HAHA well we always talk about.....

[armandoartist]

HAHA well we always talk about wanting to get the spin on the ball like the pros and what not. I'm accomplishing that now more and more. But I keep spinning it back and off the green. I wanted this power and now i'm not so sure I want it anymore.

I hit my approach shot with a 52* wedge (vokey) about 2 feet passed the hole and the darn thing spun back about 15-20 feet and then off the green!!!! only to mess up my chip back and then proceeded to 2 putt for a stinky bogey.

ball is a prov1

[Zeph]

- Hit it farther past the flag
- Learn to hit shots with less spin
- Use a harder ball

[Chris223]

I can't remember ever hitting a shot that got backspin. My divots are often in front of the ball, but I still haven't gotten any backspin.

[Stretch]

Face it man, you suck it back massively.

[senorchipotle]

yeah, when i play nicer golf courses this tends to happen. the greens are pretty slow, relatively, where i play so i don't get too much action on the greens. i'd suggest flighting the ball on a lower trajectory.

[James_Black]

I feel so sorry for you

Try clubbing up and swing softer, you should get a little less backspin while still getting it to stop/spin and you might be a little more accurate too.

[Kieran123]

  armandoartist said:

HAHA well we always talk about wanting to get the spin on the ball like the pros and what not. I'm accomplishing that now more and more. But I keep spinning it back and off the green. I wanted this power and now i'm not so sure I want it anymore.

20 feet of spin?.....

[enis750]

  senorchipotle said:

yeah, when i play nicer golf courses this tends to happen. the greens are pretty slow, relatively, where i play so i don't get too much action on the greens. i'd suggest flighting the ball on a lower trajectory.

i find the lower i hit it, the MORE it spins

the higher, the less spin if i pinch it tight and toss a low chip shot in from 40-60-ish yards, it will hit, check and come back if i loft it in, it will pretty much hit and stay within inches of the divot to the OP - try the pro v1x, its a harder ball and wont spin as much as the regular pro v (if you wanna stick w Titleist) i swithced to the pro v1x for this reason....then found the magic of the TM LDP Black ball....now thats a whole other story ;)

[Shanks A Million]

  enis750 said:

i find the lower i hit it, the MORE it spins

Lower shots with the same club spin more, but their angle of descent negates the backward spin.

[right handed phil mickelson]

  Kieran123 said:

20 feet of spin?.....

Yea. He doesn't spin the ball back, he spins the world forwards.

[Paradox]

yep...when I hit a low spinning shot, it will "skid"(my term) on the green and come to a pretty fast stop but it never comes back.

[Judah Ben-Hur]

It's just another thing to think about before taking a swing. Like there isn't enough to worry about.

[Whiskey84]

  enis750 said:

to the OP -

I played the Pro-V1x for several years for this reason. I just switched to the Bridgestone Tour B330 (since I got a great deal on a large quantity of them lol) and I really like them. Plus they seem a bit more durable.

[Frito]

I hit my first one the other day from about 30 yards to the green that hit the green bounced allmost upwardly then stopped and rolled like 3 inches.

[MJP]

You sure you didn't just hit a crisp wedge into an upslope and into the wind? A lot of tour pros don't even suck it back 20 feet. Granted, they play much firmer greens.

[armandoartist]

  Kieran123 said:

20 feet of spin?.....

this green was inclined back towards me...work with me here okay 15 feet maybe? somewhere around there!

[Mattplusness]

I remember hearing a while back on this forum that the problems the pros had with the now old grooves is that they got too much spin. Now the grooves actually don't handicap them.

[armandoartist]

  MJP said:

You sure you didn't just hit a crisp wedge into an upslope and into the wind? A lot of tour pros don't even suck it back 20 feet. Granted, they play much firmer greens.

yeah I was going to mention the green was inclined towards me, thats the reason it came back so far. if its a flat green it will spin about 3-4 feet judging from the divot.