Why do Professionals Like to Draw The Ball? (Video) - by Pete Styles
Why do Professionals Like to Draw The Ball? (Video) - by Pete Styles

Why do pros like to draw the ball? Well, let’s be honest about this. Some don’t, majority do, but some don’t. So, don’t think that every pro that we talk about on the TV has to draw the golf ball. A lot of golf pros quite happy to hit a fade. But some golf pros like to see the ball moving right to left. There’s a few reasons for that. A lot of people find it to be a more consistent flight and actually a longer flight. And when we look at the natural arching action in the golf swing, it should be the natural ball flight as well. If we’re standing side onto something and swinging from it inside to square to back inside position, the ball should have right to left spin and party on it for a right-handed golfer.

Just consider if someone is kicking a football or a soccer ball and they’re swinging their leg from the standing position here around it, it’s very natural to curve it around from right to left. And that’s a same approach to a golfer and actually a draw shot is proven to roll a little bit further because generally it has slightly less backspin so when it comes down, it will turn into the floor and actually run a little bit further. Wherein as opposed to a right-handed golfer fading position, where we’re coming over the top, hitting across the golf ball, generally, that’s producing not such a strong contact, slightly more loft, slightly more left to right spin. When that ball comes down, it will generally land and stop a little bit quicker. So, for most professional golfers, they feel that the ability to let the club swing around that body, swing very quickly from the inside, have a bit more of a releasing action of their hands is going to produce more clubhead speed, a more returning ball flight from right to left, and actually a ball that releases down the fairway a little bit more than one that was back spinning and puts the breaks and then stops. And that’s why most professional golfers like to see the ball drawing when they hit it from the tee.
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Why do pros like to draw the ball? Well, let’s be honest about this. Some don’t, majority do, but some don’t. So, don’t think that every pro that we talk about on the TV has to draw the golf ball. A lot of golf pros quite happy to hit a fade. But some golf pros like to see the ball moving right to left. There’s a few reasons for that. A lot of people find it to be a more consistent flight and actually a longer flight. And when we look at the natural arching action in the golf swing, it should be the natural ball flight as well. If we’re standing side onto something and swinging from it inside to square to back inside position, the ball should have right to left spin and party on it for a right-handed golfer.

Just consider if someone is kicking a football or a soccer ball and they’re swinging their leg from the standing position here around it, it’s very natural to curve it around from right to left. And that’s a same approach to a golfer and actually a draw shot is proven to roll a little bit further because generally it has slightly less backspin so when it comes down, it will turn into the floor and actually run a little bit further. Wherein as opposed to a right-handed golfer fading position, where we’re coming over the top, hitting across the golf ball, generally, that’s producing not such a strong contact, slightly more loft, slightly more left to right spin. When that ball comes down, it will generally land and stop a little bit quicker.

So, for most professional golfers, they feel that the ability to let the club swing around that body, swing very quickly from the inside, have a bit more of a releasing action of their hands is going to produce more clubhead speed, a more returning ball flight from right to left, and actually a ball that releases down the fairway a little bit more than one that was back spinning and puts the breaks and then stops. And that’s why most professional golfers like to see the ball drawing when they hit it from the tee.