After probably 15 years and countless lessons on my short game, I've finally found an explanation on the set up and movement which makes sense to my often scrambled mind! I have just been in the garden and hit 66 consecutive chips without fatting or thinning a single one - the shots which have plagued me. For the first time I can remember I am actually looking forward to getting back on the course and facing my first chip!! Mike - big thanks.
Greatness is not genetic...a good lesson for all us amateurs! That’s probably the bigger lesson for me! It makes me that much more confident that we can all get better if we learn the right things and the right mindset! Thanks for the vid!
Mikes Videos helped me tremendously. When I am on the course playing I can hear his voice during my practice swing thru the golf shot. I even hear him say " My whole career I did that" love Ya Mike. and again thanks
6yrs ago. Fix me right up, went and played after watching. Had to come tell you thanks. I even told my buddies I been practicing, in the front yard, it was my weight, exactly like u showed, I changed it to what u show, and I was surprised myself.
Great video Mike, have never hit so many solid chip shots. The set up you described has made all the difference. Before watching this, I was constantly sticking my club in the ground.
Mike Malaska is the best by far. Another brilliant video! Jack Jnr set up was me to a tee!. If I had found this years ago my handicap would be a lot lower. Thanks for your great work Mike.
Awesome lesson. Students need to listen so they get it. You redirected him well from the distractions on what he could do even though he was paying you to solve his yips. Nicely done!
Met Mike at the Adidas Pro Am. he is a great humanitarian very kind helpful always made time for everyone. i will always have time for this man. keep being you best regards.Michael Colacci
The best chipping advice I've ever received. Thank you, Mike for another excellent instruction video. As with everything you say, it just makes such total sense, it's like why wasn't this obvious to me before?
Great video Mike!!! I have struggled like you wouldn't believe with chip shots and short pitch shots. Played one of the best rounds of my life yesterday and ALL of my chips and short pitches were right on!!! No hitting them fat or thin!! Thanks so much!! Leaning back in the reverse K is detrimental to the chip and short pitch shot!!!!
I doubt that Mike might read this comment, but I was chipping yesterday (prior to watching this video). I decided to chip some using my putting stroke with various wedges. Here is where it gets interesting. I putt crosshanded, and used that same setup for chipping with a putting grip. Guess what? Hit just about all of them great. You know why? That grip LOWERS the left shoulder, and RAISES the right shoulder, making them much more level. Wow is all I can say.
great information in this video! just what i needed! after watching this I know I'm also setting up incorrectly to the ball and using too much wrist hinge.. will practice correcting that!
I believe the right arm radius is another factor to add if it extends/ lengthens you bottom out early despite good forward set up and swing. If you keep the same bend in the right elbow and height I think it’s another key.
Interesting how when we sometimes, sometimes in the presence of an experienced, teacher like Mike. Something happens where we can’t stop talking,trying to express everything we know, have heard or believe to be true. I have learned NOT to be that guy . To myself I say “ QUITE “ you are here , now trying to learn . Relax, accept that you may not catch onto the technique straight away. It’s why your here. Consider, someone like Mike to be experienced enough to have already seen your short comings.And has invested time , in trying to introduce an improvement. Which is why you showed up for the lesson to begin with. Given a moment Mike can explain the process and explain it in a manner that will most likely allow you to pick up on the possibility of why a change may work. Perhaps even more important is someone as experienced as he is will clarifying why your swing is producing less that acceptable results.
Wow, been wondering when did I start grounding my chipping? Used to chip really good but been having this problem lately and can't figure out why since I feel I don't really change my swing, which most likely wrong thinking. This and the other with Phil videos confirmed that my shoulder been tilted upward. No problem when you hit a higher/longer shot, but frequent miss on short chip, definitely when under pressure...thank you!
For all beginners and most weekend golfers, this is a far greater technique than the "hinge and hold"! Once you master this method then you should add some variations to this set up based on the type of shot needed.
I’m a 6 hdp and been struggling with chipping for 2 years 😡 for want if a better word the dreaded Y...... this is the core issue my setup, I’ve been throwing my legs at the ball, thanks this makes total sense.
