This video emphasizes the importance of developing the feel for drawing and fading the ball. Clay recommends daily practice, starting with at least 10 minutes a day, ideally in your living room with a pitching wedge. The video guides viewers on how to close and open the clubface, explaining the mechanics of inside-out and outside-in swing paths that influence ball curvature. Viewers are encouraged to exaggerate their motions to internalize the effects of different releases. The session includes hands-only drills followed by club drills, alternating between draw and fade swings to enhance muscle memory and control. Consistent practice promises significant improvement in ball control and shot accuracy.
What's Covered: Daily practice routine for developing the feel of drawing and fading the ball through hands-only and club drills.
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Alright, so a big part of what we're doing in this course is we're learning the feeling of getting the ball to draw and fade. This week we're focused just in on the face, and you're gonna have some great results, but the more you feel this, the faster the results are gonna come. So what I wanna do is every day I wanna practice my feelings for about five or 10 minutes.
That's the bare minimum. If you wanna have success from this course, you need to set aside 10 minutes right in your living room, grab a pitching wedge. It doesn't matter what club you have, but you're just gonna get your feels. If you want to get even better improvement, then practice it for 30 minutes or practice it twice a day.
The more you do it, the faster you'll get these results. So if you wanna improve a massive amount in a short period of time, I would take 10 or 15 breaks throughout the day and just do it five minutes here, five minutes there. Almost be doing it all the time. If you just wanna get good results and hit a few better shots, the bare minimum is 10 minutes a day.
So let's go over. How to close the face and how to open the face, how to get it to curve right and left again and get those feelings that I want you doing five or 10 minutes a day, even at home. The first one is when I swing my hands more inside out. It's easier to get the face to turn on over. It's very difficult to get it to turn on over when I'm outside in.
Part of the reason is if I grabbed a club when I'm swinging outside in, I'm pulling the shaft. I'm kind of dragging the shaft through there. And when I drag the shaft through, that keeps the face open. If I go inside out, it's almost like I'm having to release the shaft and turn it over. When I let the shaft release and turn on over, I'm getting the clo, the club face to close.
So if I pull the shaft outside in the face, wants to stay pinned open. If I throw the club inside out, the club wants to roll over, the face wants to close. So the very first thing I wanna do when I'm doing these little drills. Is I wanna start out with my draw swing, and I'm just gonna feel me coming with my hands, the inside and throwing 'em to the outside, right?
Just like that. I'm gonna get a few of those until I feel like I can do that five or 10 times. Again, that takes like 30 seconds. Then I'm gonna go outside and you can just follow right along with me. Turn on this video and do the exact same things I'm doing. I'll make it about a 10 minute video. This will be your daily practice after I've done that five or 10 times, and I've got the feeling of that.
Then I want to go outside and go five or 10 times where I feel like I'm going this way. That would be my fate or my slice swing. So just five or 10, just with your arms. Once I've done that, that's very easy. Anybody can do that. Then I'm gonna start to get the feeling of releasing the club. When I'm doing my releasing the club, or my draws or hooks, I wanna feel like my palms of my hand are down.
So basically the back of my left hand is to the ground. The palm of my right hand is to the ground. Just like we're doing with the club. And then when I release it, I wanna feel like the palm of my left hand is to the sky and the palm of my right hand is to the ground. So basically I'm doing this, I'm going down, and then I'm turning the face over.
If I had a club with me, it would be like this, and then turning the face and releasing it over. I'm gonna do five or 10 of those to where I'm just feeling the motion with my hands. I wanna be visualizing why I'm doing this. That ball snap hooking. So if it doesn't feel like it's snap hooking, I wanna do a little bit less.
If it feels like it's or, or a little bit more, excuse me. If it does feel like it's snap hooking good after I've done a few of those and I feel that in my mind it feels like, yeah, that would just go low left for sure. Then I wanna go the opposite. I'm gonna do my opposite of my hands. So if my hands were like this, I'm gonna turn 'em that way.
So now my right palm's up, my left palm's down. And I'm just gonna feel like I'm almost like taking the edge of my right hand and slicing something like, okay, I'm gonna karate, chop, or cut the knees outta something. I'm just coming outside and I'm pulling across it. So I'm getting that feeling like I'm just slicing under something.
The face would be very open and in my mind's eye, I would feel like I'm hitting this giant slice, this big slice that get that feeling first of what you're doing with your body, right? Do five or 10 reps of each one. Without the hands first and then with the hands to feel like the face is turning on over or it's staying a little more open.
