Shape The Golf Ball – Hitting A Draw (Video) - by Pete Styles
Shape The Golf Ball – Hitting A Draw (Video) - by Pete Styles

For a lot of golfers hitting the ball with a draw can seem like the holy grail of golf, because so much and it’s this magical thing that only tall players are able to do. You know you must have special equipment to shape the ball from right to left, because a lot of amateur golfers struggle with shaping the ball left to right too much.

Now it isn't making the ball move from right to left and there is a magical thing at all, it’s just pure physics, it’s exactly the same physics that makes the ball move from left to right, will make the ball move from right to left in reverse. But for a lot of golfers it just doesn’t feel that’s achievable. So in these next little series, we are going to look at how we can draw the ball, but quite importantly as well, why do we want to draw the ball, why is it that the tall players would prefer to draw the ball if they had a choice? Don’t get me wrong, a lot of tall players move the ball left to right as well, it’s not like everybody that plays good golf has to shape the ball from right to left. I think the thing you see with the tall guys is they actually have the ability to move the ball both ways. But I think if you said to a tall player, you can only move the ball one direction for the rest of your life, which way is it going to be, 10 yards left to right, 10 yards right to left? The right handed golfer is going to choose 10 yards right to left as that draw shot. We generally find a golfer who can draw the ball actually gets a little bit more efficiency out of that swing, a little bit more efficiency out of that ball flight, a slightly lower, slightly more penetrating ball flight that certainly works very well with the longer clubs and works well if we were playing into a strong wind, into a headwind or a crosswind. So the draw shot for lot of players is the preferred. Now as a club golfer you might not be that keen on drawing the ball but actually understanding how to draw the ball is often the opposite of how you are slicing the golf ball. So the ability to practice drawing it actually reduces the accidental slice on the shots, and that’s why learning how to draw the ball could be fundamental to your game improvement. 2016-10-19

For a lot of golfers hitting the ball with a draw can seem like the holy grail of golf, because so much and it’s this magical thing that only tall players are able to do. You know you must have special equipment to shape the ball from right to left, because a lot of amateur golfers struggle with shaping the ball left to right too much.

Now it isn't making the ball move from right to left and there is a magical thing at all, it’s just pure physics, it’s exactly the same physics that makes the ball move from left to right, will make the ball move from right to left in reverse. But for a lot of golfers it just doesn’t feel that’s achievable. So in these next little series, we are going to look at how we can draw the ball, but quite importantly as well, why do we want to draw the ball, why is it that the tall players would prefer to draw the ball if they had a choice? Don’t get me wrong, a lot of tall players move the ball left to right as well, it’s not like everybody that plays good golf has to shape the ball from right to left. I think the thing you see with the tall guys is they actually have the ability to move the ball both ways.

But I think if you said to a tall player, you can only move the ball one direction for the rest of your life, which way is it going to be, 10 yards left to right, 10 yards right to left? The right handed golfer is going to choose 10 yards right to left as that draw shot. We generally find a golfer who can draw the ball actually gets a little bit more efficiency out of that swing, a little bit more efficiency out of that ball flight, a slightly lower, slightly more penetrating ball flight that certainly works very well with the longer clubs and works well if we were playing into a strong wind, into a headwind or a crosswind. So the draw shot for lot of players is the preferred.

Now as a club golfer you might not be that keen on drawing the ball but actually understanding how to draw the ball is often the opposite of how you are slicing the golf ball. So the ability to practice drawing it actually reduces the accidental slice on the shots, and that’s why learning how to draw the ball could be fundamental to your game improvement.