 Right welcome back to another episode of testing the tips and this one is an absolute belter and guaranteed to save you shots. It's a tip that is passed down from the world's number one golf coach and it's how we can get so much more consistent with a certain part of our game using a very unusual method. So one of the biggest issues we have as average golfers is we just don't hit enough greens in regulation and that means at some point we're going to be relying on something like this with a short shot requirement to save our up and down or save our score at least and it can make a massive difference to how you finish your round of golf and so many of us struggle with consistency in this area. So first of all what we're going to do is highlight what are the three areas that are potentially causing you major problems and where does that inconsistency come from? Well the first thing is this bottom half it's the moving of legs it's swaying it's all those kind of things that produce an inconsistent strike. The next thing is this front left arm a lot of us can start to bend get it steep hack down and that again can cause a major problem and the third and final one is a lot of people get very wristy when they're looking at wedge shots or short game shots whatever you want to refer to them as and start to let the club head overtake their hands and often blade in one through the back. The question is how do we eradicate all of those three problems and what we're looking to do is quite simply stabilize the bottom half get that left arm straight and then finally make sure that we manage to maintain those wrists through that impact location so that we've not got that flippy action. The question is what does a drill look like and how is it guaranteed to make sure that you stop doing all of those Now the only place I have ever seen this adopted is by Matt Fitzpatrick and it's basically left hand low for a right-handed player in terms of on the grip when you're looking to execute a chip and that's as simple as that that's all you're going to do is you're going to swap your hands down left and low and then you're going to swing pretty much as normal but there's a couple of key things that eradicate the moves that we were having issues with the first one being that left hand or left arm rather buckling in any way from our traditional kind of grip if we switch this round what this makes sure is we keep our lead arm very much straight throughout that swing once you get a little bit of rhythm and timing into that what it makes sure that you do is that there's a consistency in terms of the returning to the impact location so that's a first thing in terms of consistency. The second thing that it does is you grip with your left hand low right hand takes its normal position then in exchange and you tuck your right elbow in very much into this sort of underneath the ribs area well what that does is simply it encourages a little bit of rotation so all you're doing is you're keeping that elbow tucked in and hopefully what you can see is I'm eradicating a lot of upper body movement other than a nice rotation when I mean upper body there's no swaying it's a rotation around my body and that left right elbow tucked in allows me to do that and they are two very much natural positions that you will automatically adopt just by switching your grip around so there's nothing happening there and then that third one was the legs themselves again moving removing that kind of movement out and again it's just the same thing really it's just the the rotation that we start to get in the swing as opposed to swaying. Now then they're all opposites what I want you to do is see me hit some shots now what you'll see is a number of shots that I effectively thinned so the question you should be asking yourself right now is and why are you showing us a tip that effectively looks as though it does not work well after a little bit of work and an understanding of something that was missing from the initial tip that I watched and that's where my hands are placed in terms of my stance then I started to work things out and even then it took a little bit of understanding and practice but what I will say is once I've got the final piece of the jigsaw for me at least worked out it became a very effective and trustworthy method and that is quite simply my normal stance with a grip would be my hands would be quite low so if I was in my normal position my hands would be quite low and sort of very much in my groin area if you like would be my natural position what I found with is if I tried to adopt that position with this grip this stance wherever you want to call it it just did not work at all and what I had to do was get in a very much more upright position in terms of hands club head everything stood up a lot more vertical now what that allowed me to do was all of a sudden change as you've seen in terms of first of all there was a complete change in how comfortable I felt in be able to execute the swing so trust me without that element at least for me I would have never got a ball off the ground and when I've done that I'm safe to say that the improvements were massive and so much so that we're going to hit this one with the camera on and I'm going to try and explain what I did so feet very much together we've got a 30-yard little sort of chip shot my concentration is keeping that elbow tucked in rotate and rotate and as you can see that should release out that might be the best one we've hit not quite got it there but as you can see it's a nice crisp strike so I should have mentioned probably earlier on this video this comes from it's my interpretation of a video from Alex Elliott like I said my first interpretation of it wasn't too good and I did think it was very questionable in terms of the what we were looking to try and do and there's one other element that I'd forgotten but I'll just talk about that I practiced on the t-box earlier and helps you again get that feel is very much tuck in so tuck a driver head cover underneath your left armpit get into that position and all you're looking to do is make sure that you keep that head cover in tucked under your arm and what that stops you from doing basically is you don't get sort of any sort of chicken wing you don't get any kind of disconnect from your body so it keeps everything naturally just always want to go down to that standard grip but it keeps everything nice and tucked in and keeps it all nice and come back the final thing that he says is obviously you can't take that driver head cover onto a golf course so the other thing is and I've seen pros do this tuck your sleeve under your armpit make sure you've sort of got it there and it's the same thing all you're trying to do is make sure that you keep that connection throughout the swing it's one for me that you have to work with you have to have a little bit of faith with it might take a little bit of messing around but if you struggle in and around the greens it's without doubt another little tip a little bit of nugget of information that just might help an area of the game that is super important and could possibly save you a lot of shots right as ever thank you for watching that one it was my interpretation as ever Alex's full video will be down in the description box below so go and check out Alex if you feel you want his direct information if not thanks for watching and I'll see you all soon