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
00:09motion and also give you a drill to help you play the shot a bit better. So firstly let's talk about
00:14how we create spin. Now we've got a shot here with 20 yards with a bit of a flat part up near
00:20the green. It can be a good idea for us to land it on that flat part and get the ball stopping
00:24with a bit of spin. So firstly how do we create spin? Spin loft is a term that we use when we
00:30reference the difference between the dynamic loft, so the loft that we produce at impact
00:35and also the angle of attack or the angle of descent or ascend into the ball. If we separate
00:42these two that's when we create and we can increase the spin loft and that number there is going to
00:48really benefit us when we're trying to produce some spin. Now a couple of things that I typically see
00:53when people are around the greens and they're trying to create spin they really think that
00:57they have to hit down so the ball position goes back in the stance, they lean forwards and they
01:02get this stabby motion here and that's when the lead and edge can really dig into the ground
01:07and the ball will then launch higher up the face. This probably isn't a good idea when we want to
01:12produce spin, we want to try and get that strike right down the bottom of the golf club and also what
01:18I see is that people really deal off that golf club so they get their hands leading forwards
01:23and that really takes all the loft off the golf club. Remember we want to separate the angle of
01:28attack from the dynamic loft so 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 let's
01:40get the ball position right in the middle of the stance we're going to keep a very neutral shaft
01:45position here we're not going to try and lean it too far forwards and then if we talk a little bit
01:50about the motion now the motion we want to produce is almost like you're lighting a match on the way
01:56through if I drag the club slowly we don't create much friction we want to speed the club up and
02:03really keep our pivot going through the ball that's going to really help us produce some speed which is
02:09going to help us produce some spin so let's talk a little bit more more about playing it now so I'm set
02:14up balls right in the middle I've got some loft on the club the handle's back and I'm really going to
02:19try and see if I can control where the golf club is striking that ground let's see if we can get this
02:27one back pivot stop you see that launch a little bit far there but we saw a little bit of grab at the
02:36end and we can see when we look at the ground there there's no divot so I'm really controlling
02:41where the bottom of my arc is in this golf swing 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 and now what we're trying to do
02:55with this drill now we're trying to clip the ball off the tee peg without actually moving the tee peg
03:02if we get players with a ball back hitting down you can see the tee peg's moved and the golf ball
03:07hasn't moved very far what we're trying to produce is a golf ball that comes off that tee peg
03:14but the tee peg's still in the ground let's see if we can control this one now so same setup feet
03:19close together a little bit of weight left very neutral shaft and we're going to try and see if
03:25we can clip that ball there so tee peg kind of flitted around the ground there but what I really did
03:33there to strike that ball well and get a decent result was control the lowest point so where that
03:39golf club was at the bottom of the arc keep that body turning make sure you've got the strike make
03:45sure you've got the speed and you'll hit great golf shots just like that