Please subscribe for more powerful golf lessons and insider tips to transform your game! In this video, we break down the science behind the “Billion Dollar Tee Shot” — the reliable bullet fade trusted by legends like Sir Nick Faldo. You’ll discover why the target line matters most, how swinging slightly left creates consistency, and the key move of keeping your right wrist bent through impact. Master this shot and start finding the fairway with confidence!
Let’s have some definition about what creates the billiondoll T-shot. Doesn’t come out of fresh air. It’s not magic. There’s a bit of a science to it. And so I’ve got my intrepid crew. They’ve got a drone up in the air and they’re going to show you something. The most important line in golf for every golfer is the line to the target. The target line. This target line is pointing out those flags on that green about 240 yards away. The target line is the most important line in golf and everything we do should have some connection to the target line. It doesn’t mean we’re trying to hit the ball straight down that target line. That lives in the world of mythology and that’s the only place it does live. But we’re going to try and start it a little left. So I want you to understand something right away. What would create the billion-dollar T-shot and what’s helped so many of my people on this tea at the club at Ibis is to understand the swing plane doesn’t have to be perfect. I certainly don’t want the swing plane to be from in to out. I actually want the swing plane or the swing direction and I will exaggerate this a little bit for clarity to be somewhat to the left. Now, I’m not going to give you that much room that you can swing 10 or 15 degrees out to him. That won’t hit the billion dollar T-shot. That won’t hit the million-doll shot. That won’t hit the $100 shot. We’re not swinging 10, 15° out to him. So, here I am. And you can see I’m taking this club on a path that’s a little left, a little out to in. That’s actually a lot more natural. It’s a lot more comfortable for most people. It’s the It’s the swing your body wants to make. Your body doesn’t want to go over there. It hates that. Um, all the people I teach find this move much easier and the bad shots less penal when you’re swinging this way. And and you know, look, we we call this the billiondollar shot, but really it’s the bullet fade. It’s the one that comes off hot, a bit low, very trustworthy, the bullet fade. So, if I can do things that soften your out to path slightly, I’m not going to let you swing this way. That won’t do it. But if I can do things that soften your path slightly, if I can do things that soften the openness, if that is even such a word, of the club face, if I can do things that get you hitting it a little bit near the toe of the club, which the whole course is designed to do all three of those, then you’re going to be able to hit that bullet fade. But underlying all of it is the understanding of that’s the path and the face action you must have for a bullet fade. So much easier for just about every golfer I’ve ever taught to do. So do we know a player who did that? Well, we do. And he’s actually on our faculty and he’s also English. That of course would be Sir Nicholas Faldo. Now, in his time, he was like an assassin round the golf course with that little bullet fade. And if you talk to Sir Nick, he will say he gradually boiled it down. Took him a while, but he gradually boiled it down to, and this is your quick start guide. If you can’t wait, I want you to go A to Z with the whole course. But if you can’t wait and you’ve got to get out and play this afternoon and hit the bullet fade, I want you to think what Sir Nick Taldo would say. You need to turn through as you keep your right wrist bent. Look how I’m doing that. I’m turning through as I’m keeping my right wrist bent. I’ll sometimes put the club across my shoulders. I’m turning through and I’m really trying to keep my right wrist bent back just a little bit. That’s from Sir Nick Faldo that if you turn through, keep your right wrist bent, the bullet fade is in your wheelhouse. So, let’s see if I can hear hit this one for Sir Nick. I’m going to try and turn through. I’m going to try and keep the right wrist slightly bent and see if I can hit the bullet fade. That is the bullet fade, baby. I can’t do any better than that. And when you start doing this, you will be doing the same.
