Spin Chips - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Spin Chips - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will give you the basics of how to spin your chip shops by utilizing clean grooves and a premium golf ball. They'll also discuss how a dry ball and dry club combined with enough power and plenty of loft will increase spin. Couple this with a great strike and you'll start to spin your chip shots like never before.

Now Matt if you're anything like me I'm sure you'll get asked quite regularly in your genuine your general golf lesson “How do I chip the ball and get it to spin like that on the telly?” Definitely a sort of the Hollywood shot looks great in front of all your friends seen it get in and get a little bit a bank on it's one that everyone wants to hit. So we've seen that classic situation Phil Mickelson is in the side of a bunker everyone says he has always got no chance here and this thing goes skyward lands on the green one about zip next to the whole big round of applause and we'll want to try that one. Definitely yeah and the club golfer maybe goes out they can play the high shot lands on the green but it rolls on too far that's a genuine complaint we get isn't it. Definitely and as a couple of things that we can do to help us achieve more spin. So how are we going to achieve more spin using using a technique that a club golfer can apply. OK So a couple of further things that we need to understand to start off with is the equipment that we're using. So generally you know about you've had it in a couple of your lessons the guy who's asked to hit that spinning shot you take a look at his wedge number one the grooves are filled with mud sand whatever it may be so theoretically there's not really much of a groove there so just enough clean grit bite on the ball. Definitely you know we need to see that we're making the most of the grooves and obviously the tour players are privy to be able to change equipment all the time the change in wedges every months really so they've got a fresh out of grooves to impart as much spin. So one thing is a you know that we can all do if we can get a nice set of grooves you know clean it before even after you've had a few practice shots don't get in and hit it maybe just get a quick wipe you know keep the brush in your pocket whatever it may be keep those grooves nice and clean. Now you mention at all players they can change their clubs whenever they like they just go to the talk to the shop and say can I get a new set wedges please. Not realistic for the club golfer so what if then 2 to 3 years older than maybe look at renewing the wedges. Yeah I say 2 years I'd say maybe even a year sometimes depending on obviously how much you're playing as well, but yeah if you've got something that is getting past 2 years have a look at them if you've seen big wear marks on the face. You're not going to be getting the maximum out of those grooves so clean dry relatively fresh grooves the club side of things at poor components. Yeah this thing right here the ball so what will say you know the distance ball or a premium ball distance ball being hard at one bit of a hard core and a harder outer shell on it isn't going to be ideal to create in as much spin. We want something like the premium ball that's got OK maybe a slightly firmer core but a softer mantle or a softer skin on itself and that was all. By just looking at the packet I definitely actually asked the pro that you're working with us going to the shop assistants ball again on the on the packet of the golf ball you will see generally a little chart whether it's a hat a spinning golf ball or more of a distance golf ball we want something long off the tee also soft and spin around the greens.

So we've got the right club yeah we've got the right ball yeah now lets look at the right technique if we can then. You know couple things we need for technique number one we need some loft we're not going to see the chip and run shot when you are playing with an 8 iron or a 9 iron or a 7 iron is going to be a spinning shot that's going to be a release in shot so we need some loft maybe a sand wedge maybe a lob wedge maybe a gap wedge we can get as much loft on that's going to be one thing then we need some speed more speed we impart them off for small spin. So we're talking about a distance of shot I have certain degree of distance to get a spin. Yeah definitely a short of 30 yards plus when you're going up and up and up you know get to 85 yards you're really going to see some spin 30 yards you might get the one that one bounce and stops but not coming back but when you get a little bit longer you going to be able to impart more spin on it. A shorter shot let's say 15 yard little dink they don't spin they're not going to spin you might get check will release OK so that's been on T.V. not a spin for us so we need to just allow for that in our shot shaping up visualization it landed short release. Definitely a fifty yards to maybe 80 90 100 yards you know see some spin you know see control. Yeah definitely and then finally the actual strike of the golf ball to help it up in the air much you're just going to get a little bit of a descending blow on it get a nice crush clean contact with these clean grooves bit of speed bit of loft we should say some spinning golf shots, and it's a descending blow which is often counterintuitive to a golfer that's trying to hit the ball in the sky we actually want to feel like we hit down on the golf ball. Yeah definitely that will get the ball high and yet you get you've got loft you've got the speed to get a bit of a descending blow or go to towards a 75 if I strike nice big divot good distance control. Stops pretty quickly one bounce and grabs into another central ball position you are going to play a little bit more central wouldn't go to back if anything slightly further forward if anything sometimes just so we can get that club working down in part that good impact and create some speed body weight would be on the left side hitting down accelerating.

Yeah we want to see that we're into the left we're not in the back scooping and helping it up. One last thing we make sure that we're landing on a green that's soft. Yeah definitely if you hit into a firmer green we're not going to see as much spin the softer the green more so you know obviously the guy you see on your European at the P.G.A. Tour's playing on greens that have been manicured watered the quick surfaces as well. It's not as if the rock hard you don't see a lot of zip when you play in the open OK so fair point at the open it's landing at the front and rolling to the back maybe you're just there it's a bit different then landing. There's a huge amount that goes into just getting this ball to stop like they do on the T.V. We've got the club we've got the ball we've got the technique we've got the green through wrap all in together with a nice package and good technique as well and then hopefully club which golfers at home can start to see their ball spinning a little bit more like those guys on T.V.

