Lee Travino's Unusual Fade Golf Swing Technique (Video) - by Peter Finch
Lee Travino's Unusual Fade Golf Swing Technique (Video) - by Peter Finch

Let's have a real in-depth look at Lee Trevino's golf swing and why it is so unusual when compared to many of his peers. Trevino's swing is something which produces a very consistent fade, but the way he sets up and the way he swings is sometimes contrary to what you'll consider needed to play a consistent fade shot. So if I aim straight down my target line here, and I get my body set up parallel to that target line, what I want to be producing is a swing path which moves relatively straight into the back of that ball, comes back on to the inside as I move through, clubface square to my target and that will produce a nice straight golf shot.

What Trevino does is he sets his body open to the target by quite a long way. So if I was Trevino, I would be opening my body up until about this point. Now, if I was to hit a normal shot from here, I'll be hitting this about 60, 70 yards left of where I want it to go. What Trevino then does, squares his shoulders up a little bit more, so his shoulders are a little bit more parallel to the target line, although they don’t quite reach that point. On the backswing, the club gets a little bit behind the hands, but that's more of a, just a little bit of a swing try, nothing to really get too excited about, but then as he moves through the ball, in relation to where his feet are aiming, the club drops on the inside moving to the outside in this manner here. The tricky bit is with this, is the feet are aiming left, the path is moving from the inside when compared to his body alignment, but as he actually hits through the shot, he is moving quite straight if not slightly from out to in. So he is moving from in to out in relation to his body line, but he is moving quite straight or slightly out to in when compared to his target line. There’s lots of different lines going on with Trevino’s swing. The beauty of it is that he does it every single time and because of that, he can produce a very steady fade. It looks like he's aiming miles left, his shoulders are squared up and as he swings in, he squats down into his left side, delivers that club inside in relation to where his body is aiming and then produces that lovely little flight. Ah, yeah well, it was onto something. 2016-09-01

Let's have a real in-depth look at Lee Trevino's golf swing and why it is so unusual when compared to many of his peers. Trevino's swing is something which produces a very consistent fade, but the way he sets up and the way he swings is sometimes contrary to what you'll consider needed to play a consistent fade shot. So if I aim straight down my target line here, and I get my body set up parallel to that target line, what I want to be producing is a swing path which moves relatively straight into the back of that ball, comes back on to the inside as I move through, clubface square to my target and that will produce a nice straight golf shot.

What Trevino does is he sets his body open to the target by quite a long way. So if I was Trevino, I would be opening my body up until about this point. Now, if I was to hit a normal shot from here, I'll be hitting this about 60, 70 yards left of where I want it to go. What Trevino then does, squares his shoulders up a little bit more, so his shoulders are a little bit more parallel to the target line, although they don’t quite reach that point. On the backswing, the club gets a little bit behind the hands, but that's more of a, just a little bit of a swing try, nothing to really get too excited about, but then as he moves through the ball, in relation to where his feet are aiming, the club drops on the inside moving to the outside in this manner here.

The tricky bit is with this, is the feet are aiming left, the path is moving from the inside when compared to his body alignment, but as he actually hits through the shot, he is moving quite straight if not slightly from out to in. So he is moving from in to out in relation to his body line, but he is moving quite straight or slightly out to in when compared to his target line. There’s lots of different lines going on with Trevino’s swing. The beauty of it is that he does it every single time and because of that, he can produce a very steady fade. It looks like he's aiming miles left, his shoulders are squared up and as he swings in, he squats down into his left side, delivers that club inside in relation to where his body is aiming and then produces that lovely little flight. Ah, yeah well, it was onto something.