Mastering Your Draws and Fades: Targeting Techniques for Better Golf Shots As a golf instructor in Orlando, and at McLemore, I’m often asked about how to hit a draw and a fade golf shot. Both shot shapes can greatly influence any golfer’s enjoyment of the game of golf. But understanding how to hit a draw and a fade from a pure physics standpoint is one thing. Knowing how and where to aim either shot is another. The success rate of you hitting a good draw or fade depends upon 2 factors. Your ability to control the curvature of the ball flight. And your ability to properly predict the curvature of ball flight relative to where you’ll aim each shot. Within this month’s post, we’ll dive into how you hit each shot shape from a physics standpoint. And understand how to play these shots “off” targets versus at your target. What is a Draw and a Fade? From a simplicity perspective, below are the definitions of each shot. And some of the items you need to know to physically hit and control each shot. Keep in mind the set-up variations to each are based upon you already having a standardized set up routine for a normal shot, Draw For the right-handed golfer, a “draw” is a golf shot that curves gently from right to left. The opposite for the left-handed golfer is a gentle left to right curve. Hitting a well-controlled draw results in: A shot that begins its curvature at…
