The High Draw with a Driver

[pavespawn]

Ok, whats the secret? All I can do is a low draw with my driver.

[melchior]

Tee it up higher...

Really, you already have the swing for the draw; you just need height. With a driver your loft comes from hitting up on the ball so I find it's easier to do so when I tee it up a bit (maybe half a ball width, tops). Adjusting the position will most likely just lose you your draw; so teeing it up a bit should be the fix.

[saevel25]

I just wish i could get my swing path to give me a draw again. I tell you what, i can focus all i want, the best i can do is get a divot to go down the target line, never towards the right.

[GolferDot]

Our 6th hole requires a high draw, to promote this I tee it up just slightly, narrow may stance slightly and make sure the grip with my left hand is baby soft, and my swing though it stay behind the ball.

I'm not sure about the technical side of a swing but doing these things work for me.

[Stretch]

  pavespawn said:

Ok, whats the secret? All I can do is a low draw with my driver.

Your swing plane is probably too flat. Try and keep the club head outside your hands longer on the backswing.

[ks8829]

It's easy for me since I hit a natural draw, I simple tee it extra high and take my normal swing. try the following:

1) tee it extra high
2) play the ball near the front foot
3) slightly close the club face
4) take the club back on the inside path

[jamo]

The easiest way to hit it high is to have the face open. Open the face and swing a good deal in to out.

[pavespawn]

  ks8829 said:

It's easy for me since I hit a natural draw, I simple tee it extra high and take my normal swing. try the following:

If I close the face even a little I tend to hit it super low but it won't hurt to try.

  jamo said:

The easiest way to hit it high is to have the face open. Open the face and swing a good deal in to out.

I have a hard time not pushing the ball way right when I do this. I guess my release is way to late?

[cody west]

  ks8829 said:

It's easy for me since I hit a natural draw, I simple tee it extra high and take my normal swing. try the following:

to hit a draw you want to take it outside to in.

[iacas]

  ks8829 said:

3) slightly close the club face

That's just going to hit it lower. High draws are push draws. Not pull draws.

  cody west said:

to hit a draw you want to take it outside to in.

Only if you want a big loop in your swing. Why not just take it back on plane and return the club on plane?

A high draw? Easy. Aim the clubface right of the target. Stay fairly square to the target. A clubface pointed right (for a righty) has more loft and the ball, if it draws, needs to start to the right anyway. So there's the "high" part with the room for the ball to draw. Now, to make sure you come slightly in to out (to get the draw part), you need to push the hips forward to move the circle forward. The circle to which I'm referring to is the circle around which we swing. Imagine viewing a golfer from overhead - the clubhead will swing in an arc. You want to hit the ball on the "back side" of that circle while the clubhead is still moving in to out. You can move this circle furthest forward by moving the weight furthest forward. Voila. High draw.

[McGolf-Doggie]

High tees the last two days at the range had me hitting some high draws.
(But I'm losing distance when the tees are that high.)

Plus what Iacas said above.

[TourSpoon]

  pavespawn said:

Ok, whats the secret? All I can do is a low draw with my driver.

Tee up slightly higher to promote more spine tilt to the right...try to maintain that through the swing and hit your normal draw.

[MJP]

  jamo said:

The easiest way to hit it high is to have the face open. Open the face and swing a good deal in to out.

Open clubface with an inside out will never draw. It needs to be at least slightly closed, unless you are swinging very inside out (like 20 degrees inside out) for it to draw. All it will do is create a push. Better than a push slice, but still.

[jamo]

  MJP said:

Open clubface with an inside out will never draw. It needs to be at least slightly closed, unless you are swinging very inside out (like 20 degrees inside out) for it to draw. All it will do is create a push. Better than a push slice, but still.

As long as you are swinging more inside-out than the clubface is open, the ball will draw.

[iacas]

  MJP said:

Open clubface with an inside out will never draw. It needs to be at least slightly closed, unless you are swinging very inside out (like 20 degrees inside out) for it to draw. All it will do is create a push. Better than a push slice, but still.

Three degrees open with a swing path six degrees out is a push draw. Open to the target, closed to the path.

[pavespawn]

Good stuff. I may have to head back to the range tonight. I went today and it was just embarrassingly bad hooks with my driver. Everything else I hit was either straight or a slight draw. I have felt like I have been bending over to much lately so I tried standing more upright. Should I try a flatter swing inside to out? I feel like a train wreck right now with the big stick.

[pavespawn]

  iacas said:

A high draw? Easy. Aim the clubface right of the target. Stay fairly square to the target. A clubface pointed right (for a righty) has more loft and the ball, if it draws, needs to start to the right anyway. So there's the "high" part with the room for the ball to draw.

When you say push the hips you aren't talking about the slide to the left I guess. You mean push them towards the ball?

[iacas]

  pavespawn said:

When you say push the hips you aren't talking about the slide to the left I guess. You mean push them towards the ball?

Sorry, could have been clearer. Push = slide. See the "slide the hips" thread. Or google "Secret slide the hips" and you'll get there.