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If there is anyone who likes golf out there, but just cant hit those crucial shots I’ll tell you how to.
The Draw
The draw shot is where you propel the ball from right to left, or left to right if your left handed. The shot is the key to hitting a long drive, because the ball will generally run well when it lands. So it’s a handy shot to know if your looking to improve your driving distance. The shape of the shot can also help you avoid trees off the tee, or with a fairway wood.
In addition the draw has a generally low flight path therefore making it a handy shot to have in your bag if you’re playing into a headwind.
In order to hit the draw correctly, you must swing more “in to out” than normally, and develop some feel for how to shape the shot.
Unique Swingpath
How do you produce the unique swingpath of a draw? Start with your alignment, pointing your feet, hips and shoulders slightly right of the target - or to you more technical people a “closed” stance. But don’t overdo it. Unless you are trying to dramatically bend the ball around an obstacle, the slandered draw requires that you aim right by only five degrees or so.
Next, set the ball back in your stance by about 3-4cm from where you would normally have it. This encourages you to hit the ball from the inside.
Finally, adjust your grip by turning hands to the right, or more underneath the club - to you technical people a “strong grip”. Be careful though over doing this can easily turn a draw into a hook!
In fact, its vital to experiment various grip positions when you practise hitting the draw. If you already hit with a natural fade, or tend to slice the ball a lot, drawing the ball will be made more difficult for you.
Mastering this shot however can be fun. If you do have a natural slice this shot will prove to be more difficult, but rewarding when you do hit that almost perfect shot, this can also help you hit a straighter shot.
How to Hit the Draw
In order to encourage an “in to out” swingpath, many golfers imagine that they are standing on a clock face with 12 o’clock being on the target line straight ahead. Aiming the club at 1 o’clock, you want to take your swing back to 7 o’clock, and then fire through 1 o’clock.
But why are you aiming at 1 o’clock instead of just closing the clubface, or squaring up to the target, which is the traditional way of teaching the draw.
Many golfers believe that if you see the clubface sitting closed to your swingpath, then you’ll tend to swing to the left. But if you open the clubface a bit and aim at the 1 o’clock position, then you are already thinking “in to out”
Golfers also do not think that a golfer should do anything extraordinary on the backswing when learning the draw. They make a conventional backswing, then think about swinging the club inside on the throughswing, trying to let it drop relatively close to their body. They promote this feeling by keeping the right elbow in fairly close to the side of my torso as they start through, while visualising how the club should swing out to the right.
Impart Sidespin
Golfers often believe that it also helps to imagine that you are playing this shot with a table tennis bat, attempting to impart sidespin – in this case that is anti clockwise visor -versa for a left hander. The whole point of this is because gravity pulls the side it is spinning to. Swinging the club “in to out” gives you this effect, keeping your hands very lose on this shot is a key factor. A bit more release on the right hand than normal wont do any harm in developing the feel of the draw. If you lock up your hands on the other hand you will lose confidence as you come through and block the ball miles to the right. This is especially important if you do have a natural slice.
The Fade Shot
Most players already hit a natural fade, or just slice the ball completely. Lee Trevino, the master of the fade shot once said, “you can talk to a fade, but you can’t talk to a hook” he had a valid point.
Like a slice a hook can get you into all sorts of trouble. But when you hit the ball with a soft fade you know the ball is going to stop nicely.
That’s the beauty of this shot. The fade is ideal when you are faced with a left to right dogleg from the tee, when you when you have to bend the ball the same way round a hazard, or when you need to get a lot of height and to land the ball softly.
High Shot
Unlike the draw the fade is a high shot that will not run very much when it hits the ground, because of this it makes it the ideal shot for when you need a long approach to the green, but tricky to play on a windy day.
The bad thing a bout this shot is that the average golfer will not get much distance with a fade. And since most golfers lack penetration with their shots anyway, always playing a fade is mot desirable. In fact, most golfers would be better off to generate a draw in their swing, and using that particular option as their normal shot.
Having said that, knowing how to fade the ball necessary for a variety of situations, and absolutely essential if you are looking to improver your game.
How to Hit a Fade
To hit a fade firstly, open your stance by moving your front foot back of the target line. Aiming left, align your feet, hips and shoulders in an open stance position that points to 11 o’clock on the imaginary clock face.