2018-11-09

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will give you the basics of how to spin your chip shops by utilizing clean grooves and a premium golf ball. They'll also discuss how a dry ball and dry club combined with enough power and plenty of loft will increase spin. Couple this with a great strike and you'll start to spin your chip shots like never before.

Now Matt if you're anything like me I'm sure you'll get asked quite regularly in your genuine your general golf lesson “How do I chip the ball and get it to spin like that on the telly?” Definitely a sort of the Hollywood shot looks great in front of all your friends seen it get in and get a little bit a bank on it's one that everyone wants to hit. So we've seen that classic situation Phil Mickelson is in the side of a bunker everyone says he has always got no chance here and this thing goes skyward lands on the green one about zip next to the whole big round of applause and we'll want to try that one. Definitely yeah and the club golfer maybe goes out they can play the high shot lands on the green but it rolls on too far that's a genuine complaint we get isn't it. Definitely and as a couple of things that we can do to help us achieve more spin. So how are we going to achieve more spin using using a technique that a club golfer can apply. OK So a couple of further things that we need to understand to start off with is the equipment that we're using. So generally you know about you've had it in a couple of your lessons the guy who's asked to hit that spinning shot you take a look at his wedge number one the grooves are filled with mud sand whatever it may be so theoretically there's not really much of a groove there so just enough clean grit bite on the ball. Definitely you know we need to see that we're making the most of the grooves and obviously the tour players are privy to be able to change equipment all the time the change in wedges every months really so they've got a fresh out of grooves to impart as much spin. So one thing is a you know that we can all do if we can get a nice set of grooves you know clean it before even after you've had a few practice shots don't get in and hit it maybe just get a quick wipe you know keep the brush in your pocket whatever it may be keep those grooves nice and clean. Now you mention at all players they can change their clubs whenever they like they just go to the talk to the shop and say can I get a new set wedges please. Not realistic for the club golfer so what if then 2 to 3 years older than maybe look at renewing the wedges. Yeah I say 2 years I'd say maybe even a year sometimes depending on obviously how much you're playing as well, but yeah if you've got something that is getting past 2 years have a look at them if you've seen big wear marks on the face. You're not going to be getting the maximum out of those grooves so clean dry relatively fresh grooves the club side of things at poor components. Yeah this thing right here the ball so what will say you know the distance ball or a premium ball distance ball being hard at one bit of a hard core and a harder outer shell on it isn't going to be ideal to create in as much spin. We want something like the premium ball that's got OK maybe a slightly firmer core but a softer mantle or a softer skin on itself and that was all. By just looking at the packet I definitely actually asked the pro that you're working with us going to the shop assistants ball again on the on the packet of the golf ball you will see generally a little chart whether it's a hat a spinning golf ball or more of a distance golf ball we want something long off the tee also soft and spin around the greens.

So we've got the right club yeah we've got the right ball yeah now lets look at the right technique if we can then. You know couple things we need for technique number one we need some loft we're not going to see the chip and run shot when you are playing with an 8 iron or a 9 iron or a 7 iron is going to be a spinning shot that's going to be a release in shot so we need some loft maybe a sand wedge maybe a lob wedge maybe a gap wedge we can get as much loft on that's going to be one thing then we need some speed more speed we impart them off for small spin. So we're talking about a distance of shot I have certain degree of distance to get a spin. Yeah definitely a short of 30 yards plus when you're going up and up and up you know get to 85 yards you're really going to see some spin 30 yards you might get the one that one bounce and stops but not coming back but when you get a little bit longer you going to be able to impart more spin on it. A shorter shot let's say 15 yard little dink they don't spin they're not going to spin you might get check will release OK so that's been on T.V. not a spin for us so we need to just allow for that in our shot shaping up visualization it landed short release. Definitely a fifty yards to maybe 80 90 100 yards you know see some spin you know see control. Yeah definitely and then finally the actual strike of the golf ball to help it up in the air much you're just going to get a little bit of a descending blow on it get a nice crush clean contact with these clean grooves bit of speed bit of loft we should say some spinning golf shots, and it's a descending blow which is often counterintuitive to a golfer that's trying to hit the ball in the sky we actually want to feel like we hit down on the golf ball. Yeah definitely that will get the ball high and yet you get you've got loft you've got the speed to get a bit of a descending blow or go to towards a 75 if I strike nice big divot good distance control. Stops pretty quickly one bounce and grabs into another central ball position you are going to play a little bit more central wouldn't go to back if anything slightly further forward if anything sometimes just so we can get that club working down in part that good impact and create some speed body weight would be on the left side hitting down accelerating.

Yeah we want to see that we're into the left we're not in the back scooping and helping it up. One last thing we make sure that we're landing on a green that's soft. Yeah definitely if you hit into a firmer green we're not going to see as much spin the softer the green more so you know obviously the guy you see on your European at the P.G.A. Tour's playing on greens that have been manicured watered the quick surfaces as well. It's not as if the rock hard you don't see a lot of zip when you play in the open OK so fair point at the open it's landing at the front and rolling to the back maybe you're just there it's a bit different then landing. There's a huge amount that goes into just getting this ball to stop like they do on the T.V. We've got the club we've got the ball we've got the technique we've got the green through wrap all in together with a nice package and good technique as well and then hopefully club which golfers at home can start to see their ball spinning a little bit more like those guys on T.V.