A draw is one of the most desired ball flights in golf. There’s something about a ball that starts right of the target and works back left that just feels right.
Hitting a patented high draw is anything but easy, though. For most weekend warriors, the draw is the ball flight of their dreams, while a fade (or slice!) is the ball flight of their realities. Trying to turn that slice into a draw is a source of never-ending frustration.
It doesn’t have to be, though. All you need to do to hit the high draw of your dreams is take a page out of the pros’ books.
Recently at a LIV Golf event, veteran pro Charles Howell III showed Rick Shiels a drill that he uses to get that high, drawing ball flight. Try it out and you can hit a draw, too.
A drill to hit a draw
When Howell III heads to the range for a little ball-striking work, he likes to rely on a simple drill that helps reinforce a swing that will produce a draw.
When he sets up to the ball, he widens his stance a bit by stepping a bit further back with his trail foot, and from there he “banks” his right knee toward the target by putting all of his weight on the inside of his trail foot.
“I feel a lot of weight forward,” Howell III says. “I’m going to hit a ball from there and I draw every ball — and so will you — because our weight is forward. That will teach your brain what that feels like and how that translates back into the through side.”
By pre-setting your weight forward and getting that trail-side bend, you will be able to create that in-to-out swing path that allows you to hit a draw. And after a few swings with that drill, you should be able to replicate the feel during your normal swing.
“You’re letting your brain know, ‘Ok my right leg can be long, my right foot can bank in,'” Howell III says. “And then [extend] on the through side.”
Give this drill a shot and you’ll be striping draws in no time.
