Are you having troubles learning how to hit a draw? Do you find your draw turns into an
out of control hook? This is Sean McTernan and your watching another episode of My Golf
Tutor the number one place on the internet to play your best golf now. Welcome back to
another episode of My Golf Tutor and todays question comes from Steve, "hi, Sean my name
is Steve and my question is I struggle to hit a consistent draw a lot of holes on my
golf course are right to left that require a draw shot. I try rolling my wrists at the
bottom of my swing to hit the draw. This leads to hooks and inconsistent shots. How can I
hit a consistent draw?" So Steve in order to get your draw a little more consistent
there are a couple of things that you absolutely must do. The next time you go to the driving
range I would like you to picture the following. I would like you to imagine the face of a
clock, our target is going to be twelve o'clock, three o'clock is going to be here, six o'clock
here and nine o'clock here. The number one thing I like to work on when how to hit a
draw. Is aiming the club face where I want the ball to start. We know from the ball flight
laws that the ball primarily starts where the club face is aimed at impact. So in order
to hit a constant draw our club face must be pointing to one o'clock. Now in order to
get the ball to curve back to our target, which is at twelve. We have to get a path
that is going to the right of where our club face is aimed. What I want you to imagine
is that you point your face at one and for me I like aim by body to one o'clock. You
might like to aim to two, its your choice. For me I like to aim my face at one o'clock
and for me I like to feel I stand parallel to where the face is aimed. Now what I am
going to do is that I am going to feel on my downswing, that the path of my club is
getting thrown out to right field or out to two o'clock. This is what is going to help
generate some curve on the ball. I never want you to feel that you have to roll your wrists
to shut the face down to get the ball to curve. Because remember what I said earlier, the
ball will start where the face is aimed. This is why you are having so much trouble with
the consistency of your ball flight. Your face is shutting down and your ball is starting
on your face, which I am assuming a lot of times is left of your target. The path is
going out to the right, the ball will start left of your target and then hook. So when
you go to the range, this is what I want you to think about. Find your target, which is
twelve o'clock, aim your face to one and for me I like to get my body parallel to that
and I simply want you to feel that on your downswing that you are swinging the club out
to two o'clock. You should not be rolling your wrists. Use your path to curve the golf
ball. So lets go ahead and try one and see what happens. So Steve finally I would like
to say what I just talked about here is something I would like you to do on the driving range.
When you get to the golf course where not going to be as extreme. We are still going
to point the face where we want the ball to start to continue to swing to the right of
that. But most of the time when we are on the course we are only ever trying to hit
a 3, 4, or 5 yard draw. So simply aim your face to where you want the ball to start,
swing your path to the right of it and let it curve back to the pin. I hope that helps
Steve and if you or anyone else has any questions about your game please leave them in the comment
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