Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Master Backspin With Your Wedge Shots"

And there's a very specific reason you've struggled to put spin on your wedge shots.

In today's lesson...

I'll reveal WHY you struggle with spin, a simple "cheat" to help you get extra spin on your wedges...

...and I'll show you how to use my "Clock Swing" to control the distances on these shots!

I can't wait for you to start sucking the ball back right to the hole!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:56

Video Transcription:

How to Master Backspin With Your Wedge Shots

Does one thing that almost every single player that I've ever worked with does incorrectly, that keeps them from getting spin on their wedges. Now, when you wanna spin the golf ball, what's going on here is you have to hit it clean. And by that I mean we gotta get the weight shift to the left in front of the golf ball.

We have to get our hands leading the way, and we're coming down and pinching the golf ball before we hit the ground. So it's like the club is coming down, hitting the golf ball, then you're hitting the turf in front and it's because that's that clean contact with a lot of speed. It really, nps, the golf ball gets a lot of spin on it.

Now, what most players do is the opposite of that. So we see here how that club, my hands are almost 15 or 20 degrees in front of the club head. So this will be zero degrees. The shaft is straight up and. This will be leaning forward 15 or 20 degrees. That's the way the pros are doing it. The pros are delivering, uh, that clubhead with about 15 to 20 degrees less loft than the natural loft of it.

And we're talking here. Shots are actually gonna be low launching, high spinning shots. These are shots. 40 yards or longer. Now what most players do is they try to hit at the golf ball. The shaft gets straight up and down, and what ends up happening is instead of hitting that golf ball first, you're gonna grab a little bit of, of grass, of dirt of water.

The club's gonna hit the ground. When I flip it, it's going lower earlier, and I'm gonna hit some ground behind the golf ball slightly, even if it's just the tops of the grass and it's gonna pick up some of that grass and. Stuck between the ball and the club face. So when I release it early, it starts hitting the grass here and it slides under it too much loft and the ball just slides up the face.

When I come down with Shaline, I come down and compress the golf ball. I pinch the golf ball. It hits all ball first and it really gets some zip on it cuz there's nothing between the the ball and the club face. So, for example, here, let me go ahead and hit a. I wanna see at least, it depends on how hard you hit it, but for every yard that I hit it, I wanna have at least a hundred RPMs of back spin.

Uh, and we can get higher and higher than that. The cleaner and cleaner that we hit it. So here we go. We're gonna hit one the right way. Shaft lean in front, really nip the ball first every single time. That one has a ton of spin on it. And we can see there are almost 10,000 RPMs of spin for 74 yards of carry distance.

So anything over 7,400 would've been. I got that one almost up to 10,000. So 98, 29 RPMs of spin. I really came down and caught that one very cleanly on the club base. So there's a trick to doing this. You're probably saying now, okay, I get it. I get that I should be getting shuffling, but if I could do that, I'd already be doing it.

Here's a little workaround. It's almost like cheating a little bit. So we're gonna get the ball slightly back in our stance that's gonna help us to hit down and get the golf ball. Just a little bit back is fine. I don't wanna have a big wide stance like this and put it way back. We have our feet fairly close together with the ball on the back end step.

Now from there, I'm gonna go ahead and lean the shaft forward that 15 or 20 degrees that I talked about. And what I want you to do is I want you to get your body in a position like it'd be at impact, meaning that the hips are gonna open, the chest is gonna be the, the weight's gonna be on the front. and everything's gonna be kind of opening up like this.

And then I want you to grab your grip last. So get in position, you'd be at impact, then take your grip that's really comfortable. Then when you come back, that's most likely gonna be a much stronger grip than what you're used to, or the hands are gonna be much more this way, kind of this side of the club, meaning that my hands are rotated more that way than I'm used to.

So if this is a normal. For most players, the hands are gonna be much more turned under like that. Now that's a great cheat because what the pros are doing is they're taking their normal grip and they're bowing the wrist. They're getting this tons of lag in here and really pinching that golf ball that way.

But I found a lot of players struggle with that. And I wanna get you the feeling of a great hit shot here by cheating a little bit, getting the grip. So lean the shaft. Get your body into impact position, then grip the club. You're gonna notice the thumbs are much more on the right side of the club. You have a very strong grip there.

If I was to set the club straight up and down, look how strong my, my left hand is, or how much my left hand is turned this way on the club. And then the last piece from there is I wanna make sure that I try to draw it so I don't want to get in front of it and chop down and across. I want to feel like it's a draw.

It doesn't have to be a. But I wanna feel like I'm coming from the inside and really releasing that club to ensure that I don't just wipe across it and, and kind of get a glancing blow. So let's go ahead and try it again. I preset my club impact position. I take my grip, I go back to normal, and now I feel like I'm still coming from the inside and really pinching this ball on the face.

There we go. That's gonna have a ton of spin on it there too. Yeah. 97, a hundred rpm. For an 88 yard shot, Carrie, that's, that's a little aggressive, a little more aggressive than the first one, and that's the last key there. I never wanna slow down when I'm trying to get spin on it. I never wanna kind of stop my swing.

I wanna feel like I'm very aggressive. I really feel like I'm putting pressure all the way through to grab that ball on the club face and really to zip it all the way through there. So that comes the second piece of this, where maybe you're spinning it back now. Maybe you're getting these really solid hit wed shots.

But how do we control the distance, right? How do we hit one 50 yards versus 70 versus 90 and be pretty spot on when we're landing it there? Especially if you get the ball to to check up. Ideally, what you'd have every time you hit is you'd have the ball check up and stop right where it ended up. That's gonna give you the best distance control.

I really don't want the ball to spin back 15 or 20 feet or roll forward 15 or 20. I want it to hit and just stop right where it's at. That's the ideal scenario. Well, I can control my distance if I do a couple things. Most importantly is what I call the clock swing, and it's a variation of this. Most people are taught the clock swing by how far their arm goes back.

So let's say that this is 12 o'clock, this is six o'clock, nine o'clock would be over here, and then I'd swing through. That will give me a nine o'clock distance, but that's actually not. It's less about where the arm goes and it's more about the tempo that the arm moves. So if you're a member of Top Speed Golf website, click on the instruction tab, the top speed golf system, and then go go into the short game section.

There's a special video I have for you there on the clock swing. I'm gonna teach it to you not only how your body moves, but then the right rhythm, the right tempo, and that rhythm is what's gonna get you to get that ball to stop right on a. Time, after time, after time. So go ahead and go to that video right now.

I'll see you over there in the short game section. I can't wait to teach you this clock swing, but now that you've got a ton of spin on it, let's go and get started.