Are you having trouble hitting a fade?
Are you looking for a more consistent technique for you learn how to hit a fade?
Hey this is Sean McTernan and you are watching another episode of My Golf Tutor, the number
one place on the internet for you to improve the fastest.
Welcome back and todays question comes from Ryan, Ryan writes, hey Sean I am having trouble
hitting a fade, typically my ball always slices when I do this.
Do you have any techniques to help me improve my consistency?
Ryan thanks very much for your question, so today I want to talk about practicing your
fade on the driving range.
Like we did with the draw video I want you to focus on a clock.
Our target is going to be twelve o'clock, this is going to be three o'clock, six o'clock
and obviously nine o'clock behind me.
First and foremost the first thing I want you to do is set the club face where you want
the ball to start.
Obviously we are going to try and bring the club face back to the same position at impact.
If you can imagine twelve o'clock is where the flag is, we are going to aim the face
to eleven o'clock.
So get into your setup, for me I like to set my club face where I want the ball to start
and feel I get my body parallel to that.
Now in order to get the ball to curve back from left to right, we are going to get our
path going left of where our face is aimed.
What I want you to feel and imagine that the path of the club is traveling to ten o'clock.
Now one way I like to try and help the club go left is by rotating a little bit harder
and a little bit more in order to create room for the club to swing around me.
You see now a days with a lot of these PGA Tour players there all swinging left.
What they are trying to do is get their path to go to the left and keep the face slightly
open to the path.
So it guarantees some fade on the ball all the time.
Now, so we get into our setup and just go ahead and set our face and try and rotate
really hard to allow your hips to open up and the club to exit to the left and around
you.
So Ryan here we are on the golf course now, we have practiced on the driving range the
feeling of swinging the club from five o'clock to ten o'clock with our face pointing towards
eleven o'clock.
This is going to ensure the ball curves back onto the pin.
Now when we are on the golf course though what we just practiced was an extreme, it
was just to generate a feeling and a good sensation and how face and path can shape
a shot.
Now that we are on the golf course we are going to bring it in a little bit.
What I mean by that is we are only ever going really to hit 3-5 yard fades when we are on
the course.
Basically, what we are going to do is we are going to aim the face four yards left of the
target and we are going to feel we swing our path eight yards left of the target.
Lets go ahead and see if we can execute what we did on the driving range and bring it to
the golf course.
I hope that video helps Ryan and one more tidbit of information, if you execute a fade
the correct way it will go just as far as a draw.
So don't be afraid to get on the fade side of the ball.
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