Why 90% of Senior Golfers Chunk Their Chips — And The Simple Fix

Ninety percent of the senior golfers I play with chunk their chips, and I was one of them for the better part of a decade. The fix turned out to be one thing, and it was not the thing anyone told me. Picture it. Twelve feet off the green, a simple little chip, and the club digs in two inches behind the ball. The ball hops four feet. You have to chip again. I know that feeling in my stomach because I lived it every Saturday.

Here is what I finally understood. I was not chunking because I was lazy or old or decelerating. I was chunking because the way I had been taught to set up for a chip was actively making my wedge dig into the ground. Once I changed that, the club started skidding through the grass instead of stabbing into it, and the chunk went away in a single afternoon.