Why You Need This:

If you’re looking to have some serious fun around the greens, you need to know how to spin your wedges.

It’s not only a heckuva lot of fun…

But it’s a great shot to have in your arsenal for when you really need to make the ball stick.

Let’s get back to the fun…

Everybody wants to spin their wedge shots.

All of us want to see the ball check up on the green and maybe even spin back a little and attack the hole.

You know what’s really cool?

Now that we have radar systems like FlightScope…

…we can explore the science behind how we get spin on our wedge shots.

Check out the video now to learn how to put a little magic on your wedge shots!

What's Covered: Going over the aspects of how to create spin with your wedges.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:16

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf and our wedge system here. Today we’re going to talk about the most fun shot in golf.

Everybody wants to spin their wedges. They love to see that ball that checks up on the green, and maybe even spins back a little bit. It’s really just cool, and it’s a lot of fun to do.

The good thing is now that we have radar systems like FlightScope, we can put some science behind this. There’s some actual science to say how we get spin on our wedge shots. There’s a couple things we want to have happen.

So first off, we’ve got to come in nice and shallow. So if we’re chopping down into the ball, or kind of coming down steep, what’s going to happen a lot of times we’re going to get some grass between our club and the ball. That grass liquid in it, it has moisture in it, and that’s going to get the ball to kind of slide up the face.

You want to come in nice and shallow, so one of the things that I would focus in on is really not to take much of a divot. I’ve been hitting a few balls up here already, and I’m trying to come in pretty nice and shallow into the ball, and I’m really not going to take much of a divot at all.

I’m really going to just kind of rough up the turf a little bit as I’m coming through. Now a good way to do this is to make sure that we don’t have too much weight on our left.

That’s a big no-no, if we have weight way over here, we’re 100 percent on the left, now we’re going to be chopping down into it a little too much.

Or maybe if you’ve been told to put your ball back in your stance, we address that in our earlier video, if I start putting this ball back in my stance, now then I’m hitting down into it too much, I’m not going to get the kind of spin that we want.

One of the next pieces that we’re going to go over is the dynamic loft. We want to have – I’ll go over some FlightScope numbers here in a minute, we’re going to track a few of these shots – we want to have the dynamic loft, meaning how much loft is on the face, when it contacts the ball, to be somewhere around 40.

That’s a pretty good number, we could probably go a little bit less than that if we want to. So we’re hitting these nice, low shots that are grabbing the ball, the loft of the club is grabbing the ball, and it’s really getting a lot of that spin onto the ball.

If we start to scoop up a little too much, flip the hands, then we’re using more of the normal amount of loft that’s on the club, then we’re not going to get that ultimate grab on there, the ball is going to start to roll up the face a little too much.

If we take a little too much loft off, we get too much forward shaft lean, we’re not going to get the ultimate grab on the ball there either, because it’s going to come out a little too low.

But in general, you want to have this ball coming out nice and low. I recommend using a 56° wedge, that’s the one that’s going to spin the most, usually.

I’m delofting this all the way down to about 40°, this is what we see the tour players doing. We’re going to have that about 40° of dynamic loft, or loft at impact.

From there, we’re going to want to see the launch angle of this ball as it comes off my face, I want the launch angle to be a little less than 30°. So again, it’s going to be kind of 30° or a little bit lower than that as it’s coming off.

Ideally, we want to see at least 6,500 RPMs of backspin. We can get way more than that, around that 9,000 or even 10,000 range is really, really good. I had one a second ago that had 13,000 RPMs of backspin on there, so it really caught up a lot. But that’s what we’re going to focus in on.

So to recap on this, we’re going to go ahead, swing nice and shallow. So again, my weight is left, but I’m not too far left. I don’t have the ball way back in my stance, I’m going to have the ball kind of under the logo of my shirt or my left ear. Have a little bit of weight on my left side.

My spine is going to be nice and stacked. I’m coming in kind of shallow with the ground. If we had kind of a hula hoop tilt here, it would be tilted a little flatter so I’m coming in shallow, squaring it up, and then shallow as I’m exiting through. I’m making sure that I’m delofting that club.

Another feeling that you could have for delofting this club face, is getting the hands a little more forward to the palm of the hand, is down toward the ground, and I’m covering on top of that golf ball even though I’m not really taking a divot, and I’m going to feel like the top edge of my club is really leaning forward as I’m coming through there.

So now let me go ahead and I’m going to hit a few shots here, I’ll pick out a good one. I’ll show you the swing, I’ll show you the result, and we’ll have a little fun.

All right, so hit a few shots. Hit some really nice ones, got some good spin on one. Probably the one that I like the best, carrying these about 50 yards. If we went a little bit farther we’d be able to ramp up the spin even a little bit more.

I had a vertical launch of 27°, so right under 30°, what we were looking for. It wasn’t picking up my dynamic loft. I think the club head was moving a little bit too slow. Sometimes it struggles on shots that are under 60 yards.

But my spin was 9,831, so I got some good backspin on there. I was really happy with my shot dispersion there. I stuck three of them pretty close, and one of them not too far away.

So focus on those key things, coming in nice and shallow. We’re delofting the club, we’re really feeling like we’re getting that ball to come compress against the face.

It’s almost going to suction cup against the face for a couple inches is what it’s going to feel like as it’s coming off there. You’re going to hit these nice, low, skipping, spinning shots.

Try to get those shots turn over a little bit from right to left, that’s going to help you to come in pretty shallow, and to really get those coming in with a good spin on there.

So good luck to you guys. Work on these, they’re a ton of fun. I’ll see you all soon.