Around the greens, there is one move that ruins more chips than everything else combined: the flip. The wrists take over at the bottom, the clubhead races past the hands, and you get that chunky-thin lottery where you never know which miss is coming.
The flip happens because the hands are driving the shot. The fix is to let the arm drive it instead.
Here is the feel. Take your normal chipping setup, then drop your lead hand off the club completely. Chip with just your trail arm, palm facing down toward the ground. Let that arm lead the club through the ball. What you will notice immediately is that the club cannot flip when the palm is down and the arm is leading. The geometry will not allow it. Contact gets cleaner on the first few swings, and the ball starts coming off with that crisp little click instead of the mushy thud of a flip.
Once the motion is clean with one arm, add the lead hand back on. Keep the exact same palm-down feel in the trail arm. The lead hand is just along for the ride. The trail arm still leads, the club still cannot flip, and now you have a real chipping motion.
The common mistake: adding the lead hand back too early, before the one-arm feel is solid. If the flip creeps back in, you went back to two hands too soon. Stay with the trail arm until the contact is automatic, then add the second hand.
Takeaway: palm down, trail arm leads, no flip. It is that simple, and it works on every chip from five yards to fifty.
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