In terms of swingpath, you want to think about moving out-to-in, pulling the club across the ball from 5 to 11 o’clock. That will impart clockwise spin.
Adjusted Grip
The next thing you should do is to adjust your grip. If you naturally draw the ball, you will have to turn your hands round to the left – or “weaken” your grip. This may be an advantage for some, but if you already hit the ball from left to right – or with a fade – its important that you do not overdo this adjustment.
Opening your hands – or moving them more to the left – could produce a massive slice.
Remember that every change you make to create a golf shot has to be relevant to your game. So for the natural slicer, simply opening the stance and aiming to the left of the target a little bit could be enough to produce the correct swingpath.
Ball Position
But let’s assume you hit the ball straight and go from there. To hit a fade, especially if you want more height, means playing the ball a touch further forward in your stance than you would normally. Depending on where you start from, putting the ball about an inch (2.54cm) further forward should be enough. In simple terms, that means playing off your left heel.
However, if you already play the ball from inside your left heel, you do not need to move it further forward for the fade. Playing any shot with the ball too far up in stance will cause you to pull it – or hit it straight left.
The Draw
The draw shot is where you propel the ball from right to left, or left to right if your left handed. The shot is the key to hitting a long drive, because the ball will generally run well when it lands. So it’s a handy shot to know if your looking to improve your driving distance. The shape of the shot can also help you avoid trees off the tee, or with a fairway wood.
In addition the draw has a generally low flight path therefore making it a handy shot to have in your bag if you’re playing into a headwind.
In order to hit the draw correctly, you must swing more “in to out” than normally, and develop some feel for how to shape the shot.
Unique Swingpath
How do you produce the unique swingpath of a draw? Start with your alignment, pointing your feet, hips and shoulders slightly right of the target - or to you more technical people a “closed” stance. But don’t overdo it. Unless you are trying to dramatically bend the ball around an obstacle, the slandered draw requires that you aim right by only five degrees or so.
Next, set the ball back in your stance by about 3-4cm from where you would normally have it. This encourages you to hit the ball from the inside.
Finally, adjust your grip by turning hands to the right, or more underneath the club - to you technical people a “strong grip”. Be careful though over doing this can easily turn a draw into a hook!
In fact, its vital to experiment various grip positions when you practise hitting the draw. If you already hit with a natural fade, or tend to slice the ball a lot, drawing the ball will be made more difficult for you.
Mastering this shot however can be fun. If you do have a natural slice this shot will prove to be more difficult, but rewarding when you do hit that almost perfect shot, this can also help you hit a straighter shot.
How to Hit the Draw
In order to encourage an “in to out” swingpath, many golfers imagine that they are standing on a clock face with 12 o’clock being on the target line straight ahead. Aiming the club at 1 o’clock, you want to take your swing back to 7 o’clock, and then fire through 1 o’clock.
But why are you aiming at 1 o’clock instead of just closing the clubface, or squaring up to the target, which is the traditional way of teaching the draw.
Many golfers believe that if you see the clubface sitting closed to your swingpath, then you’ll tend to swing to the left. But if you open the clubface a bit and aim at the 1 o’clock position, then you are already thinking “in to out”
Golfers also do not think that a golfer should do anything extraordinary on the backswing when learning the draw. They make a conventional backswing, then think about swinging the club inside on the throughswing, trying to let it drop relatively close to their body. They promote this feeling by keeping the right elbow in fairly close to the side of my torso as they start through, while visualising how the club should swing out to the right.
Impart Sidespin
Golfers often believe that it also helps to imagine that you are playing this shot with a table tennis bat, attempting to impart sidespin – in this case that is anti clockwise visor -versa for a left hander. The whole point of this is because gravity pulls the side it is spinning to. Swinging the club “in to out” gives you this effect, keeping your hands very lose on this shot is a key factor. A bit more release on the right hand than normal wont do any harm in developing the feel of the draw. If you lock up your hands on the other hand you will lose confidence as you come through and block the ball miles to the right. This is especially important if you do have a natural slice.
The Fade Shot
Most players already hit a natural fade, or just slice the ball completely. Lee Trevino, the master of the fade shot once said, “you can talk to a fade, but you can’t talk to a hook” he had a valid point.
