Marcus Westerberg Chipping Tips – Tick Tock Drill
Chipping is a part of the game that can save golfers loads of shots but will often cost them instead. Marcus Westerberg has a great drill for us to help us start improving.
Swing length and rhythm are important factors when improving your distance control and strike quality. Marcus Westerberg shows us the tick-tock chipping drill to help us improve it.
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The tick-tock drill
When chipping, try to imagine your wedge as the pendulum in a grandfather clock. You want the wedge to travel the same distance back as though, with a smooth change of direction and easy rhythm.
A good drill for this is the tick-tock drill, where you say tick as you take the club back and tock on impact. Doing this will generally slow you down and make your stroke much smoother, which will help your distance control and can sometimes be the cause of strike issues.
To add another layer to the tick-tock drill, you want to try and hold your finish for 2 seconds before moving on to the next shot. This will further help your rhythm and also your balance.
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Jack Backhouse
Jack is a PGA Golf Professional who specialises in coaching, teaching golf to beginners and top-level amateurs for 10+ years. He also loves his golf equipment and analysing the data of the latest clubs on the market using launch monitors, specialising in blade irons and low-spinning drivers despite having a chronically low ball flight.
Although Jack has no formal journalism training, He has been reading What's In The Bag articles since he started playing at 12 and studying golf swings since his dad first filmed his swing to reveal one of the worst over-the-top slice swings he reckons has ever been recorded, which set him off on the path to be a coach. His favourite club ever owned was a Ping G10 driver bought from a local top amateur with the hope that some of the quality golf shots would come with it (they didn't), and worst was a Nike SQ driver he only bought because Tiger was using it.
Jack is a member of Sand Moor Golf Club and regularly gets out on the golf course to prepare for tournaments. Jack uses a TaylorMade BRNR Mini driver, a half set of TaylorMade P7MB irons, MG4 wedges and a TaylorMade TP Reserve putter.
