Jordan Spieth explains to amateurs exactly how they can hit the low, spinny check shot when chipping and pitching

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Jordan Spieth is one of the best players on the PGA Tour around the greens.

Spieth has excelled throughout his PGA Tour career with a wedge in his hands.

The three major titles he has to his name all came about because of exceptional pitching, chipping and putting.

Those three departments of the game are the most important when it comes to scoring, and are often the areas where amateurs struggle the most.

Spieth openly admitted that his putting won him the 2015 Masters, and he would probably say the same about his US Open and Open Championship triumphs.

However, his chipping and pitching saved him on multiple occasions as well.

Now he has offered some tips on how amateurs can make their lives easier around the greens.

Jordan Spieth shows amateurs how to hit the low, spinny checker when chipping and pitching

Spieth is well renowned for hitting what is known in the game as the ‘low, spinny checker’ when he has missed the green and has plenty of space to work with between him and the hole.

In fact, it would be fair to argue that he is actually the best in the business at executing that specific shot.

So amateur golfers take note.

It has to be said, the ‘low, spinny checker’ is probably one of the hardest shots to pull off for anyone who doesn’t play the game professionally.

However, Spieth has tried to simplify the technique that he uses, so that amateurs will be able to replicate it:

“A lower one, that I’m going to try and get a couple of hops, a little bite and then a little run out. I actually still like having an open face, that’s how I’m going to get the spin, so I can put a little bit of extra speed into it. I’m making sure that I get plenty of shaft lean, with the ball a little bit further back in my stance. So I’m going to go with a little wider stance and a wider arc motion so that I can kind of glide with my hands leading the charge, to get this little low cut spinning action.“

That’s actually very good advice from Spieth. However, it is worth pointing out that the shot he’s describing is one usually reserved for very low handicap golfers.

What Jordan Spieth told his golf coach when he was just 12

Spieth has clearly had the mindset of a winner from a very early age.

Whilst the Dallas native hasn’t won as regularly over the past few years as he did during his first five years on tour, he is still one of the very best players in the world.

When he burst onto the scene and won The Masters 10 years ago, it didn’t actually surprise anyone.

Spieth told his long time golf coach Cameron McCormick that he wanted to win The Masters when he was just 12:

“So, day one, he demonstrated wisdom beyond his years when he sat in front of me and said, ‘here’s where I’m at and here’s where I want to get to’. Where he was at was just, for a 12-year-old, a really practical objective perspective of where his game was at, his strengths and weaknesses. And where he wanted to get to, he literally sat there and said, ‘I want to win The Masters’. I didn’t gulp out loud but I was like, ‘wow, that’s a bold objective for a 12-year-old to express to a coach’.”

The truly incredible mindset that Spieth possessed before he was even a teenager has clearly played a pivotal role on him reaching the top level of the game.

Hopefully he’ll get back inside the winner’s circle very soon.