Hey Mike. I was wondering if the sane setup principal applies to the full swing. I tried throwing the club like you teach but I pull everything. My setup is much like JJ though.
If you understand how to chip with the hinging of your wrists, you can do any short games. I am used to hinging when chipping or pitching, provided chip with a little and pitch with a big.
Everyone is thinking that. Maybe Jack isn’t a great teacher. Maybe the son, father coaching thing doesn’t work. His dad, maybe the best to ever play the game, had a certain quirky style. Maybe the son wasn’t really into golf in that way because it’s intriguing to me why he’s taken so long to get coached on chipping. He must have had the opportunity to be coached by the very best. This Malaska guy has a great way of teaching, even I can understand.
Although he is aware of it, at no time during this 12 minute video does Malaska state Jack Jr.'s obvious problem. HE'S NOT ROTATING HIS UPPER TORSO! It's painful to watch. If Jack Jr. was rotating his chest, his brain would not feel the need to hinge/flip/jab at the ball. The arms and wrists have no choice but "crash" once the chest stops rotating.
Strange. He has spent more than forty-fifty years around the greatest player and all his contemporaries and chipped like a 20 handicappser. You would have thought there would have been a moment that his dad, Phil Rodgers, or any of the good and great players he played recreational rounds with, would have pointed out what he was doing wrong.
Jack Jr looks to be extremely right hand dominant, which requires precise timing, no bueno under pressure. Unfortunately the technique Mike is demonstrating is fundamentally controlled by the left hand. Man this armchair golf coach business is easy! (I am being facetious here) In Mike's defense, there is utter chaos in Jr's technique and Mr Malaska is VERY good at what he does.
I know this videos are a few years old, but after lessons after lessons, I also did a set at golf tec, My question is always been, I need visual I need to see. They all look at my clubs, and see the worn out spot on the middle of the club, and say the same thing, you are hitting it in the middles. Granted, I have always had a crazy eyes and hands co ordination, but I don’t know when the ball gets hits, at one point I was told that probably close my eyes, and nothing is wrong with me. I went back and look at so many very old teaching videos, last six months I really got into mr. bob toki, I can mimic it, still I can’t see the ball, and I used the sticks on the ground as I have been instructed too, for the last two years, I know I have set up correctly, the club is on my foot line, my shoulders and eyes over the ball, I will hit 500 balls, still playing bad,. Then, searching I came upon the video, On how you should approach the ball, I set up the 3 sticks on the ground, and my natural draw came back, I can see the ball, at all times. My brain also realize, the if my eyes are over the ball, there is no way I can see it, once is activated it. I play twice my score went down to 73, I play the copperhead yesterday I shot an 84 no mulligans, second time out with this new visual, I am very very excited. Quick note; Why do teaching pros, tell you to put your eyes and shoulders over the ball? When I look back and make sense of it, it makes no sense at all. Anyways thanks..
The ONLY thing after many years of practice and lessons for me that cured me of my crazy chipping yips was the one simple thought: KEEP SHAFT LEANING FORWARD IN THE FORWARD SWING!!! You can make a LOT of mistakes with chipping, but if you keep the lean in the shaft, you will be fine. I went from absolutely the worst chipper on the course to one of the best or at least viewed as a decent chipper.
Honestly my guess is that Jack didn’t spend much time golfing or helping Jr because he could tell Golf wasn’t his sport and steered him in another direction.
That's funny when Mike said "this is as hard a chipping area you can have." He doesn't play the courses I play! Seems all the chipping videos are from the perspective of perfect, tour quality lies. We amateurs should be so lucky.
I get a phone call "Ring.. Ring..". "Hello"... "Hi, I want you to teach Jack Nicholas, Gary Players, Tiger Woods, David Duvals, or Collin Montgomery's grandson or relative how to chip. My reply "Are there Grand Parents dead? No the are alive. MY ANSWER.... NO THANKS TELL THEM TO CALL THEIR GRAND DAD... LOL
It's better than when they're not engaged at all, but holy shit yes. Will do nothing but get under my skin when I'm trying my hardest to make YOU better at the sport that YOU love so much you came to me to make YOU better. Like, just stay out of your own way, dude.
