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4 | 17.39% |
10/20 |
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9 | 39.13% |
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2 | 8.70% |
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4 | 17.39% |
50/100 or higher |
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4 | 17.39% |
Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll |
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#1
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Okay, golf forum, pole time. What's your usual ball flight?
If you read much, you'll have heard that hackers usually slice. People from Scotland and Ireland and Texas normally play a wind-cheating hook. The rest of America was turned into a nation of slicers by Jack Nicklaus, blah, blah, blah. What do YOU do? (note - descriptions are for right-handed golfers. If you're a lefty, the same descriptions apply, just reverse the directions -- a lefty's hook goes left-to-right) |
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I've changed mine this year. I've always drawn the ball with frequent trips to duck hookville.
The course I've been playing does not favor this ball flight -- of the 13 driving holes, only 2 somewhat favor a draw while 5 flat out PUNISH someone who can't fade or slice. I now have a pretty consistent fade which is almost never an outright slice. It still feels weird to line up way left, and it's cost me a few yards off the tee, but I've been hitting more fairways lately and my confidence on the five holes of draw death is way up. |
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My bread and butter is pretty much just a straight ball, which I achieve by "trying" to fade it.
My swing promotes drawing action so when I try to fade the ball it goes straight, which works out pretty well actually. I can work it both ways but if I'm having an off day, I'll just hit em all straight. My least consistent drive would be if I had to carve one left-to-right more than 15 yards or so around a dogleg. I can pull it off but too often I'll just hit it dead straight through the fairway into the rough/bushes/o.b. or whatever, haha. There is this par 5 starting hole at Golf Mountain where I've played a ton. It's super short but it doglegs like a mug to the right. First drive of the day... I've hit that sucker through into the [censored] so many [censored] times. So yeah, that's not my favorite shot. |
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One of my goals for when I potentially look for a coach next year to get really serious is to work on hitting a fade instead of a draw.
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#5
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Pretty much anybody half-decent could get you to hitting a pretty consistent fade within a few lessons if you are c.<5 hcap
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#6
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I play a soft fade in my irons and a bigger fade in my longer clubs (i.e. hybrid, 4 wood, driver). When I am playing badly I slice my longer clubs. My ball flight is high throughout the bag, and when I am playing badly, it gets even higher (since my worst tendency when playing bad is hitting off my back foot).
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Pretty much anybody half-decent could get you to hitting a pretty consistent fade within a few lessons if you are c.<5 hcap [/ QUOTE ] Ya, I don't expect it to be a big problem...just one that I can't do on my own. |
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power fade
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#9
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Straight or a fade.
I set up for a straight shot to hit a fade (aim left of target), and set up for a draw to hit a straight shot. I could tinker with this to get a draw, but the last time I worked on a draw I found that the margin of error from a draw to a screaming rope-hook was pretty small, so I'm sticking with what I have for now. |
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Straight or a fade. I set up for a straight shot to hit a fade (aim left of target), and set up for a draw to hit a straight shot. I could tinker with this to get a draw, but the last time I worked on a draw I found that the margin of error from a draw to a screaming rope-hook was pretty small, so I'm sticking with what I have for now. [/ QUOTE ] That's exactly why I want to change my swing...my mistakes are hooks. |
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