Anyone ever changed their shot shape?

[Beezerk]

Total rip off from another thread 😉

My usual shot shape is a slight fade (used to be a raging slice but it's improved greatly over the last year).
I was talking golf with a customer yesterday who said he'd turned his slice into a draw by aiming right but still thinking target.
I thought is was utter tripe until I tried it at the range last night, took me 5 or 6 shots but after that I was hitting draws ranging from slight to heavy depending on how far right I was aiming and how closed I held the clubface at setup. So how's that work then? I've never hit a right to left shot in my life until last night.

So anyone else have any weird shot shape moments?

 

[Crawfy]

Have been hitting a fade most for my golfing days, which would turn into a power face/slice when I'd try and give it the beans.

I was coming over the top and hitting a glancing blow.

Worked with my pro this time last year to change swing towards a draw. Its still work in progress and my first 2016 lesson is tomorrow when I expect feedback on my success ( or otherwise)

The swing change has been very frustrating at times, but ball striking is far more consistent now with added distance.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Yeah, I used to hit a "power fade"...

I realised that my shoulders were pointing so far left that it was probably inevitable.

Change of set up, change of grip and I'm hitting it straight or with a soft draw.

 

[garyinderry]

Slice to hook back towards fade again although plenty of times a round I will at least attempt to move the ball a certain direction.

My fade shots come in higher and softer.

 

[One Planer]

Used to play a pull/pull fade.

Now after about 18 months I'm hitting a push/push draw.

Wasn't easy making the change.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I often change my shot shape, sometimes on the same hole. Trouble is I'm not meaning to.....

 

[Deleted member 15344]

When i started off I used to hit a big slice when driving

Now I hit either a baby soft draw or a nice soft cut

Most of my iron shots are nice cuts but again can hit a nice baby draw if needed but not that successful with the longer irons :thup:

 

[chrisd]

I was watching a Mark Crossfield video last night where he talked about doing pretty much what you describe

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Learnt as a kid with a draw (it went further = cool, according to a 11 year old brain) got to 10 hcp ish before then reverting to a fade. Fading took me to low single figs but the hateful 'pull from nowhere' I was left with for a couple of years recently has given way to going back to the draw.

In all honesty I use a variation on the course these days, depending on what's needed, but probably 70%+ are draws...

 

[Piece]

Hit fades, slices for about 25 years. Excellent custom fitting and lessons turned that into a draw a few years ago.

 

[Beezerk]

I was watching a Mark Crossfield video last night where he talked about doing pretty much what you describe

Did he explain how it worked? I was totally bemused as to how I was making it move right to left so much.

 

[Capella]

Nope. I know theoretically how it is supposed to work, but I don't get the ball to draw (except sometimes with my hybrid). I can make it fade a bit more or a bit less, basically. Or push slice it oob.

 

[Stuey01]

Did he explain how it worked? I was totally bemused as to how I was making it move right to left so much.

It's just about the relation between the angle of the club face and the path.

By aiming right you are making your club head travel on a path to the right of the target.
You are manipulating the face to make it point toward target, so it is pointing left of the club head path (you might call this closed to path)
This creates draw spin.
The greater the difference between the face and the path, the more it will draw.

 

[Maninblack4612]

I think that when you aim right you naturally close the shoulders. Then when you swing with the face at right angles to the target line at impact you get the draw. Conversely, a slicer aiming left to allow for the slice opens his shoulders & makes the slice worse.

 

[Beezerk]

@Stu and MIB, thanks, makes total sense now. Can't wait to experiment further.

 

[patricks148]

yes, recently ive changed a nice draw for a big block

 

[swanny32]

Used to hit a fade which more often than not turned into a big slice, but I always put it down to not really having a clue what the hell I was doing. Got into so many bad habits that despite having lessons I was unable to get rid of it and every time I went to my pro there was another problem I had developed that meant I was hitting it right.

Moved club to a much longer course and one that is most definitely suits a draw over a fade. I struggled for roughly a year and just couldn't play to my handicap, which in turn was increasing every competition I played in. Bit the bullet and went to see one of the pro's at my new club and within one lesson he had me hitting a lovely draw which added distance and improved my ball striking ten-fold. A year on, my handicap has dropped 3 shots and I've got myself a bit of a bandit reputation at the club, a week doesn't go by where I don't hear someone moan about my handicap or say "You're good off that 15 handicap mate!"....unfortunately, due to the shape change and increase in confidence because of it I was picked for a load of the county competitions last year so didn't have many chances to put in cards to get the H/C down....hopefully this year will be a little different and I can start threatening single figures!

Rambled on a bit.....my bad. Love my draw, and can now hit a fade if required.

 

[Tiger]

I'm working on it at the moment but struggle with a push right when I get it wrong. Idea is club face fractionally open so the ball will start just right of target. Then swing as if you are trying to hit it slightly further right. If you release that will add the draw spin to bring your ball back to target.

 

[JT77]

I started out playing with a fade, and with work and time I changed it to a nice draw, but it could become destructive with a hook coming in or a block, so went to work on hitting that soft handy fade again, and for the most part its great, can hit it both ways when needed, and some times when not wanted!!!

 

[delc]

When I first started playing golf I used to slice the ball, and the harder I tried to hit the ball the bigger the slice! Over the years this has turned into a slight draw which occasionally becomes a hook or a straight block right. I believe that this is a normal progression.