Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "2 Essential Shots You Need to Learn"

During your typical golf round, you’re going to get into a lot of tough situations…

...whether it be a tricky lie behind a tree, or your target is at a different elevation…

...or maybe you’ll deal with windy conditions.

There are two types of shots that can help you overcome almost any bad situation you may find yourself in...

...and once you add these shots to your game, you’ll go from “making excuses” for your bad rounds…

...to being a consistent golfer no matter what your round throws at you.

To find out what two shots I’m talking about, and how to hit them…

...just watch today’s video. You’ll watch your buddies go from having a sly grin at your misfortune…

...to having to pick their jaws up off the ground in awe of your shot making ability!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 7:38

Video Transcription:

Quentin Patterson: There are two essential shots that you want to have; the high fade and the low draw. Let’s get right into the why you’d want to hit these shots, and the how you hit these shots.

So the low draw. Why would you want to hit a low draw? Well, sometimes you might be underneath a tree and you need to scoot it out from underneath the trees.

Maybe you’re in some jail, you can’t hit your normal trajectory shot, you want to hit it low and underneath the trees.

A lot of times, you may be in some really windy conditions, and if you got it way up in the air and the wind would take it, be very, very hard to control. So hitting a nice, low one would definitely make it a lot easier.

You also may have the pin that’s all the way in the back of the green. If you hit a nice low one, you can land it in the middle of the green and let it run out to the back of the green, that would be a much higher percentage shot.

In another situation, you might have the water – if you’re a right-handed golfer – be on the left part of the green, or a bunker that you really want to avoid.

If you start that ball as far away from the bunker as you can and then bring it back in, you’re going to have a much higher percentage of avoiding it and getting it on the green and getting it close.

So those are all great reasons to do it strategy-wise, but also as far as your swing is concerned, maybe your natural swing that day is a high slice.

Making these adjustments that we’re going to make to hit this low draw shot can really help you to straighten that ball flight out.

That way you don’t have to go the whole round and play a bad round when you don’t have to, when you can just make these adjustments and straighten it out and salvage your round.

So how do we hit this low draw? First what we want to do, is we want to angle our body to the right of the target, for a right-handed golfer. We want to close off our body a little bit. So that’s number one.

We want to close our stance. The more we want to draw it and hook it, and the lower we want to hit it, the more we want to close off our stance.

So a lot of that depends on how much curvature and how much hook, and how low you want to hit it. We’re going to hit kind of a normal one here so I can show you what it looks like, but that’s the idea here.

The more hook and curvature or the more low you want to put on it, the more closed you need to get your stance.

The other thing we need to do is close our club face. So just like when we closed our stance, the more we close our stance off, the more we need to close the face to get that ball to hook over.

When we close the face, that also delofts the face and that’s going to make the ball go lower. So aim your feet right of the target.

Close the face, and point the face more toward the target, and then you’re going to put the ball a little bit further back in the stance.

This does a couple things, it helps one, get our path working a little bit more from the inside so we can get the ball to turn over more. It also helps to get the hands more in front of the ball so that way we can get it lower.

The last thing that we want to do is in our finish here, we want to feel like we’re getting the hands to stay really low and out in front of us.

So we don’t want to come up all the way high, we want our hands to go out really low and in front of us, almost like we’re pointing the club at the target as we’re coming through.

We want to stay down and through that ball, and really feel like we’re pointing at that target, nice and short finish, long arms in the follow through.

I’m going to set up to this ball, and what’s really, really important here when I have my stance closed like this, I’m trying to swing in the direction of my feet.

I’m not trying to swing in the direction of my target. If I do that, then the ball’s just going to go left and left, and that’s not what we want. We want this ball to start to the right of the target, and then curve back left.

So I want to swing in the direction of my feet. So again, I’ve got my stance closed off. I’ve got my face pointing toward the target. I’m going to regrip my club.

I’ve got the ball a little bit further back in my stance here. I’m going to try to get a nice, low finish as I’m coming through here, trying to feel like I’m turning that club over as I’m coming and getting that toe to turn over to get this club, or to get this ball, to really turn over and come in really, really low.

Here we go. All right, so if you look there, I didn’t quite get the face closed enough, but you can see how it came out really, really low, and I was able to get some right to left curvature on there.

If I really wanted that to bend and get really low, I need to get the face closed a little bit more, but if you follow those steps, you’re going to hit a nice, low drawing shot. If you’re trying to fix your slice, that could also be a good way to do it as well.

So now, the high fade. Why would we want to hit a high fade? Well, it’s basically all the opposite reasons, right?

Maybe you’ve got the wind with you, and you’re in between clubs and you can kind of hit the high one, and let the wind kind of carry it all the way there.

Maybe you have the green, is way elevated. If you hit a low one, you might hit it into the hill but you might need to hit a high one to get it up on top of the hill, or some situation like that.

It might be that the pin is in the front, and you want to just land it on and keep it soft and keep it from running off. That would be a good reason to do that.

Maybe the pin is on the right-hand side and you want to start it at the left-hand side and bring it in, maybe avoid a hazard, water, bunker on the right, that’s a great strategic way to do it.

Also, just like if we’re hitting high slices trying to hit the hook shot, can straighten it out. If we’re hitting low hooks, try and hit this high fade can really help you to straighten things out and salvage your round as well.

So the adjustments are basically the opposite. What we want to do, is now we want to aim our feet more to the left for a right-handed golfer. We want to open up.

Then what we’re going to do is we’re going to open our face and point the face more toward the target. So when we do that, that gets our face open to the path of the club, which is going to help it fade. It’s also going to add loft which is going to allow it go higher.

With this, what we also want to do is we want to make sure that we’re swinging down our toe line and we’re going to stay nice and tall here all the way through. We’re going to come all the way high into a nice, full finish.

You could also play the ball a little bit more forward in your stance if you want to, to promote more of that out to in kind of swing and help the ball get up in the air more.

I particularly like to keep the ball positioned the same, but if you find a little bit harder time getting the ball up in the air, you may want to move it just a little bit more forward.

So again, open stance, open club face. I’m going to swing along my toe line here. I’m going to feel like I’m coming all the way around into that full finish, getting my chest nice and high pointing up to the sky.

Let’s see if we can get a nice high one here. All right, so that’s exactly what I wanted there. Got a nice, high launch on that one, 21.6°, quite a bit higher than the draw.

It didn’t roll out very much. It only rolled out about 5 yards, where the draw probably rolled 10-15 yards.

So if we want to be able to do this consistently, what we have to be able to do is get this club on plane and square as soon as possible.

You see if I’m coming down steep, then I’m going to have to make compensations in the swing. I’m going to have to stand up, throw my arms at it.

I’m just going to have no chance of being able to control my ball flight like this and be able to hit these essential shots.

So this is what we call The Move at Top Speed Golf. This is where we’re getting this club shallowed out, we’re getting that club face squared up earlier, so that way we can be in the slot and we can just make these adjustments that we talked about here, and be able to hit these shots very easily.

What I want you to do is go to The Move course, this included with your membership to Top Speed Golf. Work through those drills, work through the Tennis Racket Drill.

Work through all the way to the end getting those nice, crisp draws and then you can hit the power fades at the end that Clay talks about, and be able to control your ball flight just like we’re talking about here.

To get to The Move course, click the Instruction tab, then click the Top Speed Golf System, then click The Move. Work through those drills, and start getting your consistency back right now.