How to Hit a Fade Shot in Golf

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Chris Ardolina and I'm a gold instructor here at the Jim McLean Golf School located at the Doral Resort and Spa in Miami Florida. In this clip, we are going to simplify how to hit a fade in golf, okay. So what we are going to start off, we are going to give you a little station to set up so that you can do it when you practice. Okay, there are two keys you want to make sure you are doing here. You want to make sure you have your target line, which is the first club or the first shaft here and you have the body line which is the second shaft here. Okay, those are very important keys in when hitting a fade golf shot. What we want to start off doing is, is two parts. You want to make sure you have your club aimed in certain direction and you want to make sure you have your body aimed in a certain direction. Now the simplest way to do this is, to make sure you have your club face aimed at where you want the ball to end up, okay, so at your target. Then you want your body to be aligned slightly left of your target. That's what we have this shaft here or the body line aiming slightly left as you can see here. Okay, so the two main keys to hitting the fade golf shot is to make sure you have your club face here aimed square to your target. Then, have your body line aimed to the left of your target, just slightly okay. What's that going to allow you to do is, it's going to all you to swing your arms and your shoulders along your body line, which is going to create that fade golf shot, okay. So, what we are going to do is, we are going to hit one to demonstrate for you. Are you ready? So, we got our club face aimed towards the target and we have our body aimed just slightly left or the club face aimed at your target and where you want the ball to end up and your body where you want the ball to start, okay. So let's hit one for you. Today that's how we taught you how to hit a fade shot in golf."