Lee Trevino is known as one of the best ball strikers of all time. Here he talks about how he was able to get so much spin on the golf ball and make it check after one hop. Lee was the master at the wedges and when he was on he was shooting at every flag.
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the only way that you can get under a golf ball is you have to hit down on a golf ball you never hit up on a ball you hit down on it you compress it into the ground in other words and it’s almost at the left wrist is almost broken here when you hit it it’s this way and the wedge comes com pressed down into the ground now you utilize what happens when you compress a golf ball in the ground it goes up the club face when you flip a wedge or any club here the ball is only going to utilize the bottom two grooves it’s never going to use the top ones so I I I learned the long time ago but that again that was from playing on hard pan then when I came on tour and got soft Fairways you understand and I tried that shot I mean that ball would squeeze right up that blade he would hit twice and check I’ve always had a an AR to do that people that flip with wedges all they’re doing is increasing the the the balance on a wedge and you can’t learn the hit a bump and run or or or or a check wedge that way no way
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It's almost funny how completely opposite reality is from what Lee perceived. The last thing you want is the ball sliding up the face if you want to impart more spin on it
The ball is not compressed into the ground, that is for sure .
I will go with what Travino says
Dig it out of the dirt that’s what Hogan said. Compression is key in golf for control
Hard pan = Texas.
This has been proven wrong. Compression is a feel only
Trevino may feel that way but high speed video shows ball compressed against clubface when its level to the ground & contact makes shorter clubs ricohette into the ground, to make a divot
take this down
even when you hit "down" on the ball it absolutely does NOT compress or squeeze it against the ground… All it is, is the angle of attack at the time of impact. The clubface hits the ball and then continues down and hits the ground next, but by that time the ball has already rolled up and off the club face. It never "pinches" or "squeezes" the ball into the ground. That's just nonsense. If it did that, it would lose nearly all its momentum.
Count Yogi would disagree.
Love me some Lee Trevino, but he is wrong here. Modern high quality slow motion video of the strike provides irrefutable evidence that, regardless of the club or AOA, the ball is not compressed into the ground. Also, lots of players these days strike the ball at the bottom of the arc (low point) and some even slightly on the way up, again, regardless of the club.
It's a feel. That feel part of it may still be useful as a swing thought. It's like "beat it into the ground".
I always loved Trevino's shoulder & hand action throughout the swing. What an incredible athlete and super underrated in my opinion….
I take his actual point, but it's not true that you never hit up on a ball. You have to hit up on a ball on a severe upslope wedge shot
THE ONLY WAY to prevent breaking your wedge shaft during the swing is to use stiffer shafts. Hitting down into the ground with the club head is a recipe for disaster on the course. Either sweep the ball like Tiger Woods, or hit down into the ground like Lee Trevino but with a stiffer shaft on your wedges.
If I hit down on a ball on a soft fairway, it gets pushed down into the ground, it goes nowhere and I end up with a big chunk of mud on the clubface.
Lee Trevino did have a beard.
I love how great players pretend to know how they do it. They have the skill to just execute
Thats the opposite of what mcilroy says about hitting the check wedge
Whats hardpan?
Trevino. Severely underrated
these great players always explain it like " all you have to do is blah blah blah" , like it's that easy……
Golf is the only game where a bunch of guys who don’t even have the talent of this guys pinky want to argue over what he is saying just because they get to talk about AoA from track man. SMH SHRINK
Merion USO 1972 he was a king. Ate Nicklaus's lunch. Anybody intersted can watch this duel again, hole by hole. This guy was just incredible. Hot humid conditions, perfect for a Texan raised in the hellish racist South.
Never could stand that mouthy grandstander.
Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
I had the pleasure of walking 18 with him in 93. The man hit some incredible shots….shot a 64 on a course hed never stepped foot on before. His clinic was also spectacular. He hit that shot he was talking about in this vid all day….a 5-6 iron take one hop and stop on a dime…unreal
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