- Well good morning, Adam Bazalgette back here
in Naples, Florida, at the beautiful Club at Mediterra.
I'm two-time PGA Teacher of the Year Award winner
down here and founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
I wanna talk to you today about a subject
just about everybody's interested, how to hit a draw
with your driver.
Stay tuned.
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Okay, so hitting a draw with your driver.
I'm gonna show you a close-up in a minute
so you get a sense of the geometry of it.
It's not at all complicated,
but I'll give you a little refresher course on that,
hope you find helpful, and then I'm gonna give
you some strategies as to how you can start
to put that in your game and swing.
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So let's have a close-up look here so we get a sense
of the geometry of of a draw.
So what is the geometry of a draw?
Well it's simple, really.
This tennis racket'll help illustrate it.
If that's our desired target line,
your club face, racket face, has to be aimed
to the left of where your swing is aimed.
If that's the case, you will curve the ball to the left.
Now I'm assuming solid contact there, obviously.
And the bigger the degree of difference
between club face angle and swing direction
the more curve you'll get.
It just takes a little fooling around
and playing around to get the feel for it.
I'll touch on that later.
Now, let me encourage you in something.
This is not impossible.
This is isn't rocket science.
A lot of people have been stuck slicing the ball
for so much of their golf life
they just feel like it's a holy grail.
It isn't, if you could take a tennis racket
and hit a little topspin lob,
a little topspin forehand I guess you'd call it,
you can draw a golf ball.
Just takes a little bit of practice.
So remember, swing path more to the right.
I'm exaggerating a lot here.
Club face relative to the swing path aim to the left,
and you fool around with it, then that's your draw.
Now let's have a look at some strategies
as to how you can get this in your game.
Okay, so how are you going to start to implement that?
Now I've been teaching golf full-time for nearly 30 years.
I worked with Leadbetter for 15 years, or nearly 15 years.
My point being, I've had a lot of experience trying
to help people draw the ball, and I hate to say it,
a lot of it wasn't that successful.
But I hope I've learned a little bit going along,
and can benefit you from some of what I've seen.
Now here's what I'm getting at.
The best thing I can recommend when you're starting
to hit a draw is you've gotta start
to create the correct club face swing path alignment,
create the correct curve first,
and then start to create the correct swing path second.
Just mentally that's a lot easier to do.
If you're a slicer, it is so difficult
to get yourself to swing more from the inside
if you're already battling the ball going right.
I'm telling you, you've got the get the ball curving
first, even if it's left, and then start to sort
out the swing path.
It's a lot easier.
So let's see how we can do that.
So first thing I would do, remember,
and I've said this on some of my other videos
if you've watched them.
We are not talking about a slash of the hands
to close the club face.
We're talking about closing it that way.
So as you come in, you have to turn the face,
not get out of control with your wrists.
So let's practice that on a little scale.
And I would hold it up in front of you, turn it.
Now we're gonna make a little swing
and turn the face a lot.
And I should hit like a little low, squib hook.
(club hitting)
And you can see that ball just kind of squib
off to the left there.
Once you've mastered that a little bit,
and do it on this scale.
Again this is another thing I just can't emphasize enough
when you work on this, based on my experience.
Do it on a small scale, and do it
with a relaxed, playful mind.
Make mistakes and learn from mistakes.
When I say mistakes, fool around
and exaggerate it a bit.
If you just try to take information and just plug
it straight in and try to hit great shots,
it's so difficult, mentally, to get on top of it.
Start small; be creative; develop some skill.
So, next thing we're gonna do.
I know I ramble on a little bit with these videos
about, if you listen to my videos about how to,
you know, be creative and soft with your mind,
and not try too hard, but
I cannot emphasize that enough.
So next thing, you've now gotta get
to where the curve isn't so drastic,
regardless of where it starts,
the curve is very moderate.
So let's try a little swing like that.
I'm just gonna try to turn the face a little bit.
(club hitting)
That was a pretty moderate amount of curve.
Started a little bit left.
And then of course, once you get a good feel for that,
the next thing you're gonna feel is your swing path.
I don't wanna tackle a whole lotta stuff
in this video, and make this long and tedious for you.
Got lots of stuff on plane and swing path
on our videos scratchgolfacademy.com,
but just as a simple one, what I would do,
is I would put my hips forward a little bit,
imitating an impact.
I'd create a little bit of this side tilt in my body.
Square stance, there's my little tilt.
And you can see how this affects my swing path,
at least on a small scale to go to the right.
Now I'm not suggesting you set up
that way for a full shot, 'cause it would restrict
your backswing, but it mimics a draw shape impact.
So, bump the hips.
Feel a little tilt this way of your shoulders,
and start making some small swings that go more
on this type of a direction.
And as you can, work the face again.
If you start curving it to the right or,
let's say, failing to curve it to the left,
go back to just working club face.
So let's aim a little bit to the right
with our pre-set hip.
(club hitting)
Now that's a shot of probably, oh, 120 yards.
Had a nice little draw to it that started to the right.
Like anything, hey, if there was an easy tip,
tuck your right elbow in or whatnot,
I'd just give it to ya.
But you've gotta develop skill.
It's not that difficult to do, I promise you.
If you can play table tennis and hit different shots,
you can learn how to draw a a golf ball.
Hope this helps you.
I hope you found that helpful.
Get you started with the ideas of how to draw your driver.
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