Draw the Ball – Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Draw the Ball – Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

Many golfers dream of being able to create the perfect high drawing shots. In this video PGA golf Professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you not only how to hit the perfect draw shot but why you should try to hit the perfect draw shot. They will help ensure that you get rid of your slice and control your golf ball once and for all.

If any golfer could write a golf shot on their Christmas wish list it would often be the draw shot. If you could wave a magic wand and improve one aspect it's like I want to get rid of a slice I want to hit that draw you do agree with that. Definitely if you if you actually picture a shot in your mind it's that nice towering sort of 5 yard draw. Particular we watch the golfers on the T.V. now we get up top tracer line that comes in behind the golf ball and we get a nice big swinging draw shot. We go oh that one looks from the one looks fancy the one that cuts the other way though I really didn't hit that one very well. We're all trying to draw the golf ball but why we're trying to draw it and how we're trying to draw it? Yes like you said they touch on a point we're trying to limit slice a lot of the time the most common shot will see on giving lessons is the slice shot so by trying to hit the draw we're going to eliminate some of that slice and take it the perfect draw shot. We've got to have a good face to path relationship. So knowing that number one we've got to have a ball to target line we've got our eventual target where the ball is going to come to rest we've got our ball here. So if we think of that as a starting line that helps you out with that put that down there for you. Excellent so we've got our ball to target line here now what we've got here 2 factors that face to the path.

Number one the face where is that looking at impact relative to this target line it's going to be open and close. Now what we're going to see here with a draw shot we want something where our face is now close to our path as opposed to a face open to the path with the slice shot. So that's why you described the draw shot as the opposite to the slice shot because there's a different set of circumstances going on the impact to slice it with an open face to path relationship the draw shot is it with a closed face to path relationship. Yes exactly so we need to try and deliver those things to help the shot happen and when we do it's going to eliminate that slice possibly give us some more distance generally as well, and we see it land sometimes first we drive it's going to chase out a little bit more it'll come through the wind as well a little bit as well. So if we've got something where we're into the wind a little bit more sometimes we see this fade shots that stall quite a bit as opposed to a drawing shot where we'll see just get through the wind a little bit more so it's going to give us a bit more yardage. So the slice shot is more with an open face and we see the ball climb and therefore the wind is more affecting it isn't a question we get that club face turned over more or left of the swing path the flights a bit lower more penetrating slightly. You will see more and more of a lower shot like I said that fade always got the risk of climbing too high then coming up short. A good way to think of it you know going back to that face path relationship obviously football a big over here in England but obviously in America soccer. We've got David Beckhem and one of the best free kick takers in the world and what we tend to see with him he was always moving the ball right to left when he would take the ball yet he drew the ball so what he would generally would do is be starting from somewhere inside the ball when he was taking the shot very similar what we need. So again the goal is over here if we're thinking of it influences the golf club he was delivering it from the inside with the thought that we generally looking at the Natters he was kicking out in this direction which is exactly what this same is what we need to do with the golf club. We need something now where it's coming more from inside of the golf ball in this direction with a face that's looking a little bit left of that. So as I hit it I impart some spin onto it that's going to tilt the axis that is going to get the ball moving in a right to left direction. So we're thinking about the club it's coming down more behind is shallower definitely releasing the hands. Yeah if we get the one that comes from over the top we're not going to see that we're going to hit up a draw shot not going to happen.

So a couple of swing thoughts what we're going to see is something even if you made some practice swings we're going to come down we're going to feel that we place the club behind us here a little bit more. So if we see from this angle this club is now actually behind my body not out in front as we see when we get that slice shot. So if we had a few rehearsals it be a case of putting it into a position where this club now is behind me and as I get in I can say I've got that face looking towards my target but the club's coming more in and hopefully if I can do it. You are going to treat us to a good one. Now that has done exactly what you talked about about sort of beating through the wind we're quite into a quite a very strong wind at the moment. We've had a couple of shots early today that really did climb that was a much slower ball flight there drawing from right to left maintained most of your yardage rather than losing the yardage into a headwind. Exactly I would have hit the fade one there it would be almost coming back at us. So let's see if we can get the club behind us a little bit more on the way down get it approaching from inside the golf ball with a face looking a little bit left of that path. We're going to hopefully see some of the draw shots there using those techniques and the reasons why we're applying those techniques hopefully you can decide that a draw shot might be something you want to see to get rid of the slice. To get more distance to get more penetration and that's given us some great understanding of how we can bring a draw shot into your game.

