In this video, we review week two, drill two, focusing on mastering ball control through successful fades and draws. The drill involves alternating between hitting fades/slices and draws/hooks, aiming for 10 successful shots in total. Key adjustments for setup include maintaining vertical spine alignment for fades and angling the spine away from the target while hitting draws. The goal is to develop a feel for ball flight control without changing stance drastically, enhancing your ability to tweak shots on the course. By practicing these drills, you reinforce your swing path and improve precision.
What's Covered: Recap of the week two alternating fade and draw drill, with spine angle and setup adjustments to reinforce path control.
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Great to have you here today. This is the recap for drill number two In week two, last drill, we hit 10 successful ones in total, they didn't have to be in a row. We did 10 fades and we went over to 10 draws. That's easier 'cause you kind of get a feel for how to hit a draw, and then the more you do, you kind of start to get a feel after a while.
Now we're gonna toggle back and forth between the fades or slices and the draws are hooked, so we're gonna one successful fade. Once we do that, we're gonna do the draw side. Doesn't matter how many tries it takes, we're gonna get a successful draw. As soon as we get a successful draw. We're going back to the fade side.
This is where you really start to get control of your ball flight. If I can toggle from my slice to my draw or hook, I can really tweak things however I want when it gets on the course. I had a few slices off the tee. I know exactly what to feel to fix that. So just like we did in the last drill, couple setup adjustments.
For the fades. Our fingertips are gonna be level, our spine's gonna be a little more vertical. I'm gonna imagine there's a plane of glass where I'm swinging over top of this stick on the brick, and I'm coming to the left. I'm using my fade release as I come through this. My hands are in club face to the sky, just like that.
Here's one thing I don't want you to do. I don't wanna set up way to the left. To start to hit those fades and then go way to the right at the draws. Because I'm not really learning to use my swing to do it. I'm just using my same swing and adjusting the angles. I wanna get the momentum of this club moving differently based on how I move my body.
And we gotta keep our feet square to do that. So I'm gonna start outside the stick. Don't get too close to these setting up square fade release, coming outside, swinging down that plane of glass. Use my fade or slice of release. Get that ball to start to the left. Has the start to left has the fade back.
Once I get a successful shot, I'm gonna go to my draw release, come to the inside of the stick. Now my fingertips are gonna go down to my right knee. So when I have my fingers to my thighs here, my left hand is gonna go up. My right hand's gonna go down. It's gonna angle my spine away. I've created this space to swing from the inside.
And imagine there's a plane of glass here. I'm gonna do my hook release. Hands go out to the right. Clubface now goes all the way down to the ground. And I'm feeling that when I do my hooks or my draws here, again, hit as many shots as it takes you until I get a successful hook has a start to the right of the target and then draw back.
The good thing about this is with the brick, the big stick in the way, I know I'm swinging inside out when I come to the draw side or the shallowing side. If I go to the fade side, I know I'm swinging outside in because I would be hitting the stick if I wasn't. So it'll naturally kind of tilt your swing path out to the right.
Or tilt your swing path to the left. It makes things a lot faster when you're working on these drills. 10 successful shots alternating. One draw, one fade, one draw, one fade. Doesn't matter how many tries it takes, you get it to start on the correct side of the course and get it to fade back or draw back, whichever way you're trying to curve it, and that's a successful shot.
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