Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The EASY Way To Get BACKSPIN On Your Wedge Shots"

In today's lesson...

Professor Q goes over some really simple techniques that ANYONE can do...

...that will have your golf ball zipping back on command.

Including how to use your knees to add spin to your wedge shots...

...and which body part to avoid using too much or it will crush your chances of getting consistently high spin rates.

Next time out, your buddies will be impressed as you pull that approach shot back and nestle it up to the hole!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 10:04

Video Transcription:

There are some really simple, easy techniques to getting some really good backspin on your chip shots. You may think that there's some crazy technique that all the tour players are doing, but that's not really the reality. They're just sticking to a few key principles. Let me show you how to do it exactly right here. So, first of all, equipment, we need to have a high lofted wedge.

So what we want to understand is what creates spin is friction. And one way to create friction is with more loft. All right. There's a reason why wedges are going to spin a lot more than your driver. There's more loft on the club face. That's going to help create more friction. Now, believe it or not, we can actually get too much loft.

You know, I know that they sell out their 70 some degree wedges, but those wedges oftentimes don't actually help you to get more spin, because what ends up happening is there's so much spin or there's so much loft that the ball will actually slip on the face and it's not going to grab and create that good friction and spin that we want to have.

So I recommend using something somewhere between a 56 and a 60 degree that's going to be that's going to give you the most amount of spin for most players. I have a 60 degree here. This is a ping glide wedge. They make great wedges. There's lots of great wedges out there. But that's one thing to be using here in this video.

The other thing with our wedges, we want to make sure that we have a perfectly clean club face. If there is any moisture, dirt, anything on the club face, it's going to reduce the amount of friction. I want you to have the sensation that you can eat dinner off of this club face. So when you pull the club out of the bag.

I just checked the club face to make sure it's nice and clean. Give it a good scrub if it needs it, so that we can get the maximum amount of friction. Next is our golf ball. We need to be using a soft cover urethane type cover, a golf ball. This is basically any golf ball that tour player uses is going to be using a urethane cover golf ball.

If you're using a pinnacle, a top flight, that's a hard cover golf ball, you're not going to get that friction that grab on the club face that's going to be able to create the maximum spin. You might be able to get some spin with those, but you're not going to be able to get a really good one. Hop and stop kind of spin when you're using that type of golf ball.

Now to our caliber golf balls, they can get pretty expensive, right? And pro V ones are 50 some dollars a dozen. Those are great golf balls. You know, most of those are going to be anywhere in the 40 to $55 range. There's actually another golf ball out there. There's several others, but one that I really like that really gives you the performance of a tour caliber golf ball is Snell.

Now, there aren't a lot of tour players that play these golf balls. Actually, I'm not sure if there are any, to be honest, because they don't pay any players, they just pass on the savings to you now. Full disclosure, Snell does send us free golf balls, so sure, I'm a little bit partial, but you can go on Google and look at a lot of independent research and see that this ball holds up decent spin, all the performance of those other golf balls in there, $37 a dozen.

So check them out. That's the one I'm going to be using for this video. If you just go to Snell golf.com, check them out, you can get some snow golf balls for a fraction of the cost of what a tour covered golf ball and get all the performance. So that's that's two main components there and you haven't even had to do any special technique.

Most of you probably already have a good wedge in most of your priority. Play good caliber golf ball. So you probably most of you are already probably covered on the spin front are things now beyond that we need to be doing is we need to be making perfectly clean contact with the ball. There's no special crazy technique that is going to get you crazy amounts of spin.

Now there are some advanced techniques that can help you to get a little bit more spin. But when when it comes down to getting most of the spin, you know, the small amount of things that give you the most results, it really comes down to your equipment. And then just making perfectly clean contact. So you have to have a lie that allows you to do that.

If you have moisture, if you have grass between the golf ball and the face, right, that's going to make it slip on the face. And you're not going to be able to get that friction that's going to be able to create that spin. So you have to have a perfectly clean contact when you see tour players hitting these crazy type spin shots, what you're typically seeing is they're hitting from a tight, firm and dry ly that is perfect for getting spin.

So we're going to try to simulate that the best we can here. And I'm going to show you can go to your local shipping practice area right now and you're going be able to get really, really good spin if you just follow this. So what I want you to do when you go to your local chipping practice area is I just want you to tee it up a little bit.

Just get it up out of the grass. So I have this teed up, you know, maybe a half an inch. This is just going to make it so that I can make perfectly clean contact and you can go to the practice range and do this exact same thing. Now, I'm not going to be doing anything crazy with my technique.

