You ask the question, "How do I backspin it?"
On the occasion that the Blazer gets paired up with a hack, the hack will invariably
ask how to put backspin on the ball.
After years of hackatural selection, this question has become an automatic
response of a hack seeing a playing partner's ball check up after landing
on a green.
The Green Blazer's explanation of backspin took years to perfect, but now we
have it nailed down perfectly and condensed it into a simple three part
answer.
1. Try not sucking -- When you suck, spinning a ball becomes increasingly
difficult unless in the form of a bionic slice.
2. Don't use Pinnacle Gold -- Even though the hack, "likes the yellow
ones" the rock hard cover of a Pinnacle or Top Flite XL won't aid you in
your quest to learn how to spin it. (note: The Blazer is not advising hacks to
go out and spend their hard earned wages on a $50 box a golf balls. Due to a
horrible motion, hacks likely won't get any more juice from a Pro V1 than from
their current choice of ball)
3. Make solid contact -- Putting backspin on a ball when you're chucking,
topping, or toe shanking every shot is a difficult task.
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This three part answer will quickly silence most hacks. Granted, G Blaze could
do like most golfers and pad his own ego by giving the hack a detailed
explanation of shaft lean at address and how to strike it on a descending blow,
but even if the hack can decipher the information, he certainly won't be able
to apply it.
Until next time, this has been another edition of "You know you're a hack
when ..." Please search the archives if you're interested in reading
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