A 'Leg Lock' chipping setup for golfers tired of chunking it fat
Alex Fortey's chipping lesson runs eight minutes, from a trail leg drill to a 70 percent ground pressure rule, and passed 19,000 views in a week.
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The 2 "Leg Lock" Chipping Setup That Stops Fat Shots (Never Chunk Again
Chipping won the week. Alex Fortey's channel is built for older golfers who are tired of instruction that assumes a 20-year-old's flexibility, and his newest long lesson goes after one of the most humbling shots in the game: the chunked chip.
"The 2 'Leg Lock' Chipping Setup That Stops Fat Shots" is about keeping the lower body quiet. The chapters move from a trail leg drill for controlling where the club bottoms out, to an arm triangle meant to stop the hands from flipping, to a rule of putting about 70 percent of the pressure on the ground to stop swaying, and finally to taking it all from the practice area onto the course. It opened with close to 8,000 views on its first day and is still the busiest thing on the channel by a wide margin.
The comments read like a range report. One viewer says he tried it on the course the same day and did not chunk a single chip, though distance control is next on his list. Another says he had stumbled onto something similar a week earlier. Not everyone is a fan of the pace: one viewer thinks eight minutes could have been 45 seconds.
Two shorter uploads rounded out the week, an iron setup tip built on weight distribution and a slice fix billed as taking under a minute. The channel ran a little above its usual daily pace and picked up about a thousand subscribers. Among the sports channels nearest its size, the big weeks belonged to NRL on Nine and RugbyPass, while US GOLF TV and JerseyGroovyFilms kept a steadier rhythm, much like this one.
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Thanks for this Alex. Great video. Been struggling with chipping for a while. Tried this on the course today. Didn't chunk a single chip. Decent contact every time. Just need to work on distance control now.
@kevinfrancis8377See it on YouTubeGreat video. Ironically, I started using a method very similar to this last week before I saw this presentation. Worked. MUCH better than the “conventional” system of chipping. Thanks for this and all your other videos. You do make golf simpler
@joevladovich2075See it on YouTube
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