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The Weekly Slice

Tiger Returns

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Welcome to The Weekly Slice.

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Tour Roundup

DP World Tour

Min Woo Lee got cooking at the Australian PGA Championship, securing his third DP World Tour win with a three-shot victory over Rikuya Hoshino.

Starting the day with a three-shot lead, Lee faced early challenges, including a bogey on the first hole and Hoshino's strong start.

His final round of 68 brought him to a 20-under-par total, with Hoshino finishing second and Marc Leishman climbing to third place.

Lee's victory at the Royal Queensland Golf Club marks a significant moment in his career, underlining his growing stature in the golfing world.

Meanwhile at the Joburg Open in South Africa, Dean Burmester emerged victorious, clinching his third DP World Tour title and his first in two and a half years.

Burmester's win was helped by a final-round meltdown from overnight leader Thriston Lawrence.

Burmester delivered a winning performance with a bogey-free round, including six birdies, to finish 18 under par.

His closest competitor, Darren Fichardt, also from South Africa, finished second with a score of 16 under.

Lawrence, who had led the tournament after the first round and held a three-shot lead after the third round, experienced a significant setback in the final round.

He dropped four strokes in the first five holes and recorded a double-bogey, ultimately finishing tied in seventh place with a five-over 75, eight shots worse than his performance in the initial rounds.

This week the DP World Tour stays in Australia and South Africa, where both Min Woo Lee and Dean Burmester look to go back-to-back on home soil.

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World Of Golf

Make It Two For Luke

Luke Donald, after leading Team Europe to a 16.5-11.5 victory over Team USA in Rome, has been reappointed as the captain for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York.

This makes him the first back-to-back Ryder Cup captain since Bernard Gallacher in the mid-1990s.

Donald's decision to accept the role again was influenced by the strong support and chants of "two more years" from players like Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy.

He described the decision as humbling and gratifying, acknowledging the strong bonds created with the team and the importance of their praise in his decision-making process.

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Tiger Returns (Again)

Tiger Woods is making a comeback to competitive golf at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, marking his first appearance since withdrawing from the Masters in April due to severe foot and ankle pain.

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How To Hit A Fade

When it comes to hitting a fade, there’s a couple of different techniques that you can use:

Open Stance, Ball Forward

The simplest technique to do this is just to open your feet a little and move the ball forward in your stance.

Bringing your left foot (for right-handed players) back a touch will open up your shoulders and body naturally.

Keep the clubface pointing towards the target and then swing down the line of your body and feet.

Provided all else stays the same in your swing, this will create the left-to-right spin on the ball which produces a fade shot.

Swing Left

Sometimes the best way to hit a fade is just to swing left. Instead of aiming your feet and body left, just focus on bringing the club from out to in.

By consciously swinging left, it helps to promote the sidespin and the left-to-right movement on the ball, without having to aim your body away from the target.

Although this sounds simple, just ‘swinging left’ can prove a little tricky, especially for a beginner player.

This method will require a large amount of practice to ingrain the movement and also needs a certain amount of feel to control.

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Open Clubface

Another method of hitting a fade is to open the clubface up.

This means turning the toe of the club slightly away from the ball so that it isn’t totally square to the target.

Then simply swing your swing on its normal path and the open face should allow for the fade spin to occur.

Although opening the clubface up is not essential for hitting a fade, it may feel a little more comfortable to some players as it doesn’t require changing your swing. The only change you have to make is that slightly opened club face.

Hold Off Clubface

Holding off the clubface through impact is also a method of hitting a fade.

Normally for a classic golf shot that goes straight, your hands and arms should follow a rotation through the ball and past impact.

However, for a fade, holding the clubface off at impact will delay the release and add some sidespin to the ball.

This is also usually coupled with a forward lean of the shaft and body turning through the ball much more quickly.

This technique is what you will see in a lot of good players and is one of the more difficult methods to pull off.
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Ed

Founder and editor at eeegolf and The Weekly Slice

Ed is the founder and editor at eeegolf. He’s been playing golf for over 20 years, competing in many top amateur events. He’s played courses all over the world and played with some of the best players in the game. His aim is to help educate people about the game of golf and give insights into the sport he loves most.

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