![]() Cantlay will start the tournament Thursday at 10 under par in the FedEx Cup Playoffs' staggered format, with Cantlay two strokes back.Ĭaesars Sportsbook lists Scheffler as the 11-5 favorite to win the FedEx Cup title in its latest Tour Championship odds. But Patrick Cantlay, the defending FedEx Cup champion, is right there again after winning his second consecutive BMW Championship. Will Zalatoris, who entered that tournament with the lead, had to withdraw with a back injury and won't play this week. Scottie Scheffler regained the lead in the FedEx Cup standings after his tie for third at the BMW Championship. In the end, setting your stance towards the left edge of the fairway and opening the clubface slightly at address are the two most important adjustments you need to make to hit the fade.The PGA Tour season has reached its end, and there should be plenty of drama this week when the 2022 Tour Championship tees off at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. This is what makes a real fade so reliable: You don’t do anything with your hands it’s just a pure all-body swing. ![]() For a draw, the only difference is I would add extra release with my hands at the bottom of the swing, really rolling the clubface over. Remember I said I wanted to feel my chest on top of the ball? This is that moment. You’re attacking the ball from the inside and feeling all your big muscles – legs, upper body, arms – moving together towards the target. The funny thing about a real fade is that it feels almost exactly like you’re hitting a draw. People do this because they think that to produce a fade, the club’s path has to cut across the ball from out to in, but that’s just a slice. The death move on the downswing is starting with your hands and coming over the top. ![]() If at this moment someone shouted directions to me to hit either a fade or a draw, I could do it. The way you want to feel at the top is that you have all the time in the world. I’d hold the face open to make sure the ball didn’t snap left, and the sound of the ball peeling right off the face never sounded solid. My spine would tilt back, my body would stop turning, and I’d throw my hands at the ball. Back when I would hit the slice for my left-to-right shot, I could get too quick here. Then at the top, my only thought is Good rhythm. You never want to get quick with the takeaway, because that will disrupt the tempo of the whole swing. Then I just slowly turn my shoulders to complete the backswing. My first move is to rotate my left arm so the toe of the clubface pops open. The feeling of the takeaway is the same as when I’m trying to hit a normal straight ball. Just before starting the club back, I let the clubface peek open just a hair to the right. I take my normal grip, nice and relaxed in my fingers. Then I think about standing tall with my chin off my neck, my whole body loose and athletic. I aim the clubface at that spot and then set my body parallel to the target line, as if the left edge of the fairway were the centre stripe. The other thing I do is pick a spot about 10 feet in front of my ball, maybe a leaf or piece of mud, in line with the left edge of the fairway. But for the fade, the lower tee height helps me to get my chest “on top of the ball” at impact with no hang-back. ![]() I tee it high only when I want to hit a high draw or big straight ball, like on a wide-open par 5. That brings your starting lines in – when it’s teed high there’s so much space for the clubhead to come at the ball from any direction, and you hit bigger misses. I want the ball’s equator level with the top edge of the driver, or even a little lower is OK. But I can show you a way to do it with more power and consistency: the real fade. If you’re a right-handed weekend player, chances are you’re used to seeing a left-to-right shot shape with your driver. The ball holds its line into a strong wind, and really tumbles and gets out there when it hits the fairway – benefits that people always associate with the draw. Unlike a slice, where the ball starts far left of your target and then dramatically curves back, a real fade actually flies pretty straight before drifting to the right at the end. Now I hit my little slider all the time, even when the design of the hole doesn’t demand it. Then last May, Butch taught me to hit a real fade. I’d wipe the clubface across the ball, and my timing had to be really on to get a predictable result. For many years, my left-to-right tee ball was basically a big slice. Thing is, not all tour players shape it both ways properly. Sure, you can lay up short of most severe doglegs, but play conservative all the time out here, and you get dusted. Each week we face at least a few holes where there’s pretty much no option but to curve your tee shot right or left. There’s not a player on the US PGA Tour who can’t work the ball both ways. ![]()
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