Phase 2 Session 7 - Hitting a Draw
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In today's session I will be showing how to shape the ball with a draw during my Phase 2 progression. Learn how I adjust my sequencing to make the draw more of a natural progression versus timing a flip or manual release. Gaining awareness of your sequencing is critical for shaping the ball correctly. This is a great tool to help self correct ball flight issues on the fly.
Hello everyone, Rotary Swing Tour instructor Craig Morrow here, and today I'm continuing on my journey with session seven.
And what I'm going to be working on today is I'm going to be working on shaping the ball a little bit and more focused on hitting the little draw.
As y'all saw in my last session, and I hope you enjoyed my return back to the camera, I know I did, and I've put in a lot of work, but as you saw in the last session, I had a little bit of cleanup work to do.
My trail hand was getting a little bit overactive, and so I've spent a lot of time focusing on my lead arm and lead hand release to kind of get things back in sync.
Had a little bit of rust in some of my old movement patterns of getting just a little bit too trail hand dominant.
Started to sneak back in, so I've put in a lot of reps, and I've started to tone that down.
But as I promised y'all, I'm going to start taking on a little bit more of a challenge, because I'm starting to get through my reps.
I'm getting really darn close to phase three right now, which I know everybody's itching to see.
But before I get there, I want to tackle some of the bonus challenges so that as you're going through it, maybe some of my keywords or some of my phrases will help you start to learn to flight the ball a little bit better.
Because learning how to maneuver the golf ball a little bit to the left, a little bit to the right, can really kind of help you find a common ground.
You know, if you struggle with finding the straight shot, sometimes having a frame of reference of, oh, this is what a draw feels like, this is what a fade feels like, it can give you that added touch.
And so today, I'm going to do my session focusing on adding a little bit of a draw.
Now, when it comes to phase two, we're not really trying to power it out there, which is good.
Because when you're learning a little bit of face control and feel, it's nice to stay in these smaller sized shots, so that you're not, you know, too worried about adding a ton of speed.
And especially when it comes to the draw.
Because when you start learning how to allow that toe to rotate around the heel and start getting a little bit more of that right to left shot shape, for me, it's all about making things a little bit slower.
And what I mean is, is I'm going to go through this session, and I'm going to still focus on trying to make a little bit of a balance takeaway.
I'm not worried about perfecting it yet, but you know, staying in this kind of nine o 'clock realm.
But as I start to work down with my weight and my post, I'm going to focus on moving a little bit slower.
Because if I feel like my chest and my shoulders are moving a little bit slower, what it's going to allow for the club to do is to work down in that toe to start rotating around and squaring up a little bit sooner.
Okay, I'm sure a lot of you at home have hit a driver before and hit that little 40 yard block.
And you felt like, oh, wow, as I started to get through there, I was just ripping my body open and the club can never catch up.
Well, you're exactly right.
That's what happens.
The club could never catch up.
So I'm going to try to feel the opposite as I start to work on hitting some of these draws right here.
Can you alter the stance a little bit as for the shot?
Yeah, I can.
I could close my stance a little bit.
I'm going to kind of keep it a little bit more in the neutral territory, because I really want to feel quieter chest and that club rotating around or that toe kind of squaring up a little bit sooner.
But you can start to kind of affect the shot by understanding your rates.
And so today, we're going to do a set of hitting some draws.
I'm starting to try to get some turn on this ball.
Okay.
And I apologize if we get a little bit more background today.
It's a perfect Georgia weather day.
70, low humidity, perfect weather.
So everybody's out and about, which I've got no problem with that.
So we're going to start to try to focus on getting just a little bit more turn to it.
I've already focused on doing some lead hands and getting down and through here.
So you can see right here, I started off a little bit of my session just working to here and focusing on getting my release a little bit better, getting my arm and hand in sync so that this one wouldn't take over.
Now we're going to get that other hand back on.
We're going to focus on hitting a little bit of a draw.
And so my feel that I'm going with for these.
So I'm going to get here to my takeaway.
As I start to shift and post, I'm going to let the club shallow.
But as I start to work into the ball, I'm going to actually feel that my chest is staying a little bit more on the closed side.
So I might feel my sternum anchored or pointed just a little bit behind the golf ball, just so it works just a little bit slower.
