I cannot believe people come to a golf instruction video and their criticism is "too much instruction"!! Keep up the great work Clay. Your explanation of the shallow angle of attack combined with high loft was perfect!

All those supposed top teachers who publish books and videos have nothing on you. I have been playing since the late 1970's and was always a natural player with skills immediately but could not move past that raw skill to being a good player. Watching you has helped me immediately become a better player. I am now a subscriber and thank you for your work. Best golf instructor alive!!!

This is the first explanation on spin that made sense to me. Thanks

Your videos are the best, I've consistently broke 90 since I 've been applying the tips that you show. This one is the video that I need the most because my short game can be so inconsistent. Thank you so much.

4:18 is when the tips start

Thanks for making this video, I’m tired of seeing people delofting the wedges, putting the ball far back in the stance and then ask why their ball comes so low with no spin in a 20 yards shot! Specially in Bermuda grass!! This guy here in the video knows what he’s talking about! Unless you want to bump and run the ball, stop putting the ball in front of your trail foot! Great video sir! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

That instruction was better than some on the internet. He explains the terms he uses. Good job!

Great video I used to practice without cleaning my grooves and I could never get that spin. After seeing this I practice with my groove cleaner an the spin is so much more consistent

Absolutely NOT too much talking...on the contrary, many good, useful points to help people learn the many facets of a key part of the short game. There is nothing easy about golf, including the all-important short game, hence, the need for detailed explanations that cover each key point. When you think about each particular golf shot--each involving literally hundreds of variations based on different lies--you'd better be ready to concentrate in order to learn proper fundamentals. To classify this video as "too much talking" is, unfortunately, an admission by a player not necessarily that interested in learning the game of golf. Clay is an outstanding teacher on this video and elsewhere...we can all take advantage of his expertise by listening, learning, and repeating what he tells us on the golf course.

Awesome thank you so much! I"m a 3 handicap player that has plenty of shots in the bag to score on the course. One shot I've struggled to learn is these spinning chips to help stick it close for improved short game. learning the scientific reasoning behind this shot was an awesome way to understand how to play it. Thanks again! I enjoy the videos. Keep up the good work!

I've been playing golf for 6 years now. I'm 49 and I am a 4 handicap. Clay's videos can seem to be long but I've learned more from watching his videos than any other instructor. Hank Haney is a close second. Great instruction👍

youll never get a lot better until you truly come to appreciate what he said. Shaft lean, angle of attack, etc. you dont need to be a math wiz to care about that stuff but it will allow you to self-teach and self-correct your own game. Its ridiculous because everyone here just wants him "to show you the tip instead of talking so much". If you cared about golf and getting better you would realize theres more value in what he saying and explaining, then in what he actually does with the golf club. The club is moving to fast to even see what hes implementing. Its a lot better to listen to his explanations.

Clay,thanks for answering!! I struggle with over the top,arthritic hands,an lag! I need help bad!! I use to hit my driver 225,now I’m good it it goes 195! I don’t know what happened! But thanks for your teachings!!

You’ve been doing a good job for a long time man, good on you

I like all his videos because he explains the science behind what makes these things happen. If I don't understand why it happens it's hard for me to figure out how to hit the shot. Thanks for the vids!

Great detail. Don't listen to people saying too much talking

excellent description of the need for loft

I like the way he says he's not going to get into how to deliver the club into the ball for backspin in this video, which of course is the main aspect of how to get backspin. Generally, you need to ensure that the bottom groove of the club contacts the bottom of the ball and get a feeling that the clubhead is slipping under the ball, which will make that ball run up the face and force the grooves into the cover. That's where the spin is generated. Don't make the mistake of hitting the back of the ball like a normal shot - this will give you some backspin if your dynamic loft is high enough, but not the backspin that tour pros have. Get that bottom groove into the bottom of the ball with controlled speed, and you'll get backspin. :-)

Someone takes the time to post informative, detailed content for free and a sea of clowns pour in to disparage him. Grow up you bums!

You are a good teacher!!!!

I come up steeper for more check but must give this a try thanx buddy

How much of a factor does having a good golf ball weigh into the equation?

Great tips. Thanks

Great and informative video. Thank you.

Nice pitch shots Clay :)

Use a good ball and make sure your wedge has sharp groves too. The newer wedge groves that are milled are like razors.

Great videos, Clay. Any chance of letting me know what video editing software you use to draw the lines? I would like to do the same but nothing to do with golf! Cheers, Mike

Great video thanks for posting. New info on how to get back spin

Great video. Appreciate the in depth explanation

Good tip. Thanks Clay!

Now I know what the kids in Peanuts were contending with in the classroom.

Thanks Clay, will try your style then.

What type of weight distribution should you have to maximize spin?

I gust speed up my hads to get back spin... I'm sure this guys technic works... but flatning the face creates shorter distance.... just my point of view

0:30 4 factors to produce spin 5:30 club face and ball

Isn’t there an upper limit to dynamic loft, beyond which you lose spin again? Ie sweet spot is around 55 degree?

Great lesson thanks !!

Thanks, good video, very informative.

