Now before we can start showing you how you can actually shape the golf shots, we first need to understand what the shapes are that you can produce. Now I'm going to be focusing on the – what I class as the three most palatable shapes. So I am not going to be talking about slices or hooks or pulls or pushes, although they might get mentioned in passing. I'm just going to focus very purely on the shot shapes that you'd want to see, namely a fade, a stray shot and then a draw shot. Now when you're playing a fade shot, what you want to be seeing is the ball to be starting left of your target line before curving in the air to finish back on your target line.

Now the amounts of fade that you produce is really determined on factors as far as path and face angle of concern. So the more that your path is moving left, the more that the face is open to that path here remaining closer to target line is the amount that the shot will shape from left to right. The straight shot is the Holy Grail. It’s really the toughest shot in golf to hit which starts on the target line. It doesn't deviate in the air. It doesn’t curve and finishes on target. And then finally the draw shape which starts right of target before drawing round in the air to finish back on target as well moving from right to left.

Now to get an understanding of how to play these shots, we need to look at what the different factors are as you hit. So we need to have a look at club path, where that's moving to and how you can move it to different positions. Then we need to have a look at face angle and what those differences will produce. So now let's have a look at those different paths and those different face angles and different drills that you can use to hit these particular types of shot.