How to Get Backspin on Your Wedges

How to get backspin on wedges
PGA Professional Robin Symes gives a quick tip to spin your wedges.

The pros make it look so easy. 60 yard shot, over a bunker, short-sided to the pin. The ball hits pin high, takes a bounce, checks, and spins back towards the pin.

If only it was that easy.

Well, it can be.

In the video below, PGA Professional Robin Symes gives a tip to spin your wedges, and it’s probably more simple than you think.

Symes teaches how to:

  • Get the best angle of impact to generate spin and what NOT to do
  • What kind of contact and divot to make to get the most spin
  • How to practice these short shots and learn to control your spin and distance

The illustration below from this YouTube video by the Biomechanics teaching team at Manchester Metropolitan University also shows the spin generated from contact.

How to get backspin on the golf ball with wedges
Courtesy YouTube

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