Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
Learning to hit a fade or hit in draw really important for better players because both of those shots are correct shots, they finish on the target. Fades and draws are not to be confused with slices and hooks. A slice is a shot which starts on the left of the target and then swings to the right and finishes much more right that the target is. A fade starts on the left and is a more controlled shot which finishes on the target line. A hook is completely the opposite, a hook starts on the right and swings much more to the left than the target finishing left whereas as a draw again is much more controlled it starts on the right and just generally moves into the target finishing on line.
So both a draw and a fade are very good shots because they finish correctly on the target line and learning to hit this will give a lot more control. So if we look at how to hit a fade, hitting a fade we’d want to generally a straight shot we’d swing along the target line but to hit a fade, we are going to make the club swing from the outside of the target line across and to the left. So the swing [passé] would be out to in and we are going to keep the club face slightly open as we do that. So in the start position just turn the handle of the club slightly to the right to open the club face and then we are just going your feet slightly to the left, to encourage us to swing us across the target line, if the swing passes out to in and the club face is slightly open, this is going to impart what some people think is sidespin on the ball.
It's not actually sidespin its backspin but it's not backspin on its correct axis. There is a tilted axis to this backspin which does produce a ball flight that goes left to right. Similarly if we want to hit a draw, we'll just do the opposite. So this time we are going to turn the club face just to the left and then hold the club. So the club face is pointing left we are now going turn the face slightly to the right of target and we want the club to move from in to out okay. So we are going to go across the target line and swing in line with our body if the swing path is in to out and the club face is slightly closed as that happens that’s going to impur a tilted access spin on the ball which now will make the ball swing right to left. So learn to hit those control shots on the range, take them on to the course you are going start scoring a lot better.
2013-06-06 Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro
Learning to hit a fade or hit in draw really important for better players because both of those shots are correct shots, they finish on the target. Fades and draws are not to be confused with slices and hooks. A slice is a shot which starts on the left of the target and then swings to the right and finishes much more right that the target is. A fade starts on the left and is a more controlled shot which finishes on the target line. A hook is completely the opposite, a hook starts on the right and swings much more to the left than the target finishing left whereas as a draw again is much more controlled it starts on the right and just generally moves into the target finishing on line.
So both a draw and a fade are very good shots because they finish correctly on the target line and learning to hit this will give a lot more control. So if we look at how to hit a fade, hitting a fade we’d want to generally a straight shot we’d swing along the target line but to hit a fade, we are going to make the club swing from the outside of the target line across and to the left. So the swing [passé] would be out to in and we are going to keep the club face slightly open as we do that. So in the start position just turn the handle of the club slightly to the right to open the club face and then we are just going your feet slightly to the left, to encourage us to swing us across the target line, if the swing passes out to in and the club face is slightly open, this is going to impart what some people think is sidespin on the ball.
It's not actually sidespin its backspin but it's not backspin on its correct axis. There is a tilted axis to this backspin which does produce a ball flight that goes left to right. Similarly if we want to hit a draw, we'll just do the opposite. So this time we are going to turn the club face just to the left and then hold the club. So the club face is pointing left we are now going turn the face slightly to the right of target and we want the club to move from in to out okay. So we are going to go across the target line and swing in line with our body if the swing path is in to out and the club face is slightly closed as that happens that’s going to impur a tilted access spin on the ball which now will make the ball swing right to left. So learn to hit those control shots on the range, take them on to the course you are going start scoring a lot better.
