Golf Shot Shaping Tips
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00:00 So for a golfer it can be really satisfying to be able to shape the ball to the right and to the left as well.
00:06 We're on the 18th at the Asbury today, we've got 200 yards and we've got a big strong breeze off the right today.
00:12 So here I could play either shot, I could ride the wind off the right or I could play a little fade and hold the ball a little bit up into the wind.
00:20 We're going to look at some simple points at setup that's going to really help you influence hitting both shot shapes
00:26 and also talk a little bit about the theory, what's happening at impact to produce those golf shots.
00:32 So firstly, how do we actually hit a right to left golf shot, so a draw for a right handed golfer?
00:38 Well firstly what we need to talk about is the club path and the club face angle.
00:43 So what happens if we're trying to hit a draw, we need to separate the path from the club face.
00:48 Now the face is going to start the golf ball wherever it goes and the path in relation to it is going to make the ball
00:55 or give the ball some curvature. So if I'm hitting a draw shot now I need to start to get my swing direction on my club path a little bit more right of target.
01:04 So firstly if I aim a little bit more right and that's with the feet, the knees, the hips and the shoulders,
01:11 this is really going to encourage the club path now to go a little bit more to the right of the target.
01:17 Now what happens from a setup point of view, if I can put the ball a little bit further towards the centre of the stance,
01:24 this is really going to encourage my golf club as it comes down in the arc,
01:29 it's going to really encourage a little bit of an earlier hit in this arc.
01:33 If I have the ball too far forwards now, this arc is going to start coming a little bit more round to the left,
01:38 encouraging that little bit more of a neutral path. So we're going to put the ball more in the centre,
01:43 now my knees, hips and shoulders are aiming to the right.
01:47 There's a key part that we need to do now and that's where the club face is aiming.
01:51 So I'm going to just turn the club face a little bit more left, so perhaps it's pointing more at the pin.
01:58 You can see in this setup now that I've got my feet and everything aiming to the right,
02:03 this is going to really encourage that rightward path and you can see the club face now is separated from that.
02:09 So I'm just going to put a regular swing on it from here, so the ball's back, everything's aiming right,
02:14 got the club face left, regular swing, let's see how we do.
02:19 So we can see that ball there just starting right of the green, just drawing round to the middle there
02:28 and that's all come very simply from how I've set up, I haven't changed my swing in any way,
02:33 I've just changed the setup. Vice versa now, if we pull another golf ball in here,
02:37 I'm going to flip this round now, so I'm going to get my feet, body, knees and everything aiming a little bit more left of the green.
02:45 So I'm going to move the ball a little bit more forwards in the stance now,
02:49 what this is really going to encourage again, like we spoke about, is that bit of a later hit in the arc,
02:54 bit more swing direction to the left, but then I'm going to just make that slight change to the club face
03:01 and get that pointing a little bit more where I want the ball to finish.
03:04 So everything's aiming left, feet, hips, shoulders, club face aiming at the flag
03:09 and I'm going to try and swing along the feet line.
03:13 We can see that one takes off just left of that pin, fading onto the middle of the green there.
03:24 So really, really simple things that you can do, low hanging fruit stuff at the setup to influence different shot shapes.
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