Arjan Petersen he said ignorant of the basic functions of a club. Not saying the guy is dumb. You wouldn't expect Mario Andretti's kid to be bad at parking for example.
Completely agree, best way to learn to pitch and chop consistently is learning to take the hinge OUT of the golf swing. Used to shoot mid 80s and now rarely have a round where I’m not in the 70’s. Keep your weight forward, shoulders even, and swing the club the same distance back and forward without any force. Learning to do this will drastically improve your short game with minimal practice. Learn to chip and pitch like stricker.
This is kinda painful to watch. Aside from that, hinge in a chip should be minimal and the clubhead really more less stays low or under the waist.. this is more like a flop, lob or greenside pitch.. meanwhile the "circle", right shoulder high/level and one leg drill & hit 3" back seems ones to try & understand.. thanks..
Why does everyone make the short game so difficult? STOP HINGING YOUR WRISTS. Best way to dramatically cut strokes off your game is to learn to pitch and chip like Steve stricker. Went from shooting in the 80s to shooting in the 70s nearly every round. Simplify the swing, stop adding unnecessary steps to give yourself an inconsistent strike.
“All I’ve gotta do is *hits thin bullet* OOPS”
Made me chuckle.
Funny I do the “oops”a lot ha ha ha
Take two!
We all miss sometimes but at that moment yes very funny
After probably 15 years and countless lessons on my short game, I've finally found an explanation on the set up and movement which makes sense to my often scrambled mind! I have just been in the garden and hit 66 consecutive chips without fatting or thinning a single one - the shots which have plagued me. For the first time I can remember I am actually looking forward to getting back on the course and facing my first chip!! Mike - big thanks.
How's your consistency now?
I'd take 3 in a row...
Greatness is not genetic...a good lesson for all us amateurs! That’s probably the bigger lesson for me! It makes me that much more confident that we can all get better if we learn the right things and the right mindset! Thanks for the vid!
Probably my favorite instructional video of all time.
This is exactly the lesson i needed, it's almost as if you watched me play at the weekend! Thanks.
Mikes Videos helped me tremendously. When I am on the course playing I can hear his voice during my practice swing thru the golf shot. I even hear him say " My whole career I did that" love Ya Mike. and again thanks
You may have just solved my chipping mystery. Thank you!
Great video once again, Mike! Keep up the great work!
6yrs ago. Fix me right up, went and played after watching. Had to come tell you thanks.
I even told my buddies I been practicing, in the front yard, it was my weight, exactly like u showed, I changed it to what u show, and I was surprised myself.
Great video Mike, have never hit so many solid chip shots. The set up you described has made all the difference. Before watching this, I was constantly sticking my club in the ground.
Cannot stop laughing at Mike's reaction to Jr's random one hander @ 3:18. Omg I can rewind that 20 times to see Mike's exasperation!:)
yeah. that was funny. .......Hey Jr. that is embarrassing. dont do that again on my video
that was a perfect chip too. 3-4in behind the ball sliding on the ground.
I was dying laughing at that as well. 😂
This is pure gold. I feel like I'm stealing by not paying someone to watch this video.
you dont get out much, this is common for a short chip.
Awesome explanation. Very useful.
Awesome coaching, Mike has transformed my whole game.Highly recommended :-)
Mike Malaska is the best by far. Another brilliant video!
Jack Jnr set up was me to a tee!. If I had found this years ago my handicap would be a lot lower.
Thanks for your great work Mike.
Awesome lesson. Students need to listen so they get it. You redirected him well from the distractions on what he could do even though he was paying you to solve his yips. Nicely done!
Met Mike at the Adidas Pro Am. he is a great humanitarian very kind helpful always made time for everyone. i will always have time for this man. keep being you best regards.Michael Colacci
this video was awesome.. now it clicks THANK YOU!
The best chipping advice I've ever received. Thank you, Mike for another excellent instruction video. As with everything you say, it just makes such total sense, it's like why wasn't this obvious to me before?
Ive made those chipping mistakes tons of times. Great Video
Brilliant lesson! Thanks.