Like a slice a hook can get you into all sorts of trouble. But when you hit the ball with a soft fade you know the ball is going to stop nicely.
That’s the beauty of this shot. The fade is ideal when you are faced with a left to right dogleg from the tee, when you when you have to bend the ball the same way round a hazard, or when you need to get a lot of height and to land the ball softly.
High Shot
Unlike the draw the fade is a high shot that will not run very much when it hits the ground, because of this it makes it the ideal shot for when you need a long approach to the green, but tricky to play on a windy day.
The bad thing a bout this shot is that the average golfer will not get much distance with a fade. And since most golfers lack penetration with their shots anyway, always playing a fade is mot desirable. In fact, most golfers would be better off to generate a draw in their swing, and using that particular option as their normal shot.
Having said that, knowing how to fade the ball necessary for a variety of situations, and absolutely essential if you are looking to improver your game.
How to Hit a Fade
To hit a fade firstly, open your stance by moving your front foot back of the target line. Aiming left, align your feet, hips and shoulders in an open stance position that points to 11 o’clock on the imaginary clock face.
In terms of swingpath, you want to think about moving out-to-in, pulling the club across the ball from 5 to 11 o’clock. That will impart clockwise spin.
Adjusted Grip
The next thing you should do is to adjust your grip. If you naturally draw the ball, you will have to turn your hands round to the left – or “weaken” your grip. This may be an advantage for some, but if you already hit the ball from left to right – or with a fade – its important that you do not overdo this adjustment.
Opening your hands – or moving them more to the left – could produce a massive slice.
Remember that every change you make to create a golf shot has to be relevant to your game. So for the natural slicer, simply opening the stance and aiming to the left of the target a little bit could be enough to produce the correct swingpath.
Ball Position
But let’s assume you hit the ball straight and go from there. To hit a fade, especially if you want more height, means playing the ball a touch further forward in your stance than you would normally. Depending on where you start from, putting the ball about an inch (2.54cm) further forward should be enough. In simple terms, that means playing off your left heel.
However, if you already play the ball from inside your left heel, you do not need to move it further forward for the fade. Playing any shot with the ball too far up in stance will cause you to pull it – or hit it straight left.
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If there is anyone who likes golf out there, but just cant hit those crucial shots I’ll tell you how to.
The Draw
The draw shot is where you propel the ball from right to left, or left to right if your left handed. The shot is the key to hitting a long drive, because the ball will generally run well when it lands. So it’s a handy shot to know if your looking to improve your driving distance. The shape of the shot can also help you avoid trees off the tee, or with a fairway wood.
In addition the draw has a generally low flight path therefore making it a handy shot to have in your bag if you’re playing into a headwind.
In order to hit the draw correctly, you must swing more “in to out” than normally, and develop some feel for how to shape the shot.
Unique Swingpath
How do you produce the unique swingpath of a draw? Start with your alignment, pointing your feet, hips and shoulders slightly right of the target - or to you more technical people a “closed” stance. But don’t overdo it. Unless you are trying to dramatically bend the ball around an obstacle, the slandered draw requires that you aim right by only five degrees or so.
Next, set the ball back in your stance by about 3-4cm from where you would normally have it. This encourages you to hit the ball from the inside.
Finally, adjust your grip by turning hands to the right, or more underneath the club - to you technical people a “strong grip”. Be careful though over doing this can easily turn a draw into a hook!
In fact, its vital to experiment various grip positions when you practise hitting the draw. If you already hit with a natural fade, or tend to slice the ball a lot, drawing the ball will be made more difficult for you.
Mastering this shot however can be fun. If you do have a natural slice this shot will prove to be more difficult, but rewarding when you do hit that almost perfect shot, this can also help you hit a straighter shot.
How to Hit the Draw
In order to encourage an “in to out” swingpath, many golfers imagine that they are standing on a clock face with 12 o’clock being on the target line straight ahead. Aiming the club at 1 o’clock, you want to take your swing back to 7 o’clock, and then fire through 1 o’clock.
But why are you aiming at 1 o’clock instead of just closing the clubface, or squaring up to the target, which is the traditional way of teaching the draw.
