by Anne Cain, Anne Cain Golf Academy

Want to lower your scores quickly?  Learn and apply the following techniques to improve your chipping game. Two reputable sources shared this chipping system with me when I first turned professional:  PGA Hall of Fame member Paul Runyan, and renowned PGA instructor George Kelnhofer.  Statistically speaking, if you can chip the ball within 8 feet of the hole your odds go WAY UP in making the putt.  Here is the system:

1. Set Up/Address Position
   
   
   • Feet close together
   • Choke down on club
   • Ball positioned even with left heel—feet narrow
   • Left ear remains in line with zipper
   • Hands are positioned well in front of ball (even with left thigh)
   • Right wrist is bent
   • Weight distribution favors left foot
      
2. Technique
   
   
   • Make controlled stroke maintaining bent right wrist
   • Propel stroke with arms and shoulders--no wrist flicking!
   • Land ball 1 yard on the green with low trajectory
   • Choose appropriate club
      
3. Club Selection
   
   
   • System is based on "ball carry distance" compared to "ball roll distance"
   • Measure distance from your ball to your landing spot (1 yard on green); call this "#1"
   • Measure from that spot to the hole; call this "#2"
   • Divide #2 by #1
     If the answer equals:
          1, then use your SW
          2, then use your PW
          3, then use your 9I
          4, then use your 8I
          5, then use your 7I 
     and so on......
   • Adjust club selection for uphill/downhill
      
4. Summary
   
   
   • A SW chip will roll about the same distance it carries in the air ( 1 to 1 ratio of roll to carry )
   • A PW chip will roll about twice as far as the distance it carries in the air (2 to 1 ratio)
   • A 9I chip will roll about three times as far as the distance it carries, and so on (3 to 1 ratio)
   • And so on....
      
5. Example
   
   
   • From your ball to the landing spot (1 yard on green) is 6 paces
   • From the landing spot to the hole is 13 paces
   • 13 divided by 6 = 2+
   • So use a PW!!

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Featured Instructor:

Anne Cain, Anne Cain Golf Academy

LPGA instructor Anne Cain is one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teachers in America.  She was a finalist for LPGA Teacher of the Year in 2002 and 2005 and was named a “Favorite Instructor” in Golf for Women magazine (readers’ survey).  As a player, Cain wond two professional titles and was an All-American selection at the University of Georgia .

Located at the serene Golf Club of Amelia Island within walking distance of Summer Beach Resort and The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island , the Anne Cain Golf Academy provides students with a variety of golf lessons. Private, individual training is offered as well as luxurious vacation packages that include accommodations and rounds of golf. The academy's ability to customize a program for an individual golfer or small groups up to 4 people makes the academy unique in the industry.

The Anne Cain Golf Academy is conveniently located less than thirty minutes from the Jacksonville International Airport

Anne's Professional Accomplishments

• GOLF Magazine Top 100 Instructors in America Award winner
• Named by Golf Magazine as one of the Top Instructors by Region for the state of Florida
• Nominated by peers for LPGA Teacher of the Year Award (1999, 2002, 2005)
• Named as a "Favorite Instructor" in Golf for Women
• Contributes golf instruction articles to GOLF Magazine
• Became the first LPGA instructor to become an authorized instructor of Homer Kelley's The Golfing Machine. This book is the leading technical manual on the physics and geometry of golf. Fewer than 100 pros have been authorized worldwide.
• Cain's published article "Einstein's Golf Lesson" is used by Johnson and Johnson in training its pharmaceutical sales managers the importance of coaching and building skills "one at a time".

I have played golf for 30 years; the last 10 years as a 5 handicap. I have taken over 50 lessons with golf professionals. Half of these lessons used videos and computers. I am just now TRULY learning to play "The Greatest Game Ever Played" thanks to the Anne Cain Golf Academy. Prior to taking a lesson with Anne, I was concerned that her use of video and computer technology would be too technical and rob me of my "feel". I could not have been more mistaken! Anne combines this advanced equipment with her personal instruction skills and uniquely incorporates proper mechanics into your very own "feel". On a scale of 1 to 10, comparing Anne's instruction methods versus other instruction with video and computers, the other lessons ranked a 4 and Anne's lessons rank an 11!

Chris Stone, Jacksonville, Florida

The Anne Cain Golf Academy offers a wide array of packages from luxurious onsite hotel accomodations to Beach Front condominiums at the adjoining Summer Beach Resort.