Shape of shots.

[HawkeyeMS]

Generally speaking,
Whether or not you play a draw or a fade how much shape does a better player generally have to their stock shot...

I ask this more for myself than anything else... Sorry to be selfish..
But going through a course of lessons 18 months ago i feel that i may have been putting too much pressure on myself to get that flight shape very tight..... As a note i was working on a shallower swing and trying to eliminate the OTT move....
I know loft will probably dictate the amount a shot curves as will Angle of Attack and swing speed but in general what would be considered a workable amount....

Iv given up trying to draw the ball and now instead play my fade.... The movement i would like from say 6 iron down the long irons preferably would be only a few yards..... Am i asking too much...

Today i had 142 mtrs into a front flag.... I aimed about 5 yards left of it and the ball finished 4 ft to the right of the flag....Ok the ball crossed the target line and maybe i didnt borrow and allow enough for that movement but would 6 yards of a fade be enough to be called tight....
And sould i expect more movement in the clubs longer than this..

Obviously the shorter clubs i will hit straighter and i wont have to allow for as much movement..
The one thing i Have to stay conscious of is my swing sliding back to an OTT move which im always careful of...

Surely a workable amount is any that you can repeat consistently? If you know how far it is going to move it doesn't matter if it is 2 yards or 10 yards.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Straight (ish) is all I want right now. 2014 is about playing off the short stuff more often. In theory I can move it both ways and did so last week with a deliberate big draw onto 7 and a fade (unheard of for me) onto 14. However I'm happy to try and keep it going forward and straight and just play with whatever shape I have on the day. If I seem to be moving it left to right (not always by design) when I warm up then look at the left edge of the green and trust the swing

 

[CMAC]

who was the 'famous' pro that had a massive hook on all his shots- repeatable. I saw him at Turnberry once hooking 6 irons into tight pins- Cant remember his name

 

[garyinderry]

But, ideally, you don't want the start line tone outside the extremities of the green just in case you hit a bullet straight one. So, using your fade - aim at left fringe maximum and you have the full green width as a "miss".

exactly. full green miss, I like that term! :thup:

 

[kid2]

The problem as I see it is the hole was in metric yet your fade allowance is imperial... convert your distance to 5 meters and you'd have holed it

Sorry couldn't resist and I cant even offer anything constructive to your post to make up for the poor joke!

No harm done pal..... I have a bit of a habit of that.. I actually work in mtrs so i suppose i should have used that..