Within the wake of Cameron Smith’s Gamers Championship win, a video surfaced of the Aussie hitting one-armed chips.
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Cameron Smith is the person of the hour on the planet of golf. His victory on the Gamers Championship was simply the largest of his profession, and he’s earned a good bit of press due to it. Golf Twitter is flooded with Cam Smith content material, and it’s offered some nice theater as we collectively come down from that (nearly) major-championship excessive.
One of many movies that surfaced comes from Jamie Kennedy of GOLFTV, and it exhibits Smith holing a nifty chip utilizing simply his lead arm to swing the membership.
The video not solely illustrates some spectacular club-face management with only one arm; it additionally incorporates one thing us leisure golfers can study from. One-armed chipping isn’t only a get together trick to drag out to indicate off to your mates — it’s additionally an important drill to enhance your brief recreation.
GOLF High 100 Trainer James Sieckmann broke down the advantages within the video beneath.
“It’s one of many easiest, simplest drills for brief recreation,” Sieckmann says of the ‘one-arm-only’ drill.
By swinging along with your proper (path) hand in your pocket, you’re coaching your self to correctly use the bounce in your wedge across the greens.
“Most individuals take the membership again shut, or closed,” he says. “That turns that membership right into a dig membership, in order that after they swing down it sticks into the turf. We wish the membership to work accurately with the turf.”
To do that, it’s essential to open the face of the membership on the best way again with the toe of the membership within the air. From that place, all you need to do is swing down and thru the ball, letting the clubhead launch previous your physique.
“That movement is sort of a start-over movement for me,” Sieckmann says. “I feel it’ll actually show you how to.”
