You want your hands to release through the ball. Jack Nicklaus wrote the book on drawing the ball with his driver. Most Popular. Correct a Drive Slice. Stop a Duck Hook.
Golf Slice and Hook. What Is a Banana Ball? Golf Slice Definition. Put a Draw on the Ball. In other words, if you are a right handed golfer, your swing path just before impact with the golf ball, must be from inside the ball, and not outside. Right at impact, if your swing path is square to your target, and the club is square to the target, you will hit a straight shot.
Have a look at this next image, which shows various flight paths based upon swing path and club face angle. The ideal ball flight when you want to hit a draw that starts to the right of your target is path G. In this case, the path is slightly to the right of your target, but your club face angle is slightly closed to your swing path.
This causes the right to left spin that will cause the ball to draw. The reason most amateur golfers struggle to hit a draw is that their normal swing plane is too steep and outside in. With that type of swing plane, it is difficult to release the club properly, otherwise every shot you would hit would be a smother pull hook.
A flatter swing plane think Matt Kuchar will make it easier to release the club and hit a draw. The other issue that makes it even more difficult to hit a draw with the driver is that we need to have the ball positioned more forward in our stance in order to get it into the air. The driver has a very limited amount of loft. That is why we place the ball on a tee, and why we also want to strike the ball on our upswing.
With the ball more forward in our stance, our natural swing arc is already heading to the left of our target. This is why most amateur golfers will slice the ball even more with their driver than with any other club.
If you want to be able to hit a draw with the driver, you are going to need to do some analysis of your game. Imagine the path of your clubhead throughout your swing as a hula hoop.
That hoop is not perfectly perpendicular to the ground, because you have to hold the club at angle between your hands and the golf ball. So the hula hoop is at a tilt.
If you want to dive deep into the physics of this, you can check out our free ebook, Science of the Slice. But for now just know this:. Hitting up on the golf ball causes the clubhead to travel in and up at the moment of impact. This is the opposite of what happens when you hit down on the ball.
First, you want a perfect driver setup. First, you want to close your stance. This means your lead foot should be slightly forward closer to the ball compared to your trail foot. To put that another way, right-handed golfers will want to step their left foot more towards the golf ball. When you draw an imaginary line across the toes of your shoes, that line should be aiming to the right of the target.
Left-handed golfers do the opposite. Step your right foot slightly forward. The imaginary line from toe-to-toe should aim a little to the left of the target.
Once you set up your closed stance, raise your lead arm just a bit higher than your trail arm. This should also cause you to raise your lead shoulder and club handle. Just like raising your lead arm, this adjustment prepares you to hit up on the golf ball and get that perfect draw. There are two aspects of the takeaway you need to master in order to draw the ball on driver shots.
Now, when I teach my students how to draw with driver, I like to use the LiveView camera. This device provides real-time video of your swing from any angle. You can also draw lines on the screen to help you evaluate your own technique more clearly. If you happen to have a LiveView camera, I recommend drawing two lines as your practice your driver shots. First, feel your hands work in as the clubhead stays on that line between the ball and your hip.
This helps you get the clubhead slightly outside your hands, which pays off big in the transition. Second, make sure your clubhead is nice and square.
Try not to let the clubface rotate open or closed. Open means the toe looks upward. Closed means the club face points down towards the ground. If you want to draw the golf ball, plan to finish with your trail shoulder lower than the lead shoulder.
Remember the line we drew on the LiveView—the one that travels from the ball and passes through the shoulder? You should finish with your shoulders on that line. The trail shoulder should be low, and your torso should be tilted along the angle of the line so that the lead shoulder touches the line higher up. The next time you hit your driver, try to notice your shoulders at the finish. The transition is the segment of your swing motion where you make change direction, moving into the down swing from the top of your backswing.
That fast reversal can kill your speed and your form if you do not do it correctly. But if you master the easier aspects of your swing first —the setup, takeaway, and finish—your transition often fixes itself. Remember how I told you to arc your hands to the inside and work the clubhead outside on the takeaway? This is the big secret of how to hit a draw with your driver. No one talks about this, but it makes all the difference. You see, it all comes down to managing weight in your swing.
Your hands create weight on one end of your club and the clubhead creates weight on the other. Through the transition, your body naturally wants to rebalance the weight distribution you established on the takeaway. So, if you carried the clubhead outside your hands, your clubhead will naturally travel from the inside in the transition. This helps you hit up on the ball and creates that shoulder drop. It just happens. On the takeaway, they pull the weight of the clubhead in as they work their hands out.
As a result, they reverse that weight distribution in the transition. All this to say, the transition is a key element in how to hit a draw with driver.
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