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Movement Changes To Affect Ball Flight

Shot Shaping/Adjustments

  • Movement Changes

At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.

If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.

If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly

As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.

Show more

Shot Shaping/Adjustments

  • Movement Changes

At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.

If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.

If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly

As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.

Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
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In this concept video we're going to go over how to deliberately change your

2
00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:07.120
stock full

3
00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:14.520
swing to cause curve to the ball.

4
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:17.390
Just like in the setup we'll start with as a right hand golfer if I want to hit

5
00:00:17.390 --> 00:00:17.680
more

6
00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:20.680
of a slice or curve it right to left.

7
00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:22.320
So I've got the sticks on the ground.

8
00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.720
This is my target line.

9
00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:29.720
This is going to be my path and then this is going to be my face.

10
00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:34.570
The greater difference I can make between the path and the face, the greater

11
00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:35.320
the amount

12
00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.260
of curve I can create.

13
00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:40.680
So that's why we're limited.

14
00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:45.190
Hitting a shot like this is going to be relatively weak and I'm not going to be

15
00:00:45.190 --> 00:00:46.000
able to hit it

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very far and the club face is fairly open and is actually going to hit it

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fairly high.

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The movements will make it so that we can hit the low slice that many amateurs

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00:00:57.490 --> 00:00:58.800
do instinctively.

20
00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.050
So in order to kind of get the path to swing along the orange and still have

21
00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.000
the club pointed

22
00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.160
at the yellow there's a few movements that we can make.

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First one will be more body rotation, a more vertical arm movement and less

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axis tilt or

25
00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:16.440
less weight shift.

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Those are going to be the big movements that we can use to create this slice

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pattern.

28
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So I'm just going to set up relatively square and then as I go to the top of my

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swing the

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first movement I'm going to do instead of having this big shift which gets my

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upper body

32
00:01:32.800 --> 00:01:36.590
behind and shifts the path out to the right I'm going to try and stay level or

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even get

34
00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:38.960
my upper body ahead.

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Then I'm going to spin without letting a lot of my weight or pressure get onto

36
00:01:43.550 --> 00:01:44.280
that front

37
00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:46.120
foot.

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When I do that you can see that the club is now traveling closer to this orange

39
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stick.

40
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Or if I did it from this direction so you can see I go up that's more vertical

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and then

42
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.000
I spin like so.

43
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It'll have the feeling of the arms kind of coming more straight across straight

44
00:02:01.490 --> 00:02:03.400
at you.

45
00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.570
Now because I'm going to do a little bit more of a hold off release to get this

46
00:02:08.570 --> 00:02:09.920
to curve

47
00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:13.360
I actually want to strengthen my grip which is the opposite of what I told you

48
00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:13.880
for doing

49
00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:15.760
the simple setup changes.

50
00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:19.080
This is the more advanced version and if you look at a lot of the guys on tour

51
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:19.320
who've

52
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:22.860
had the strongest grips they tend to play more of a fade with more of this

53
00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:23.360
block and

54
00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.320
hold style release.

55
00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:28.940
So I'm going to have a little stronger grip go up to the top come straight down

56
00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:29.440
across

57
00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:34.330
the ball kind of like so into a hold off and you'll tend to see in order to

58
00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:35.000
keep the

59
00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.320
face from closing down to the path because I want to have a big difference

60
00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:38.800
between the

61
00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.800
face and the path.

62
00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.370
We'll tend to have this kind of loopy finish that you might have seen Tiger or

63
00:02:44.370 --> 00:02:44.960
some of

64
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.280
the famous ball strikers do when they're in these trouble shots.

65
00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.790
So one last time it would be arms more vertical coming more down straight

66
00:02:53.790 --> 00:02:54.880
across with more

67
00:02:54.880 --> 00:02:59.500
resistance in the left side than my upper body and my lower body right on top

68
00:02:59.500 --> 00:02:59.960
of the

69
00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:00.960
top.

70
00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.800
Now let's look at how much I want to get everybody to hit a massive draw.

71
00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:12.030
In this case we're now going to get these paths of the club going way into out

72
00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:12.320
and

73
00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:14.320
the face lessened out.

74
00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:17.540
So the greater the distance or the greater the difference I can do between the

75
00:03:17.540 --> 00:03:18.120
two.

76
00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.440
There's more curvature I'm going to have.

77
00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:28.800
So to hit the great big draw I'm going to do opposite move into the slice.

78
00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.410
I'm going to have as much axis tilt as I can with my upper body behind the ball

79
00:03:34.410 --> 00:03:34.800
and

80
00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.840
carry little rotation.

81
00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.980
Remember that rotation of the body actually gets the path to move more to the

82
00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:41.520
left.

