Playing A Golf Draw On The Course For The First Time (Video) - by Pete Styles
Playing A Golf Draw On The Course For The First Time (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you've not been working really hard on the driving range or the practice ground on mastering this idea of drawing the golf ball. You're starting to see the ball flying front right to left a little bit regularly on the driving range and you're reducing you're reliance on the fate of a slight shot.  But it's about time you took this golf draw out onto the golf course and tested it for real.   Well what sort of things we're you expecting to see with a draw fly on the golf course as opposed to a fading or a straight ball fly.

So first considerations are when you move the ball from right to left generally speaking it will go a little bit further it's a slightly more efficient ball flight.  Certainly you have a slice in the past you've now converted that into a draw.  So it might be that we have to club down a little bit.  So previously your seven iron might have been your 150-yard shot, but if it was sly seven iron from 150 it now might be a draw on eight iron from 150.  So the first consideration is am I now hitting the ball further and therefore can I correct the clubs. And I'd rather you change clubs rather than sort of slowing your swing down or not committing.  So you're better off going down to a smaller club committing to that and the draw and that will give you your distance back.  You might also consider that there is a slightly flatter, slightly lower ball flight.  So the fading ball because the ball flight was with an open face, it was cutting up high into the air, high weak to the right fades. Now because your club faces close in relation to your path, we're going to see a more penetrating lower ball flight.  Ball moving from right to left in air, it's going to be lower in height.  Therefore when it lands on the green it might react by just running out a little bit more.  It might now stop and spin quiet as much so you need to allow for that a little bit as well.  So we've got the added distance, the slightly lower ball flight. One last consideration might just be working out where you're aiming in relation to hazards.  If in the past you've had a ball flight that was left to right and slice, it might have been quite easy to aim down the left hand side towards let's say a pond knowing that you're going to cut the ball back to the middle of the fairway or the middle of the green; take it away from the pond.  Now if you're aiming the ball at the middle of the green with a draw that ball is suddenly moving towards the hazard and towards the danger. So just consider how your ball flight is moving the ball either away to or away from or towards the hazard.  Work nicely on your alignment, work nicely on your club selection and understand how the draw flight will change the way the ball reacts so it lands on the green, rolls a bit further than a fade or a slice.  So hopefully taking those three elements, those three points on board will mean that the successful practice you've done on the driving range working on your draw translates to successful results with a draw on the golf course. 2016-10-19

So if you've not been working really hard on the driving range or the practice ground on mastering this idea of drawing the golf ball. You're starting to see the ball flying front right to left a little bit regularly on the driving range and you're reducing you're reliance on the fate of a slight shot.  But it's about time you took this golf draw out onto the golf course and tested it for real.   Well what sort of things we're you expecting to see with a draw fly on the golf course as opposed to a fading or a straight ball fly.

So first considerations are when you move the ball from right to left generally speaking it will go a little bit further it's a slightly more efficient ball flight.  Certainly you have a slice in the past you've now converted that into a draw.  So it might be that we have to club down a little bit.  So previously your seven iron might have been your 150-yard shot, but if it was sly seven iron from 150 it now might be a draw on eight iron from 150.  So the first consideration is am I now hitting the ball further and therefore can I correct the clubs.

And I'd rather you change clubs rather than sort of slowing your swing down or not committing.  So you're better off going down to a smaller club committing to that and the draw and that will give you your distance back.  You might also consider that there is a slightly flatter, slightly lower ball flight.  So the fading ball because the ball flight was with an open face, it was cutting up high into the air, high weak to the right fades.

Now because your club faces close in relation to your path, we're going to see a more penetrating lower ball flight.  Ball moving from right to left in air, it's going to be lower in height.  Therefore when it lands on the green it might react by just running out a little bit more.  It might now stop and spin quiet as much so you need to allow for that a little bit as well.  So we've got the added distance, the slightly lower ball flight.

One last consideration might just be working out where you're aiming in relation to hazards.  If in the past you've had a ball flight that was left to right and slice, it might have been quite easy to aim down the left hand side towards let's say a pond knowing that you're going to cut the ball back to the middle of the fairway or the middle of the green; take it away from the pond.  Now if you're aiming the ball at the middle of the green with a draw that ball is suddenly moving towards the hazard and towards the danger.

So just consider how your ball flight is moving the ball either away to or away from or towards the hazard.  Work nicely on your alignment, work nicely on your club selection and understand how the draw flight will change the way the ball reacts so it lands on the green, rolls a bit further than a fade or a slice.  So hopefully taking those three elements, those three points on board will mean that the successful practice you've done on the driving range working on your draw translates to successful results with a draw on the golf course.