I recently suffered a very narrow last-green match play loss to a man one shot lower than me. Nothing surprising in that. These things happen. I didn’t have my best and he was just a fraction better.
What was surprising, though, was one of the clubs he was using – a chipper – and to great effect, too. I did a slight doubletake when I first half-clocked it on one of his early greenside attempts, for I rarely see anyone using a chipper (even those who most definitely should), and don’t remember ever seeing one in the hands of a 5-handicapper.
