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In this Golf University "Tip from the Pro" I'm with Richard Hatt
the Head Pro at Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Where he's going to teach us how to backspin the golf ball
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I'm with Richard Hatt, the Head Pro here at Royal Melbourne Richard
the greens I'm battling to keep the ball on the green how do i do backspin
Well
Around this greens we round this course with the greens being hard and fast you need to get some backspin
so it's three things we need to look at I guess really Andrew
is we need to have a grooves on the club that are nice and sharp so those ones
that'll wear them out all the time we need to get something a bit newer
we need a premium ball it's a soft enough that it can get some spin
but the execution of the shot the way we need to play it
is that we need to have the difference between the loft of the club
and a hitting down motion
So we need a club with some loft
and we need a descending blow on the ball that gives it what we call in the trade spin loft
as you hit down that creates backspin
the grooves on the face run down the face of the ball create backspin
and that's what gives you the ability to tryand spin it
why don't we yeah
So we've got a 52 out here
what we're going to look at doing is get into this shot
we're going to really focus on now
really trying to get the feeling of actually having a bit of a club here
and where as we come down
what we really going to try and do is concentrate on coming just down here Andrew
on the back of the ball
and see we can get a bit of backspin on that ball
nice
and you can see there it's spun after that second bounce had a bit of bite
and that's really getting a nice clean contact with good sharp grooves
good premium ball and a slightly descending bow
why don't you have a go better we go
So Richard I'm really trying to hit down on the back of that ball
yeah so Andrew what I want you to do is get it into that middle of your stance
and put a little bit of weight on that left shoe
and what I really want you to try and do
this time is when you're coming down to the ball got that 52-degree
I'm gonna try and get down on the back of that ball just squeeze it down on it
the grooves on the face will help put some backspin
let's see we get this ball to stop on the green here
looking pretty good
so it should take a bounce possibly another one
and see that just bite down and then you could see that have a little bit of spin
yeah they start doing that you're going to shoot some more good scores
that almost went in the hole rich it was a great shot hold on thank you
perfect
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