, it's difficult to change it. So that's the first common fault. Let's just really try and create that nice secure line, shoulder through the middle of the foot, shoulders more level, should almost be able to lift that foot there at address and you could of course hit some shots as a drill doing that where you go up onto your right toe and that kind of forces you then to get the weight there and then you could play some shots there and you can see the quality of your strike, there we go, they go in when you do that, but the quality of your strike is much better when you're doing this. So if you struggle with this reverse tilt, the upper spine as I call it, definitely hit some like that. So that's the first common fault at address I want you to look out for. The other, or the second main common fault is grip pressure and it's something I think a lot of golfers just have no awareness of is the ability to actually reflect on their grip pressure. I think most golfers without doubt grip it too tight and if I've taught, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of golfers, I don't think I've ever told anyone to grip it tighter, but I've told most players to grip it lighter. So if you can just soften the grip pressure off, that will make a massive difference and your arm hang should be basically as your arms naturally hang by your side, that's how they should sit on the grip. You see there's a little bit of fold, you look at the greats who've played, you've got amazing short game players, Shane Lowry these days, the arms are in like this, they're not really straight and you ask me to chip like this, I'm going to hit lots of thin shots because I'm just so tight, there's no flow in the swing, you've got to have flow and flow really comes from that grip pressure. So really feel like the grip is soft but it comes from the arms, it's a natural soft arm hang and then from there you can see the difference in how that ball lands, it just lands so softly because there's no pressure in the grip. So that's something I definitely need to look out for again in terms of grip pressure and really the third one which is a smallish point but I think it's quite important in terms of being able to move correctly through the ball is I see this lead foot getting straight or even slightly turned in and what happens then, you can try this at home, if you turn your foot in and just sort of move this way, you'll feel like this hip is really sticky like it's very difficult to open up through the ball. So if you can just open this foot out this way, I call it flaring the foot, when you flare the foot out here, not only does it actually help you get more weight on the left side so you get the byproduct of curing the first fault that I mentioned but secondly when you put the foot out to around about 11 o'clock for a chip and run shot, it allows this hip to sit into more of an externally rotated position and it's just so much easier then to clear through the ball like you actually really open up through the ball, you're not going to get that one where you get stuck underneath. So if you're a player that kind of looks a little bit like this, there's a good chance that your left foot is turned in, so really feel like, I'll sit slightly longer now, really feel like it's open and really feel like as you go through the ball, everything clears onto the target and you feel like you're almost facing it and that really comes from getting that left foot in that flared position. So there are other set up factors you need to think about, your wrist position and ball position obviously is huge, I can't go through everything in this video, I just want to keep this really short and sweet on the three most common faults that I see and I want you to think about whether they actually do relate to you. So I'm going to talk about some of the most common faults in the swing for the chip and release one now. Right, common faults in the swing, they're all sort of related, I think most golf swings have a chain reaction of events and the good news is if you get your set up as good as I've just shown you and you can look into more videos or read the book, you'll really get it to that world class level and when you do get that world class set up, it makes it quite difficult to hit a bad shot, but not impossible, there are other things that do creep into the swing. The most common fault without any doubt whatsoever is the club goes on the plane, so basically the swing plane is the angle in which the club goes back, so that would be above the plane and this would be below the plane and below the plane is the most common fault I see and the issue for that is really there's too much forearm early on, but also the root cause is the fact that the right shoulder gets, for a right handed golfer, gets pretty low and it makes it very easy to come in here, so once you start getting that better set up, you see, it does promote a back swing where the club is going to weigh on a better swing plane, it almost happens for free, but you have to be aware of this and the problem about coming on the plane here, your instinct, your sporting instinct knows where the target is, it knows where the club head is, so once you start getting in here, you've really got to manipulate the club to return the club to the ball and what generally happens when you're swinging too far from the inside is the low point of swing starts to come way back behind the ball, so if you're hitting shots like this, sort of way back on it there and getting poor results, heavy shots, thin shots, then this is what you're probably doing, so just hold it in your left hand only and just push the arm away, this is a really good exercise, when you push the arm away there, you tend to support the weight of the club through the arm and that really is a good on plane position, you look at all the greats we've ever chipped, what you tend to see is the hands stay in quite close to the trail leg but the club head is always outside of the hands, it doesn't go in here, so obviously once you start to have more of a pitching or a longer action, the club starts to work around your body, but anything I would say 25 yards and in, really you're looking to keep that club head outside of your hands and then from there, there's no manipulation required, so rather than getting the low point back here, you can really start to get the strike later and get that really solid strike like we got there, that was a 52 by the way, I was using it in case you were wondering there, so it's just making sure that the hands stay in, the club stays out, you're really feeling your lead arm being a little bit more in charge and then you really start to crisply strike it and you get that lovely strike which is just what you're looking for, once you start consistently getting that strike, you get a better launch height, you get a better spin