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**Tinasblue** · 01-07-2012, 08:46 PM

Your path through the ball gives you the curvature of the ball. Swinging from the inside to the outside helps you draw the ball. Swinging outside to inside (aka cutting across the ball, or what usually happens when you come over the top) makes you slice the ball.

Your clubface at impact determines the initial direction of the ball. For a right-handed golfer, open clubface at impact = ball starts right of target. Closed clubface at impact = ball starts left of target.

Actually the curvature of the ball is determined by the how open or closed the face of the club is relative to the path. You can have an inside path and hit a fade or even slice if the face is open relative to the path. It would be a push fade instead of an over the top pull fade. May seem like minutia, but you can have a club face open to the target, but closed to the path of the club and hit a push draw.

01-07-2012, 08:46 PM	#6
Tinasblue Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 301 Senior Member	Your path through the ball gives you the curvature of the ball. Swinging from the inside to the outside helps you draw the ball. Swinging outside to inside (aka cutting across the ball, or what usually happens when you come over the top) makes you slice the ball. Your clubface at impact determines the initial direction of the ball. For a right-handed golfer, open clubface at impact = ball starts right of target. Closed clubface at impact = ball starts left of target. Actually the curvature of the ball is determined by the how open or closed the face of the club is relative to the path. You can have an inside path and hit a fade or even slice if the face is open relative to the path. It would be a push fade instead of an over the top pull fade. May seem like minutia, but you can have a club face open to the target, but closed to the path of the club and hit a push draw.
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