How Backspin Affects Your Driving Distance
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2021-01-04
Backspin can have a major impact on the distance of your drives, along with a handful of other factors.
Gene Parente of Golf Laboratories explains that if you you have a slower swing speed, you need more backspin to get the ball airborne, but if you have a higher swing speed you need a lower backspin rate to ensure the ball won’t ‘balloon.’