Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Shape ANY Golf Shot | Draw + Fade + Low + High"

In today's lesson...

Discover how to shape the golf ball for ANY shot you need...

...draw, fade, low or high...

...see what adjustments you need to make it happen!

You'll be surprised at the similarities in each of the shots!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 12:01

Video Transcription:

Let's dive right into it. If you're gonna be a great golfer, you need to learn that, how to hit the ball low and compress it. Here's a great drill for that. I put a towel about six inches behind this golf ball. Depending on how thick the towel is, where I've rolled this one over, it's probably about a half inch tall off the ground.

And what I'm gonna do here, if you want to hit it low, I gotta get my weight to shift to the left. I feel like I'm pressing into the ground with my left foot. Then I start the downswing. So I have to press and then swing down. That gets me to miss this towel, and it puts me in a position where my hands can now lean in front.

Now what the pros are doing is they take the normal amount of loft, this club shaft, straight up and down, and they lean the shaft forward means that my hands are in front of the golf ball at contact, and that takes loft off this club. So the more you lean the shaft forward, the less loft is on this club face.

Pros are taking about 30% of the natural loft off of whatever the iron is. So this is a six iron, normal loft is 30 degrees. I have 10 degrees of shuffling. My hands are way up here to hit a good six iron for this shot. I'm gonna go even extra. I'm gonna press into the ground. I'm gonna try to get 20 degrees of shuffling to where this thing is, a bullet just super, super low.

Let's go ahead and try that out.

There we go. I like that one. It felt pretty low to me. Vertical launch of 11. Most of the time a six iron should launch somewhere around 17. That's pretty low in penetrating. I could go even farther than that if I want to, and there's one little trick that'll help me to do that. So we gotta get our weight left.

Even though, even though I had a little loft on it, it still went 208 yards carry with this six iron because of the technique I'm about to show you now, if I'm gonna hit this shot well or any. Full swing. Well, I need to have a bunch of lags so my hands are in front of my right leg. This club is still parallel with the ground.

And then here's the big key. If I'm gonna hit a fade or draw any of these shots, the club has to come from the inside. So if I have the club out here, even if I'm in a fade, I don't ever want to get the club out there. That's not what the pros are doing. They're getting it from the slot, getting it from the inside.

And when this club is parallel to the ground, what's called last parallel, It shouldn't be pointing toward the target. It should be pointing out to the right of the target or the shaft should be to the inside like this. Now, once I'm from there, it's easy to rotate through this shot and deloft it a ton if I want to.

The second trick to this is I'm gonna twist this club down. When I twist this club, it closes the face and it also delos it. Lemme show you exactly what I mean by that. So I'm just turning this club like I'm twisting it like a dial, like that. Let me set this club up to the ball and do the same thing. I'm gonna twist it just like a dial, and I've closed the club face and you say, okay, I get how that would make you go left.

How would that make the loft go off? Well, now I have to lean the shaft forward almost, you know, 15, 20 degrees to get the face square again. So the more I close this club face like this, the more I have to add shaline to square it up. You see, if I keep my wrist flat and I add shaline, I don't twist the club.

It's wide open. So now I've got the shuffling, but that ball's going way out to the right. I have to add this twisting motion. So it's really counterintuitive, but we gotta get from the inside. We gotta twist this club face down. And then now we can have a ton of shuffling and still have that face being square.

So same feelings. Step into my left foot club from the inside. Really turn it down with a lot of shuffling and this thing's gonna come out like a low bullet Here I overdid it a little bit. I could tell that one was a low hook, big time. So I like that. I would rather you overdo it. Look how low that thing launched.

Seven degrees. That's less than half what a six iron should be launching at. But I like that feeling. Just overdo it. Overdo it until you get those low hooks and we can always back off of that feeling to straighten that out again. I would lean the shaft forward even more to make sure that that face doesn't close down.

I, I go ahead and square it back up like that. So let's go do one more bullet, low swing. Except this time I'm gonna see if I can try to get it not to hook on me. There we go. That thing's as low as I'm gonna be able to hit a straight one. Nice little draw, 9.7 vertical launch and not the big hook. Cause I really got that thing leaning forward.

So not only do I think that that is a good shot to hit low, I think that's probably the best shot you can do to have good technique in golf. One of the best drills that you can do for the high one, I'm just gonna go the opposite. I'll put the towel in front. All of a sudden now I'm a little bit more toe up, so I'm not taking the loft off quite as much.

I'm still from the inside and I'm only gonna make one tweak. Instead of stepping into my left foot early, I'm gonna feel like I keep a little pressure on the inside of my right foot through contact. So a little pressure on this part of my foot, almost the, the, the inside ball of my foot. I'm gonna keep pressure there.

I'm gonna keep my head a little farther behind the golf ball so that naturally I'm swinging a little bit more up, and then I'm gonna launch it over this towel. Now, this is a little bit of an illusion. I'm still hitting down through the golf ball. I'm just not hitting down as much. So you give yourself a little bit more space to miss that towel.

We don't want to overdo it because then we'll start to chunk it a little bit. It, but I'm gonna try to just same technique toe a little bit more up head behind the golf ball and miss that towel. So I feel like for me, I'm staying behind it and just really going tall into the finish. So let's go ahead and give that a whirl.

