Saving Par by Todd Sones

Author:Todd Sones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Swing

Hinge the club up more directly in the backswing

Swing through impact to a high finish

Finish on the forward leg

SECTION

IV

DOWN THE FAIRWAY

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23

The Fade

It’s no accident that some of the best drivers in the game have used the fade as their bread-and-butter shot. Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Lee Trevino, just to name a few, are among the most accurate drivers in history, and all are notorious for fading the ball when they had to hit the fairway.

—COREY PAVIN

A FADE IS A SHOT WHERE THE BALL FLIES intentionally from left to right. It is the well-behaved cousin to the slice, which also moves from left to right but with significantly more curving.

Arnold Palmer hit such a shot when he needed to reach the 18th green in the final round of the 1968 PGA Championship. When Palmer stepped to the tee of Pecan Valley’s 470-yard final hole, he trailed the leader, Julius Boros, by a stroke. He hooked his thunderous drive into the rough, leaving his ball 230 yards from the green. To catch Boros, he needed to fade a three-wood shot over a creek and hill and onto the green close enough to sink a putt for a birdie three. The shot was long, and the odds were longer: in the history of the hole, only 19 golfers had ever birdied. Still, Palmer had no choice, and lined up for the shot.

I don’t think about where the club should be; I just picture the shot and try to hit that shot.

—FRED COUPLES (ON THE FADE)

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