LynnBlakeGolf Forums - Homer Kelley -- Chip Shot Champion

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Originally Posted by Delaware Golf

For short shots, things become interesting, the short game is actually more complex that your full swing for all full powered shots, you have a lot more choices, automatic and non-automatic releases can be utilized depending on the shot at hand.

DG

DG is right on here.

Nobody loved the Short Shots more than Homer Kelley. He converted his small detached garage into an indoor range that served as Command Central for his G.O.L.F. experiments, and over a period of forty years, he hit countless numbers into the carpet fragments that served as his backstop. He hit so many that he literally wore the dimples off the relatively few Balls he kept on hand. You had to see that motley collection of discolored, smooth-as-glass "ten-cent pickups" to believe it!

Actually, I guess the dimple-wearing was the result not only of his incessant Ball-striking, but also the subsequent journey each would make down the wooden return trough that would bring it back to his feet for 'another go at it.'

And "These are my new Clubs!" he would say, proudly displaying a 1950s vintage niblick with a leather grip so slick and hard you could see your reflection in it.

"I love a good Chip Shot," said he.

"It's harder to do than most people think."