How to hit A Driver With Low Back Spin
What's The Best Way to Lower Driver Spin?
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that's a fantastic question I'll get
asked all the time how can I lower my
spin rate that way I can hit longer
drive so I need a new driver am i
hitting down on it what should I do to
actually lower the spin rate and
increase the distance to start this off
let me hit a couple shots I'm gonna hit
one with a really high spin rate and I'm
gonna hit one with a really low spin
order or attempt at one for the hospital
right in a low spin right and I'm also
gonna spray this club with a little bit
of this this is called dr. Scholl's oder
X foot spray powder and it just makes a
little white film on the club so we can
tell where we hit it on the club face so
let me go ahead and I'm gonna try it on
this first one to use my flight scope x3
here to measure the spin and the
distance now I'm gonna try to swing the
same swing speed on both these or at
least pretty close and let's see how it
goes so the first one is going to be my
high spin rate shot now I don't want you
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from you there you go that thing really
had a high spin right I don't know what
it would be that's kind of that slice
that kind of balloons up that's the one
it doesn't do very good if you're
looking for distance let me actually
grab this other ball and then we'll grab
the flight scope and take a look at
those numbers so this one kind of tough
to switch between making a swing like
that and that's trying to make a good
swing but I'm gonna try to make a good
swing here and see if I can get some
nice numbers and a lot more distance
preferably let's give it a whirl
I didn't actually hit that one very good
I made that big slice swing and it kind
of carried over into my my next swing
but you're still going to see here the
general concept let me actually go ahead
and hit one more so we'll see there's my
first one very low on the face there's
my second one a little high on the hill
I'm gonna do a little better than that I
think this video is gonna turn out a
little bit better if I make a third
swing and I hit it really nice and we
can really see the extremes here let's
try it out alright so on this one I'm
really gonna try to take the spin off
and really get that ball going pretty
far yeah that was almost even a little
extreme the other way I think it's gonna
have pretty low spin on that one so
let's try this out here with my flight
scope or let's take a look at it
swing number one was 121 miles an hour
something pretty daggone hard on that
one 6,000 rpms of spin that's a lot of
spin that's that ball that kind of shot
up and sliced really had a lot of spin
on it my total distance was 227 carry
for 120 miles an hour club head speed
that is not very good swing number two
was better a little bit slower 118 miles
an hour
I brought the spin down to 3,100 which
isn't super low but I went from what was
it to 20 all the way up to 284 by
lowering the spin by getting a better
contact on the sweet spot I got some
more distance in more speed the third
swing I had a really super low spin
right I had 118 point 8 miles an hour
club head speed so again still slower
than the first one that went to 24 carry
but that one carried to 91 even though I
didn't hit it perfect it still carried a
long way so what is it as causing the
lower spin what is it as causing the
difference of almost you know couple of
those we're almost 70 yards difference
in distance so the first question
actually the last one with a lower spin
the good thing about this is it actually
rolled out a little bit more it rolled
out to to 338
because it was a low knuckler whereas
the first one would have come out to 239
so you're talking a hundred yards total
distance extra between the first swing
that I made
with a very high spin rate the ball that
shot up and the last swing that I made
and the crazy thing about it is I swung
three miles an hour slower on the one
that went a hundred yards farther so
it's not the swing speed it's not the
athleticism something different is going
on there with the contact let's go ahead
and talk about it now
so I'm shot number one I get this
question a lot am I just hitting down
into it too much so when I hit down into
it what happens is now my club is
glancing down on the ball and it's
creating more backspin so let me grab a
ball here if you can imagine that I'm
taking this golf ball with my hand and
I'm chopping down on it like this really
hitting down on it that's going to
create backspin that's really not going
to be very good for your distance that's
what I did and been shot number one
again let me grab my flight scope here
and we'll see my angle of attack which
is basically I didn't get my angle of
attack of angle attack was definitely
down right that's the first piece two
more spin if we look at I'm guessing my
angle of attack on that first one was
almost like five degrees seven degrees
down because I had that over the top
downswing
the third one my best one my angle of
attack on that one was three point four
up so I'm actually hitting up on a
little bit more so by going from a
downward strike to an upward strike that
helped me to get closer to that hundred
yards extra distance now the second
thing is what about where I hit it on
the face a lot of times players don't
really think about this enough but where
I hit this on the face doesn't only help
me to hit it solid and to get more ball
speed it also helps to reduce the spin
when I hit it low on the face like this
what actually happens is when I make
contact this ball is stuck to the driver
face so when I make contact below the
center gravity or low on the face like I
did that first one the one that was way
shorter the club actually twists down
like this and because the ball is stuck
to the face it actually makes the ball
spin backwards more it's like a gear
whenever the club face twists down that
causes the ball to roll up and to create
more backspin obviously not very good
because it caused me to lose a lot of
distance the second ones we can see here
now I'm a little bit above the center of
gravity and what happens when I do that
is the clubface rotates back slightly
and helps to put topspin or think of it
like topspin it's still backspin but it
makes less backspin so that's the second
piece there where am i hitting it on the
face here's a nutshell that's the number
