2016/7/20 10:00:15
Many golfers spend hours wondering how to draw the ball yet very few give much thought to the benefits of a fade. If you can master how to hit a fade you will have a very useful shot in your armoury.
Some of the world's top professionals have the fade as their "bread and butter" shot - Martin Kaymer, the current world number 3 is one - and for very good reason.
In this article I intend to tell you those reasons and teach you how to hit a fade.
But first let's make it clear that we understand what a fade is. You need to know this if you want to learn to hit a fade and not a slice.
The following description is for right-handed golfers. For left-handed golfers the opposite is true.
A fade is a ball that starts off heading slightly left of target and proceeds roughly on a straight arc until the ball reaches its highest trajectory at which point it starts falling gently to the right, back on to the intended target. A ball landing from a fade shot lands softly (like a butterfly with sore feet) and stops quickly.
Don't mistake a fade for a uncontrollable slice!
96% of golfers suffer from slicing which is a totally different shot to a fade although there is only a small margin of error between an intentional fade and a damaging slice.
Firstly let's look at some of the reasons the slice is such a handy shot to have on call.
With a slice you can:
Now let me try to teach you how to hit a fade.
It is important that you have a repeatable golf swing in order to make the few minor adjustments required for a fade. It is no use trying to play a fade if every time you swing the club back it is a totally different swing.
The set up for a fade is relatively simple:
Learning how to hit a fade (and I mean a controlled fade not a wild slice) is essential if you want to improve your golf scores. Anyone who knows how to hit a fade will tell you what a useful shot it really is.
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