Ping ChipR Wedge Review
After 25-plus years of the chipping yips it’s fair to say that this part of the game is of interest to me. I tell people, it doesn’t even have to be golfers, that my problems have been on and off but, in truth, they’ve always been there. They’re part of my very being, I will pass them off as a badge of honour to cause some amusement, but they generally haunt me.
I waste large, valuable chunks of any time with a professional golfer by quizzing them about their thoughts on chipping or, more specifically, my chipping. I’ve spent more time around the periphery of countless chipping greens around the UK than on the actual course and, in one desperate spell, I lost more balls from bunkers than I did in general play.
It began in the mid 90s, particular highlights include missing the ball altogether on the 11th hole at Wimbledon Park, with the divot somehow sheltering the ball. There had been other warning signs; a two-over 68 a couple of years before in my absolute pomp included a double-hit off some hard pan which very nearly finished behind me. In 2007 I broke new ground on a press trip in Tuscany by making contact with the ball on three separate occasions and subsequently losing the ball in some shrubbery behind me.
I’ve experimented with every manner of grip possible, seen therapists and bored the majority of the European Tour with my problems. I define my friends by their inability to move a golf ball from one point to another 10 yards away which provides far too much comfort than it ought to.
Watch Mark Townsend hit a number of different short-game shots with ease using the new Ping ChipR
All of which is why the new Ping ChipR arrived on my doorstep a few weeks ago. ‘Bump Up Your Confidence’ is the catchline which barely touches the sides in terms of what I’m hoping to get out of this club.
The Ping ChipR paints itself as a ‘fully engineered chipping solution (tell me more) that combines elements of a putter and a wedge to help golfers improve performance around the greens’. This is a key element; see…
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