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How to Play Better Golf? – Looks Like You’ll Have to Learn the Draw

In golf (depending on your skill level) you will from time to time hit a bad shot, even if your name is Tiger Woods you will hit the odd stinker.

This gives us a problem, we often find ourselves in areas of the course where you did not want to be, and so we need to play a different kind of shot. to get out of trouble.
So, we have to learn how to play better golf. One of the most useful shots you can have in your armoury is “the draw”. A draw is when you need a shot which starts right of target and curves left in the air back to the target.

To successfully hit a draw:

1) Aim your club face along the target line with your shoulders pointing right of the target in a closed position, parallel with your intended line of start.

2) From this set up if you make your normal swing along your shoulder line your club face will be slightly closed at impact.

3) This causes a soft draw, which curves from right to left back onto the target line.

4) The finish should show a fully released club head with it pointing to the left of the target.

We should just consider that in any round of golf you probably only hit five or six irons in regulation. The majority will be something other than you normally play. Golf courses are made to make our golfing lives a little more difficult than they need to be and they intend to take us away from our norm, to give us the challenge of how to play better golf.

Fairway bunkers, overhanging trees, mounds and hollows are there to be overcome, if you can adapt your game to change the spin and shape of your golf shot you are demonstrating the art of golf and that is the great pleasure of the game.

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