I had a LPGA rookie that spent the last week down here with me.

And she has a grip that notoriously, it's just a gorgeous start it down the middle, fades about three yards. And she goes, every time I try and draw the ball, I really get in trouble. And I said, why? And she goes, you've seen them. They don't draw. They go further right than any shot you've ever seen. And I said, exactly. And all we literally did was change one little thing in her grip. And she went, oh my gosh, that's all I need? Should I use this on every show? I said, why would you? The only club that you have a little interest in drawing is this one. And every time you try and draw it, you end up blocking the ball 20 more yards offline. the rest of your stuff, it's a nice little fade. Why wouldn't you play that?

All of a sudden, she went, yeah, this is pretty cool. It's kind of like I got this little nuance I'm going to create. And now I know the ball, when I try and hit a draw, it'll either go straight. It'll draw a little, but it won't go somewhere where I got a lot of work in front of me.

Golf Smarter number 780.

To draw or to fade, that is the question.

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Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Joe.

Fred, how are you, man?

We're at least getting to talk on a little more regular basis.

And the only problem on your behalf is that I'm not sure I can accumulate enough information

if our in-between times are shorter. I didn't really need a year or two to gather up enough stuff.

Oh, come on. I'll throw in a second quarter, Joe. You know it'll just turn you, get you going. We don't need much to get you going. That's why I love having you on, because it's not just that you get going. You have a wealth of information to share that is just, you need to tap in. And as long as we keep doing this, I'm rapidly approaching that age that someday my filter is going to go off.

And then you'll really hear the real truth, like Bob Toskey at age 95. So you can do that if

you want to, but you might as well take up tennis. Thank you, Mr. Toskey.

Well, maybe we'll do this one, a late night and have a couple of shot classes. And we'll

throw in a couple words that every time you say something like that, we'll have a shot and one will really

get you going.

That has to be at night.

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