Subtle Adjustments To Help Improve Your Golf Draw (Video) - by Pete Styles
Subtle Adjustments To Help Improve Your Golf Draw (Video) - by Pete Styles

So to go along with this side of drawing the golf ball we've got to add a few more things into the ideas of just swinging to the right and having the club face aiming to the left. There's a couple of extra things that I think I can add into this coaching that I think will encourage most golfers to be able to shape the ball better. One of the first things I'd like to consider is to keep your stance square. We don't really want to see the golfer aiming their feet violently down to the right hand side to encourage the swing path out to the right. Often when gofers do that they tend to feel the club coming over the top eventually and cutting across the ball to try and correct it. So if you are going to try and hit the ball with a bit of a draw, just give your stance square initially.

Another thing I'd like to see constantly doing in the setup position is to try and keep your hands ahead of the golf ball in the set up. That's going to help you get your hands ahead a little bit more at impact too. So in the address position here, we don't want to have the hands back like this in order to try and square the club face or close the club face. Often in this position we'll be leaning back getting a weak impact position and not getting a good strike. So like we have the most irons, we want the shaft leaning in towards the left thigh. That's gonna help you get into a good position with your hands slightly ahead of the golf ball squeezing and trapping a better contact with a better strike on the ball. Third thing I'd like to consider is distance away from the golf ball as you're setting up to the ball we need to try and keep a good distance away from the ball to allow plenty of space for the club in the golf downswing. So as we setup to the ball here, at least the idea of balancing the golf club just two inches above your knee to make sure you're the right distance bat. From here, we bring the club up and it has room to come to the inside, room to swing through on the inside line to hit out into the space to create the draw. Tend to find a golfer that gets too close to the ball has no room to get the club on the inside. Tends to swing up and out and gets a little bit too steep. The last thing I'd like to consider these four areas, is going to be a stronger left-hand grip. Now stronger doesn't necessarily mean in terms of grip pressure, we're not squeezing this golf club tight with the left hand. Terms of grip pressure, it's going to be nice and even. But when we talk about a strong left hand grip, we actually mean a club that is held with the left hand more over to this side. So for the right-handed golfer my top on my left hand shows me at least two and a half if not three knuckles. This grip is now going to be inclined to release better through the ball turning over better giving me a little more of that right to left shape because the face is left in terms of the path. So the face is left of the path. If I have weak grip let's say a one knuckle weak grip, that's going to produce a club face that's more open more to the right. Open to path, path to the right the ball's going to clearly side netting on the right hand side of the driving range with a big slice. So a slightly stronger left hand grip in amongst all those corrections we've talked about, hands swinging to the right and keep the body turning is going to try and help me produce that right to left draw shape. 2016-10-19

So to go along with this side of drawing the golf ball we've got to add a few more things into the ideas of just swinging to the right and having the club face aiming to the left. There's a couple of extra things that I think I can add into this coaching that I think will encourage most golfers to be able to shape the ball better. One of the first things I'd like to consider is to keep your stance square. We don't really want to see the golfer aiming their feet violently down to the right hand side to encourage the swing path out to the right. Often when gofers do that they tend to feel the club coming over the top eventually and cutting across the ball to try and correct it. So if you are going to try and hit the ball with a bit of a draw, just give your stance square initially.

Another thing I'd like to see constantly doing in the setup position is to try and keep your hands ahead of the golf ball in the set up. That's going to help you get your hands ahead a little bit more at impact too. So in the address position here, we don't want to have the hands back like this in order to try and square the club face or close the club face. Often in this position we'll be leaning back getting a weak impact position and not getting a good strike. So like we have the most irons, we want the shaft leaning in towards the left thigh. That's gonna help you get into a good position with your hands slightly ahead of the golf ball squeezing and trapping a better contact with a better strike on the ball.

Third thing I'd like to consider is distance away from the golf ball as you're setting up to the ball we need to try and keep a good distance away from the ball to allow plenty of space for the club in the golf downswing. So as we setup to the ball here, at least the idea of balancing the golf club just two inches above your knee to make sure you're the right distance bat. From here, we bring the club up and it has room to come to the inside, room to swing through on the inside line to hit out into the space to create the draw. Tend to find a golfer that gets too close to the ball has no room to get the club on the inside. Tends to swing up and out and gets a little bit too steep.

The last thing I'd like to consider these four areas, is going to be a stronger left-hand grip. Now stronger doesn't necessarily mean in terms of grip pressure, we're not squeezing this golf club tight with the left hand. Terms of grip pressure, it's going to be nice and even. But when we talk about a strong left hand grip, we actually mean a club that is held with the left hand more over to this side. So for the right-handed golfer my top on my left hand shows me at least two and a half if not three knuckles.

This grip is now going to be inclined to release better through the ball turning over better giving me a little more of that right to left shape because the face is left in terms of the path. So the face is left of the path. If I have weak grip let's say a one knuckle weak grip, that's going to produce a club face that's more open more to the right. Open to path, path to the right the ball's going to clearly side netting on the right hand side of the driving range with a big slice. So a slightly stronger left hand grip in amongst all those corrections we've talked about, hands swinging to the right and keep the body turning is going to try and help me produce that right to left draw shape.