Golf Monthly's Ged Walters did this cool video on hitting a draw. Why is it so cool? Because he's hitting irons off the fairway, not drivers off the tee! And to make it even better, he's hitting from a hanging lie, which makes the shot even tougher.
The essential matters he teaches here aren't new or precise, but his presentation is one of the simplest I've visible. Let me point out a couple of things he says.
First of all, I like how he distinguishes among a draw and a hook. It's no longer approximately how huge the curve is, but about whether or not the ball is getting in the direction of the goal or farther away on the quit. A draw curves out and and finishes "on target" -- meaning it's still shifting towards the target whilst it stops. A hook curves round too much, so that it actions beyond the goal and maintains moving faraway from it. A hook is out of manage. That's a terrific way to think about it.
He likens the way you strike the ball with the club to the way a footballer kicks the ball. (For my American readers, we'd call it soccer.) The kicker strikes the ball with the inside of his foot; the inside of his foot is facing the target while his foot is moving out to the right (you lefties would be moving to the left).
And gambling off a striking lie? You simply exaggerate this action. A quite simple clarification.
If there's one key technical thought I'd like you to remember, it's that you position the ball just slightly back of center in your stance. You want to come at the ball slightly from the inside with your swing -- that's the footballer analogy again -- and moving the ball back slightly encourages that, without having to make a huge change to your swing. You might even want to stand slightly farther from the ball, simply because that will help you hit from the inside more easily, without a lot of conscious thought.
Walters has -- for my part -- completed a real carrier to weekend gamers with this clarification of the way to play a draw off the turf with an iron. So spend a touch time with this video. It'll be well worth it slow.
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