And I can feel that club come in and square up just a little bit sooner.
There we go.
Nice little lazy draw.
Had just a tiny bit of a pull on it.
I think my legs got a little bit lazy.
I think I muted everything too much.
So I had a little bit of a pull on it right there.
But I accomplished the mission.
Had a little, little baby draw on that shot.
And so that's going to be what we're kind of going for today.
I'm not trying to put too much hyper mechanics.
I'm making everything perfect.
I'm trying to get a feel for what it takes for me to get that club to start squaring up a little bit sooner, to get a little bit more of a draw shape to it.
So for me, it's going to feel like almost my chest is staying a little bit closed as the club head is passing through.
There we go.
That's got a little bit more.
See, that was a little bit straighter.
It was almost the draw fade where I had this nice, about a two or three yard draw on it.
And the wind's kind of pushing a little this way.
So right at the end, I had a little fall to the right.
But I think that's the main thing that I want to get out of today's session is to start to have a little bit of feel for the club face.
You're going to, you're going to find that this club's going to kind of rotate over a little bit.
It might start to face the ground a little bit more.
I'm just allowing for that to happen.
I'm, I'm really not trying to do that too much because I'm, I'm trying to hit more of a natural draw.
I'm not trying to hit a flip draw.
I could get here.
Let me, let me put this ball back.
Yeah, I could get here and just take my hands and flip them over and get that ball to turn.
All right.
I could do that, but that's not what I'm looking for.
I don't want this kind of flip draw.
I can get that manipulation.
I want just a natural turn on the ball.
I want it to happen as a by-product because I'm still moving well, but the club is doing the work for me.
Might want to make a practice swing or two after that one, just to make sure I don't let my hands just a little bit too active.
Went pretty far though.
Almost a phase three if I'd put some legs into it.
There we go.
Nice little two or three yard draw.
Maybe a tiny bit further than I want, but that's okay.
That's okay.
If it, if it scoots out a little bit further right now as you're working on the draw, well, you're getting that extra face rotation.
You're going to have, especially if you have proper face rotation, it's going to be rotating a little bit better through there.
So it's going to add a little bit more juice to it.
So my feeling is I'm still shifting weight, still maintaining touch, still doing all the fun stuff.
But as I start to work here, my chest, my upper half is going to be much quieter so that this club can come through and square up sooner.
And just for fun, we're actually going to shut it down a little bit too much on this one and see what happens.
Ball may not do anything that I want it to do, but just for fun.
We're going to go a little bit on the other side of the equation.
And there you go.
You could see that my chest was closed at the moment of truth.
Got that toe really rotating around, hit that nice little baby draw out there.
Almost a little too far.
I'm going to blame the weather.
Perfect weather day.
Balls feel a little bit juiced.
So we're going to focus on making that same nice and tight little nine o'clock backswing.
Chesting nice and close, feeling like everything's just kind of passing my chest and rotating just to buy it a little bit more time.
There we go.
Got a nice little draw on it.
I prefer, for me, I hit the ball mostly straight.
I prefer hitting a little bit more of a cut.
So this is a little bit of work for me to really slow things down to get that thing rotating around.
Make sure my lines are doing okay.
I'm feeling getting to here.
I'm still shifting.
I'm still posting.
Everything's just a little bit quieter with my upper half.
Lead arm and hand come through, club releases.
Squaring up just a little bit sooner.
Ooh, that was really good.
That was really good.
Nice little turn on that one.
One thing that I want you to also notice, which I'm probably not doing the best at, when you're starting to work on this shaping, I don't want you to kind of go for, I'm going to start it 20 yards offline and get it to go back.
It's not what we're looking for right here.
We're looking for a little bit of soft draw just to get the feel of that face rotating around.
So you should relatively still be starting down your line or just a shade to the right.
This isn't about moving it way off the target and then trying to get it to come back.
That would be my preferred draw.
Just a little two or three yard draw off the line.
But what this is helping me do is it's giving me a little bit of face awareness.
When you start thinking about getting proper grip on the club and allowing the club to swing back and through, your lead wrist is the control hand.
Excuse me.
Your lead wrist is the control hand.
And so it's really giving me a lot of awareness of what's going on in the face so that I know that this is closing just a little bit sooner.