Many golfers believe that if you see the clubface sitting closed to your swingpath, then you’ll tend to swing to the left. But if you open the clubface a bit and aim at the 1 o’clock position, then you are already thinking “in to out”
Golfers also do not think that a golfer should do anything extraordinary on the backswing when learning the draw. They make a conventional backswing, then think about swinging the club inside on the throughswing, trying to let it drop relatively close to their body. They promote this feeling by keeping the right elbow in fairly close to the side of my torso as they start through, while visualising how the club should swing out to the right.
Impart Sidespin
Golfers often believe that it also helps to imagine that you are playing this shot with a table tennis bat, attempting to impart sidespin – in this case that is anti clockwise visor -versa for a left hander. The whole point of this is because gravity pulls the side it is spinning to. Swinging the club “in to out” gives you this effect, keeping your hands very lose on this shot is a key factor. A bit more release on the right hand than normal wont do any harm in developing the feel of the draw. If you lock up your hands on the other hand you will lose confidence as you come through and block the ball miles to the right. This is especially important if you do have a natural slice.
The Fade Shot
Most players already hit a natural fade, or just slice the ball completely. Lee Trevino, the master of the fade shot once said, “you can talk to a fade, but you can’t talk to a hook” he had a valid point.
Like a slice a hook can get you into all sorts of trouble. But when you hit the ball with a soft fade you know the ball is going to stop nicely.
That’s the beauty of this shot. The fade is ideal when you are faced with a left to right dogleg from the tee, when you when you have to bend the ball the same way round a hazard, or when you need to get a lot of height and to land the ball softly.
High Shot
Unlike the draw the fade is a high shot that will not run very much when it hits the ground, because of this it makes it the ideal shot for when you need a long approach to the green, but tricky to play on a windy day.
The bad thing a bout this shot is that the average golfer will not get much distance with a fade. And since most golfers lack penetration with their shots anyway, always playing a fade is mot desirable. In fact, most golfers would be better off to generate a draw in their swing, and using that particular option as their normal shot.
Having said that, knowing how to fade the ball necessary for a variety of situations, and absolutely essential if you are looking to improver your game.
How to Hit a Fade
To hit a fade firstly, open your stance by moving your front foot back of the target line. Aiming left, align your feet, hips and shoulders in an open stance position that points to 11 o’clock on the imaginary clock face.
In terms of swingpath, you want to think about moving out-to-in, pulling the club across the ball from 5 to 11 o’clock. That will impart clockwise spin.
Adjusted Grip
The next thing you should do is to adjust your grip. If you naturally draw the ball, you will have to turn your hands round to the left – or “weaken” your grip. This may be an advantage for some, but if you already hit the ball from left to right – or with a fade – its important that you do not overdo this adjustment.
Opening your hands – or moving them more to the left – could produce a massive slice.
Remember that every change you make to create a golf shot has to be relevant to your game. So for the natural slicer, simply opening the stance and aiming to the left of the target a little bit could be enough to produce the correct swingpath.
Ball Position
But let’s assume you hit the ball straight and go from there. To hit a fade, especially if you want more height, means playing the ball a touch further forward in your stance than you would normally. Depending on where you start from, putting the ball about an inch (2.54cm) further forward should be enough. In simple terms, that means playing off your left heel.
However, if you already play the ball from inside your left heel, you do not need to move it further forward for the fade. Playing any shot with the ball too far up in stance will cause you to pull it – or hit it straight left.
The Draw
The draw shot is where you propel the ball from right to left, or left to right if your left handed. The shot is the key to hitting a long drive, because the ball will generally run well when it lands. So it’s a handy shot to know if your looking to improve your driving distance. The shape of the shot can also help you avoid trees off the tee, or with a fairway wood.
In addition the draw has a generally low flight path therefore making it a handy shot to have in your bag if you’re playing into a headwind.
In order to hit the draw correctly, you must swing more “in to out” than normally, and develop some feel for how to shape the shot.
Unique Swingpath
How do you produce the unique swingpath of a draw? Start with your alignment, pointing your feet, hips and shoulders slightly right of the target - or to you more technical people a “closed” stance. But don’t overdo it. Unless you are trying to dramatically bend the ball around an obstacle, the slandered draw requires that you aim right by only five degrees or so.
Next, set the ball back in your stance by about 3-4cm from where you would normally have it. This encourages you to hit the ball from the inside.
