Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover a trick for how to shape golf shots.

Shaping your shots is incredibly important...

But what happens when your nice fade fails you and turns into a huge banana slice?

Well, the best way to combat an out-of-control slice is to understand exactly what to do to hit a draw.

This will allow you to quickly adjust your swing and avoid having one bad shot snowball into a disastrous round.

Knowing how to draw and fade your shots will put you in a much better position to adjust your swing during a round.

If you're anything like me, you probably want a solid swing that behaves perfectly every time.

But here's the rub...

In reality, that never happens.

Even top pros don't hit it perfectly every shot.

The key is that they can quickly adjust and straighten out their shots on command.

In this video, you'll get 2 key tricks to help you hit draw and fade shots...

So the next time your swing goes wayward, you can quickly make the necessary adjustments to fix the issues.

The first trick is for a draw...

Close the face of your club about 45 degrees.

If you were to take your normal swing, the ball would shoot way left with a hook.

However, the goal of this drill is to get you to swing your club on a more in-to-out path...

So to hit it with draw, you'll need to open up your hips and get a lot of forward shaft lean.

Practice hitting these shots and focus on hitting with an in-to-out path.

Next, practice hitting some shots with your club face in its normal position, but remember to swing with the in-to-out path that you hit with earlier.

This trick will help you develop the feel for hitting a draw.

My second trick will help you hit a fade.

This time, you'll do the opposite of what you did for hitting a draw.

Open your club face and hit with an out-to-in club path.

This extreme practice drill will help you get the feeling of hitting a fade.

Once you nail this out-to-in club path, adjust your club face back to neutral and practice hitting shots with the out-to-in path.

Watch this video now to discover how to shape golf shots...

So you can fine tune your swing and get the ball flight you want on the course!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:14

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. I’ve got a great video for you on shaping your shots. This is something that’s very important to do. I know a lot of players out there maybe have a nice little fade and all of a sudden it turns into a big banana slice at the time that you really don’t want that to happen.

Well the best way to combat that is to understand how to hit a draw so if that ball starts to curve a little bit too much left to right, we know what to change to get that ball straightened back out. We’re always going to be adjusting to get that ball flight that we want.

Then the opposite side of that is going to be let’s imagine that we’re getting inside, and we’re getting that ball to draw right to left and sometimes that turns into a hook. We need to the opposite feeling, know how to play a little bit of a fade to straighten out that hook and get it flying exactly like we want it to.

So you’ll never really get good enough. I mean, this is kind of the idea that I always had, is I’m going to find the perfect swing, and I’m just going to make that same swing every single time, and then my ball flight is going to do what I want it to do.

That day never really comes. It’s always going to be a little too much fade, a little too much draw, a little too high, or low, or whatever it is, and we’re going to constantly be adjusting that.

So for today’s video we’re going to work on hitting a fade, and hitting a draw. I’ve got two really good tricks that are going to help you to get that draw and that fade.

The first one, what I want you to do – we’ll go ahead and put a golf ball out in front. If you have an alignment stick, alignment rod, something like that, that’s fine also. We’re going to line this up basically in a straight line, the direction I’m going to hit this shot. We’ll go a little bit more like that.

Now I’m going to work on getting this ball to start to the right of that golf ball, and to start to draw back in. Now a great way to do this, to force yourself to really get from the inside when you’re doing this, take the golf club and I want you to close the face about 45°.

Now you’re going to from there, you’re going to set it on the ground, it’s going to be closed, really, really closed. I’m going to take my normal grip, just like as if the face was straight up and down. I’m going to take my normal grip here.

I don’t want you to take the grip and close the face with your hands, I want you to close the face, take your normal grip. If I do this, and I was to make my normal swing, that ball would go so far left. I mean it would start way to the left and then hook even more.

What I want to do from here, is I’m going to feel like I’m going to go ahead and let my hips open up. My right shoulder’s going to kind of come in closer to this side of my body, and I’m going to have to get some forward shaft lean to open that club face.

Now from there, I’m really going to have to get some forward shaft lean like this, and I’m really going to have to swing from the inside to get that ball to start to the right of this ball.

So again, I’m going to close my face. Take my regular grip, you see just how closed that is right now. Then from there, I’m going to go ahead get a lot of forward shaft lean, open up my hips, and I’m really going to have to work on coming from the inside to get that ball to start to the right.

You’ll start to see that to draw back around. That ball drew probably 7 or 8, probably even 10 yards. Do that a little bit, practice 8 or 10 of those.

At first that ball is going to shoot off to the left, it’s going to be really difficult to do. You just keep on going with it until you can get that ball to start out to the right and then draw back.

Once you can do that, now I’m going to go back to my normal grip. I’m used to the feeling of getting a little bit more from the inside, this is that draw kind of inside swing path. Now all I need to do is to feel like I roll my hands on over.

In my downswing, I’m going to start to close that face a little bit earlier in the downswing and make that same path out to the right. That’s going to allow me to get used to hitting that draw.

That’s a great trick to do that, forcing yourself to close that club face.

The second one we’re going to work on here is the fade. I’m going to do the exact same thing, but now I’m going to start this ball left, and then have it curve back to the right, little bit of a fade on there.

I’m going to do the opposite trick with this one. Now I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to open up the face. You won’t be able to open it up quite as much, I’m only going to open it up probably 20° to 30°.

Now I’m going to have to feel like I really start to come to the left and really roll those hands down to close the face, or that ball’s going to start way out to the right.

I’m going to set up pretty square, face wide open, you can see it doesn’t look very good. I’m going to have to come a little bit over the top, and then close that face to get it to start to the left of that golf ball.

There we go, that one started to fade back a little bit. That’s going to be pretty difficult to do, these extremes, at first. Once I’ve gone through those drills and I can get both of those things to happen, what I really practice there is I’ve practiced how to adjust my path.

Coming over top, coming inside out, and now I have a good feel for that. I’m going to go ahead and grab a couple more balls, and now I’m going to work on a dead straight shot.

So I’m going to go ahead and set up here, I’m going to pick a target out in the distance. I’m going to try to hit a dead straight ball. There we go, and I’m going to see what happens.

If it gets a little bit a draw, that one probably drew two or three yards. I’m going to try to fade a little bit until I can get it perfectly straight.

If it starts to get a little bit of fade, I’m going to feel like I draw it. But I’m constantly fine-tuning my feeling to get that dead straight shot. Again, you’re taking the 70 to 80-yard shots here, you’re not trying to rip the ball at first. This is with an 8 iron, so you’re going about half speed.

Work on those drills though, you’re going to get tons more feel, and you’re going to play better golf, have better control.