control and you just naturally start to feel the shot, like people ask all the time, how do you feel it, how do you get it close, the answer is I don't really think about that, it just sort of happens and it happens because my ball is under control, like I know generally what flight it's coming out at, I know what speed it's coming out at, I know what spin it's coming out at, so I've just through time and practice and many years of doing it, my body just naturally feels where I need to land it, obviously I've got to adapt to the conditions and that's why it's a good idea to take some chip shots before you go and play, so you can just feel how much the greens are running out, but the feel side of it really for me comes from technique, I think good technique breeds feel, I think that's what you've got to really come through there, so swing plane number one, check that, now the other thing I want you to really think about is this idea of how you release the club through the ball, I call it release one and release one is really where the butt of the grip is pointing just after impact at the lead hip, and that means you're not dragging the handle this way and crucially you're not flipping it, I would say one of the most common faults I see is a flip when you're trying to hit this low shot, so a flip would look like this, it kind of goes like that, it comes down to the golfer, sort of the human nature of the golfer I guess, trying to help the ball up in the air rather than letting the loft of the club do the work, and this slightly downward blow which we want to be getting for a chip and run with that ball first contact, the loft will raise the ball, you don't need to try and help it with that bottom hand and it's difficult because you've probably done it a long time but remember if you're on the plane you kind of have to do it, so assuming you're on plane and you're still flipping it, you really have to feel like the butt of the grip is just leading that little bit more through the ball as you open, and then you can really start getting that contact and I do think it's important you hold your finish, like holding your finish is key for a number of reasons, it looks better, it looks more professional which is important of course, but you can learn a lot from it, so if I was a flipper and I've gone oh that went a bit high and I was holding my finish I go oh that's not quite right, where should it be, it should be there, it needs to be a release 1, so you have to make sure that you really pay attention to your follow through and if you start to pay attention to your follow through you'll reduce the flip, you'll get rid of the flip because you'll very quickly learn where that should finish, the club is releasing, it's swinging, but the butt of the grip is here, we're not back here, and that leads us into the third fault, again because I said they're all linked, it's important you make sure you rotate the chest through the ball, the reason we tend to flip, one of the big reasons is because the body gets very static and then that leads to the hands taking over, so it's important to make sure as you come through the ball you really keep everything moving through the shot and you can see that makes it difficult to flip there through it, so as I say they are linked, you've got to make sure you understand that you don't just isolate everything in the golf swing, they are linked together but sometimes you just need to focus on one of those elements a little bit more and if you're a player who sort of gets what I call underneath, where there's not a great little turn, that can also make the ball come out quite hot as well, if you're a player where the ball just comes off quite hot you're probably underneath, so really feel like you flow through the ball, you collect the ball and your strike, your flight, your control will just get so much better from that, so there's only kind of three faults there but I do think they will cover probably 80% of golfers out there in terms of set up and swing, the final area in terms of the common fault I see is more what is the IQ, it's the ability to think, now where this really comes in, let's say we're going out to a back pin, we're going right out to say that very, very back pin and we've got this slope, you've got this shadow here with a pine tree, then you've got another set of shadows and that's into quite a steep slope which, in fact from across the camera that's a very steep slope and I think a lot of golfers here would demonstrate actually quite a nice chip and run, so they'd play a nice shot but you can see it would just go too high and it just dies into the slope, so that's more of an IQ error rather than anything else, so I want you to then just think about using less loft, so I've now got a 7-iron in my hand and I can land a 7-iron in this front patch, it'll get through that little bit of fringe and it will run out and I don't have to change anything, it's really strong IQ, just visualising and trying to predict what will happen to the ball before it happens and that's something you'd also need to do, most people don't do that, they hit the shot and they'll be surprised, you've got to play it in your mind first, if I land it there with that spin and that flight what will it do, well it's probably going to do what it just did. Okay, well let's use a 7-iron and let's do my chip and run, now watch this okay, as we play the same shot, you can see that ball's got no spin on it, so you can see how that ball is running out, running out, running out, running out, running out, here we go, come round and you can see how much easier that is to get it close, all I've done is played the same shot I just played which I used a 52 and I swapped it for a 7-iron, that's all I did and that comes from experience, it comes from, but it also just comes from predicting, you play a lot of golf, you should be able to predict that and think about how much your ball will run or how much it will stop depending on the ground conditions, is it soft, is it wet, is it uphill, is it downhill, you've got to think about these things and you change the club in your hands, so that's really sort of the other common fault is just making sure you get the right club in your hand to play this shot. So hopefully that's helped, hopefully that's given you some bits you can reflect on and think about whether that's going to improve your own game in terms of set up, in terms of swing, in terms of IQ, in terms of shot selection, run through them, the great thing about short game is you can work on that anywhere, in your garden, in your living room, whatever, you can go through those faults and just make sure you're not demonstrating those common faults that I've just alluded to, so hopefully that makes sense, hopefully that is going to improve your chip and run, release one and enjoy golf and see you next time.