Learn to hit a fade off the tee with an old drill Vijay Singh has been using for years.

Playing a controlled fade from the tee can bring great accuracy. Lee Trevino, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Vijay Singh all used fades with their drivers.

In this drill we place a bottle in front of the ball (about 1 foot) and just outside the swing path for a straight shot.

We then want to be making a swing without hitting the bottle, which will mean swinging left through impact.

I recommend doing this with an empty bottle! A very small amount of water at the bottom of the bottle should be enough to keep it upright.

This is really only a drill for the better players who maybe play a draw shot from the tee for most of the round.

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I like to use this drill with some of my pupils to help give them a visual guide to the changes they are trying to make.

If you are a slicer of the ball, you will probably be aware of swinging across the ball from out to in. (I bet you’ve been told!)

It’s important to note that swinging from in to out alone will not fix the slice, the clubface should be fixed prior to attempting to swing from inside to out. Learn to square the clubface and pull the shots, then fix the path.

In the video I place balls on the ground to represent the clock face. I have alignment sticks which point to the target at 12 o’clock.

I have used yellow balls to indicate the path the pupil is trying to feel like they are swinging on. It is exaggerated, but you will find that as soon as the ball is to be hit the swing is nowhere near as much from the inside as with a practice swing.

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We just love this drill for folks who slice the ball. It’s a great way to learn the feeling for the rotation of the hands and arms through the impact area.

What to do is to get a medium iron, I’m using an 8-iron in the video, turn the club around so the toe end of the club is pointing at the ground.

Make some short swings and intentionally hit the toe of the club off the ground.

When the club hits the ground it will slow down the toe and the club will turn over.

The feeling you get from this is exactly the feeling you should then be trying to achieve when hitting a ball.

After you have done this a number of times and gotten a feel for the rotation, tee up a ball and try to repeat the feelings.

The ball being teed up is to take the effort out of making contact and let you focus on getting the feeling of the rotation.

It really is amazing how quickly you will be able to adjust your swing through impact by doing this drill.

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There are 4 things you need to look at when playing pitch shots.

• The set up
• The backswing length
• The impact
• The through swing

The set up is fairly similar to the chipping set up. I like to have a narrow stance, slightly wider than the chipping stance, but the feet are close together.

The weight should be almost fully on the left leg and the hands are forward of the clubhead to the point where there is a line from the left shoulder to the clubhead.

The length of the shot should be controlled by the length of the swing.

For this shot my backswing gets my hands just past waist height. This is enough swing to hit the ball 60 yards with my 56 degree sand wedge.

If I was to hit the ball 80 yards the hands would swing back to about shoulder height with this club.

By using the length of the backswing to control the distance we can swing through fully to at least the same length in the through swing if not a little longer.

This will help with striking the ball, as players who make fuller backswings and try to control the distance by slowing down often suffer from fat and thin shots.

The impact should see the weight fully on the left leg, the right knee moving in towards the left and the hands in front of the clubhead.

This forward lean of the clubshaft ensures that the clubhead is moving downwards through the strike allowing ball then turf contact.

In the through swing the hands never allow the clubhead to pass the hands. My feeling for this is that the hands are swinging left of the clubhead in the through swing.

The clubhead swings much further in the through swing than it did on the backswing and the hands will reach at least the same height as they did on the backswing.

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Making sure you play the correct shot around the greens can save you many strokes in your game.

For me I like to play one of three clubs: sand wedge, 9-iron or 7-iron.

In this video I play each shot using the basic chipping technique explained in this video: http://wefixanyswing.com/the-basic-chip-shot/

I have found the best way for my pupils and myself to visualise the correct shot to play, landing spot and club to select is by throwing a ball onto the green.

Obviously you cannot do this on the course, but you can imagine yourself doing this which can help you enormously. I learned this from a book by Tom Watson when I was still playing junior golf (a long time ago!)

This has been the way I choose the shot since then and I have had get success with my pupils using it too. Just swing the right arm as if throwing a ball when standing behind the ball on the course.

The idea is to learn whether a high or low shot is required. Then you have also found a feel for the weight of the shot and the amount of swing you will have to make to play the shot.

Lastly and most importantly, you will have found a spot on the green in front of you where you want the ball to land and then roll out to the hole.

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Filmed at Ralston GC.