Golf Clubs: Eight Irons

Video Transcript

"Ok in this segment, we're going to work on the eight iron, how to fade it, so a fade, once again, just means left to right. We all know what a slice is, which is almost like a banana shot, but a fade is a controlled movement from the left to the right, so I'm going to use once again, use this club as my target line, so if I was hitting the ball straight, I would then line up parallel to that target line, with my club face perpendicular to the target line, but since we're going to fade the ball, I'm going to aim now to the left, so the target line is that direction, straight. I'm now aiming to the left, and I'm going to open the club face, so that I then can produce a little bit of side spin.The higher lofted clubs don't produce as much side spin, so you need to open the face a bit, so if you hit your eight iron, let's say one hundred and thirty yards to a hundred and fifty yards, you're going to hit it a little less long, by opening the face, so you got to compensate for that, and that's why you've got to spend a lot of time at the range, practicing these shots, but these are shots that will help you score better, so I'm now opening my stance, and opening the face of the club, and I take a normal swing. Okay, so that was an okay shot, nothing great, but that's the purpose of fading the ball, is so the downside isn't all that bad."