How To Play The Spinning Chip Shot

Golf Monthly

07/02/2025

Advice from Golf Monthly's Top 50 Coach - Trey Niven

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00:00So the spinning chip shot from 20 yards. This is a shot that a lot of people crave to hit

00:05We're going to talk about how to do it a couple of things that we're going to talk about in the motion

00:09And also give you a drill to help you play the shot a bit better

00:13So firstly, let's talk about how we create spin now

00:16We've got a shot here with 20 yards with a bit of a flat part up near the green can be a good idea for us

00:21To land it on that flat part and get the ball stopping with a bit of spin. So firstly, how do we create spin?

00:28Spin loft is a term that we use when we reference the difference between the dynamic loft

00:33so the loft that we produce at impact and also the angle of attack or the angle of

00:39Descent or ascend into the ball if we separate these two

00:42That's when we create and can we we can increase the spin loft and that number there is going to really benefit us

00:49When we're trying to produce some spin now a couple of things that I typically see when people are around the greens

00:55And they're trying to create spin. They really think that they have to hit down. So the ball position goes back in the stance

01:00They lean forwards and they get this stabby

01:03Motion here and that's when the lead and edge can really dig into the ground and the ball will then launch higher up the face

01:10This probably isn't a good idea when we want to produce spin

01:13We want to try and get that strike right down the bottom of the golf club

01:17And also what I see is that people really deal off that golf club

01:21So they get their hands leading forwards and that really takes all the loft off the golf club

01:26Remember we want to separate the angle of attack from the dynamic loft

01:30So we want to try and produce some speed and some loft at this golf ball

01:34So the setup is a really key part to that. So when we're taking our setup here really good idea

01:40Let's get the ball position right in the middle of the stance. We're going to keep a very neutral shaft position here

01:46We're not going to try and lean it too far forwards

01:49and then if we talk a little bit about the motion now the motion we want to produce is almost like you're

01:55lighting a match on the way through if I

01:58Drag the club slowly. We don't create much friction

02:01We want to speed the club up and really keep our pivot going through the ball

02:05That's going to really help us produce some speed which is going to help us produce some spin

02:10So let's talk a little bit more more about playing it now. So I'm set up balls right in the middle

02:16I've got some loft on the club the handles back and I'm really going to try and see if I can control where the golf

02:22club is

02:24Striking that ground. Let's see if we can get this one, but

02:29pivot

02:31Stop you see that launch a little bit far there

02:34But we saw a little bit of grab at the end and we can see when we look at the ground there

02:38There's no divot. So I'm really controlling where the bottom of my arc is in this goal

02:44So we've got one really good drill to help you do this

02:47If you take one tee peg and you can pop a ball on the tee peg here

02:54And now what we're trying to do with this drill now

02:56We're trying to clip the ball off

02:59The tee peg without actually moving the tee peg if we get players with a ball back hitting down

03:04You can see the tee pegs moved and the golf ball hasn't moved very far what we're trying to produce

03:11Is a golf ball that comes off that tee peg but the tee peg still in the ground

03:16Let's see if we can control this one now

03:18So same set up feet close together a little bit of weight left very neutral shaft

03:23And we're going to try and see if we can clip that ball

03:28There so tee peg kind of flitted around the ground there

03:32But what I really did there to strike that ball well and get a decent result was control the lowest point

03:38So where that golf club was at the bottom of the arc

03:41Keep that body turning make sure you've got the strike

03:45Make sure you've got the speed and you'll hit great golf shots just like that

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