| Your golf club head is much more stable and will | | | | If you need to create a high-lofted lob shot that |
| produce more consistent golf shots when you | | | | will fly to the hole and stop, use an open stance |
| accelerate through impact. This is true of all golf | | | | and clubface use a three-quarter backswing and a |
| shots but no truer than with a chip shot from | | | | full finish. The club head MUST accelerate through |
| around the putting green. Producing a better chip | | | | impact for any open face shot. How do you |
| shot will lead to more chip ins and lower scores. | | | | guarantee you will accelerate the club head? Your |
| Deceleration while chipping could result in a fluffed | | | | follow through must be longer than your |
| or stubbed chip shot and this will result in extra | | | | backswing was. |
| strokes. The trick is not to accelerate the golf | | | | Set your golf shot plan |
| club with your hands. Using your hands will only | | | | You first need to plan the type of golf shot you |
| ruin the rhythm of any golf stroke and the results | | | | will be able to execute the majority of the time. |
| are usually not very good | | | | Your golf shot plan should include where the golf |
| How to get acceleration | | | | ball lands on the putting green. This spot should be |
| Center your swing motion about two feet past | | | | as flat as possible. If you attempt to land your |
| impact to achieve the kind of smooth acceleration | | | | golf ball on a hill, any mistake that make will be |
| evident in golf swings of better players. In other | | | | amplified. If you land it short of your target into a |
| words, imagine producing maximum arm | | | | hill, obviously the ball will be stopped sooner and |
| extension and maximum club head speed two | | | | will not roll out as far. |
| feet past the ball. In order to do this, your | | | | The opposite is true if your mistake is past your |
| backswing will be shorter than your follow-through. | | | | target. Your golf ball will bound forward and roll |
| This will automatically produce smooth acceleration | | | | out farther than you had calculated in your golf |
| through impact. Acceleration through impact is a | | | | shot plan. If you have to land your golf ball on an |
| good thing. A smooth acceleration is what you | | | | uneven slope, it is better to use a valley or a |
| need to hit the consistently solid shots you desire. | | | | swale. This terrain would have the opposite effect |
| What to do with an open face? Accelerate! | | | | and would help any mistake that you make. |