Jon Rahm is one of the best strikers of a golf ball in the modern game and his swing is all the more impressive when you break it down.
Unlike a Rory McIlroy or a Tommy Fleetwood, Rahm is far from picture perfect.
Instead, he relies a lot on sheer power and uses his strong lower body to drive power from the ground while not taking the club anywhere near as far back as those sorts of player.
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Rahm still manages to be one of the best players in the world using this method and doesn’t sacrifice any distance either.
However, when it comes to hitting a draw – a shot which isn’t his natural shape – Rahm has explained how he has to make a slight tweak in his set up, rather than change his swing entirely.
Jon Rahm’s advice for how to hit a draw
A lot of amateurs could take something from Jon Rahm really.
His short backswing means there’s less room for error and in the main, he stays pretty consistent, as his results over on LIV Golf show.
Still, when it comes to hitting the draw, Rahm admits he has to make a small change to how he approaches the golf ball.
“It’s a bit Moe Norman-like for those who haven’t seen him hit a golf shot, but for a different purpose,” Rahm explained.
“If you dive into my swing, you will see my face is very square to path if anything because I like to hit a bit of a fade at impact. And with a bowed wrist, I’m not, I don’t have the ability to rotate the face to hit a draw like some people might be able to do.
“So my coach and I figured out a way for me to naturally not change anything on the swing and hit a draw. So I like to do things on set up. So you will see me aim to the right, or at least where I want the ball to start on, and if I set up to the ball, what I do is more than setting up the head behind, I’m setting the ball up really far out in my stance.”
Jon Rahm’s driving distance for 2025
As noted, it’s not like Rahm loses any distance from his shorter backswing.
In fact, he remains one of the bigger hitters in golf and over on LIV, he is ranked sixth overall in driving distance with an average of 323.3 yards.
Compared to the PGA Tour, that would put him in second, just ahead of Rory McIlroy and just shy of Aldrich Potgeiter.
It just goes to show, really, that it’s not all about taking the club back as far as possible to generate power and Rahm is very much an example for many of us on how to drive the ball well.
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