Great video Mike!!! I have struggled like you wouldn't believe with chip shots and short pitch shots. Played one of the best rounds of my life yesterday and ALL of my chips and short pitches were right on!!! No hitting them fat or thin!! Thanks so much!! Leaning back in the reverse K is detrimental to the chip and short pitch shot!!!!
I finally decided to tip you- your words are wisdom in the golfing world.
great video Mike, thanks...
Hands down Mike you have to be one of the top teachers in the world!
I doubt that Mike might read this comment, but I was chipping yesterday (prior to watching this video). I decided to chip some using my putting stroke with various wedges. Here is where it gets interesting. I putt crosshanded, and used that same setup for chipping with a putting grip. Guess what? Hit just about all of them great. You know why? That grip LOWERS the left shoulder, and RAISES the right shoulder, making them much more level. Wow is all I can say.
great information in this video! just what i needed! after watching this I know I'm also setting up incorrectly to the ball and using too much wrist hinge.. will practice correcting that!
I believe the right arm radius is another factor to add if it extends/ lengthens you bottom out early despite good forward set up and swing. If you keep the same bend in the right elbow and height I think it’s another key.
Always good to go back to the basics, no matter who you are 🏌️⛳️
Interesting how when we sometimes, sometimes in the presence of an experienced, teacher like Mike. Something happens where we can’t stop talking,trying to express everything we know, have heard or believe to be true. I have learned NOT to be that guy . To myself I say “ QUITE “ you are here , now trying to learn . Relax, accept that you may not catch onto the technique straight away. It’s why your here. Consider, someone like Mike to be experienced enough to have already seen your short comings.And has invested time , in trying to introduce an improvement. Which is why you showed up for the lesson to begin with. Given a moment Mike can explain the process and explain it in a manner that will most likely allow you to pick up on the possibility of why a change may work. Perhaps even more important is someone as experienced as he is will clarifying why your swing is producing less that acceptable results.
you mean QUIET and you're
That’s why golf is slowly dying. Less people have time to be better at it, let alone the mindset.
Great tip and drill. Thanks
ALRIGHT !!!! I've got it now......Thanks Mike.
Good teaching thanks
Best chipping lesson
Great explanation Mr.Malaska but it was painful to watch (and listen) to Jr. throughout this video.
Wow, been wondering when did I start grounding my chipping? Used to chip really good but been having this problem lately and can't figure out why since I feel I don't really change my swing, which most likely wrong thinking. This and the other with Phil videos confirmed that my shoulder been tilted upward. No problem when you hit a higher/longer shot, but frequent miss on short chip, definitely when under pressure...thank you!
he's still hinging and doing it incorrectly in the end. Doesn't seem like he is listening or being athletic.
Thank you, I understand not to flip but my weight was all wrong in the set up until now!
For all beginners and most weekend golfers, this is a far greater technique than the "hinge and hold"! Once you master this method then you should add some variations to this set up based on the type of shot needed.
Malaska is such a legend.
Thanks!
I finally decided to tip you, your words are wisdom in the golf world.
Thank you for your contribution. I am just trying to help people improve and I really appreciate your support!
I’m a 6 hdp and been struggling with chipping for 2 years 😡 for want if a better word the dreaded Y...... this is the core issue my setup, I’ve been throwing my legs at the ball, thanks this makes total sense.
How’d you fair a year later
I feel you, brother...
Hey Mike. I was wondering if the sane setup principal applies to the full swing. I tried throwing the club like you teach but I pull everything. My setup is much like JJ though.
omg I think u just saved my life
If you understand how to chip with the hinging of your wrists, you can do any short games. I am used to hinging when chipping or pitching, provided chip with a little and pitch with a big.
How in the world does the son of Jack Nicklaus need a chipping lesson?
great question
Everyone is thinking that. Maybe Jack isn’t a great teacher. Maybe the son, father coaching thing doesn’t work. His dad, maybe the best to ever play the game, had a certain quirky style. Maybe the son wasn’t really into golf in that way because it’s intriguing to me why he’s taken so long to get coached on chipping. He must have had the opportunity to be coached by the very best. This Malaska guy has a great way of teaching, even I can understand.
