Why You Should ALWAYS Chip With The Club Face OPEN!

[@anthonyquattrocchi6252]

I just want to say thank you Andy and Piers for making these videos. I've been binging your lessons for the last week and I just played my first 18 holes, implementing what I learned from your lessons, and I've improved so much.

[@meandmygolf.]

Pleasure Anthony! Happy to hear they help.

[@jamiesloan7259]

Great stuff. I had the chipping yips last summer. I was swinging the club too inside/out. I was bottoming out early, and catching them heavy, or on the upswing, slightly thin. The down the line backswing fixed this. Also, the slightly open face is a game changer. It’s almost impossible to chunk it if you’re using the bounce correctly. This video was one of your best, for sure.

[@meandmygolf.]

Great to hear you're back on track Jamie.

[@jacobmccain8082]

Took me quite a while to get comfortable chipping with an open face, as I was taught back in the stance hooded face ball first. Once you learn to use the bounce you have SO MUCH more room for error. Clean contact spins and scrapy contact doesnt but goes shorter and rolls out.

[@meandmygolf.]

It's definitely a different feeling and take adjustment. From our experience though it's way better.

[@chadwaddell121]

good tip. for higher handicappers, I'd either putt it(whenever possible) or begin practicing with an 8 or 9 iron and simply use a putting stroke. I find it's always best to keep the ball low whenever possible.

[@royclose946]

Well done guy's 👏 hope you are both well 👍

[@meandmygolf.]

Thanks Roy. Hope all is good my friend.

[@sammorris8029]

What if you’re in the fairway. Is it bad to open the face with the tight lie? Thanks guys- awesome stuff

[@nikpelaou3638]

This is great but I have to chip from rough with uphill and downhill lies. Does the same swing apply?

[@cdnim2358]

Doing a great job with Rai guys!

[@meandmygolf.]

Thanks. Yes he's getting better and better.

[@lens7859]

Like Danny Maude said, on short shots the body waits for the club and on long shots , the club waits for the body

[@stevemurphy9727]

I follow Dan Grieve, who is a master of the short game. I don’t believe Dan advocates an open face at address. I guess it shows there is more than one way to get the job done.

[@meandmygolf.]

Dan is Great! Yeh it can still work with a square face. Most of the best we see have an open face and for the majority of golfers we think it’s a good play from what we have seen

[@viktorkandre5867]

Pretty sure dan has open face if he needs to, not seen all he does but dan got every shot every lie every grass, if you play on wet soggy conditions its alot harder to open the face the grass/ground is not firm enough to acually interact with the bounce, you will just go right under the ball.

[@leemartin1122]

I keep seeing this about opening face, and it makes sense but do I compensate by opening my stance and aiming left, or is there something else involved?

[@amichaels-v3]

brilliant!

[@jdesai66]

if opening the face - the club faces to the right. Do you then turn your body/feet slightly to the left to make you're pointing to the hole?

[@Sports4me7]

Does opening the club face still apply when bump and running with an iron?

[@meandmygolf.]

Yes it certainly can.

[@svk_5104]

I play my bump and runs with a square face and hit it more like a put. Really no need for an open face when hitting a bumb and run, you want the ball to launch lower and roll out more, opening the face will just make it launch a little higher, land a little softer and not roll out as much.

[@SnowboardJedi]

The best chippers can chip with any face setting based on what the shot calls for

[@matthewdavis3421]

When you open the face like that, shouldn't you also be aiming slightly left of target?

[@meandmygolf.]

Yes you can aim left a little Matthew.

[@julianfalla6889]

Easy to say when ur on a good track with grass under the ball. Try doing it off a bare muddy lie

[@meandmygolf.]

Yes definitely slight adjustments needed but this is a great base to move from.

[@svk_5104]

This obviously isn’t how you would hit that shot, they’re just giving you a basic technique for the more standard and straight forward chip shot. Different lies, different grass, different conditions etc. are obviously gonna have a different technique

[@williamskehan6373]

Found that grip pressure being as light as can be encourages me to still accelerate thru the ball

[@xerodeus2337]

now do that on hard ground / bad lie :D

[@meandmygolf.]

Still works on hard ground. You can vary shaft lean etc to change bounce

[@xerodeus2337]

@@meandmygolf. I’d legit love to see a video on that with really hard ground, bad lies, that a lot of us play with on those public courses! Getting nice luscious grass that you can expose the bounce too is a luxury a lot of us can’t afford lol.

[@TonyNeri-s3e]

now that they wear different clothes are ok.Before when they were wearing always matching outfits , sorry to say, to me they looked like a bit ridicolous