Watching a professional golfer get the golf ball up high in the air and then stopping quickly from nearly any position on the course is one of the most impressive spectacles an amateur can witness.
While many amateur golfers struggle to get the ball in the air, the pros make it look easy at times.
The very best in the world seem to have an ability to get the golf ball to land and behave exactly how they want it, no matter what sort of lie they have.
However, while it can seem impossible to learn this skill, all is not lost if we give Lee Trevino some air time.
In fact, looking back at a previous explanation on how to be better with the wedges, Trevino has explained just what needs to happen.
Lee Trevino’s tip for amateur golfers to improve their wedge game
We’ve seen Lee Trevino give out some brilliant pieces of advice over the years and we’d be silly not to listen to a six-time major winner.
Trevino has previously explained how to get more spin on a wedge shot and building into that explanation, Trevino has also offered more detail.
Speaking on an old tip video on how to improve with the wedge, Trevino explained to amateurs the shots they’ll never master unless they learn to hit down on a golf ball.
“The only way you can get under a golf ball is by hitting down on it. You never hit up on a ball, you hit down. You compress it into the ground and it’s almost like the left wrist is almost broken when you hit it and the wedge compresses down into ground,” Trevino explained.
“What happens when you compress a golf ball into the ground? It goes up the club face. But when you flip a wedge, or any club, the ball is only going to utilise the bottom two grooves, it’s never going to use the top ones, and I learned that a long time ago.
“But that again that was from playing on hardpan. Then when I came on TOUR and I got the soft fairways, you understand I tried that shot and that ball was up the club face and it would be two bounces and stop.
“People that flip with wedges, all they’re doing is increasing bounce on the wedge and you can’t learn to hit a bump and run or a check wedge that way, no way.”
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How Sergio Garcia suggested you can get more spin on your wedge shots
Listening to golfers – past and present – and taking advice on board is one of the best things an amateur can do.
The modern world allows us access to so much information that we’d be stupid not to take things in.
Of course, Trevino’s tip here is a great one and it links in to what nearly everyone will tell an amateur, that hitting down on a ball is key.
Indeed, in terms of adding more spin with a wedge shot, Sergio Garcia has also offered his opinion.
“If you’re struggling with getting spin with your wedges, here are a couple of tips that might help you with that,” Garcia has explained.
“One of the most important things is to make sure that you’re nice and stable over the ball, so that way you can be as consistent with your strike as possible and opening the club face as much as you can.
“Because of this, you’ll have to aim a little bit left to your target, maybe a yard or two. The ball will come out a little right of where you’re aiming.
“And then probably the most important thing is to make sure that you trust it and accelerate through the shot. Just let the club do the work with the angle, and you just trust it, then you should be able to do that.”
It seems, then, that the top players in the world are all in agreement when it comes to compressing the golf ball for maximum results.
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