100 Chip Shots to 25 Yards: The Block Practice Drill That Builds Touch
The video above is beautifully simple: 100 chip shots, 25 yards, one landing target. No fancy training aids, no swing thoughts — just relentless, focused repetition. It might be the most effective short-game session an amateur can do.
Block practice gets a bad reputation because people do it mindlessly, but around the greens it is exactly what builds touch. Chipping is a feel skill, and feel comes from volume: seeing the ball land, watching it roll, and calibrating your hands to the distance over and over until it becomes automatic.
How to Run the 100-Chip Session
Set a landing target, not a hole target. Place a towel or an alignment stick 25 yards out and make the goal landing the ball on it — the roll-out takes care of itself once your landing spot is dialed. Tour players think in landing spots; amateurs think in holes. Copy the tour players.
Track your makes in blocks of ten. Write down how many of each ten land within a three-foot circle of the target. Watching the numbers climb from three to six to eight across the session is incredibly motivating, and it turns a grind into a game.
Vary one thing at a time. Once the stock shot is grooving, switch clubs — same 25-yard target, different trajectory. A pitching wedge that flies and stops versus an 8-iron that runs out gives you two weapons for the same distance.
One hundred chips sounds like a lot until you realize it takes about thirty minutes. Do this drill weekly and your up-and-down percentage will quietly become the best part of your game.
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