Drills to Improve Fade Shots

Where it goes sideways

The usual trouble in Drills to Improve Fade Shots is not a lack of effort. It is a golfer letting the previous miss shape the next controlled curve instead of reading what the range bay is asking now.

A cleaner fix

A cleaner fade shots fix starts by naming the miss that actually matters. If finish balanced instead of cutting across in panic is the problem, do not repair it with three unrelated changes. Adjust the face-and-path cue, setup, or target only if it explains the result you saw.

Coach’s note: For fade shots, the best correction is often the one you can still remember after a bogey.

Putting it in focus

For fade practice, FocusGolf can give you a useful second layer of feedback. The Wear OS, Apple Watch, and Garmin app detects swings automatically and reviews tempo, swing speed, transition, and consistency, so you can compare the swings that produced a soft fade with the ones that leaked right. Pair that data with start line and curve; the watch helps you remember the motion, but the ball flight still gets the final vote.

Reset before the next one

Before the next controlled curve, say the fade shots job plainly: what trouble are you avoiding, and what result would keep the round moving?