What Defines A Power Fade Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Defines A Power Fade Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

There are many great golfers that you can look at their history and really point out some fantastic techniques. One real individual was Lee Trevino and he used to play what is widely known as a Power Fade. So he aimed off quite a long way to the left hand side, his ball fly was predominantly from left to right though he could shape it the other way if he really wanted to, but he was able to achieve decent driving distance despite playing a short shape, which many people regard as the weaker ball fly between a fade and the draw. The way he used to do that was by employing this Power Fade technique. Now the Power Fade technique is slightly different than what you would otherwise see with a fade.

Normally with the fade, the stance and the body is aimed slightly off to the left hand side and what that causes is a swing path, which moves from out to win across the target line. So it starts off to the right and then moves off to the left that causes the ball to start left and fade back to the right at target. What Trevino used to do was set himself much more open for that. He’d actually keep his upper body a little bit square and kind of get a little bit more weight onto that left side and what that caused was a path, which wasn’t so much from how to win, but if he left this Power Fade slightly open, the ball would start left and curve right and that gave the impression that he was aiming along way left. But in relation to his feet, the swing path was actually in-to-out slightly confusing but it really worked for Lee Trevino and what we are going to look out is how you can utilize the swing. How you can use different elements of it to hopefully try and improve your game, try and improve your ball fly and as you see the how to win or how to win a faded golf shot doesn’t necessary have to be considered a weak shot. You can use it to great advantage.
2016-09-01

There are many great golfers that you can look at their history and really point out some fantastic techniques. One real individual was Lee Trevino and he used to play what is widely known as a Power Fade. So he aimed off quite a long way to the left hand side, his ball fly was predominantly from left to right though he could shape it the other way if he really wanted to, but he was able to achieve decent driving distance despite playing a short shape, which many people regard as the weaker ball fly between a fade and the draw. The way he used to do that was by employing this Power Fade technique. Now the Power Fade technique is slightly different than what you would otherwise see with a fade.

Normally with the fade, the stance and the body is aimed slightly off to the left hand side and what that causes is a swing path, which moves from out to win across the target line. So it starts off to the right and then moves off to the left that causes the ball to start left and fade back to the right at target. What Trevino used to do was set himself much more open for that. He’d actually keep his upper body a little bit square and kind of get a little bit more weight onto that left side and what that caused was a path, which wasn’t so much from how to win, but if he left this Power Fade slightly open, the ball would start left and curve right and that gave the impression that he was aiming along way left.

But in relation to his feet, the swing path was actually in-to-out slightly confusing but it really worked for Lee Trevino and what we are going to look out is how you can utilize the swing. How you can use different elements of it to hopefully try and improve your game, try and improve your ball fly and as you see the how to win or how to win a faded golf shot doesn’t necessary have to be considered a weak shot. You can use it to great advantage.