Yips

Look up Dave Pelz Yips. He has some good drills. One method he has on chipping to help is to play the ball off of your back foot. Turn your back foot toward the target slightly. Use that setup and you’ll hit it solid.

He also has a drill that works well using an alignment stick in your grip. Essentially allowing the alignment stick to be well long and under your leading under arm area.You swing thru a chip without allowing the stick to hit your back. Requires you to have the proper swing/motion that creates some muscle memory.

Sounds more like the shanks than the yips. The yips occur when your hands flinch uncontrollably at impact. Sounds like you’re hitting the hosel with the ball.

Several things I will do to avoid the shanks. I make sure it’s not a primarily arm swing, by focusing on rotating my sternum back, then sternum through as I hit the ball. For a quick fix on the course, I’ll try to hit the ball with the toe of the club. When I do that, I aim right of the target and play for a slight hook.

For me, I start "swinging with my arms" rather than core/legs. When I go back to basics, the yips go away.


Or I'm standing too close.

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I consider myself to have a really good short game. Inside 50 yards I can pull off any shot I need at the moment. Went to chip some yesterday evening and everything started normal, went and putted then back to chipping area and every ball shot off to the right. No matter what I did it was either a bullet skull or almost stung someone nearby in the ankles. Any suggestions on what to do besides quit?

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Get that handle low and left through the shot. That usually helps when I start doing this.

Also the Kisner video is great too. The butt of the club should face your belt buckle through the entire swing.