How to Hit a Cut or Fade Shot in Golf

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Bryan Pemberton on behalf of expertvillage.com and I am from the Reserve at Spanos Park and today we are actually going to look at how a player actually works the ball from either right to left or left to right. What we will talk about is basically the left to right. For a right handed golfer it would be what call a cut or a fade or a slice in the extreme terms. We are going to show you exactly how we do that. Again a lot of players are going to actually try to work the ball all over the golf course but for the better players and tour players we will show you exactly how we work the ball left and right. We are going to talk about here is basically the fade or what we call the left of right shot and a lot of times players like to use this shot to actually get the ball to land softer on a green. Again this ball generally will go higher when you are actually cutting it. What we were talking about is cutting it a lot of times what happens is the club from the inside out and puts a left to right spin on the ball and actually gets the ball to actually move from the left to the right. Now when you are actually playing this shot and trying to play it, again you will basically want to do this and it is not an extreme left to right shot. It is basically just a slight move from left to right but if we had to work this a lot what we do is actually aim the club face at our target. This is our target line here so we would aim the club exactly at the target. Instead of having my body square to that target I am going to actually open my body up so that it starts off left or where my intended mind is off the club. By leaving the club face actually at my target line and my body left of my target, you actually have what we call an open club face. Now I don't try and push it to my target. I will actually just try and hit it straight down the line. It will actually start parallel with where my body is but because of the club face being open to my actual intended target, the ball will start straight and actually move from left to right. Again you will probably see more times than that you will actually see a divot actually going from outside to the inside and actually that will put a lot more cut on it. You will see a divot look something like that and again that is more or less down my target line or my body line but the ball will actually end up moving from left to right. Again a lot of times players will actually play the shot when it actually needs a shot coming in a little bit higher or a little bit softer. Again it is probably the more generally played shot on tour; probably more shot you will see your average amateur, average golfer will actually be hitting more of these shots than the actual right to left. "