Learn To Sweep Your Ball Off The Tee
The Proper Stance goes a long way for improving the quality of your drives. You will need to use a different stance when using your driver as opposed to your irons.
To be able to sweep the ball off the tee, well you will need to be hitting up on the ball. To do this you will first need to widen your stance.
A good guideline is to stand with your feet a shoulder width apart. By doing this you will be further behind the ball at address and that will help to hit up on the ball.
The ball will need to be placed further forward in your stance to allow you to hit it correctly and as another guideline it should be lined somewhere in the region of your target side foot heal or instep.
You will obviously need to experiment with the position until you get this right as there will always be some fine tuning required.
Once you get your stance and ball placement correct take a look at your shoulders and see that they are pointing in the direction you want the ball to go.
They should be aligned directly with the path of your intended flight. If your shoulders are pointing to the left of the hole that will be the most likely direction that your ball will land unless of course you slice the ball and it comes back around to the right.
That is another problem and this is assuming that you are in the correct position to eliminate slicing the ball.
In practice use something as a guideline to align your shoulders before you drive. In the driving range this will be easy to do but on the course you could lay your driver on the ground in the direction you want the ball to go and then align your shoulders with that.
Once you have mastered this routine, it will become part of your set-up for long straight drives.
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Young guys are the worst offenders of this. A young string guy comes to the golf course and there is an overwhelming tendency to hit the ball. It’s the big drives that impress and big drives need big hits don’t they?
I have done this myself only to be out-driven by a small lady or an elderly gentleman.
They were stroking the ball rather than going for the big hit. This allowed them to have more control, which translated to more distance and they were hitting the ball better.
We all watch the professionals and see them hit the ball with fast powerful drives, but they aren’t actually ‘hitting’ the ball.
They are actually stroking the ball albeit at a lot faster speed and a whole lot more powerful manner than people who ‘hit’ the ball.
This ’stoking’ becomes all the more important with short play where a stroke will result in more accuracy and a more accurate level of distance for the particular choice of club.
If you are a ‘hitter’ of golf balls then you can start correcting this area of your game by concentrating on how you putt.
Everyone naturally has a tendency to stroke the ball on the green because they know that the distance can be achieved with a light touch.
The next step it to take that relaxed action to the next step with your short game using the pitching wedge, 9-iron and 7-iron.
Once you see how well the ball will travel and the additional control you have by stroking the ball you can then use that same relaxed flowing action with the other clubs in your bag.
As you move to your woods and then your driver you might be quite surprised how a change in action from hitting to stroking the ball will get you all the distance you have been aiming for effortlessly.
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