83
00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.270
The other thing that I'm going to do is instead of having my arms pull in I'm

84
00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:45.880
going to have

85
00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:51.000
my arms lift up and out like so and keep that handle very high compared to the

86
00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.400
club head.

87
00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.810
So it would be more of an exaggeration like so which would give me more of

88
00:03:57.810 --> 00:03:59.640
these 40, 50,

89
00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:05.870
60 yard shots kind of the way that bubble Watson hit that hooking wedge off the

90
00:04:05.870 --> 00:04:08.960
line.

91
00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.720
So the body movement is going to be much more exaggerated than the set of

92
00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:14.880
pitches but that's

93
00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:18.360
what you're going to have to do if you want to hit the big 40 yard curves where

94
00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:18.880
the set

95
00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:22.750
up changes may be only good for 10, 20 yards at the most depending on your

96
00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:23.600
swing speed.

97
00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.140
So mess around with those when you're playing with the nine shot drill because

98
00:04:27.140 --> 00:04:27.680
going from

99
00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:33.440
one extreme to the other will help you fine tune exactly how much is your ideal

100
00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:34.160
because

101
00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.900
if I know that a ton of slide creates a hook and no slide creates a slice well

102
00:04:39.900 --> 00:04:41.240
then somewhere

103
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.800
in the middle is my magic number on how my stock full swing should feel and use

104
00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:46.160
this

105
00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.970
drill of the nine shot drill to effectively practice where your normals or

106
00:04:50.970 --> 00:04:51.760
where your

107
00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:53.080
neutral pattern is going to be.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Movement Changes To Affect Ball Flight

Shot Shaping/Adjustments

  • Movement Changes

At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.

If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.

If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly

As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.

Show more

Shot Shaping/Adjustments

  • Movement Changes

At this point, you should have a fairly established “stock” swing. But unfortunately, that stock swing is all you need for the driving range. Your stock swing with each club will produce a certain distance shot with a certain predictable curve. The bias for this swing is a slight draw to a straight shot. When you start talking about playing golf, then, on occasion you must learn to adjust your stock shot to hit different distances and account for different lies.

If that’s not enough, and you’re just hitting pulls or pull hooks, then you are going to have to make some movement changes to make the ball curve back to the right. Remember, the more that you spin, the more the path will go to the left, the more that you slide, the more that it will go to the left. The more that you side bend, the more that the path goes right, the more you stay vertical, the more it goes left. So you are going to want to keep your spine tall (not side bend), keep your weight back, and spin.

If you are more comfortable making changes of release with your hands, then to hit a fade you can allow your arms to fully straighten when you hit the ball and even feel like they come in slightly

As a summary, this video helps you learn how to hit draws and fades on command.

Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.600
In this concept video we're going to go over how to deliberately change your

2
00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:07.120
stock full

3
00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:14.520
swing to cause curve to the ball.

4
00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:17.390
Just like in the setup we'll start with as a right hand golfer if I want to hit

5
00:00:17.390 --> 00:00:17.680
more

6
00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:20.680
of a slice or curve it right to left.

7
00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:22.320
So I've got the sticks on the ground.

8
00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.720
This is my target line.

9
00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:29.720
This is going to be my path and then this is going to be my face.

10
00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:34.570
The greater difference I can make between the path and the face, the greater

11
00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:35.320
the amount

12
00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.260
of curve I can create.

13
00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:40.680
So that's why we're limited.

14
00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:45.190
Hitting a shot like this is going to be relatively weak and I'm not going to be

15
00:00:45.190 --> 00:00:46.000
able to hit it

16
00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.560
very far and the club face is fairly open and is actually going to hit it

17
00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:52.920
fairly high.

18
00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.490
The movements will make it so that we can hit the low slice that many amateurs

19
00:00:57.490 --> 00:00:58.800
do instinctively.

20
00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:04.050
So in order to kind of get the path to swing along the orange and still have

21
00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.000
the club pointed

22
00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.160
at the yellow there's a few movements that we can make.

23
00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:14.110
First one will be more body rotation, a more vertical arm movement and less

24
00:01:14.110 --> 00:01:15.040
axis tilt or

25
00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:16.440
less weight shift.

26
00:01:16.440 --> 00:01:21.010
Those are going to be the big movements that we can use to create this slice

27
00:01:21.010 --> 00:01:21.840
pattern.

28
00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:27.100
So I'm just going to set up relatively square and then as I go to the top of my

29
00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:27.920
swing the

30
00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:32.160
first movement I'm going to do instead of having this big shift which gets my

31
00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:32.800
upper body

32
00:01:32.800 --> 00:01:36.590
behind and shifts the path out to the right I'm going to try and stay level or

33
00:01:36.590 --> 00:01:37.160
even get

34
00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:38.960
my upper body ahead.

