Thursday, August 18, 2011

How to improve your driver distance

How you begin often has an effect on how you finish and the same can be said in golf. Both distance and quality of your drive can have a big effect on your performance on a given hole, not only because you will be in a worse position for the next shot but it can also have a big psychological effect by making you doubt your swing.

It can always be debated which club is the "most important" in the bag to be able to handle but there is no doubt that the driver is one of the most important and at the same time it is also one of the hardest to control. A good drive can both give you a great start and makes both birdies and eagles more obtainable.

The key to a good drive starts with the stance. With the driver you want to have a wide stance, which should be at least as wide as your shoulders, as it will help you keep your balance. A basic rule is that the more power you plan on putting into your drive the wider your stance should be. However you still want to keep your stance narrow enough to allow for a full body rotation. It can also be beneficial to turn your feet outwards, as it will give you a more fluid hip motion.

Another important thing is that you remember to rotate in your hips and make sure that you are not "sliding" to the right instead. Sliding your hips, so that your right hip goes over your right foot, makes it much more difficult to perform a good swing as you will have to slide back to the left just to hit the ball. By sliding instead of rotating you will also lose about 50 percent of the power as the sliding movement is not nearly as powerful as rotating.






If you want to add more distance to your drive I would recommend checking out World Long Drive Champion Eric Jones' Videos and E-Books.

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