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School of Golf: Martin's Library: 50 Years of golfing wisdom (2:09)
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'School of Golf' host Martin Hall talks about the difference between a chip and pitch shot, plus other advice from legendary instructor John Jacobs. Watch 'School of Golf' Wednesdays 7PM ET.
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-I'm Martin Hall and you're watching Extended Library. The book
this week from one of golf's greatest teacher John Jacobs,
the book "50 Years of Golfing Wisdom." In this wonderful
book, John talks about the difference between the chip and
a pitch. And, a lot of you don't know what
that difference is. So, let me clear that up via
John Jacobs, okay. A chip is a shot that will
be hit low. It might be hit with an 8-iron
or a 7-iron. It's not going to carry very far.
It is going to roll some amount of distance. A
chip shot would be played when the flag is at
the back of the green and you're perhaps just off
the green. It's a low runner. The pitch is just
the opposite. The pitch should be going to be a
high shot which is going to go up and stop
quickly. That's the one you probably play when you've got
not much green to work with. Okay, wrist action. The
chip shot has minimal to no wrist action. It's sort
of a one lever stroke. The pitch shot, on the
other hand, has plenty of wrist action. Anytime you need
height, rest assured if you need height, you definitely, definitely
need wrist. Now, with both of those swings, the chip
and the pitch, there's no flip. There's none of this.
I want you to look very carefully at this and
then promise me that you'll never do that again when
you're swinging the short club. The club head should never
pass the hands until after the ball is being hit.
Never does that. And finally, the distance the ball goes
is determined by the length, the amount of back swing
that you make. If you have a short back swing,
you'll hit a short shot. If you have a longer
back swing, you'll hit a longer shot. Great wisdom from
the superb teacher John Jacobs. Thanks for joining us on
GolfChannel.com for the best in golf instruction. I'm Martin Hall
and you'd been watching an Extended Version of Martin's Library.
For more tips like this, tune in to School of
Golf Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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