Amateur golfers scouring the web for golf tips need look no further than anything Jordan Spieth has to offer.
Sure, Spieth hasn’t been anywhere near his best for a few years now, but there are still not many players out there who are better than him at getting up and down from bleak situations.
So with that in mind, the 32-year-old’s wide range of tips regarding how to hit the flop shot will be pure gold for amateur golfers.
Spieth has provided amateurs with numerous golf tips throughout the years.
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The Dallas native is definitely someone who is worth listening to, with 13 PGA Tour titles to his name, including three major championships.
Despite his struggles in 2025, Spieth showed encouraging signs last season and one thing that never left him was his uncanny ability to get up and down from the worst lies and positions around the greens.
Jordan Spieth’s instructions for amateurs over how to hit a flop shot
Any amateurs out there who struggle when hitting the flop shot should listen to Spieth’s advice.
The three-time major winner highlighted how most amateur golfers do one really important thing wrong before they’ve even hit the ball.
On a TikTok video, Spieth explained how amateurs can pull off ‘the most difficult shot’ in the game.
He said: “Flop shots are the most difficult shots you will face on the course.
“I like to grab my highest lofted wedge, for me that’s a 60 degree wedge. I get a really, really wide base with my weight forward. A lot of people like to put their weight back because they think they need to to launch the ball up in the air.
“But you do that by creating the loft through the swing by allowing the club to get down there early, so you actually want your weight forward to create a clean strike on your front foot with a wide base.
“Then, as you take your swing you want a real kind of arcing swing that comes down and lets the club deliver early so that you can get that effective loft, then follow on through up and hit that high, soft short shot.
“You want to be really kind of bent over, a real athletic stance. My weight is probably 60/40 onto my front foot and I’m going to take it back real wide. That’s how you hit a flop shot.“
The key thing to note here is that flop shots should only be hit when there is no other option. It is a high-risk golf shot that can cause you a lot of problems unless you have perfected a certain kind of technique.
However, at the same time, it is a shot that can save you strokes by extricating you from tricky situations. It’s certainly a shot that you should practice, especially now that you’re armed with Spieth’s advice!
Speed through the ball is another key to hitting a flop shot
Golfers must maintain speed through impact when hitting the flop shot and actually accelerate through the ball.
Speed creates spin, and you just have to trust the fact that the loft on the club will do the work for you.
When attempting a flop shot, any kind of deceleration or lack of speed at impact will end up in either a chunk or a blade across the green.
That’s because rather than driving down into the ground with speed, the bounce on the sole of your club has taken over.
When you become better and have a solid understanding of how bounce on a golf club works, you can use it to your advantage.
For the time being, though, just work on the method shared by Spieth and ensure that you maintain speed through impact.
Any kind of deceleration at impact will render the flop shot totally redundant.
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