Special Golf Techniques

[Ems]

How do pros hit a shot and make the golf ball stop or roll backwards or roll sideways?

Can these techniques be explained in short sentences? Is there a tip sheet of hitting the way the pros hit?

[Grass Roots Tour]

How do pros hit a shot and make the golf ball stop or roll backwards or roll sideways?

Can these techniques be explained in short sentences? Is there a tip sheet of hitting the way the pros hit?
The only way to get back spin is to trap the ball by hitting down on it forcing it up the face thereby imparting backspin at a very high rate. This also requires a full swing (to actually back it up) and is improved by not recocking the wrists after impact. See Jim McClean's "burning wedge" series from the golf channel online liabrary.

I believe sidespin is just the same with slightly open or closed clubface at impact.

[SW20 MR2]

The type of ball that you use can play a major part as well. You are much more likely to spin a Pro V1 than a Rock Flite.

[Mok]

does the well-kept putting green play a factor?

[Mule56]

How do pros hit a shot and make the golf ball stop or roll backwards or roll sideways?

Can these techniques be explained in short sentences? Is there a tip sheet of hitting the way the pros hit?Ems,
See my post in the other thread. Ground conditions also play a part. While playing with our club pro one day, I was going to take a lift from a cart path. He suggested I hit away (my new wedges were all ready being made). He told me to take enough club to fire past the pin and swing away. I'd and was amazed at what I saw. The ball hit about 10 feet past the pin and backed up to a foot in front of the pin. He told me that with the cart path being that hard it was easy to push the ball down and force it up the clubface at a faster rate.
If the ground you are hitting off is too soft it will not work as good. If the green is too soft or too hard it may not work as well. Too soft it may plug. Too hard at it may just bounce and check.
My issue with backing the ball up is is you don't get it just right, which takes lots of practice, you may spin it to far or not enough. I prefer the hit and stick to the back to up.
Sidespin is something I like to let the ground contour look after. This is also due to over doing it can cause issue you don't want. I don't mine a slight fade or draw, but over doing can mean disaster.
Mule

[Nocturnal]

Yeppers, the only way to back up a ball is to hit down on it. As virtually all iron shots SHOULD be struck this way it's a good habit to get into. Hit down to make the ball go up :)

[Grass Roots Tour]

does the well-kept putting green play a factor?
The surface your hitting from plays a bigger role than the surface of the green. Shorter fairway grass or no grass will provide cleaner contact, thereby imparting far more spin.
A long enough bunker shot to force you to hit the ball first will have a lot of spin... again, the amount of sand in that bunker plays a huge role. Too much sand = no spin.
The bunkers at tour events have very little sand in them and they are raked to be very consistant in depth of sand. Very unlike the conditions we see day in and day out.