Golfers: Here’s an Easy Way To Hit Your Driver
Every golfer wants to hit their driver a long way, but most recreational golfers would be satisfied, more than satisfied, with hitting it straight. while this is the most difficult club to hit straight, it’s not that hard to do if you pay attention to a few key points.
Consider a 9-iron. The relatively extreme loft of the 9-iron puts much more backspin on the ball compared to a less-lofted club like the driver. This backspin swamps the sidespin that a less-than-perfect strike creates. thus almost everyone hits their short irons straight, even chronic slicers of the longer clubs.
With the driver, relatively little backspin is created, allowing sidespin to do its damage. This means that it is crucial for the clubface to be square to the club path when the driver meets the ball. a square hit like this does not generate sidespin, but sends the ball right down the fairway. to get that square clubface at impact, examine three parts of your swing.
1. when you set up to the ball, the face of the driver points right at your target. If the ball doesn’t go straight, there must be some point in your swing where that face gets out of square. For many golfers, this happens on the backswing moments after the club is taken away. The clubhead has moved less than three feet away from the ball and the error is set.
There is a temptation to keep the clubface pointing to the ball as the club goes back. This actually closes the clubface, causing a hook. Or, winding up for a big hit causes you to rotate your hands too far around, opening the clubface. Hello, slice.
Take the club away and stop when your hands get to hip height. Keeping your hands exactly where they are, turn toward them and lower the clubhead to the ground. If you’ve rotated the face, it will show up and you know what you have to change.
2. How far back to you take your hands on the backswing? Your clubhead alignment could be fine up to a point, but if you continue taking the club back, things could fall apart.
There was a time when professional golfers took their hands back as far as their flexibility would allow. Though they were highly skilled players, even they eventually realized that a shorter backswing provides the same power and much more accuracy.
At the top of your backswing, you should have a maximum shoulder turn, but keep your hands low–about as high as your head is enough. You won’t lose any power, but you’ll eliminate errors caused by trying to get more out of the swing than is needed.
3. Hitting with your hands means trying to square your clubface with your hands as it comes into the ball. to pull this off, your timing must be perfect and your feel for the clubface must be highly developed. when this works, it works really well, but it is hard to do consistently. when it doesn’t work, you have nothing else to rely on.
Here’s where you use your mind. You’ve started the club back square, you kept it square by not taking it too far back, now trust that it will stay square as you bring it down and through the ball. that is, don’t try, from any point, to hit the ball with your hands. Just swing the club down and through. anything extra you add is bound to cause you problems.
The common thread in all these tips is that trying to do too much with your swing to make it right actually causes it to go wrong. The driver is your power club, but it must be swung with care.
Golfers: Here’s an Easy Way To Hit Your Driver
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