If you watch all the advertising and the marketing and the modern way to swing the golf club, you'll be like to believe that the only way to hit a golf ball is with a nice high hanging draw. But one of the longest hits is in his day was Nicklaus. Nicklaus didn’t really have a draw. He could draw the golf ball but he never really wanted to draw the golf ball. He saw the ball as a fade and more importantly a power fade by turning through the golf ball really quickly getting his body slightly ahead of his hands. He'd hit from out to in across the golf ball and part a little bit of lateral left, right so they tilted backspin that would curve the ball from left to right and that was his stop shot. It was one of his safest shots and definitely one of his longest shots. So if you can hit the ball quite straight and you can have the opportunity to shape the ball from right to left with a draw shot but you struggle to fade the ball and you want to be able to hit a power fade that just curves around the corner on those dog legs or helps you fight against the right to left wind. There is quite a simple way of being able to help that little fade shot. And it takes a bit of experimentation.

There's no harm and fast way to get this exactly right. What would I have wanted like to see you do is just open up a little bit at set up. Open your left side out to the way a little bit. Point yourself down to the left side of a fairway. Then take the golf club and open it a bit more to the right. So your club face is pointing more right and your feet and your body is pointing more left. If you then work hard on swinging along your body line so effectively you're creating a slight out to in-swing path with a club face that's more open than your swing path. You will be imparting some of the left and right tilted back spread. Think about as side spin and that's going to make the ball fade from left to right. Now it takes a little bit of experimentation because the more you're weighing left and the more the club aims right the more spin you're going to create. The more it will go from left to right, the more it will go up into the air. And if you're body is straight and you're club face is straighter you'll produce less than.

So depending on the severity of the left to right shape you want to hit, maybe the bigger dog-like or the stronger wind, you can have more or less shape by aiming your body and your club face in different positions. Start off by aiming your body down the left-hand side of the fairway. Aim your club face of a center of the fairway. Make a swing that follows your body shape and see what's of a shape you get in terms of the ball flight. And hopefully it will come up like the Nicklaus power fade, the left to right one of the longest shots he could hit.