There we go. So we see much higher, hard to tell on this computer screen. That thing is a mile in the air. The launch angle was 17 and a half. Up from seven, the one before. So more than double uh, ball went way up there in the air. I hit the towel, but that's not a big deal. You can play around with where you put the towel.

It's more just a visual reference for you to get the general idea of what to do. Now from there, the last thing I would say is when I'm hitting this high one, I wanna finish high. I want my arms to go up high. If I'm hitting a little lower, they're gonna come a little bit more to the left. That's the last little key there that I think really helps a lot of players to do this.

Same thing with the faded and draw. I like to have a little visual feedback. This impact bag is from eye line golf. I like this one. If you don't have this, use a uh, rolled up towel. Use an old pillow, use whatever you want to use. I dislike this cuz it's great for a lot of drills. I'll put a link somewhere on this page in this video.

If you wanna buy one of these, you can buy it from that link. They do give us a few bucks if you buy one from there. If you don't buy it from me, buy it from somewhere else. That's completely fine. But it helps us support the channel, help making these great videos when we're doing this. So the Impact Cube for my line golf.

What I'm gonna do to hit this draw now, give myself a little visual reference. I'm gonna put this in line with the golf ball and I'm gonna put it about a grip length behind the golf ball. So this is a straight shot. What I've done is I've made a little zone here to where I'm gonna miss this bag. I'm gonna start out with the draw, and if I get this from the inside, it's much easier to swing inside out and let that release.

The last piece here for this draw that almost everybody gets wrong, is I have to let that hands roll over much faster than you think. I'm gonna get it from the inside slot, I'm gonna release it, and when my club gets about parallel with the ground in the fall through, I want to feel like this face is pointing down to the ground, so I've really got it in the slot here, and then I'm letting that thing roll over hard.

I'm gonna exaggerate here. Miss this impact bag. Really let it roll over to show you, you can really hook it if you're doing this. There you go. That should be a big slinging hook, and that's pretty good with a six iron. I can't get it to move much more than that. The spin access to that golf ball, all of a, doesn't mean a lot to a lot of people.

20 degrees. The left things really got a lot of curve on it. Which is great for this drill. I can always tone it down, but again, I'd rather you hook the heck out of this ball than to have it just barely turn over. We can always dial back on it a little bit. I'd rather feel the extreme first. If I wanna hit a fade, I do the opposite.

I put it in line with the golf ball, put the golf ball about one club shaft, uh, shaft length here, and with this one, that ball, if I fade it. Is gonna graze that bag. So I actually like to give myself a little extra room, have that stick out about an inch or so. Outside of that, I've found that most players don't have trouble fading the golf ball.

So just a little small visual reference like this. If you wanna make it even more of a visual reference, you can put something else. And now it makes this path. The direction I'm trying to swing. I'm gonna be a little bit open with my stance and when I come through to the fall through, I basically wanna be toe up.

This toast straight up and down here instead of with that big draw, I was releasing that club like that. So look at my forearms. Draw versus fade. I'm not gonna roll my forearms as much in the fade. So now I've got this visual cue. This is a really easy one for most players. Line up a little left. Here's the one thing that I think if you're ever hitting a fade, this is the part you need to know if you're gonna hit it well.

You still come from the inside. So in a fade, that club doesn't get out here. If this is straight down my target line, when I'm in my downswing, the club is coming from here and it just releases out in front like that. So if you look at all the power fade hitters, the power comes from still being shallowed out in the slot rather than getting the club out there like that.

So let's go ahead and give this one a whirl. There we go. Nice little fade. Again, not too tough for most players. If you do those four drills and you get control of this club, that way you can play golf and be in control of your golf game. Now, let me be honest, you're probably not gonna have very much trouble hitting this fade shot.

Almost everybody, when they try to hit a fade, you can do it pretty easily, so we don't have to put a lot of practice in on that. Also, most players don't have very much trouble as long as they're getting enough swing speed, hitting the ball high. But what almost every player that I see really struggles with, and the one thing that they could do that would take their game to a whole nother level is really nailing down this inside slot move to where the club's shallowing out.

It's from the inside at this point in the swing. So whether they're hitting a fader draws from inside there and then learning to get the club to draw to, to release the club in a way to where it draws every single time. So it's great to work on all four of these today, but if you're really gonna own one, I want you to do that.

Penetrating well hit, well struck draw, and that's what I call the move. There's two parts to the move. The move is gonna be shallowing out the club and getting it from the slot. Like I said, you have to get it from the inside here. If you're gonna play great. Every single player on the PJ tour doesn't have their club here.

They have it there on the downswing. We gotta learn that. That's what I teach you in the first part of it. The second part of it. I teach you how to square up the face so that you can release it, and I want every single shot for at least the next few days to turn over from right to left. So I wanna challenge you now, after you do the drills from this video, head on over to the move today and just do one video from there.

I think you'll be shocked at how much farther you can hit it, how much more solid it's gonna feel, and how confident you feel. When you step up to the hole and you know, without a shadow of a doubt that ball is gonna start to the right and draw back every single time that you want it to. I wanna show you how to do that by getting that shallowing move and learning how to square up the face the right way.

Let's go ahead and get started. Head over to the move right now and I'll see you there.