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Do you want to hit a draw?
It’s a lot easier than you think, says Eric Chute, who is now at The Ranch Golf and Country Club after leaving the Ontario PGA.
“It doesn’t have to be as complicated as a lot of people think. The key is your set up. To hit a draw, all you need to do is to keep your front foot ahead of your back foot at address,” said Chute, adding that this will automatically produce a closed stance and an in-to-out club path, which is what you need to do to hit a draw.
“Take the exact same stance, take the same grip that you have always used and have the ball in the same position at address,” said Chute.
Right-handed golfers, he added, should have their shoulders pointed to the right of the target and for lefties, like him, to the left of the target.
“Most people try to do too much. They’ll try to turn their hands over as they come down and all that will do is make you cut across the ball and it will slice more,” said Chute. “Instead, all you have to do is move your feet. I like to move both my feet, moving the front foot up a bit and my back foot back a little bit.
“For me, being a leftie, that means having my right foot ahead of the left foot, while for a right-handed golfer you want the left foot ahead of your right foot. Then just swing through to the target with a good finish. A draw comes in handy when you are trying to cut the corner of a dogleg.”
A draw will also give you a little more distance than a fade.