Putting A Golf Power Fade To Use (Video) - by Pete Styles
Putting A Golf Power Fade To Use (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you have now learned to hit that power fade on command, you can really get that ball moving from left to right nice and efficiently just like Nicklaus did back in the day. What are the effects might we start to see within the actual ball flight and certainly when the ball lands? Well actually if we're moving the ball from left to right, generally speaking the club face is going to be slightly open to the path. And if the face is open to the path, it's actually adding loft to the golf club. Therefore we're going to see a higher ball flight. And that higher ball flight has two issues. The first one, it will be slightly more affected by the wind. Now if that’s down wind that’s brilliant.

We launch the ball with a nice power fade downwind goes for miles. But if we're playing into the wind or quite an aggressive cross wind, hitting the ball in the air might not so good. If we're playing into the wind, we're going to lose distance and if we're playing with the right to left, left to right wind we have to allow for more effects. So we have to aim more left or more right depending on that wind direction. So just understand hitting that power fade hits it higher and will be affected more by the wind. The other consideration might be that, it's not going to roll quite so much when it lands. So if the ball is coming in from a height when it comes down on to the fairway, it's not going to bang on the fairway and scoot on a long way. It's probably going to land, a couple of bounces a little bit of rolling, it's going to stop. Whereas, if we were turning that ball from right to left drawing, it would be a low ball flight generally speaking, it would roll a little bit further. So just consider with that power fade in your game, more height, more affected by the wind and a bit less roll when it comes down and lands on the fairway. 2016-07-27

So if you have now learned to hit that power fade on command, you can really get that ball moving from left to right nice and efficiently just like Nicklaus did back in the day. What are the effects might we start to see within the actual ball flight and certainly when the ball lands? Well actually if we're moving the ball from left to right, generally speaking the club face is going to be slightly open to the path. And if the face is open to the path, it's actually adding loft to the golf club. Therefore we're going to see a higher ball flight. And that higher ball flight has two issues. The first one, it will be slightly more affected by the wind. Now if that’s down wind that’s brilliant.

We launch the ball with a nice power fade downwind goes for miles. But if we're playing into the wind or quite an aggressive cross wind, hitting the ball in the air might not so good. If we're playing into the wind, we're going to lose distance and if we're playing with the right to left, left to right wind we have to allow for more effects. So we have to aim more left or more right depending on that wind direction. So just understand hitting that power fade hits it higher and will be affected more by the wind. The other consideration might be that, it's not going to roll quite so much when it lands. So if the ball is coming in from a height when it comes down on to the fairway, it's not going to bang on the fairway and scoot on a long way.

It's probably going to land, a couple of bounces a little bit of rolling, it's going to stop. Whereas, if we were turning that ball from right to left drawing, it would be a low ball flight generally speaking, it would roll a little bit further. So just consider with that power fade in your game, more height, more affected by the wind and a bit less roll when it comes down and lands on the fairway.