Just like when I start tackling a little bit more trajectory as we add speed, getting into phase three, this lead wrist is going to be very important.
Because I'm going to start tackling, okay, can I hit a low?
Can I hit a mid?
Can I hit a high?
That's got some good turn on it.
and you you'll probably be able to see and we'll go back and we'll look at the recap i'll put my swing up against a couple players or even myself from the last session it may not be so apparent to the eye but we should be able to see that it's just a little bit slower and a little bit more closed through the hitting area so i'm getting my normal setup making the same move just slowing down my chest a little bit almost feeling it staying just a little bit shut so the club can pass and like that one right there that's a perfect example of a mess all right so you can probably see on camera right there probably had about a two or three maybe four yard fade on it a little bit thin a little bit off the heel now i can tell you from my feel that as i started to come down i got quick and because i got a little bit quick i got a little bit out ahead of the club the cub couldn't catch up therefore it delayed my release and kept a little bit open and that's okay i'm going to come back i'm going to get a little bit of feel for me and this time i'm a lead hand guy get back a little bit of tension just kind of let it over release right here really feel my chest being quiet i'm going to get some trail hand on here really feeling quiet allowing that to release didn't fall off the wagon too long but before uh i switched down there i know that was good that was the end of my set on that and you know for me i was pretty happy with that nine out of ten and the one miss i knew what i did i could feel the difference how everything got quick and the club couldn't catch up but on this one you we don't want especially in this kind of short shot you don't want to start it off too much online but i just want to show you you can if you want a little bit if you want to close the stance just a little bit you know relative to your target you know in this phase to get the feel you can because what is that going to do it's just going to help you kind of swing a little bit more down the feet line a little bit more from the inside right here it's going to help kind of slow down the body it's the same thing i'm doing it's just adding another element to help keep you from ripping open and keeping that club from turning over so if you want you can you can shut down the stance just a little bit right here just to have a little bit more of a feel of doing that and for me you can see that thing really turn it's a little bit of a a toe digger turn but that's why that kind of throws me off a little bit because i don't i don't do a whole lot of adjustments to my setup and so for me coming from that angle i got really handsy but it's okay shut down the stance a little bit like this because like for me i mean i feel like i'm aimed over another county even though i'm barely off and getting here and we can see just a tiny little bit of turn on that hung just a little bit straight tiny little bit of turn not as much as i would prefer but for me i like to control it by my rate because that's i talked about in the first session with lines it throws me off i got this line going this way i've got that line here now i got my feet going this way so it's just a little bit of a visual thing for me may not be the same for you at home so i'm going to get my balls out here and and that's going to be for my next set i want to see i want to do one more for that close stance just one more i want to see if i can get a better feel swinging this way and that way because you may need that at home there we go here you can see that kind of hung on a little bit straight on me because i'm fighting it just a little bit so i'm going to stick with me kind of controlling my chest rate and all that but if you need it because that's what i would do if i was trying to go around a tree i would i would make a little bit more of adjustment but for me i'm still trying to i'm fighting that it's it's my eye sense it's my lines i'm i'm a very kind of geometrical type person when it comes to visuals i'll do this one just for fun i'll go back to the normal stance and you'll see for me it's easier for me to see because my stance is this way and my chest being this way keeping it just a little bit more closed and a little quieter and as you can see right there now i've got perfect little three yard draw so let me set up some face-ons and we'll keep this train rocking and rolling okay so now we're back with some face-ons hopefully we can get everything kind of squeezed into the camera and you might be able to see a little bit more from this view of what i'm saying about the the kind of closed feeling and controlling my rate so i'm working to here as i shift i'm still shifting i'm still posting i'm feeling like my arms hands and club kind of rotating past my chest and my chest is super quiet right here okay so i can start to get a little bit of curvature on that ball versus um everything kind of speeding up and the club not being able to catch up so let's see if we can get a good set in here i don't take that one all day so just kind of have some fun with it i mean this is it you're oddly enough you'll probably be hitting you know some good mechanics because you're you're allowing for some feel and things to happen you've been kind of a little bit mechanical to this point making sure all the checkpoints and this one's helping you just put a little feel in it i feel a little shaping to the swing or shaping to the shot oh that was really good that was that just kind of like little three four yard draw didn't start too much offline kind of drawing off my line nothing's worse than you know aiming 15 yards off your line be like