When is backspin beneficial to a golf shot? Obviously, the most common use of adding backspin to a golf ball is when you want to hold the green on an approach shot. Backspin will cause the ball to check or even draw or spin backwards when it hits the green. The spin will prevent the ball from bouncing forward and off of the green.
Another use of spin is when your faced with a situation of being in-between clubs. If for example, you hit your lob wedge 80 yards on a full shot and a sand wedge 100 yards on a full shot that leaves a 20 yard gap between the clubs. If faced with a 90 yard shot, adjustments will need to be made to leave the ball close to the hole.
Using backspin is one way to compensate for the in-between distance. Go to the sand wedge and set up to spin it back. The set up adjustment in itself to spin the ball will take off several yards from the normal club distance. Hit a high-spinning golf shot and expect the ball to fly past the flag, bite and then spin back towards you making up for the gap in club yardages.
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