How to Put Spin on a Golf Ball

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Chris Ardolina and I'm a golf instructor here at the Jim Mclean golf school located at the Doral resort and spa in Miami Florida. In this clip today we are going to be talking about how to put spin on the golf ball. Just to clarify any myths, there is no secret or special way to swing the golf over anything like that to put spin on the golf ball. It's simply caused by actually hitting the golf ball purely. And what that means is you are actually hitting the golf ball first taking a divot after the ball and allowing the grooves to take over. What that's going to do is when you hit the ball solidly and in the center of the face it's going to allow the grooves to grab the golf ball and create spin on there. But the only thing you do need to get a lot of spin on the golf ball is you need some speed through the golf ball ok. Now what we have here today if we focused down on the ground here, I've drawn a yellow line in paint ok to show us where we should not hit behind. Ok and then I have two golf balls there and we are going to demonstrate here. Our goal is to hit the golf ball first and to have the divot after the line. That's going to allow us to have a solid golf shot and create as much spin as we possibly can. Or remember the issue with getting spin, you have to have a lot of speed as well. So getting spin on the golf ball is not for everybody, you have to have a high swing speed. So if you are not getting spin on the golf ball it doesn't mean that you are hitting a poor shot or things like that. Ok. It just means that you don't have enough speed. So we are going to demonstrate for you here. So we are trying to get the divot after the line. My name is Chris Ardolia and today we taught you how to put spin on the golf ball."