oh i'm going to draw it back and then you hit the dreaded straight shot that's part of the reason why like when i change my feet line that's why it messes me up so much because when i'm trying to kind of curve it i don't aim off my target like crazy because i'm i don't want my percentage chance to drop of a quality shot dreaded straight shot but i was it was okay though that would actually would be a proper phase two but if i would have aimed that way offline that would have been in trouble in the real world make sure i get my line right okay i'm almost thinking about it kind of like i mean a uh candidate not popping my head right now field goal so like when you're kicking a field goal in american style football and you got your goal post right here and so my line is like the center point of that goal post so i'm starting it kind of at that and then moving it to the left post and that's kind of the visual that i'm seeing right here with my targets that i have out here the feeling is i'm still shifting and posting i'm just letting this kind of work through and rotate just a little bit more like that but i pushed a little bit my trail hand so i had a lot of curvature on that which your trail hand can sneak in there and give you a lot of curvature on it but you you probably heard that was a little little scuffy and for the comment section scuffy fat a little dig in the turf and all that was is i slowed down enough to get the draw but then my trail hand said oh i'll come help you out and so i started pushing on it just a little bit started digging a little bit into the turf i don't need your help today trail hand this isn't your party there we go so that one was really good kept my head down my chest was quiet my trail hand was out of the equation i'm not going to send that that dish back to the chef really squaring up chest quiet my hips are still open i'm feeling that chest just a little quieter and that that club just squaring up or just really freely rotating through that was real good right there i really like that ball flight to it too that was just a tiny bit lower be good for west texas and that was good nice little two-yard draw on that one i'll give you my cue on that one when i was making some of those left arm only swings just a second ago so you saw me kind of stretching out a little bit you know feeling what the lead arm was doing it popped in my head when i added my right hand as i was starting to come down that this extra tension that i carry in the shoulder because of all the injuries i've had to it you know sometimes it starts to kind of hike up and tense up without me knowing this kind of goes into a protection mode and with it going into a little bit of protection mode it'll kind of sit up like this so like on that one right there i really tried to feel like my shoulder was just kind of sitting down in the box and really kind of away from the ball so i started to work through there we go nice little draw on that one that was that's a big key turn it off that trail shoulder it's a big key for me well these are you know that's the kind of epiphanies and thoughts that happen when you know as you're practicing through a round you start to feel like oh i forgot my trail shoulder is being a little bit too active or i keep my head down or you know my trail foot i didn't notice it was picking up like crazy just be hyper vigilant during practice set your goal what you're trying to achieve on it so your brain has a little bit of freedom to be like look you're trying to hit this little draw right here you knucklehead turn off that trail shoulder a little low draw can't really complain might have been just a touch sounded like caught just a little bit of the turf but i hit pretty darn well just sometimes that feedback you get from a map versus the real deal see if we can finish on a good one right here here still shifting still posting just feeling that kind of square up just a little bit sooner and get a touch draw on it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to finish the rest of these i'm going to throw in a little bit more draws and you know get back to some reps i've got a lot of reps i need to continue into finish phase two not not too many but enough that i need to get through this bucket and then i'll come back at you and we'll talk about kind of working a little bit of the cut shot and hopefully get through the cut a few more reps and i'll be sneaking my way into the infamous phase three where we start start talking a little bit more about speed so i hope you enjoyed today's session i hope you kind of understand what's going on right here i know it's not like a big you know kind of mechanical change like oh let's do this let's do this let's do that but to start to kind of maneuver this ball with a little bit of a draw it doesn't really take that much all right if you're balanced out and you're phase two move everything should be still shifting and coming down on plane and all you really just got to start to do is to get that face to rotate a little bit more well you can do that by closing the stance a little bit swinging a little bit more from the inside letting it kind of rotate a little bit more over release and for me when you start kind of getting a little bit higher level you start to kind of control things with your rate so i just slow my chest up a little bit i can feel how that club who wants to come and square up just a little bit sooner but we're going to kind of do it naturally with that release we're not trying to do this by flipping it all right it's just in a flip draw this is a release draw it's getting that little bit of over rotation because i'm behaving not because i'm forcing so i will see you in the next session and i'll start working on moving over this a little bit more to the right to balance out my draw
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