Although he is aware of it, at no time during this 12 minute video does Malaska state Jack Jr.'s obvious problem. HE'S NOT ROTATING HIS UPPER TORSO! It's painful to watch. If Jack Jr. was rotating his chest, his brain would not feel the need to hinge/flip/jab at the ball. The arms and wrists have no choice but "crash" once the chest stops rotating.
Excellent observation!
Rip Phil Rodgers. True short game master
My problem is, I can chunk a chip, then blade the next one, chunk the next one, top the next, and so on. I just don't have a consistent miss.
I love all you guys with your criticism of Jr. I bet he would wax 99% of you on the course.
I heard Jack say, “it s under my head.”
Strange. He has spent more than forty-fifty years around the greatest player and all his contemporaries and chipped like a 20 handicappser. You would have thought there would have been a moment that his dad, Phil Rodgers, or any of the good and great players he played recreational rounds with, would have pointed out what he was doing wrong.
I was thinking more along the lines of a 30 handicapper
Maybe he never cared much about golf until recently?
WOW!
Circle bottom out is critical also max speed at bottom of swing. GP stud boy
adds loft on downswing
I wish I could see what he’s doing....Mike is in the way
i can't believe the group had an argument about the word "ignorant".
now i forgot what i was going to say
Jack Jr looks to be extremely right hand dominant, which requires precise timing, no bueno under pressure. Unfortunately the technique Mike is demonstrating is fundamentally controlled by the left hand. Man this armchair golf coach business is easy! (I am being facetious here) In Mike's defense, there is utter chaos in Jr's technique and Mr Malaska is VERY good at what he does.
well... we can see why Gary is the one that made it to the tour.
Mike kept fuckin all his chips up when demonstrated 😂
Jack jr. would probably make great friends with dechambeau
I can’t tell...is he keeping the ball position near the front foot? I was always told to keep the ball off the back foot for these short chips.
Flop shots and bunker shots you put it forward
Malaska is pretty impressive
He sounds exactly like his dad
Same voice as his father !!!
This video fixed my chipping today. 4out of 10 up and down which is a miricle for me, and 3 chips inside of 3 feet
I know this videos are a few years old, but after lessons after lessons, I also did a set at golf tec,
My question is always been, I need visual I need to see.
They all look at my clubs, and see the worn out spot on the middle of the club, and say the same thing, you are hitting it in the middles.
Granted, I have always had a crazy eyes and hands co ordination, but I don’t know when the ball gets hits, at one point I was told that probably close my eyes, and nothing is wrong with me.
I went back and look at so many very old teaching videos, last six months I really got into mr. bob toki, I can mimic it, still I can’t see the ball, and I used the sticks on the ground as I have been instructed too, for the last two years, I know I have set up correctly, the club is on my foot line, my shoulders and eyes over the ball, I will hit 500 balls, still playing bad,.
Then, searching I came upon the video, On how you should approach the ball, I set up the 3 sticks on the ground, and my natural draw came back, I can see the ball, at all times.
My brain also realize, the if my eyes are over the ball, there is no way I can see it, once is activated it.
I play twice my score went down to 73, I play the copperhead yesterday I shot an 84 no mulligans, second time out with this new visual, I am very very excited.
Quick note;
Why do teaching pros, tell you to put your eyes and shoulders over the ball? When I look back and make sense of it, it makes no sense at all.
Anyways thanks..
This is so me:-/
Padraig Harrington advocated this...
Is this the same for a normal swing?
I have seen it said that the weakest part of Jack’s game was chipping.
Makes complete sense but still super wristy. Guessing issues will continue, but with distance
OOOOPPPPSSSS
He's got his old man's voice
The ONLY thing after many years of practice and lessons for me that cured me of my crazy chipping yips was the one simple thought:
KEEP SHAFT LEANING FORWARD IN THE FORWARD SWING!!!
You can make a LOT of mistakes with chipping, but if you keep the lean in the shaft, you will be fine. I went from absolutely the worst chipper on the course to one of the best or at least viewed as a decent chipper.
Awww I heard Mike say a bad word lol 6:49
Ji Kim golfers swear all the goddamn time. Don’t be a bitch about it for fucks sake.
Did he say Jack Nicklaus Jr? Wasn't he a pro and played some tour events? He chips like me, and I suck
Must be tough to be “the son of” any great celeb or sports figure.
