{VIDEO} Most Wanted Monday – Do you Need More Wedge Spin?
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{VIDEO} Most Wanted Monday – Do you Need More Wedge Spin?

{VIDEO} Most Wanted Monday – Do you Need More Wedge Spin?

Average golfers love it when an approach shot hits the green and spins back 15 feet. But seriously, do you really need to suck it back with your wedges? When you consider that the overwhelming majority of amateur approach shots land short of the target distance, maybe you should be asking if adding more spin to your wedge shots will actually help you shoot lower scores?

In today’s Most Wanted Monday we look back at last season’s Most Wanted Wedge and discuss whether most golfers actually need more spin.

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      Kevin

      6 years ago

      Spin is pretty much beyond my ability. I can see the logo spinning backwards but not enough to stop the ball. So I play with what I’ve got – bump and run. I work on distance control which includes carry and run out. I use different clubs when I need less or more run out. Even without spin I love the game and am still having fun playing.

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      Duffy McHackster

      6 years ago

      I am very much in the bump and run camp, mostly by necessity, since I couldn’t control wedge spin one way or the other. I do have some lesson time coming this season (a perk my club offers as incentive to pay membership dues early), and plan on having it focus on wedge play, but until then I’ll keep it on the ground.

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      JasonA

      6 years ago

      Well it depends on the hazards, contours of green, firmness of green, lie of ball, risk of shot, turf conditions, ball dry or wet, wind direction and strength, air temperature …

      Forget about desirable spin – I’m too scared to swing a club now!!

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      Brad

      6 years ago

      The only time I want the ball to spin back a bit is when I have to hit a wedge over a bunker or water to the green and there is also a hazard on the far side of the green. Then, I just want to make sure I can give it a confident hit to get over the nearside hazard and not have the ball run into the hazard on the other side.

      Of course, using as high a lofted wedge as you can for those sorts of shots also helps stop the ball with a high descent angle. I usually try to get a bit of both happening for those sort of shots.

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      mackdaddy

      6 years ago

      Oh so true. For years all I ever wanted was to spin my wedges back. When I finally did start spinning shots I felt like the king shit. For nearly two years I struggled with distance control because of the spin back on the ball. I had to work just as hard to relearn how not to spin the ball. Now I can do both. The most important skill is to hit the ball and have it stop after one bounce.

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      One Day At A Time

      6 years ago

      What MD said. Better to hop stop. One caveat I’d like to add is, in my experience, if you can’t control your launch angle aka flight it aka traj aka knocking it down, you’re unlikely to spin it back. And if you play on muni’s, you’re unlikely to spin it back, and if you play on anything that can stimp 11 or more, if you do spin it back, you’ll love it the first time it runs backwards, but you’ll probably learn to let it roll forward after your fair share of 30’ putts that landed 5 yds past pin high.

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      LABillyboy

      6 years ago

      If you spin it back 10 ft. you just have to hit it 10 feet past the hole… sometimes that’s smart, sometimes not. Probably has more to do with the ball than the golf club, in my experience. I’ve had hybrids spin back on 230 yard shots… For all golfers over a 10, they are just trying to hit the green and keep it there…

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      Giga

      6 years ago

      Your right, more spin really doesn’t matter on full shots for the amateur but spin reall matters when hitting chip and pitch shots. If you have more spin with a wedge, you can be more aggressive with chips and pitches and the results will be closer to the pin than the wedge with less spin. But of course you must test wedge, get fitted and see what works best for you.

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      Dave B

      6 years ago

      Old joke about Arnie and pro-am partner. Arnie hits his iron, it lands and backs up several feet.
      Amateur: Gosh, Mr. Palmer, I wish I could make my ball back up like that.
      Arnie: How far do you hit your 7 iron?
      Amateur: About 140
      Arnie: Why do you want to make it back up?

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      Randy B.

      6 years ago

      I would much more prefer to have my shot stop as close as it can to where it landed. This way if I know the yardage to the hole and what club to hit I shouldn’t end up 25 feet away. I actually get disappointed when I hit a shot that hits near the pin then rolls back even 10 feet.

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      Mike

      6 years ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever had a wedge spin back on me. What I’d like to see is the ball stop within a few feet of my pitch mark in any direction on a full swing.

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      SteveS

      6 years ago

      When I use my yardage device to get yardage, it gives me the distance to the flag. My goal is to try to get the ball pin high. If that means short and roll or drop and stop – I don’t care. Mostly, in may case, it would mean drop and stop or possibly spin back a little – not 20 feet.

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      Born

      6 years ago

      Want vs Need. Do we need it or do we want it? Do we need to hit longer drives or hit more fairways? Do we need to hit irons longer or more consistently? What do we, as golfers, want? Companies sell to wants not needs. Much easier to sell to emotions than stats. So companies make and market clubs that fill our emotional needs. Period. Easier to sell to a want than try to convince someone what they need

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      Brad Smith

      6 years ago

      I don’t care how my longer wedge shots spin. I just want to know how far a given swing with a given loft will go if it lands on the green. But for shorter wedge shots…more like pitches, I’d like to be able to spin it more when I need it. But in general, the vast majority of my approach shots end of short of the flag, so I agree with the premise…..why would I want more spin????? I just can’t seem to get myself to hit longer wedges, pitches or even chips hard enough

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      Charlie Dietz

      6 years ago

      Get a 2018 64 degree wedge for those short shots, along with a high spin ball.

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      KM

      6 years ago

      Better NOT to use a lofted SW club, better use a PW or 9 and let the ball land short of the hole and release to the pin.

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      Cubbie in NC

      6 years ago

      I don’t need to suck it back I just want to be able to get the ball to stop within 5 feet of where it lands when I need it to.

      I want more spin for those shots out of the rough so that I can stop the ball and not land it on the front of the green and not be able to stop it before it runs to the back or off of the green.

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      Norm

      6 years ago

      What’s spin?

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      Robert

      6 years ago

      I want the ball to stop where it lands. Where I want more spin is on the 50 yard and in shots. I play on rock hard bermuda greens and it takes a lot to get a ball to even check when chipping. When I played softer greens, I built my set to be as low spin as possible. I was playing Titleist Velocities because I wouldn’t spin those back at all.

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      Brett Weir

      6 years ago

      I want the ball on my approach shots to land and stop like a lawn dart.

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      Andrew Han

      6 years ago

      I’m a one hop and stop guy. Love it when it checks or sticks where it landed, except for chip shots.

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      D.A. Branch

      6 years ago

      spin good or bad??? ask Sergio……..

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      Steve

      6 years ago

      Great video and I am the smartest golfer I want to spin it back 20 feet from the hole and one put for birdie……. Ok no I changed my mind I want to drop it in next to the pin consistently and not three put …….. No wait I just want to break 80 dont care how, just break 80

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