Golf: Drawing with a Six Iron

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we're going to work on drawing the six iron. So a draw, once again, is taking the ball from right to left. It's a way of avoiding a lot of troubles in your way, and also getting the ball, if the green is heavily bunkered and the pin's on the left side, this is a way of tracking the ball toward the pin. So what we're going to do now that we're getting into longer irons, and they're not quite as lofted, you're going to be able to generate more side spin on it. So you're going to get the normal under spin of striking a ball, but we're going to close the face like this to create some side spin so the ball will spin and go to the left. So it's going to get easier and easier to hook the ball. So we want to, we want it to be a draw, not a hook so we can control it. So what you're going to do, is this is how you line up for the normal straight ball. And I'm going to aim more to the left. So I rotate a little over, and then I close the club face and then I swing normal. Now remember, you're going to hit a little extra distance a lot of times when you draw the ball. So account for that in your club selection. But this is the six iron, now let's see how this goes. Okay, not too bad. So the draw kept me out of a lot of trouble. So the idea here is when you practice this shot a lot, you'll really, after a while, you'll be able to get to where you can hit it very accurately and you'll save yourself that occasional blow up bad hole, or you'll actually be able to score a better score because you'll be able to use this new weapon in your arsenal."