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Hitting a Fade
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Learning how to hit a fade is all about learning to control the release of the golf club. This is made easier by being in the proper position at the top to keep the face slightly open through impact.
- The left hand controls the club face in the golf swing
- To hit a fade, place the ball slightly forward in your stance so it will start slightly left of the line
- Cup the left wrist very slightly through the downswing for a more open club face angle
- You can also delay the release by a fraction of a second if desired
As I talked about in the draw the ball video, Everything that you're doing is being dictated by what you do.
With your left hand in the swing.
In terms of what the club face angle is going to do.
When it comes to fading the ball, incredibly simple, Again, very, very slight adjustments in your swing that are going to make it so that you can get the ball to cut left to right without any problems whatsoever.
That's the whole point of RST is that the swing, The movements are so small and simple that you have the ability to manipulate and the freedom to manipulate the club face as you see fit.
If you want to hit straight shots, piece of cake, that takes care of itself.
If you want to start manipulating ball flight, hitting it lower, hitting it higher, left to right, right to left, piece of cake.
So here's all you're going to do to learn to fade the ball.
As I talked about in the draw the ball video, I move the ball back slightly if I want the ball to start out to the right and draw back to the left.
It just depends on the type of shot that you need.
That's going to tend to lead to be able to let you hit a ball that's going to start to the right.
Versus if somebody who.
You just want to hook it around a tree really quick, you might not move the ball position because you want it to start left of your target line.
The same thing is true of the fade.
All I'm going to do is just move the ball slightly forward in my stance.
What that's going to do is give me a little bit more time to come slightly across the ball in my release in order to get the ball to start a little bit more left of my line.
If I moved it back in my stance, I'm going to tend to come from the inside.
As it's a little forward, I'm going to tend to come, I go from down the line.
As it's back in my stance, I'm going to tend to come still from the inside to hit it.
As it's forward, It gives me the ability to come a little bit more over it and get the ball to start slightly left in my target line, or even on my line and fade to the right.
The big thing there is now just controlling the club face angle.
You can move the ball slightly forward to give you a slightly into out path.
Now all we need to do is just worry about this logo on our left hand.
All I'm going to do now, rather than going to the top and making sure that my wrist is flat, I'm going to allow a slight cupping.
Then I'm going to maintain that cupping through the downswing.
If I go to the top of my normal position, my wrist is flat.
To hit a fade, I'm going to let it cup slightly.
Again, we're talking very little differences here, just a slight amount.
Now as I'm in that position, my wrist is slightly open, the club face is slightly open.
As I come down, I'm basically just going to keep it there.
At this position, my wrist is no longer in that little arched position.
It's slightly cupped, very, very slightly cupped.
Now as the ball is forward, I'll probably get my shoulders just a hair open at impact.
That allows me to keep the club face from releasing.
Now I can get that club face, as long as I feel that the logo of my glove doesn't flip over, I can get my hands to hold the release of the club by feeling that the logo of my glove faces down the target line a little bit longer.
Versus, normally, I would release it and get the logo of my glove facing behind me.
Hitting a fade, very, very simple.
You're going to let it cup slightly at the top, Move the ball slightly forward in your stance if you want the ball to start left of your target line or even on your line.
Then as you're coming through impact, Keep that logo of your glove facing down the target line just a split second longer and then hold off the release, depending on how much you want to cut it.
You'll be able to get around those trees or anything else and fade the ball to right flags with no problem at all.
Just work on holding that angle just a little bit, getting a little bit more cupped at the top, and you'll be able to hit fades.
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