
Putting backspin on the ball can be a great move for an amateur player who is showing significant improvement with his play around the greens. If you hit your pitching, gap and lob wedges with consistency, your game will show significant improvement when you learn how to stop the ball with backspin.
About The Author
Steve Silverman is an award-winning writer, covering sports since 1980. Silverman authored The Minnesota Vikings: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Who's Better, Who's Best in Football -- The Top 60 Players of All-Time, among others, and placed in the Pro Football Writers of America awards three times. Silverman holds a Master of Science in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism.