How To Play The Spinning Chip Shot
Advice from Golf Monthly's Top 50 Coach - Trey Niven
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00:00So the spinning chip shot from 20 yards. This is a shot that a lot of people crave to hit
00:05We're going to talk about how to do it a couple of things that we're going to talk about in the motion
00:09And also give you a drill to help you play the shot a bit better
00:13So firstly, let's talk about how we create spin now
00:16We've got a shot here with 20 yards with a bit of a flat part up near the green can be a good idea for us
00:21To land it on that flat part and get the ball stopping with a bit of spin. So firstly, how do we create spin?
00:28Spin loft is a term that we use when we reference the difference between the dynamic loft
00:33so the loft that we produce at impact and also the angle of attack or the angle of
00:39Descent or ascend into the ball if we separate these two
00:42That's when we create and can we we can increase the spin loft and that number there is going to really benefit us
00:49When we're trying to produce some spin now a couple of things that I typically see when people are around the greens
00:55And they're trying to create spin. They really think that they have to hit down. So the ball position goes back in the stance
01:00They lean forwards and they get this stabby
01:03Motion here and that's when the lead and edge can really dig into the ground and the ball will then launch higher up the face
01:10This probably isn't a good idea when we want to produce spin
01:13We want to try and get that strike right down the bottom of the golf club
01:17And also what I see is that people really deal off that golf club
01:21So they get their hands leading forwards and that really takes all the loft off the golf club
01:26Remember we want to separate the angle of attack from the dynamic loft
01:30So we want to try and produce some speed and some loft at this golf ball
01:34So the setup is a really key part to that. So when we're taking our setup here really good idea
01:40Let's get the ball position right in the middle of the stance. We're going to keep a very neutral shaft position here
01:46We're not going to try and lean it too far forwards
01:49and then if we talk a little bit about the motion now the motion we want to produce is almost like you're
01:55lighting a match on the way through if I
01:58Drag the club slowly. We don't create much friction
02:01We want to speed the club up and really keep our pivot going through the ball
02:05That's going to really help us produce some speed which is going to help us produce some spin
02:10So let's talk a little bit more more about playing it now. So I'm set up balls right in the middle
02:16I've got some loft on the club the handles back and I'm really going to try and see if I can control where the golf
02:22club is
02:24Striking that ground. Let's see if we can get this one, but
02:29pivot
02:31Stop you see that launch a little bit far there
02:34But we saw a little bit of grab at the end and we can see when we look at the ground there
02:38There's no divot. So I'm really controlling where the bottom of my arc is in this goal
02:44So we've got one really good drill to help you do this
02:47If you take one tee peg and you can pop a ball on the tee peg here
02:54And now what we're trying to do with this drill now
02:56We're trying to clip the ball off
02:59The tee peg without actually moving the tee peg if we get players with a ball back hitting down
03:04You can see the tee pegs moved and the golf ball hasn't moved very far what we're trying to produce
03:11Is a golf ball that comes off that tee peg but the tee peg still in the ground
03:16Let's see if we can control this one now
03:18So same set up feet close together a little bit of weight left very neutral shaft
03:23And we're going to try and see if we can clip that ball
03:28There so tee peg kind of flitted around the ground there
03:32But what I really did there to strike that ball well and get a decent result was control the lowest point
03:38So where that golf club was at the bottom of the arc
03:41Keep that body turning make sure you've got the strike
03:45Make sure you've got the speed and you'll hit great golf shots just like that