MAKE SURE YOU DO PLENTY OF PRACTICE SWINGS RIGHT BEFORE YOU HIT IT. This shot is so darn easy when you know this.
Honestly my guess is that Jack didn’t spend much time golfing or helping Jr because he could tell Golf wasn’t his sport and steered him in another direction.
Surely jack senior taught him how to chip!?
That's funny when Mike said "this is as hard a chipping area you can have." He doesn't play the courses I play! Seems all the chipping videos are from the perspective of perfect, tour quality lies. We amateurs should be so lucky.
For me as in the swing you need an active left side/leg not static. Jack jnr by setting up forward on left leg stopped this athletic motion.
How in the world does he chip so bad
Jr has no left side. His left side is completely dead. Let's start there...
Being half dead is bad.
Gary Cross There’s no left side, simple as that. And I’m an incessant bitch? Fuck you.
I get a phone call "Ring.. Ring..". "Hello"... "Hi, I want you to teach Jack Nicholas, Gary Players, Tiger Woods, David Duvals, or Collin Montgomery's grandson or relative how to chip. My reply "Are there Grand Parents dead? No the are alive. MY ANSWER.... NO THANKS TELL THEM TO CALL THEIR GRAND DAD... LOL
I hate when your trying to teach someone something and they keep talking when they need to shut up and listen.
BRANDON MOSS excellent point !
Yes!!
It's better than when they're not engaged at all, but holy shit yes. Will do nothing but get under my skin when I'm trying my hardest to make YOU better at the sport that YOU love so much you came to me to make YOU better.
Like, just stay out of your own way, dude.
It is amazing that someone from the greatest golfer of all time's family (who caddied for him) can be so ignorant of the basic functions of a club.
krzycase I was thinking the same thing. stfu and pick up the knowledge Mike is dropping. geez.
krzycase i didnt hear anything ignorant from him. He seems really interesten and asks questions in order to have Mike explain it
Arjan Petersen he said ignorant of the basic functions of a club. Not saying the guy is dumb. You wouldn't expect Mario Andretti's kid to be bad at parking for example.
Garrett Nobles then the correct word would be "naive". Ignorant means he learned the correct way and rejected it in favor of his thoughts or feelings.
And what are the basic functions of the club?
Seriously?................HE (son) can't even get the ball airborne>>>>amazing isn't it? I am stunned and amazed.
Too much wrist hinge was his problem
Rony Alefaio no it wasn't, he didn't understand how the club works, when you understand how it works, you will automatically become shallower
xsarahxrichx xsarahxrichx ..yes he is..this is a chipping video..you don’t need wrist hinges when chipping
Completely agree, best way to learn to pitch and chop consistently is learning to take the hinge OUT of the golf swing. Used to shoot mid 80s and now rarely have a round where I’m not in the 70’s. Keep your weight forward, shoulders even, and swing the club the same distance back and forward without any force. Learning to do this will drastically improve your short game with minimal practice. Learn to chip and pitch like stricker.
Great lesson
young jack seems like a knucklehead!
he is way taller than jack if jack could put his brain in him.....
This is kinda painful to watch. Aside from that, hinge in a chip should be minimal and the clubhead really more less stays low or under the waist.. this is more like a flop, lob or greenside pitch.. meanwhile the "circle", right shoulder high/level and one leg drill & hit 3" back seems ones to try & understand.. thanks..
I think he is chipping badly on purpose to show what we amateurs do wrong he cannot be that bad
Jack Senior wasn't exactly the worlds greatest chipper either, mostly because he hit it so well he was putting way more often vs chipping.
Is jr a comedian?
How is JN Jr this bad at golf!?!?!? LOL
jack senior must be so disappointed lol
I love this video cause JUNIOR is rubbish and doesn't really want to listen to mike. listen boy!!!
Why does everyone make the short game so difficult? STOP HINGING YOUR WRISTS. Best way to dramatically cut strokes off your game is to learn to pitch and chip like Steve stricker. Went from shooting in the 80s to shooting in the 70s nearly every round. Simplify the swing, stop adding unnecessary steps to give yourself an inconsistent strike.