The elements that cause a slice or fade revolve around two things: the club face and the swing path. When you understand the cause of a slice, you can focus on correcting it, or you can use it to your advantage and hit the shot on purpose. A standard slice is caused by an open club face and an outside-to-in swing path. These combine to create the sidespin that causes the ball to go right.
The more open the club face is at impact, the more sidespin the ball will have. For example if your golf ball has landed on a spot where a tree is straight in line to the green. Because you can easily reach the green otherwise, you have two choices; you can go over the tree, or you can hit to the left of it with a fade shot. Another example is the situation that the hole you are playing is a dogleg to the right.
Most of the time this are par 5 holes around a water hazard. You would like the ball to go straight and then curve to the right onto the fairway. In this case you like to hit a slice with your driver shot. In both cases, you want to swing on an outside-to-in path with a slightly open club face.
Imagine you're standing inside a circle when you hit your ball. If the ball curves around the circle and you , that's a hook. If the ball curves away from you, that's a slice. There are three factors a player controls to help shape a slice or a hook. The first is the club's angle of attack. If the player makes a flat swing and tries to keep the clubhead as close to the ground during the swing as he can, the ball is more likely to fly low and hook.
If the player makes a very steep swing so he makes more of a chopping motion at the ball, it's more likely to jump up into the air and slice. The second factor is club path, which often determines the angle of attack. It's hard to keep the club traveling straight down the target line when the club hits the ball; it's usually crossing the target line at impact. If the club crosses from your side of the line toward the outside, that's an in-to-out path and helps the ball hook.
The next and relatively easy way to hit a draw is by slightly adjusting your grip. See the image below for an example of a stronger grip. Learning and practicing some of these techniques can make a huge difference in your golf game, especially for those amateurs that are right around the point of consistently breaking Not only can you apply these shots to hitting drives around doglegs or hitting out of the trees but you can also use them when you need to hit greens in specific regions, carry or avoid bunkers, etc.
The uses for learning to a hit a draw vs. So What Exactly is a Fade? So how do you hit the perfect 5 yard fade? Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Basically, a fade occurs when the clubface is open to the swing path through impact.
In other words, for right-handers, the face is looking to the right of the swing-path when contact with the golf ball is made. Another way of looking at the relationship is the Swing-Path moves to the left of where the clubface is pointing.
This is a universal truth and cannot be disputed. Respect this principle and you will make immediate adjustments to the pattern of your golf shot. The key to powering up the Fade is to ensure that your clubface is only open to its swing path and not open to the Target Line also.
If the face was open to both the path and the target-line the ball would start weakly to the right and then curve further, otherwise knows as a slice. It is well-documented that Dustin Johnson carries a significantly b owed flexed wrist at the top of his backswing.
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