Power Fade Miscellaneous Tips (Video) - by Pete Styles
Power Fade Miscellaneous Tips (Video) - by Pete Styles

Here’s three more great little tips to help you fade the ball with that power fading idea. So we’re going to do three little things here. First one we’re going to move the ball further forwards in the stance. Now by taking the ball further to the left side in the setup position, the club will be coming more round on its arc and traveling more down the left side. And if the club is traveling more down the left side, it’s creating a little bit of out to in sensation that we need to create the left to right feeling for a power fade. So we have the ball nicely forwards in our left side. That’s going to make us cut across the ball a little bit more.

Secondly, we’re going to drop the ball down on a nice low tee peg. By having the ball on a lower tee peg will generally feel like we want to make a slightly steeper swing and we hit the ball a little bit lower down on the face. So lower down on the face with a slightly steeper swing will generally create a little bit more backspin, little bit more left to right flight which is great for this high flying, soft landing power fade. The last thing that we’re going to do to create this power fade is just keep moving the whole body down the left side. So from the top of the swing keep everything moving left and opening up and everything moving left and opening up, swings left but stops the face shutting down. The idea here being that if I hung on my right side for a right-handed golfer and stood back on it, the club head would overtake my hands too much and I would start to shut the face down. But if I can have the ball well forwards on a relatively low tee peg, setting myself nicely here the ball is forward on a relatively low tee, a nice movement into my left side. As long as I hold this face off and don’t shut the face down, I’m going to see a big long left to right power fade just like Bubba Watson but for a right-handed player. Got that one quite nicely. Me and Bubba have something in common all of a sudden. I might be trying that on the golf course myself. So use those three tips to help you hit the power fade and hit longer, straighter golf shots. 2015-08-12

Here’s three more great little tips to help you fade the ball with that power fading idea. So we’re going to do three little things here. First one we’re going to move the ball further forwards in the stance. Now by taking the ball further to the left side in the setup position, the club will be coming more round on its arc and traveling more down the left side. And if the club is traveling more down the left side, it’s creating a little bit of out to in sensation that we need to create the left to right feeling for a power fade. So we have the ball nicely forwards in our left side. That’s going to make us cut across the ball a little bit more.

Secondly, we’re going to drop the ball down on a nice low tee peg. By having the ball on a lower tee peg will generally feel like we want to make a slightly steeper swing and we hit the ball a little bit lower down on the face. So lower down on the face with a slightly steeper swing will generally create a little bit more backspin, little bit more left to right flight which is great for this high flying, soft landing power fade.

The last thing that we’re going to do to create this power fade is just keep moving the whole body down the left side. So from the top of the swing keep everything moving left and opening up and everything moving left and opening up, swings left but stops the face shutting down. The idea here being that if I hung on my right side for a right-handed golfer and stood back on it, the club head would overtake my hands too much and I would start to shut the face down. But if I can have the ball well forwards on a relatively low tee peg, setting myself nicely here the ball is forward on a relatively low tee, a nice movement into my left side. As long as I hold this face off and don’t shut the face down, I’m going to see a big long left to right power fade just like Bubba Watson but for a right-handed player. Got that one quite nicely. Me and Bubba have something in common all of a sudden. I might be trying that on the golf course myself. So use those three tips to help you hit the power fade and hit longer, straighter golf shots.