What's Your Ball Flight?

[bonds]

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)

[bonds]

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.

[Butcho22]

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.

[black knight]

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.

[matt85]

Pretty much anybody half-decent could get you to hitting a pretty consistent fade within a few lessons if you are c.<5 hcap

[blah_blah]

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).

[black knight]

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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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Ya, I don't expect it to be a big problem...just one that I can't do on my own.

[NLfool]

fade is my natural flight. After many hours on the range getting the draw to be semi consistent I realized the mistakes on course while hitting a draw were not worth it.

[matt85]

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fade is my natural flight. After many hours on the range getting the draw to be semi consistent I realized the mistakes on course while hitting a draw were not worth it.

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Yeh so true.

The old quote (think it was Hogan??): 'You can talk to a slice but a hook wont listen', is still totall right.

[KFCandKoolAid]

power fade