Lower Hands to Hit a Draw - Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
Lower Hands to Hit a Draw - Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

There might be a time and place on the golf course where you want draw the ball in a bit more, you want to take the ball from right to left for the right handed golfer. Either against the wind, round a tree or to a tucked in back pin position, and here is a really simple way of creating that drill or shape. What we are going to do is take the normal address position where the butt end of the golf club points at the belt buckle that’s the right height to have the handle for a normal swing. What I’m going to encourage my self to do now to draw the ball is just drop my hands down slightly, and this has two effects. The first effect is it actually makes the loft on the club aim a bit more left if I exaggerate that and I hold that to the horizontal to the ground that loft doesn’t point at the camera, that loft points over here so the loft on the club points left. And that’s because the – or that is going to send the ball more with a right to left shape because I’ve lowered the handle.

So dropping the handle down here creates a little bit of down to left, it also if I had to drop the handle down increases the left wrist angle for the right handed golfer and it will encourage much more rotation through the hitting zone. So as I drop my hands down my hands want to turn over a lot more effectively closing the clubface in relation to the swing path and producing a ball that would shape from right to left. So I’ll take my normal address position, everything is set at the same, if I’m going to draw the ball I’m probably going to want to just aim slightly down the right side of my body, drop my hands down a little bit and I go ahead and play my normal swing and I see the ball turn about 10 to 15 yards right to left in flight. Nice highball flight to be fair turning in, we’d go round that tree into the wind or even into that back pin position. So lowering the hands down is a great way of helping yourself draw the golf ball. 2015-03-26

There might be a time and place on the golf course where you want draw the ball in a bit more, you want to take the ball from right to left for the right handed golfer. Either against the wind, round a tree or to a tucked in back pin position, and here is a really simple way of creating that drill or shape. What we are going to do is take the normal address position where the butt end of the golf club points at the belt buckle that’s the right height to have the handle for a normal swing. What I’m going to encourage my self to do now to draw the ball is just drop my hands down slightly, and this has two effects. The first effect is it actually makes the loft on the club aim a bit more left if I exaggerate that and I hold that to the horizontal to the ground that loft doesn’t point at the camera, that loft points over here so the loft on the club points left. And that’s because the – or that is going to send the ball more with a right to left shape because I’ve lowered the handle.

So dropping the handle down here creates a little bit of down to left, it also if I had to drop the handle down increases the left wrist angle for the right handed golfer and it will encourage much more rotation through the hitting zone. So as I drop my hands down my hands want to turn over a lot more effectively closing the clubface in relation to the swing path and producing a ball that would shape from right to left. So I’ll take my normal address position, everything is set at the same, if I’m going to draw the ball I’m probably going to want to just aim slightly down the right side of my body, drop my hands down a little bit and I go ahead and play my normal swing and I see the ball turn about 10 to 15 yards right to left in flight. Nice highball flight to be fair turning in, we’d go round that tree into the wind or even into that back pin position. So lowering the hands down is a great way of helping yourself draw the golf ball.