35
00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:43.550
Then I'm going to spin without letting a lot of my weight or pressure get onto

36
00:01:43.550 --> 00:01:44.280
that front

37
00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:46.120
foot.

38
00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:50.150
When I do that you can see that the club is now traveling closer to this orange

39
00:01:50.150 --> 00:01:50.760
stick.

40
00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:54.790
Or if I did it from this direction so you can see I go up that's more vertical

41
00:01:54.790 --> 00:01:55.760
and then

42
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.000
I spin like so.

43
00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.490
It'll have the feeling of the arms kind of coming more straight across straight

44
00:02:01.490 --> 00:02:03.400
at you.

45
00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.570
Now because I'm going to do a little bit more of a hold off release to get this

46
00:02:08.570 --> 00:02:09.920
to curve

47
00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:13.360
I actually want to strengthen my grip which is the opposite of what I told you

48
00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:13.880
for doing

49
00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:15.760
the simple setup changes.

50
00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:19.080
This is the more advanced version and if you look at a lot of the guys on tour

51
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:19.320
who've

52
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:22.860
had the strongest grips they tend to play more of a fade with more of this

53
00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:23.360
block and

54
00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.320
hold style release.

55
00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:28.940
So I'm going to have a little stronger grip go up to the top come straight down

56
00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:29.440
across

57
00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:34.330
the ball kind of like so into a hold off and you'll tend to see in order to

58
00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:35.000
keep the

59
00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.320
face from closing down to the path because I want to have a big difference

60
00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:38.800
between the

61
00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:39.800
face and the path.

62
00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.370
We'll tend to have this kind of loopy finish that you might have seen Tiger or

63
00:02:44.370 --> 00:02:44.960
some of

64
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.280
the famous ball strikers do when they're in these trouble shots.

65
00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.790
So one last time it would be arms more vertical coming more down straight

66
00:02:53.790 --> 00:02:54.880
across with more

67
00:02:54.880 --> 00:02:59.500
resistance in the left side than my upper body and my lower body right on top

68
00:02:59.500 --> 00:02:59.960
of the

69
00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:00.960
top.

70
00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.800
Now let's look at how much I want to get everybody to hit a massive draw.

71
00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:12.030
In this case we're now going to get these paths of the club going way into out

72
00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:12.320
and

73
00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:14.320
the face lessened out.

74
00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:17.540
So the greater the distance or the greater the difference I can do between the

75
00:03:17.540 --> 00:03:18.120
two.

76
00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.440
There's more curvature I'm going to have.

77
00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:28.800
So to hit the great big draw I'm going to do opposite move into the slice.

78
00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.410
I'm going to have as much axis tilt as I can with my upper body behind the ball

79
00:03:34.410 --> 00:03:34.800
and

80
00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.840
carry little rotation.

81
00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.980
Remember that rotation of the body actually gets the path to move more to the

82
00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:41.520
left.

83
00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.270
The other thing that I'm going to do is instead of having my arms pull in I'm

84
00:03:45.270 --> 00:03:45.880
going to have

85
00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:51.000
my arms lift up and out like so and keep that handle very high compared to the

86
00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.400
club head.

87
00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.810
So it would be more of an exaggeration like so which would give me more of

88
00:03:57.810 --> 00:03:59.640
these 40, 50,

89
00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:05.870
60 yard shots kind of the way that bubble Watson hit that hooking wedge off the

90
00:04:05.870 --> 00:04:08.960
line.

91
00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.720
So the body movement is going to be much more exaggerated than the set of

92
00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:14.880
pitches but that's

93
00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:18.360
what you're going to have to do if you want to hit the big 40 yard curves where

94
00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:18.880
the set

95
00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:22.750
up changes may be only good for 10, 20 yards at the most depending on your

96
00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:23.600
swing speed.

97
00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.140
So mess around with those when you're playing with the nine shot drill because

98
00:04:27.140 --> 00:04:27.680
going from

99
00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:33.440
one extreme to the other will help you fine tune exactly how much is your ideal

100
00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:34.160
because

101
00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.900
if I know that a ton of slide creates a hook and no slide creates a slice well

102
00:04:39.900 --> 00:04:41.240
then somewhere

103
00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.800
in the middle is my magic number on how my stock full swing should feel and use

104
00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:46.160
this

105
00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.970
drill of the nine shot drill to effectively practice where your normals or

106
00:04:50.970 --> 00:04:51.760
where your

107
00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:53.080
neutral pattern is going to be.

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