Page 34 - Golf Champion Magazine - March 2023

[GOLF LESSON]

tour pros don’t “do something different” to make the
ball back up. They just recognize that the conditions
BACKSPIN –tight lies, green sloped back to front, and soft greens
– along with their ability to strike the ball cleanly,
will create a shot that spins backward. However
백스핀 important spin is in controlling approach shots, spin
around the greens on pitch shots can be invaluable.

A friend of mine was a professional practicing before
an event and Lee Trevino came up to him and said,
t Master’s, crowd roared as balls landed past
"let me show you how it's done." Lee took out a sand
Athe pin and drew back hard toward the hole.
wedge and started calling shots. "This one I'm going
Backspin is something we use to control the ball
to hit off the third groove of my wedge. It's going to
around the greens and is created through clean
fly low, take one bounce and stop." He demonstrated
contact, and acceleration along the proper angle of
perfectly. "This one I'm going to hit off the second
attack. The proper effect of spin is created from these
groove of my wedge. It's going to fly low, take two
two variables (and from the ball that we choose).
bounces and stop." The shot came off perfectly. “This
Despite what we see on television, we don't want the
one I’m going to hit off the first groove. It’s going to
ball to move backward after it hits the green (unless
skip once, then take two bounces and stop.” Perfect
we’re using slope behind a pin), but we do want the
again.
ball to hit and stop. Most people don’t realize that the
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