To spin the ball with a lofted wedge, play the ball near the middle of your stance at address. At impact, you are going to move the club under the ball to allow spin to be developed on the face, and that is only going to happen with the ball around the midpoint in your stance. This is another point that promotes loft at impact. If you were to lean the shaft forward prior to starting your swing — which is common on a chip-and-run shot — you would lose loft and the ball would come out low and running.
Avoid the temptation to push your hands forward and instead keep them directly over the ball to create a vertical shaft position that you can mimic at impact. Even though you do want to play the ball near the middle of your stance, you also want to hit down just slightly — which is why you should be leaning toward the target at address.
Keeping slightly more than half of your weight on your left foot for a right handed golfer at address will promote a downward hit, making it easier for you to achieve clean contact. When you head to the practice chipping area to work on the spinning chip, make sure you hit on each of the points above in your address position.
To actually spin the golf ball, you are going to need to use speed through impact in your swing. However, you need to remember that the idea is to fly the ball up close to the hole before spin brings it to a stop.
Keeping the speed up in your swing is likely to be the biggest challenge of all when learning this shot. As you work on spinning the ball in practice, think about brushing the club under the ball along the top of the grass while giving it plenty of speed and a slight acceleration. Practice is going to be important to both learn how to execute the shot and also to build confidence. This last point is where your spinning chips will have a lot in common with your lofted chip shots.
You need speed on both of these shots if you are going to be successful. In this case, you need speed to send the ball high enough up into the air to carry it all the way to the target before it drops down and hopefully stops cold. We hope this article has given you the motivation you need to get out and put in some focused practice time on your short game. Knowing how to stop your chip shots quickly will help you get up and down more frequently, and improving your up and down percentage will do wonders for your overall scores.
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You need the grooves on the club to make clean contact with the ball to create spin. To accomplish this make sure you are hitting downward and taking a divot.
Your hands must lead into the downswing and keep accelerating towards the target to prevent flipping the club face past your hands and swinging upward on the ball. A flip will result in too much top spin and uncontrollable roll. Also, check the ball you are playing. You may want to use a higher spin ball that is more controllable around the greens.
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