Finally, adjust your grip by turning hands to the right, or more underneath the club - to you technical people a “strong grip”. Be careful though over doing this can easily turn a draw into a hook!
In fact, its vital to experiment various grip positions when you practise hitting the draw. If you already hit with a natural fade, or tend to slice the ball a lot, drawing the ball will be made more difficult for you.
Mastering this shot however can be fun. If you do have a natural slice this shot will prove to be more difficult, but rewarding when you do hit that almost perfect shot, this can also help you hit a straighter shot.
How to Hit the Draw
In order to encourage an “in to out” swingpath, many golfers imagine that they are standing on a clock face with 12 o’clock being on the target line straight ahead. Aiming the club at 1 o’clock, you want to take your swing back to 7 o’clock, and then fire through 1 o’clock.
But why are you aiming at 1 o’clock instead of just closing the clubface, or squaring up to the target, which is the traditional way of teaching the draw.
Many golfers believe that if you see the clubface sitting closed to your swingpath, then you’ll tend to swing to the left. But if you open the clubface a bit and aim at the 1 o’clock position, then you are already thinking “in to out”
Golfers also do not think that a golfer should do anything extraordinary on the backswing when learning the draw. They make a conventional backswing, then think about swinging the club inside on the throughswing, trying to let it drop relatively close to their body. They promote this feeling by keeping the right elbow in fairly close to the side of my torso as they start through, while visualising how the club should swing out to the right.
Impart Sidespin
Golfers often believe that it also helps to imagine that you are playing this shot with a table tennis bat, attempting to impart sidespin – in this case that is anti clockwise visor -versa for a left hander. The whole point of this is because gravity pulls the side it is spinning to. Swinging the club “in to out” gives you this effect, keeping your hands very lose on this shot is a key factor. A bit more release on the right hand than normal wont do any harm in developing the feel of the draw. If you lock up your hands on the other hand you will lose confidence as you come through and block the ball miles to the right. This is especially important if you do have a natural slice.
The Fade Shot
Most players already hit a natural fade, or just slice the ball completely. Lee Trevino, the master of the fade shot once said, “you can talk to a fade, but you can’t talk to a hook” he had a valid point.
Like a slice a hook can get you into all sorts of trouble. But when you hit the ball with a soft fade you know the ball is going to stop nicely.
That’s the beauty of this shot. The fade is ideal when you are faced with a left to right dogleg from the tee, when you when you have to bend the ball the same way round a hazard, or when you need to get a lot of height and to land the ball softly.
High Shot
Unlike the draw the fade is a high shot that will not run very much when it hits the ground, because of this it makes it the ideal shot for when you need a long approach to the green, but tricky to play on a windy day.
The bad thing a bout this shot is that the average golfer will not get much distance with a fade. And since most golfers lack penetration with their shots anyway, always playing a fade is mot desirable. In fact, most golfers would be better off to generate a draw in their swing, and using that particular option as their normal shot.
Having said that, knowing how to fade the ball necessary for a variety of situations, and absolutely essential if you are looking to improver your game.
How to Hit a Fade
To hit a fade firstly, open your stance by moving your front foot back of the target line. Aiming left, align your feet, hips and shoulders in an open stance position that points to 11 o’clock on the imaginary clock face.
In terms of swingpath, you want to think about moving out-to-in, pulling the club across the ball from 5 to 11 o’clock. That will impart clockwise spin.
Adjusted Grip
The next thing you should do is to adjust your grip. If you naturally draw the ball, you will have to turn your hands round to the left – or “weaken” your grip. This may be an advantage for some, but if you already hit the ball from left to right – or with a fade – its important that you do not overdo this adjustment.
Opening your hands – or moving them more to the left – could produce a massive slice.
Remember that every change you make to create a golf shot has to be relevant to your game. So for the natural slicer, simply opening the stance and aiming to the left of the target a little bit could be enough to produce the correct swingpath.
Ball Position
But let’s assume you hit the ball straight and go from there. To hit a fade, especially if you want more height, means playing the ball a touch further forward in your stance than you would normally. Depending on where you start from, putting the ball about an inch (2.54cm) further forward should be enough. In simple terms, that means playing off your left heel.
However, if you already play the ball from inside your left heel, you do not need to move it further forward for the fade. Playing any shot with the ball too far up in stance will cause you to pull it – or hit it straight left.