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Shot Shaping/Adjustments
- Movement Changes
At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.
If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.
If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly
As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.
Tags: Not Straight Enough, Intermediate
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In this concept video, we're going to go over how to deliberately change your stock
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full swing to cause curve to the ball.
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Just like in the setup, we'll start with as a right hand a golfer if I want to hit more
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of a slice or curve it right to left.
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So I've got the sticks on the ground, this is my target line, this is going to be my
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path and then this is going to be my face.
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The greater difference I can make between these the path and the face, the greater
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the amount of curve I can create.
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So that's why we're limited hitting a shot like this is going to be relatively weak and
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I'm not going to be able to hit it very far and the club face is fairly open and
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is actually going to hit it fairly high.
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The movements will make it so that we can hit the low slice that many amateurs do in
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think the way.
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So in order to kind of get the path to swing along the orange and still have the club
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pointed at the yellow, there's a few movements that we can make.
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First one will be more body rotation, a more vertical arm movement and less access
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till or less weight shifts.
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Those are going to be the big movements that we can use to create this slice pattern.
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So I'm just going to set up relatively square and then as I go to the top of my swing,
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the first movement I'm going to do instead of having this big shift which gets my upper
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body behind and shifts the path out to the right, I'm going to try and stay level or
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even get my upper body ahead.
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Then I'm going to spin without letting a lot of my weight or pressure get onto that front
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foot.
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When I do that you can see that the club is now traveling closer to this orange stick.
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Or if I did it from this direction so you can see I go up that's more vertical and then
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I spin like so.
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It'll have the feeling of the arms kind of coming more straight across straight at you.
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Now because I'm going to do a little bit more of a hold off release to get this to curve,
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I actually want to strengthen my grip which is the opposite of why I told you for doing
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the simple setup changes.
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This is the more advanced version and if you look at a lot of the guys on tour who've
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had the strongest grips, they tend to play more of a fade with more of this block and
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hold style or release.
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I'm going to have a little stronger grip go up to the top, come straight down across
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the ball kind of like so into a hold off and you'll tend to see in order to keep the face
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from closing down to the path because I want to have a big difference between the face
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and the path.
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We'll tend to have this kind of loopy finish that you might have seen tiger or some
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of the famous fall strikers do when they're in these trouble shots.
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So one last time it would be arms more vertical, come towards down straight across with
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more of a switch on the last side then my upper body and my lower body and the upper
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body and the upper body and the upper body.
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Now let's look at the opposite.
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I want to do a different thing.
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It could a massive draw.
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In this case, you may not want to get the path of the club going way into the face, less
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than you have.
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So the greater the distance or the greater the difference I can do between the two, the
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third and the third.
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The more curvature I'm going to have.
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So to hit the great big draw, I'm going to do the opposite move into the slice.
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I'm going to have as many much as this tilt as I can with my upper body behind the wall
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and very little for this.
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Remember that rotation of the body actually gets the path to move more to the left.
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The other thing that I'm going to do is instead of having my arms pull in, I'm going
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to have my arms lift up and out like so and keep that handle very high compared to the
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clubhead.
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So it would be more of an exaggeration like so.
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Which would give me more of these 40, 50, 60 yard shots kind of the way that bubble Watson
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hit that hooking wedge.
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So the body movement is going to be more of a bad way to set up the edges.
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But that's what you're going to have to do if you want to hit the big 40 yard curves
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where the setup changes may be only good for 10, 20 yards at the most depending on your
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swing speed.
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So mess around with those when you're playing with the nine shot drill because going
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from one extreme to the other will help you fine tune exactly how much is your ideal.
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Because if I know that a ton of slide creates a hook and no slide creates a slice will
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then somewhere in the middle is my magic number on how my stockful swing should feel.
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And use this drill of the nine shot drill to effectively practice where your normal
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or where your neutral pattern is going to be.
