In this week’s drill recap, you’ll practice alternating between draw, fade, and straight shots while focusing on strike locations on the clubface. The video emphasizes using strike spray powder to ensure accurate feedback and discusses how different parts of the face affect ball trajectory. For draws, aim for the center or toe side; for fades, hit off the heel; and for straight shots, aim dead center. The goal is to achieve 15 successful shots with a mix of all three types, fine-tuning your technique based on your skill level. This exercise helps reveal how crucial strike location is for producing desired shot shapes.
What's Covered: Recap of the alternating draw, fade, and straight shot drill using strike spray to confirm correct contact location for each shot shape.
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Welcome back. This is the Drill two Recap for week three. What we're gonna do here is we're gonna alternate between a draw, a fade, and a straight shot. And we have to get the strike locations on the correct spot on the face. So I'm gonna spray the face with my strike spray Powder leaves a film on there, and I'm gonna start out by trying to hit a successful draw.
Now to be a successful draw again, we can work with the brick. To get it swinging inside out, we can work on our hook rele release to getting it turned on over. But if I'm really gonna control my draws, I either need to hit those in the dead center of the face or somewhere slightly toward the toe side of the club.
Any anywhere on the toe helps it to draw back. So I'm gonna start out trying to hit my draw and I'm gonna count as a success. If it draws back, it's a good shot and it's anywhere dead on the center or slightly favoring the toe. It could even be a little bit more off a toe. Anywhere on the toe side is good.
Once I'm successful hitting that draw or that that big draw. Whichever shot shape you wanna go with, again, use a little judgment here. If I'm a 20 handicapper, anything turning over from right to left, I'm probably gonna count. If I'm a scratch golfer or a tour player, I don't wanna have a bad shot. I want it to be pretty nice and solid and have it barely start to draw back.
Use your own best judgment on what you would consider to be a successful shot. Once I had a successful draw though, I'm gonna go to the fade side again. I can use my brick to come over top of the stick. I can use my fade or slice release to feel like my hands go in club faces more up toward the sky. But most importantly, I'm paying attention to when I spray this face, it has to be on the dead center of the club or anywhere Favoring the heel side of the club anywhere off the heel helps it to fade a little bit.
Once I have a successful fade, I'm gonna go to a dead straight shot. Now again, use your judgment here. I'm gonna try to hit this ball dead straight. Ideally, I would love for players to have no more than say five yards a curve. When you start hitting the driver really well, it's going really straight.
Shouldn't have a lot of curve on it. A good drive isn't one that draws 20 yards or fades 20 yards. I just need it to barely go one way or the other. So I'd love it to be dead straight. If I'm a 20 handicapper, it's probably gonna have a little bit of curve one way or another. That's okay if I'm a tour player or a scratch.
I need to have that ball flying really straight. More than five yards, a curve. I'm not gonna count it. And again, for those really good players, the scratch golfers, the tour players, I want it to be a quarter inch from the dead center of the club. If you're a 20 handicapper, give yourself a little bit more buffer there, and we're just trying to fine tune where we're hitting on the face to get the desired curve.
That's gonna be your straight one. So once I've done a draw, a fade, and a straight, I'm gonna repeat the same process again until I get 15 total successful shots. Or five of each of them, and I'm just gonna alternate every single time. Draw, fade straight, draw, fade straight, draw, fade straight. Get 15 good ones.
You'll be amazed how much strike location plays in on how good the shot is. A lot of times you'll think you made a terrible swing, it just didn't hit the right side of the face. The swing may have been great, but you just missed the, the, the correct side of the face. I was trying to draw it and I hit it off the heel and it didn't work out right.
So this will be eyeopening for a lot of players. Best of luck. I'll see you soon.