Then from there, we're gonna grab a club. You can do this with a pitching wedge. If you don't have room to swing a driver, you can do it with any club you have. Grab a broomstick for all alt matters. To me, it's the same thing from here. Now I'm gonna turn this face down. I'm gonna do the exact same feeling and let the club shaft release.
Now what I mean by release is. The opposite of release would be me dragging it forward with my hands. That keeps the face open and the club shaft stays angled back. If we're looking from this, this way, a release would be kicking that sho, that club, and letting it roll on over. So if I had my club here, it's clubface down, clubface closed, I'm releasing it.
And when my hands are up here, like we just worked on my club shaft is gonna be pointing to the target. The face is gonna be all the way down to the ground. So I'm just gonna do. Five or 10 of those. This in my mind's eye, I'm asking myself, would this be snap hooking? If it doesn't feel like it would be snap hooking, do more of it and I'm just getting five or 10 in, then I'm gonna do my slice where I don't let the shaft release club adds out here, faces open.
I feel like I'm coming to the left, so my hands are leading the way the shaft is staying angled back like this. So this would be the release. This will be angled back. This is my slice move, and I'm gonna get five or 10 of those in your mind's eye. Ask yourself the question while you're doing this, would this ball be slicing?
And if you're not sure if it'd be slicing, do more. So really exaggerate it until you're like, yeah, that feels like that would be a massive slice. Now from here, we're gonna alternate, draw, fade, draw, fade. To get the feel of this. I'm gonna do a little of the same kind of motion. I'm gonna do it a little bit less severe.
Until it feels like it would be a nice draw, like draw five or 10 yards, right? Once I feel like I have the draw, I'm like, yep, that would draw. Then I'm gonna go to my fade. Feel like it would fade five or 10 yards. Now what you'll find is that you're actually pretty good at this. Most people intuitively know if the ball's gonna draw or not.
It'll almost be shocking how good you get at this. So I'm just gonna alternate back and forth. I'm gonna find my draw and once I say, yep, that's a good draw. It feels like the ball will be a five or 10 yard draw. I'm gonna go over to the fade side and get a good fade in. Once I get a good fade in, I'm gonna go back to the draw.
I feel like it would draw for me if I feel like I'm doing the motions, but it, in my mind, I'm still thinking, oh, that's just gonna block to the right. It's not gonna draw. Do more until you feel like, for sure it would be hooking or drawing. So I'm just really rolling it over. Or I'm really holding it off.
We're gonna alternate back and forth. 10 successful swings each way, and it could be as simple as this. I set up intending to do my slice. I say, oh yeah, that would definitely slice. Then I do my draw and I think, ah, face is a little open. Now lemme roll it a little bit more. Oh, that one definitely felt like it would hook.
That's a successful one. I got my draw in and I'm back to my slice. That felt good. I'm back to my draw. Now, you may be asking yourself, why in the heck aren't we making a full swing? So it's great to go from here to here. That's the part that matters. I have to get good from waist tie to waist tie to control the ball flight.
The only reason I make a bigger swing than that is so it'll go farther. If I can't control the club from here to here, then nothing else matters. Once I can control it from here to here. I just swing a little farther back and a little farther through to add some more speed to it. So again, start off a few hands to the right.
Hands to the left. Again, it's hooks, it's slices, hook slices. Then we add in the hands rolling over big hooks, the hands chopping the slice. Then we add the club in and we try to get 10 successful ones that feel like they would slice and they would hook, and we're just doing this over and over again.
Until we can control what this club face would be doing, what my curvature of the ball would be, you're never gonna get it perfect. You may feel like you just did all these hook swings and go out and slice the first few. I promise you, if you keep doing 'em every day, and if you're still slicing, exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate.
You will get it down. The only way to mess this up is to not exaggerate enough. If you exaggerate the heck out of it, you will be hitting massive draws. Even if you've sliced your entire life, the big thing here is how I release that shaft. If I'm used to coming over the top and holding onto the club like this, it's gonna slice forever.
I have to let that club, instead of holding it like this, I have to let it release on over. My forearms are almost gonna be touching. That's gonna hook it five or 10 minutes a day. Bare minimum. If you want to get really good, do this all day long and start to get the feel. Of those draws and those fades.
I'm telling you there's no better practice to learning hit the driver than learning how to release the club properly to turn the face over or release it a little bit less to fade the ball. The better you do this, the more you do this, the quicker that you'll improve.
