Golf Shot Shaping Tips

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00:00So for a golfer it can be really satisfying to be able to shape the ball to the right

00:04and to the left as well. We're on the 18th at the Asprey today, we've got 200 yards

00:09and we've got a big strong breeze off the right today so here I could play either shot,

00:15I could ride the wind off the right or I could play a little fade and hold the ball a little bit

00:19up into the wind. We're going to look at some simple points at setup that's going to really

00:23help you influence hitting both shot shapes and also talk a little bit about the theory,

00:29what's happening at impact to produce those golf shots. So firstly how do we actually hit a right

00:35to left golf shot, so a draw for a right-handed golfer. Well firstly what we need to talk about

00:40is the club path and the club face angle. So what happens if we're trying to hit a draw, we need to

00:45separate the path from the club face. Now the face is going to start the golf ball wherever it goes and

00:52the path in relation to it is going to make the ball or give the ball some curvature. So if I'm

00:58hitting a draw shot now I need to start to get my swing direction or my club path a little bit more

01:03right of target. So firstly if I aim a little bit more right and that's with the feet, the knees,

01:09the hips and the shoulders, this is really going to encourage the club path now to go a little bit more

01:15to the right of the target. Now what happens from a setup point of view, if I can put the ball a little

01:21bit further towards the centre of the stance, this is really going to encourage my golf club as it comes

01:27down in the arc, it's going to really encourage a little bit of an earlier hit in this arc. If I have

01:33the ball too far forwards now this arc is going to start coming in a little bit more around to the left

01:37encouraging that little bit more of a neutral path. So we're going to put the ball more in the centre,

01:43now my knees, hips and shoulders are aiming to the right. There's a key part that we need to do now

01:49and that's where the club face is aiming so I'm going to just turn the club face a little bit more

01:54left so perhaps it's pointing more at the pin and you can see in this setup now that I've got my feet

02:01and everything aiming to the right, this is going to really encourage that rightward path and you can

02:06see the club face now is separated from that. So I'm just going to put a regular swing on it from here

02:11so the ball's back, everything's aiming right, got the club face left, regular swing, let's see how we do.

02:19So we can see that ball there just starting right of the green just drawing around to the middle there

02:27and that's all come very simply from how I've set up, I haven't changed my swing in any way I've just

02:33changed the setup. Vice versa now if we pull another golf ball in here I'm going to flip this round now

02:39so I'm going to get my feet, body, knees and everything aiming a little bit more left of the

02:45green. So I'm going to move the ball a little bit more forwards in the stance now, what this is really

02:50going to encourage again like we spoke about is that bit of a later hit in the arc, a bit more swing

02:55direction to the left but then I'm going to just make that slight change to the club face and get

03:01that point in a little bit more where I want the ball to finish. So everything's aiming left, feet, hips,

03:06shoulders, club face aiming at the flag and I'm going to try and swing along the feet line.

03:18We can see that one takes off just left of that pin fading onto the middle of the green there so

03:24really really simple things that you can do low-hanging fruit stuff at the setup to influence different shot shapes.

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