Very helpful thanks

Nice video,will try this later 🙂

Great video

Hey, How is that diferent from a pitch shot? Body rotation?

thanks this helped alot

Clay, What kind of video camera do you use? love the quality of your videos

hi clay, i was wondering whether for a full swing sand wedge shot i would get more spin with a inside out swing path or a more square/ outside in swing path thanks

If your video you said not to come down steeply. But in your demonstration it looks like you are pretty steep. Any thoughts on this?

thanks helped a lot

What do you concidered a pitch shot and chip shot?

You are great btw

Excellent explanation and great use of the wind 😉

great, thanks.

Just out of curiosity, when does a chip become a pitch and vise versa?

well explained great one

may i ask, which loft are best to hit this kind of shot? thanks.

hi clay I have a 60 degree wedge which is a Wilson wedge and I have a 56-degree wedge which is my Nike wedge my 56-degree Nike which is spending a lot more than my 60 degree Wilson wedge I put the 60 degree wedge out of the bag and kept the 56-degree cuz it's spinning more is that still fine ?

back to me hitting thins further than my driver!

We can't get any spin because the USGA decided that all the 30 handicappers were getting too much spin in their weekend game shooting 115+ and changed the groove rule to make it harder for them.

Finally I have broke 300 after watching this video!

Thankyou.

what about groove wear and ball covering?

Information overload Keep it simple

I would say that is more a kind of pitch than chip shot... no ?

Can I get spin w my 56 deg

Yo la hago volver 15 yardas y no doy tantas vueltas

I work on a grounds crew at a country club... that rake bugs the hell outa me!

i feel like i’m back in jr high and listening to my math teacher teaching trigonometry

If I'm sliding under the ball, even on a tightish lie, what's happening?

Anyone who takesthe time to listen, and understand this guy's instruction will become a better golfer. They will shoot lower scores.

Just a quick question: Would you subscribe to my channel if I could show you how to lower your scores by 3-5 shots? Honestly, I think I could make this video fairly easily but I feel that most golfers are looking for a "quick fix" with hollywood animation. What I would show is how to sink putts without buying a new putter or some god awful putter trainer that doesn't work(or return your golf balls). FYI, spinning a ball will not lower your scores. I easily missed out on a few amateur tourney qualifiers based on a wedge that spun too much. Let me know below. Travis

Yeah nah, Phil Mickleson says the placement of the ball in this shot is at your front foot. And he adds that not placing the ball at that position for hitting high approach pitch shots is a mistake people make all the time. Check out Phil’s short game videos. He’s petty adamant about it. Kind of hard to argue against one of golfs greatest short game guys.

do not click "HERE". It will send you to his site ask you for your email address and then they'll tell you that the video you asked to see by leaving your email address is not available to you. Oh but "not to worry" they have more videos that you can see after you sign up to become a member for $8 bucks. Let's all discourage "bait & switch" tactics.

I put so much spin on once I hit the green and the ball was just spinning in the same spot for about 4 minutes, all the while it was making the wheel spin sound that a car does.

The American flag in the back was waving majestically

4:44 if you want to skip all the crazy ass jargon and get to the shot lol

Good instructions... though I must say, that's not a chip shot.

Premium balls and a fairway that’s better of my greens help as well...

Aren't you doing pitches rather than chips?

nice purple shirt fasionista

CALL me old fashioned.but, why would you want BACKSPIN on a chipshot?. I play off 2 at ROYAL TROON, SCOTLAND. IS IT A DIFFERENT GAME THEY PLAY IN U.S.A?

do you have a paypal acct, would send you something for this very good advice, that not many will give up.... I could just join but dont like or let recurring anything on my cards.... strength training is coming along very well...

I don't think that is a chip shot, should be a pitch shot. The chipping shall be less wrist hinge with low finish. While the pitching shot you made in the video clip has lots of wrist hinge with high finish. Jack Chen

I thought the 5 iron produced more spin than any other club?

This is good but not the whole story. Bigger factors are the type of green, and type of ball. Play these shots at St Andrews and you won't see hardly any check. Play them at Greenbrier and they'll check all day long.

Thanks for the explanation but 57 degree spinloft is way to much. 45 to 48 degrees is the best spinloft to create spin. Anything above causes less friction because the ball is slipping over the clubface. Do the everything you said only with a 52 wedge and you will geht way more spin

I will dumb it down for the people that tuned out because of all the talking. Chip with a 60* wedge not a 3 iron.

If I don't get any backspin after all this, I'm taking him to court for wasting my time, after all, it was shot in America. Lol

No amount of spin will help on unreceptive greens, hard greens won't spin, soft greens will spin. Some grasses are better for spin and some not.

That wasn’t 20 or 3 yards.

the square root of the hypotenuse is only extenuated by the cosign of the tangent. Ghezzz man. no one can understand a algebra and trig lessoon just hit the flippin ball

If you really want that spin glue the back of a 100 dollar pingpong racket to your club face then use a pingpong ball and hit down on the ball then it will spin back

Glue sandpaper to the face

Over Emphasizing

6:08 he starts hitting

I switched off at 5.30, way too much information!

TL;DW

Explanation tells hitting down, demonstration something else. There are two forces that affect that spin and they are not measurable...

That's a pitch shot.

English please

Clay, looks like you don't your hands to cross over - basically keep the face of the club facing up.

clearly by the comments to much talk. it's the biggest problem for instructors on you tube. show us. get different angles. don't shoot a quick video. make a great video. break the norm