JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Does anyone here actually choose to play with a push-fade?
Push-Fade
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USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
I am told that I should think push fade, but be hitting a four yard draw.
Confused?
You bet!
Confused?
You bet!
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
I'm nearly there - don't tell me I'm aiming in the wrong place!!!!!!!!!!
Compared to a pull hook I get a lot more playable second shots...
Compared to a pull hook I get a lot more playable second shots...
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
I find it hard to imagine why anyone would want to play one as a stock shot.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
i cant hit a straight golf ball. its either a fade or a draw for me. i think ive hit a stright ball once in my life.
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Jack? Tiger?... both probably rubbish
Sarcasm rules James.
Tiger pushes them into the right rough. Jack! I thought he hit a Pull Fade?
I just cant see the point of sending a ball off right and then having it turn right in flight. What do you do, aim at the left rough and hit the right? Whats safe or powerful about that. I must be missing something
bigslice
Tour Winner
Sarcasm rules James.
Tiger pushes them into the right rough. Jack! I thought he hit a Pull Fade?
I just cant see the point of sending a ball off right and then having it turn right in flight. What do you do, aim at the left rough and hit the right? Whats safe or powerful about that. I must be missing something
if its your stock shot you no where it will land then play it, same if its a pull draw
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
But why would you want this as a stock shot ?
A better more powerful fade is where the aim is a little left with a square clubface then make a small cut on the ball from out to in so it fades back to middle, the ball compresses better this way.
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JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
That IS basically a push-fade Socket
Your swing is from the inside but as you are open the path would cut across the ball slightly.... you can stand more open, actually very much open and yet your swing itself is from the inside (not an OTT swing)...In fact, here's Tiger aiming down the left rough/left edge of the green.... (sorry it goes back and forth a bit I was looking at different moving parts)
[video=youtube;R_cIfuyzDuY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_cIfuyzDuY[/video]
Tiger aiming at the right edge of the bunkers on the left of fairway.... (ball starts to the right of his alignment... and moves further right)
[video=youtube;oSxk2r--ZuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSxk2r--ZuM[/video]
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
I'm pretty sure I do. I aim left but the ball always seems to start right of where I'm aiming. I haven't seen it on video to say for sure but that's how it seems to me.
timchump
Q-School Graduate
Does tiger use the push fade more now under sean foley?
I didn't think he used as much under harmon, when the majority of people thought he played his best golf
I didn't think he used as much under harmon, when the majority of people thought he played his best golf
One Planer
Global Moderator
Right here ma'man :thup:
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
IMHO definately, at very least it is more obvious under Foley - but then I'm no swing expert
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
James i play with a push-fade
For me its a safe shot,you basically take out the left side of the fairway.
I have been trying to change recently,working on some Justin Rose moves out of the GM mag.
For me,im now more inconsistent.
My safe play is the push fade.
Why do you pose the question?.
jimbob.someroo
Journeyman Pro
I use it a lot with my irons, particularly on 170-210 yard par threes. I'll take an extra club aim left and swing easy. I find this a lot easier to control (and more consistent) than trying to hit a towering draw, or a dead straight ball.
Tend not to use as much with the long stick as our course doesn't really sit well for anything going left to right off the tee - and I tend to forget the 'swing easy' bit and block (slice) it out right.
Tend not to use as much with the long stick as our course doesn't really sit well for anything going left to right off the tee - and I tend to forget the 'swing easy' bit and block (slice) it out right.
Lump
Tour Winner
My stock shot is a fade (With driver and woods). But can rear its head as a push fade when I'm going after it. I can pretty much forget about the left hand side of a hole off the tee. Its not a shot I like though, I would much prefer a straight shot. You get pretty much zero roll from a faded drive, even more so at this time of year.
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
My stock shot is a duck hook
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
I just cant see the point of sending a ball off right and then having it turn right in flight. What do you do, aim at the left rough and hit the right? Whats safe or powerful about that. I must be missing something
It's not my stock shot, but when I need a fade it's how I do it.
The reason being that all I need to do is slightly change my grip and alignment, then swing normally.
That sounds safer to me than trying to change my swing to cut more across the ball.
