Shaping Shots with Grip Tension and Swing Speed

This is a clip from Martin Hall's 2014 year-end show for School of Golf. (You can tell because if you look closely at the big TV screen in the background, you can see the logo for the year-end "Martini Awards" he gave out.) It focuses on a tip from Johnny Miller on how to create different shot shapes WITHOUT changing your stance or swing plane.

Since a number of us have hassle figuring out a way to get a draw or fade when we need it, this is yet one extra approach that may fit for you while other techniques have not.

Again, undergo in mind which you do not have to trade your stance or swing plane to use this technique. That method you don't must open or near your stance, you do not should toughen or weaken your grip, and also you don't must create an in-to-out or out-to-in swing plane.

You usually set up for a immediately shot; you simply goal to 1 aspect of the green or the opposite, depending on what shot shape you need to create. For instance, righties could purpose to hit a straight shot into the right side of the green to create a draw (the shot will curve returned to the left, closer to the middle of the fairway) even as lefties might intention to hit a directly shot to the left facet of the golf green to get a draw.

Once you get installation, you make modifications:

• For a DRAW, you want to RELAX your grip and make your downswing SLOWER than your backswing.
• For a FADE, you want to TIGHTEN your grip and make your downswing FASTER than your backswing.

Here's the logic of this, in case you don't understand immediately.

By relaxing your grip and feeling like your downswing is slower than your backswing, you create a "flippy" movement on the way to assist the membership head skip your fingers as you hit the ball. That will make the face near and give you a draw.

But by way of tightening your grip and feeling like your downswing is quicker than your backswing, you create a "dragging" movement that continues the club head from passing your hands. That makes you leave the face open and consequently hit a fade.

It's actually now not the handiest manner to get these shot shapes, and it could no longer work for a number of you because there's clearly some timing concerned. But it has the gain of being easy to attempt, plus it does not require any difficult deal with changes. If you've got trouble developing shot shapes whilst you want them, a little time practicing this on the variety may be simply the price tag for shaving some strokes off your score.