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
00:19little 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
00:45need to
00:45separate the path from the club face. Now the face is going to start the golf ball wherever it goes
00:51and
00:52the path in relation to it is going to make the ball or give the ball some curvature. So if
00:58I'm
00:58hitting a draw shot now I need to start to get my swing direction or my club path a little
01:02bit more
01:02right 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
01:15more to the right of the target. Now what happens from a setup point of view, if I can put
01:20the ball a
01:21little bit further towards the centre of the stance, this is really going to encourage my golf club as
01:27it comes down in the arc, it's going to really encourage a little bit of an earlier hit in this
01:32arc. If I have the ball too far forwards now this arc is going to start coming in a little
01:36bit more
01:37round to the left encouraging that little bit more of a neutral path. So we're going to put the ball
01:41more in the centre. Now my knees, hips and shoulders are aiming to the right. There's a key part that
01:48we need
01:48to do now and that's where the clubface is aiming so I'm going to just turn the clubface a little
01:53bit
01:53more left so perhaps it's pointing more at the pin and you can see in this setup now that I've
02:00got
02:01my feet and everything aiming to the right. This is going to really encourage that rightward path
02:05and you can see the clubface now is separated from that. So I'm just going to put a regular swing
02:10on it
02:10from here so the ball's back, everything's aiming right, got the clubface left, regular swing, let's see
02:17how we do.
02:22So we can see that ball there just starting right of the green just drawing round 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
02:33just
02:33changed the setup. Vice versa now if we pull another golf ball in here I'm going to flip this round
02:39now
02:39so I'm going to get my feet, body, knees and everything aiming a little bit more left of the green
02:46so 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
02:55more
02:55swing direction to the left but then I'm going to just make that slight change to the clubface and
03:01get that point in a little bit more where I want the ball to finish. So everything's aiming left,
03:05feet, hips, shoulders, clubface aiming at the flag and I'm going to try and swing along the feet line.
03:17We can see that one takes off just left of that pin fading onto the middle of the green there
03:24so
03:24really really simple things that you can do low hanging fruit stuff at the setup to influence different shot shapes.
03:35So
03:41we
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