When you come to a hole that bends in the direction that your drives naturally curve, you think, Finally, a hole made for me.
Well, you have to be careful, because the situation is tempting you to hit the hero shot. If you’re a fade player, you look at a dogleg-right hole and want to just rip it. The problem is, if you aim straight and over-fade your drive into the inside corner of the dogleg, that’s where the worst trouble is. You’ve just turned your dream hole into a nightmare.
To play a hole that matches your shot shape, aim at the outside corner of the dogleg and give your tee shot room to work back toward the middle. If you’re a fade player on that dogleg-right, here’s the procedure: First, aim the clubface at the left edge of the fairway (left); then, set your body lines—feet, hips, shoulders—parallel to the line the face is on (right). Now you can make your normal swing—no steering!—and your preferred shot shape will move the ball into perfect position
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