How to Hit a Fade in Golf — Simple Golf Swing Tips That Work

🏌️‍♂️ Moving the ball slightly forward in your stance and lowering the tee height helps create a left-to-right fade with your driver.

📏 Aligning your hips, shoulders, and stance more leftward encourages a straighter or out-to-in swing path for a controlled fade.

✋ Finishing your swing with your hands more left and keeping your lead wrist extended helps keep the clubface open and produces a consistent fade.

00:00:00 - If you've ever wondered how to intentionally fade the golf ball, so for right-handed player, that'd be curve the ball from left to right, this is the video for you. We're going to talk about how to move your T-shots more from left to right. Uh, so stay tuned.

00:00:20 - Okay, so I've got three ways that you can do this uh with a driver in order to curve that ball more from left to right. So the first one we're going to talk about ball position and tee height. So to create more of an out to in or a straighter club path, one of the first things you can do is move that ball a little more forward in your stance. Now keep in mind if you move it super super far forward, uh you might need to change the tee height that uh that you're

00:00:43 - using. Uh I would not suggest you move it too far. I'm talking maybe like an inch or so. Um and I actually typically when I'm trying to hit a fade like to tee the ball slightly lower. So I will maybe use a shorter tee or just push that tee further into the ground. So, that's the first thing. Ball position slightly more forward, tee the ball slightly more down. Uh, the second piece would be really what you're doing in your setup, just how you align your body. So, if I'm going to curve this

00:01:05 - ball from my perspective from left to right, just like this hole dictates, what I would want to do is make sure I align my hips and my shoulders slightly more leftward than I normally would. So, can use an alignment stick for that. Put this down. Normally, I would want everything kind of aiming the same direction that I'm trying to go. Again, tour players typically have their shoulders eight degrees open and four degrees open at a dress for a typical straight shot. Uh for a fade, I might

00:01:28 - align my body a little bit more leftward. So, I'll point my hips a little more left. I'll shift my stance a little bit more left. And I'll probably have my shoulders and chest pointed a little more to the left as well. That's going to encourage me to swing much straighter into the ball or even slightly out to in, which would be one way to help create that fade. The last piece is going to be how I finish the swing. So, generally for a normal swing, I'm going to have my hands and arms kind

00:01:50 - of traveling up and around my body. If I'm trying to hit a fade, I'm going to try to get my hands to travel much more around me than I normally would. So, I'm going to open my turns a lot faster. I'm probably going to finish with my hands a lot more to the left. And I want this club face to be pointed more up towards the sky instead of allowing it to rotate and turn over like it normally would. So, one way that I use to help me with this is I think a lot about what my left

00:02:13 - hand does when I swing. I'm trying to basically hold up a stop sign with my left hand. That adds in a little bit more extension in my lead wrist. Helps to keep the face a little bit more open in the follow through. So, let's put all those things into practice and let's see if I can hit the fairway here at number one at at Beth Page.

00:02:41 - Pretty close. So, you can see that golf ball curve from left to right. I didn't quite catch all of it. I hit that a little bit on the heel. But there you go. That's really the way that you can intentionally curve the ball from left to right. If you follow those three things, that should give you a pretty good chance to make your golf ball do exactly what I just did.