Shows new posture, with less knee flex and better weight distribution. These two tiny changes had a significant on what Ali can now do. Ali’s knees have less flex and his weight is distributed much more through the centre of his feet, rather than through his heels. We made two minor changes to Ali’s set up. From here his only choice is to create an out to in swing path. He also attempts to stand up to create some extra room. As his hips rotate, there is nowhere for his hands to go but away from his body (middle pic). Ali wants to return his hands to this same position they were at set up, but like any good golfer, his hips want to rotate through. This isn’t a problem until we hit the downswing. The set up on the left looks great, but notice how little room there is between Ali’s hands and legs. From our list the easiest improvement, and biggest factor affecting his swing path is his set up. To me it was quite obvious, and this is such a common point that golfer’s overlook. Showing before set up, not the limited space between the hands and legs. Improving your golf should be simple, logical and make sense. However, as you will see none of these are at all important, or the focus. It is easy for anyone to point these out. He sways off the ball, he loses his angles in his down swing, he cuts sharply across the ball just after impact. However, just like any golfer, there are many things he was unhappy with. How to draw a golf ball – your club face needs to be closed to your swing path through impact How to draw a golf ball: start point You just have to do the above two points through impact. You can have a dance at the top of your backswing. Ensure the club face is closed to this swing path at impact.Create an in to out swing path at impact.To go from a fade/slice to a draw you only need to do two things: As laid out below.įade: Out to in swing path, club face points between the swing path and target at impact.ĭraw: In to out swing path, club face points between the club face and target at impact.Īs much as people can make this change very complicated, please remember this. To go from a fade to a draw you have to adapt two impact factors: the club face, and the swing path at impact. It is this open club face that imparts more slice spin, and causes the wayward shots. A slice occurs when the club face becomes more open to both the swing path and target. A fade has an out to in swing path, and a club face that is pointing between the swing path and target. Why does my fade turn into a slice?Īs I covered in a previous post, a slice is commonly mis-diagnosed. I hope you find it useful and interesting. He’s done it 8 weeks, and 8 practice sessions, ha! In this instance I’m very happy to be wrong. Why was a so wrong? Well… I told Ali this would take a year of practice for him to start being able to play with a draw. However, he wore me down, and so we began a journey to take him from a fade to a draw. I suggested with his limited time to practice, he was best to carry on refining the great action he had. To begin with I refused, I told him it wasn’t worth it. He wanted to get rid of his fade/slice and wanted to be able to hit a draw. His quest is to one day, get down to scratch and a couple of month ago he approached me for some help. However, he has always had a fade, and in a left to right wind this fade turns in to a wild slice. He’s a steady golfer off a 5 handicap and plays great (he’s great chap also). One reason I’m delighted to write this post is because I was proved very wrong by a friend of mine.
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