Raise Hands to Hit a Fade - Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
Raise Hands to Hit a Fade - Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

There will be a time and place on the golf course where you really need to hit a fade. And a fade for a right handed golfer is that left to right shaping shot, it might be that I need to fade it round the tree or I need to fade it to a tucked in back pin position or even I just need to fade it against the wind. And here is a really simple drill of how you can help yourself hit a fade and it’s purely by altering the hand position at address. So my normal address position I’ll probably have my hands hanging down here so the shaft points to my belt line, that’s a quite good address position to hit a normal shot from. If I raise my hands up slightly here I would be more prone to hitting a fade and there is two main reasons behind that. One is I would actually change the angle and the position of the clubface because the loft on the clubface is designed to hit the ball straight, by lowering the hands it now points more left and by raising the handle it now points more right. So I preset the golf club in a slightly open position by raising my hands.

And the second and probably more important factor is that I would change the position of my left wrist making it less able to rotate and turn over. So a clubface where my hands are low is going to want to roll a lot, a clubface where my hands are high is going to stay a little bit more open a bit of a pushing kind of action during the swing holding the face open and just hitting a little bit more of the faddy shape. So as I setup to the golf ball now I have got myself a really good normal address position, raise my hands up a little bit, feel like the ball sits on the toe of the ground –sorry the club sits on the toe on the ground, hands are a little bit higher then make my swing. And the ball comes out with just a little bit of left to right shape lands nice and softly on the green, so its a great way of getting it is to go round the tree, into the wind, into the back pin position is raising the hands up the setup to try and create a little bit of a fade. 2015-03-26

There will be a time and place on the golf course where you really need to hit a fade. And a fade for a right handed golfer is that left to right shaping shot, it might be that I need to fade it round the tree or I need to fade it to a tucked in back pin position or even I just need to fade it against the wind. And here is a really simple drill of how you can help yourself hit a fade and it’s purely by altering the hand position at address. So my normal address position I’ll probably have my hands hanging down here so the shaft points to my belt line, that’s a quite good address position to hit a normal shot from. If I raise my hands up slightly here I would be more prone to hitting a fade and there is two main reasons behind that. One is I would actually change the angle and the position of the clubface because the loft on the clubface is designed to hit the ball straight, by lowering the hands it now points more left and by raising the handle it now points more right. So I preset the golf club in a slightly open position by raising my hands.

And the second and probably more important factor is that I would change the position of my left wrist making it less able to rotate and turn over. So a clubface where my hands are low is going to want to roll a lot, a clubface where my hands are high is going to stay a little bit more open a bit of a pushing kind of action during the swing holding the face open and just hitting a little bit more of the faddy shape. So as I setup to the golf ball now I have got myself a really good normal address position, raise my hands up a little bit, feel like the ball sits on the toe of the ground –sorry the club sits on the toe on the ground, hands are a little bit higher then make my swing. And the ball comes out with just a little bit of left to right shape lands nice and softly on the green, so its a great way of getting it is to go round the tree, into the wind, into the back pin position is raising the hands up the setup to try and create a little bit of a fade.