one that's the number one factor and in
a nutshell you can simplify all this
where am I trying to aim if you take the
sweet spot I'm trying to hit a quarter
inch above the sweet spot and a quarter
inch out on the toe so a quarter inch up
into the toe is where I want to hit that
for the absolute perfect heist ball
speed lowest spin longest distance
drives that's really where you want to
be aiming so if I'm hitting it low on
the face that's really gonna kill the
spin or it cause it to have tons of spin
and really gonna kill my distance what
about different drivers you know you'll
hear some people say oh this is a really
low spin driver the only thing the
driver is doing to make a lower spin or
a higher spin driver is they're moving
where the center of mass is or where the
balance point of this driver is every
driver has one point somewhere inside
this head where its weight is completely
balanced and if I move that center mass
lower and I take more weight toward the
bottom of the club it promotes more of
that backwards twisting like we got when
we hit higher on the clubface so some
drivers that are low spin drivers could
affect the spin rates by maybe even two
or three hundred rpms you make the exact
same swing and you get two or three
hundred rpms less but to be honest
that's not really going to make a ton of
difference having a low spin driver may
take two or three hundred rpms off but
we saw there my high spin driver my high
spin swing six thousand rpms my low spin
swing was sixteen or seventeen hundred
rpm so we're talking you know forty
three hundred rpms less two or three
hundred rpms isn't gonna make that much
difference sure it'll give you a couple
more yards but for players that don't
swing as fast maybe that ball doesn't
stay up in the air as long so it could
be even a little bit too low a spin for
you so in a nutshell there the driver
isn't gonna make a huge difference going
between brand brand to brand but the
loft will make a lot of difference if
I'm playing a driver that has a too high
loft for me then I could be getting too
much backspin on it kind of like you
would with a wedge the more the more OH
the face the more it's going to create
some backspin when I hit it now I don't
see that very often I find that most
players would benefit from having a
driver with a little bit more loft as
long as they hit it above the center
center gravity as long as they hit a
little high on the face I think that
most players could probably add two or
three degrees more loft to their driver
and as long as they hit it a little
higher on the face they're gonna get the
farthest when they do that most players
are just playing with the driver simply
doesn't have enough loft you have to
have a lot of swing speed to hit a low
lot and low life the driver high into
the air and get it to go a long way so
we've talked about this we've heard all
the factors let's boil it down what do I
need to do to my swing to get that low
swing speed shot that goes 100 yards
farther ideally so let's grab a golf
ball here again then I'm going to talk
about how we set up here very simply
when I'm trying to get a little bit less
spin number one is I want to tee this
ball up a little bit higher I like to
use these longer tees so I can't eat up
any height that I want and I see it up a
little bit higher that way I can can
easily hit up on the ball so I'm
swinging up on the ball as I'm making
contact and when I'm hitting up on it
I'm still able to hit above the center
gravity if you imagine my ball ball is
lower to the ground let's say that I
have this ball teed up way down here and
I try to hit up on it well yeah I could
hit up on this ball but now I'm hitting
the bottom of the driver like I did on
that first one tons of spin we don't
want to do that so a little higher tee I
want to put the ball a little bit more
up in my stance this is depending on the
player how far up you want to go but you
know for me I'll put it a little bit
cutting around my left ankle if I'm
trying to get a real high low spin one
high launching low spin and then I'm
gonna feel like I have a little more
weight on my back foot so inside of my
back foot address that's where I want to
have my weight as I'm coming at address
that way I feel like I can promote that
more upward type swing path finally and
most importantly I want to feel like I
hit a draw a little bit of a draw and I
want to feel like I get that contact
above the sweet spot that's the most
important thing if you think of nothing
else be visualizing a draw with that
contact high on the face the rest will
kind of take care of itself
so one more swing here let's really give
it a rip and I'm gonna try to hit that
ball that has that nice high draw with
low spin there we go and that one
definitely cut the corner on that one
that went a long way and that is not
going to have very much spin on it yeah
so that one 2,000 rpms of spin almost
ideal 304 carry I'm not gonna do too
much better than that 340 total distance
so that ball came out high knuckling and
because it didn't have much spin on it
when it hit it it ran versus landing and
then stopping dead because all the spin
stops it so in a nutshell that's the way
to happen make it happen now what I said
there the most important thing if you
only do one thing with any of this we
want to swing more inside out to hit
that draw and we want to hit a little
higher on the face that's the most
important thing if we can learn to hit a
draw and hit it high on the face we're
not going to ever have to worry about
spin rates that's why something that I
call the move is one of the best things
you can do to lower your spin I have an
awesome video talking about how you can
shallow your club out with gravity so
you start the downswing you're going to
let this club shallow out with gravity
get it more from the inside and just
going to be coming down in an angle that
allows you to hit up on it that allows
you to have that draw and allows you to
hit higher on the face without even
thinking about it you just make this
move and you're gonna have those high
launching low spin drives so I'll play
preview that here in a second you're
gonna see it pop up on the screen all
you need to do is go ahead and click
that button or click that that a picture
and you're gonna be able watch that
video we're gonna tie it all in together
let's go and get started
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