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Many golfers dream of being able to create the perfect high drawing shots. In this video PGA golf Professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you not only how to hit the perfect draw shot but why you should try to hit the perfect draw shot. They will help ensure that you get rid of your slice and control your golf ball once and for all.

If any golfer could write a golf shot on their Christmas wish list it would often be the draw shot. If you could wave a magic wand and improve one aspect it's like I want to get rid of a slice I want to hit that draw you do agree with that. Definitely if you if you actually picture a shot in your mind it's that nice towering sort of 5 yard draw. Particular we watch the golfers on the T.V. now we get up top tracer line that comes in behind the golf ball and we get a nice big swinging draw shot. We go oh that one looks from the one looks fancy the one that cuts the other way though I really didn't hit that one very well. We're all trying to draw the golf ball but why we're trying to draw it and how we're trying to draw it? Yes like you said they touch on a point we're trying to limit slice a lot of the time the most common shot will see on giving lessons is the slice shot so by trying to hit the draw we're going to eliminate some of that slice and take it the perfect draw shot. We've got to have a good face to path relationship. So knowing that number one we've got to have a ball to target line we've got our eventual target where the ball is going to come to rest we've got our ball here. So if we think of that as a starting line that helps you out with that put that down there for you. Excellent so we've got our ball to target line here now what we've got here 2 factors that face to the path.

Number one the face where is that looking at impact relative to this target line it's going to be open and close. Now what we're going to see here with a draw shot we want something where our face is now close to our path as opposed to a face open to the path with the slice shot. So that's why you described the draw shot as the opposite to the slice shot because there's a different set of circumstances going on the impact to slice it with an open face to path relationship the draw shot is it with a closed face to path relationship. Yes exactly so we need to try and deliver those things to help the shot happen and when we do it's going to eliminate that slice possibly give us some more distance generally as well, and we see it land sometimes first we drive it's going to chase out a little bit more it'll come through the wind as well a little bit as well. So if we've got something where we're into the wind a little bit more sometimes we see this fade shots that stall quite a bit as opposed to a drawing shot where we'll see just get through the wind a little bit more so it's going to give us a bit more yardage. So the slice shot is more with an open face and we see the ball climb and therefore the wind is more affecting it isn't a question we get that club face turned over more or left of the swing path the flights a bit lower more penetrating slightly. You will see more and more of a lower shot like I said that fade always got the risk of climbing too high then coming up short. A good way to think of it you know going back to that face path relationship obviously football a big over here in England but obviously in America soccer. We've got David Beckhem and one of the best free kick takers in the world and what we tend to see with him he was always moving the ball right to left when he would take the ball yet he drew the ball so what he would generally would do is be starting from somewhere inside the ball when he was taking the shot very similar what we need. So again the goal is over here if we're thinking of it influences the golf club he was delivering it from the inside with the thought that we generally looking at the Natters he was kicking out in this direction which is exactly what this same is what we need to do with the golf club. We need something now where it's coming more from inside of the golf ball in this direction with a face that's looking a little bit left of that. So as I hit it I impart some spin onto it that's going to tilt the axis that is going to get the ball moving in a right to left direction. So we're thinking about the club it's coming down more behind is shallower definitely releasing the hands. Yeah if we get the one that comes from over the top we're not going to see that we're going to hit up a draw shot not going to happen.

So a couple of swing thoughts what we're going to see is something even if you made some practice swings we're going to come down we're going to feel that we place the club behind us here a little bit more. So if we see from this angle this club is now actually behind my body not out in front as we see when we get that slice shot. So if we had a few rehearsals it be a case of putting it into a position where this club now is behind me and as I get in I can say I've got that face looking towards my target but the club's coming more in and hopefully if I can do it. You are going to treat us to a good one. Now that has done exactly what you talked about about sort of beating through the wind we're quite into a quite a very strong wind at the moment. We've had a couple of shots early today that really did climb that was a much slower ball flight there drawing from right to left maintained most of your yardage rather than losing the yardage into a headwind. Exactly I would have hit the fade one there it would be almost coming back at us. So let's see if we can get the club behind us a little bit more on the way down get it approaching from inside the golf ball with a face looking a little bit left of that path. We're going to hopefully see some of the draw shots there using those techniques and the reasons why we're applying those techniques hopefully you can decide that a draw shot might be something you want to see to get rid of the slice. To get more distance to get more penetration and that's given us some great understanding of how we can bring a draw shot into your game.