To carry on our chipping feature, we must develop drills to give to our students, so that once they have the required basic chipping technique, they can acquire the skills to become consistent at this part of the game.

PARALLEL CLUBS DRILL
This drill ensures that we can become more accurate with our chip shots.  If the club travels from inside or outside the target line, then there can be problems with starting the ball online.
The chip shot should be just a longer version of the putting stroke, where we encourage the club to go straight back and through.
If you place two clubs down pointing at the target, to make a channel for the clubhead to move along and use your chipping technique, the clubhead should stay within the parallel clubs back and through the target.

Parallel Clubs Drill

THE LADDER DRILL
The ladder drill is designed to help your students with distance control with each of their chipping clubs.
We have already mentioned that it is important to vary the clubs you use around the green for imagination purposes, and by setting up the ladder drill we can help them understand how far each club carries the ball onto the green.  This in turn will help with our shot selection.
Set up a number of sections on the green with clubs or canes about 4 to 5 feet apart, and then just experiment with each of the clubs you chip with to find out how far each ball carries with different lofts of club and different lengths of chipping stroke.
It is a great exercise for visualisation around the greens and you can also use it for competition purposes, setting your student tasks of landing in certain sections of the ladder in a points based game.

The Ladder drill

OVER – UNDER DRILL
The over – under drill is used for students who struggle to understand that the loft of the club, along with our chipping technique should do the work for us and not a flip with the hands to help get the ball into the air.
Set up a couple of baskets with a club or cane across them.  Set the student up a few feet away, asking them to make a normal chip shot, allowing the clubhead to stay under the club and the ball to go over the club, letting the loft do its work.
In a short space of time, the student will start to understand that they haven’t got to help the ball in the air with their hands, and trust the loft on the clubhead.

Over and Under Drill