Hitting a draw in golf...?

Question

I've been very inconsistent with my driving this season so far, slicing at times, pushing the ball and hooking. at the range the other day i was trying a few new things to try to consistently hit a draw. what is was doing was on my downswing, rolling my right wrist over right before contact. my ball consistently had a slight draw, but i was wondering if that is the right way to hit it. It seemed to be working great for me, but I want to know if this is something that i should continue to do.

thanks,

Answer 1

FPG is right as right can be. Practice what gives you the results you want. That is all. I personally prefer to hit a fade. I set up fade and prefer the flight of a fade to that of a draw. If i have to hit straight I will hit it straight but I never draw. I like fade and cut because it is completely predictable. If I swing too hard, I'm already aiming left when it slices so the failures aren't as drastic. But if you play a draw and swing too hard anything can happen so that's why most of the top players play fade. Not just fade though, power fade. Power fade is a modified fade that starts inside and comes back online. This produces maximum carry and barely any roll. This takes a lot of time at the range so if that's the route you want to go look it up and work on it with a few hundred balls.

Answer 2

if you find a shot thak works good for you leave it alone and stick with it i play a draw on every shot and couldn't be happier.

Answer 3

To hit a draw, your swing should be inside out and your hands should roll over through contact.  The more inside out your swing, the bigger the draw.  It should feel like you are trying to push the ball away from you towards the right when you swing, but it will put side spin on the ball and bring it back left.

Answer 4

It's kind of natural for me. You probably should continue doing that - I've done it and it works out successfully a lot of the time.

Answer 5

There's many ways to hit a draw ball. But, I like to stick to the old school. Close the club face a little, move the ball a fraction of an inch further, and hit your natural swing. This will ensure you won't get confused when you wanna hit other kind of shots and you'll be playing with one swing only. Which I think is good.

Answer 6

Most of the pros on the PGA tour hit a slight fade or cut because for them a cut is easier to control. A draw will give you more distance as a fade will loose some yards. I personally hit a draw on a straight forward shot, but I know how to shape the ball (hitting lots of different types of shots...fades, hooks, slices, cuts) so on the course and you are in a  little situation where you can't hit a draw, and that is all you practice on the range, you will be stuck.

On the range when you are practicing, half of your time, hit regular shots working on drills or whatever you are working on (block practice), and for the other half of your time on the range, pick different targets and try to hit different types of shots to each target (creative practice).

Both practice parts are equally important, as knowing how to hit different types of shots will help you on the golf course and lower your scores.

Answer 7

bison hit it on the 'ball'.  Inside out swing with some wrist action should give you the desired draw.  Personally, when I want to hit a draw I set up so that the ball is slightly toward the toe of the club head.  I also like to start with a slightly open clubface.  I get better wrist roll when I start out this way.

Answer 8

I guess there is more than one way to skin a cat...but you will never hear a pro talk about rolling the wrists over as a consistent method for drawing the ball. If it works for you, great but there are other methods that include leaving the wrists out of the swing (some would argue that the wrists don't do anything in the swing anyway other than "hinge", but I guess some people are convinced otherwise).

I would look up Jim Furyk's method for working the ball, a guy the NEVER plays a straight shot and provides one of the clearest explenations of doing so. It's far too much to repeat here.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 9

What works for you is all that you need to be concerned with.  The only concern I would have is that you roll your wrists too much and that nasty hook will appear.

Answer 10

Well the way that I hit a draw is at address, close my face slightly, then slightly close my stance, and on my downswing, try to get my right arm closer to my body to help with the inside out swing path, which draws the ball. but be careful, you can either duck hook it or ever worse, double cross yourself and hit a hugh balloon slice.

Answer 11

Kinda sounds like the rolling of the wrist is a compensation for something else in your swing that isn't quite right, but hey if it works consistently for you stick with it.  Or it could be that you were "hanging on" before, and not releasing the clubhead so what feels like rolling the wrists to you is just a good release and the result is a draw which should be the natural shot pattern anyway.