Lee Trevino: Priceless Advice Around the Green! #leetrevino #golf #usethebounce

Lee Trevino: Priceless Advice Around the Green! #leetrevino #golf #usethebounce

like to smother the ball a little bit, take a little bounce off the club by putting the club back in my stance a little bit and making it a little bit sharper. Not so much finishing the shot as I do actually attacking the ball, hitting down on it. What that does is when the ball lands it actually releases instead of checking, the ball will release and then run almost like a seven iron. I can make a sand wedge. I can chip a ball with a sand wedge and make it react like a seven iron. And um and and that’s what I did there. Yeah, I made eagle. But this is the shot that we were talking about. And and and this was not quite as far, but you’ll notice that the hands the hands will stay in front of uh see it. Now watch the hands are still in the same position to where I finished. I’m not here. Now, you’ll notice when you hit a shot, hold the club and see where it’s at. And I guarantee you, you’ll be here. And I’m still in this position. I can actually watch this. I can actually hit this ball, hold the position, right? Watch. And come right back down and hit another one. You see that? And what does that do to the flight or the release of the ball? it’ll release. It won’t put as much spin on it. You understand? See, you don’t People don’t understand. You know what puts spin on the ball? Bounce. Bounce is what puts spin on the ball. When you put a wedge down at 56° and you hit a golf ball at the same moment that this bounce catches the ground, the ball is on the club face and the club actually bounces into the ball and makes it spin up those grooves and that’s what puts the spin on it. When you put your hands forward and you take the loft off that club and make it a nine iron, now you don’t have 14 degrees of bounce on here. You only have seven.

Lee Trevino explains his philosophy around the greens where he gets the ball to release with a sand wedge.