[Mike O]

"Make contact on the right spot

One of the biggest misconceptions in shotmaking is that to hit a draw, you need to make contact on the inside-back portion of the ball (if you divided the ball into quarters, the quadrant closest to your right foot). This simply is not true. You need to hit the outside-back part of the ball. The inside-back quadrant actually is the right spot for a fade. To hit a draw, the leading edge has to be pointing down and to the left of the target when the clubface contacts the ball (exaggerated image, above right). For a fade, it has to point up and to the right. "

link:http://www.golfdigest.com/instructio...reaking80.html

I am new to TGM!

If the answer to your post has to be right or wrong? Then wrong would be the answer, although completely unclear and lacking precision would be the best answer.

I'll start with three, although there are many more.

1) The clubface in relation to the target line has nothing to do with it. It's the clubface angle in relation to the clubhead path/force/line of compression that creates side spin or no side spin and back spin or no back spin.

So to draw the ball - you need to understand the clubface concept clearly- differentiated from the leading edge concept i.e. if the ball is well above your feet on a side hill the leading may still be vertical to your target line but the loft of the clubface is aiming well to the left.

You need to understand the on-plane and "circular" motion of the clubhead clearly, and then understand the relationship between the clubface and the on-plane circular motion of the clubhead, in order to draw or fade it. This article never differentiates the clubhead motion from the clubface direction and that is it's main downfall- the article shows how to hit a push fade or a pull draw- neither one will find the target. I'm guessing the guy that wrote it can't break 80!

2) In my view, the leading edge doesn't look down or up - it's an edge. The loft may decrease or increase as you open or close the clubface- and that certainly happens if your maintaining the same hand location with different shots i.e. drawing and fading with the same club.

3) The article is so unclear it's hard to say if it implies anything- "who would know?", but it seems to imply that your clubhead will be moving on a straight line through impact- i.e. steering.

Mike O.