Let's just go over that real quick. I'm going to start out with my feet pretty close together here. I want to have my feet pretty close together for these short range shots because as I mentioned, what's really, really important is that we make perfectly clean contact with the ball. I see a lot of people chipping with their feet pretty far apart.

This promotes more of a shifting of your body, which is going to make it harder to control where this club hits the ground. Right. I want to have that shifting of my body when I'm trying to create power and speed. That's what I want to do on any full swing shot. But this isn't a full swing shot. This is more of a finesse.

Really, really make a contact kind of shot. So I want to have my feet pretty close together, roughly about a clubhead width apart. Somewhere in there is pretty good. And that's going to allow me to stay very centered and be able to make really good contact with the ground and ultimately of the golf ball. I also like to set up a little bit open with my feet.

The reason why I like to do that is it just makes it easier to turn through the golf ball. Imagine if I set up like this, right? I set up really closed. It'd be it's a lot harder to kind of turn through the golf ball. Right. I'm going to stall and I'm going to tend to throw the club right?

So I want to have my body open so that way I can more easily turn through it. And that brings me to my next point. A lot of people, when I see hitting these chip shots, especially with wedges, there are a lot of arms and wrists right where we're bending the arms a lot. We're bending the risks a lot, right?

We're creating all this and we're not really turning our body. Right. That makes it very, very hard to be consistent. I'm I'm trying to figure out right now, how would I hit the the ground in the same spot every time by doing that, I tell you what, I better have some really, really good, like, elite level hand-eye coordination to be able to do that.

And I just don't possess that. So I choose to do it the easier way, which is using my bigger muscles, using my knees to turn my hips, using my hips, to turn my upper body. And really what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to feel my hands staying in front of me the whole time and I'm just using my body to turn back and through.

Now you're probably thinking, heck, I could do that, right? Anybody could do this. It's very, very simple technique. So again, feet close together, a little bit open with the stance. And all I'm going to do is I'm going to try and keep the club in front of me and I'm just going to turn my body back and through.

And when you do this, it's so easy just to hit the ground in the same spot. Every single time I'm looking at this little speck on this mat and I've seen that little speck move just slightly every time I go through there because it's just so easy to do that. So that's really all it takes. Wedge Not too much loft clean club face we want a good amount of 156 between 56 and 60 degrees.

We want to have a top level golf ball guy to have a soft covered golf ball. We want to use a very simple technique that's going to allow us now no frills that's going to allow us to make perfectly clean contact. So go to your practice range. Now, I'm going to try to attempt this sometimes when this things indoors, it doesn't quite work the way that I want to.

I just hit another one. I hit one a minute ago and I said I had 6000 R.P.M. to spin on a little nine yard shot. It's probably not correct, but we're going to see if we can get it to work this time here and see what kind of spin I get. Hopefully I can get it to work and give us some some solid numbers here.

So again, all I'm doing is turn it back and through when I try to hit something, you know, in the 10 to 20 yard range and see what kind of spin we can get getting some really good contact. All right. So that was, again, 11 yard chip. It's telling me I got 7000 RPMs of spin. I think that's true.

Is probably close to 3000, 3500 at most. I did feel like I got some pretty good spin on it. Hit the mat or hit the screen and kind of spun back to there. I could hear it kind of skidding on the floor. So I definitely did get some some spin on that. But if you're looking at that, you're probably saying there was nothing special about that.

It was just simple things that you can do to get some really, really good spin. So I know you're thinking, okay, that's great. You hit it off a t, he got lots of spin off the T. That doesn't really help me to be able to hit these shots around the green when I'm on the course. But this is what you need to do to practice, to understand, okay, I can get a lot of spin on this shot.

If I can make if I can get perfectly clean access to the golf ball. So once you get a good sense for this and you've seen the ball kind of one hop and stop several times, you got the hang of it. Now what I do is I get rid of the tee and then work toward seeing what the ly does to your spin.

If there's a lot of moisture again, it's going to make the ball slip. If there's that's really, really soft and the clubs are going to dig, it's going to be harder to get that get that spin right if if there's a rough right, if you got a little bit grass around the golf ball and you're having trouble making perfectly clean contact, you're not going to get that amount of spin.

Find yourself a really dry firm and tight ly and you're going to be able to get really, really good spin like you see the tour players get, right. So now that you're able to get this awesome ace spin on the golf ball, the next step is to learn to control how far you're hitting it. And this is what we do in the Topspeed golf wedge system, in the clock system portion of that wedge system.

So what I want you to do now, now that you've got this really good spin, now I want you to go to the wedge system, go to that clock system video and learn the simple technique to be able to control that distance. So that way you can get that one hop and stop shot right next to the home. Play

well, and I'll talk to you soon.