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The problem with most people who have trouble driving well off the tee is the fact that they haven’t mastered their swing before using a driver.

If you are having trouble with your driver a good way to get back on track is to leave it at home and tee off with a 5 wood or a Hybrid Club?

While you won’t get the same distance initially you will have more room for error and you will have a better chance of hitting the ball a lot straighter.

The idea is to swing your 5 wood in the same manner, as you would do with a 7-iron.

When you have the right control with this club you will begin to get more distance and you will be swinging in a slower more controlled manner.

Once this is translated to the driver you will realize that you don’t have to ‘hit’ the ball.

You will focus more on control with a slower swing and let the club do the work that you might have been expecting your body to do.

Now taking this one step further, you could substitute the 5 wood for your 7-iron.

As strange as this might seem it was the fastest way that one woman I was playing golf with learnt to master her drive.

She played the 7-iron off the tee until she was consistently getting straight shots and reasonable distance.

Her second shot was generally a 7-iron as well, so she was getting a lot of practice with that club.

While the initial shot wasn’t going anywhere near as far as a 5 wood, they were straight and on many holes the combination of two 7-iron shots gave the same result for her as a 5 wood and a 9-iron.

After gaining consistency with the 7 she move to the 5 wood off the tee and eventually the driver.

Sometimes it is faster to take a few steps back to progress sooner.

More Driving Info

Golf 101 - Keeping Your Ball in Play off the Tee

Long hitters in the golfing world are actually pretty keen on knowing and talking about what it takes to produce powerful drives off the tee, and they’re here with a special treat for Golf 101 Tips readers.

1) All Profession Golfers have Their Own System and a mental checklist that they go through before
striking the golf ball. This is something that you should commit to memory and apply to your own golf game.

2) Starting with your Grip and expanding onto your Posture and Pre-shot routine, are three informative tips that will give you an advantage on the golf course. Posture is one of the most important things in the game of golf, and driving the ball is no exception.

3) Long Hitting Pro Golfers apply a motion that is simple and fluid. They maximize shot distance
by using the ground for leverage and the coiling of their torso, to create tremendous power.

4) The legendary Jack Nicklaus has often said that one of his swing keys is to keep the clubhead traveling
along the target line “an imaginary straight line between ball and target” as long as possible.

It’s a good thought, and because it helps you extend through the ball on the follow-through instead of “quitting” at impact, that is, not completing the follow-through.

5) The driver is the hardest club in the bag to hit and requires a lot of skill to master. An Important tip to driving the golf ball well is to “Swing well within Yourself”

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Article - Driving for Distance without Breaking your Back

Golfers will try all kinds of desperate acts in hopes of improving their driving distances and their abilities to drive for new and further distances than ever before. The problem is that a good many of these things do very little, if anything, to actually improve the game of the golfers attempting them. More often than not the techniques and tips will hurt your game rather than making it better. If you want to get the most out of your golf game when driving for distance you would do yourself a favor to consider some of the following tips.

Don’t concentrate on swinging harder.

This is a huge mistake that many golfers make when attempting to swing for distance. The problem is that they often pull and stretch things that shouldn’t even really be taxed as the result of a golf swing in addition to searching high and low for where their ball actually landed. It is often not a good scenario.

Rather than spending efforts trying to swing harder and get more power you should be devoting your attention to swinging your club correctly. This will accomplish so much more in the end. While “grip it and rip it” isn’t the best advice for all golfers it can greatly improve the games when driving for distance of golfers who over-think their swings.

Be consistent.

Pay attention to what you do in every swing. Notice differences that are made and study the results of those differences. When you find something that works to improve your driving for distance, then you should consistently incorporate that particular movement into every drive you make.

Avoid gimmicks.

The best advice on improving your driving for distance will often come from sources that aren’t trying to sell you something. Of course you will get all kinds of advice from your fellow golfers but take that with a grain of salt. If their wisdom was all that wonderful, chances are that they would be on the PGA tour rather than hanging out the local golf course with you and the rest of their buddies. Seek wisdom from those that are offering advice freely without encouraging you to buy their 5 part series unless they are offering a series of personal lessons tailored to your specific golf game.

Many of these lessons, tools, and techniques are designed for a wide audience rather than a specific audience and I don’t know about you but I’m a specific golfer not a general golfer. I prefer advice I’m paying for to be custom suited for my specific golfing and driving for distance needs.

I know of very few golfers, even those on the PGA tour that don’t occasionally struggle with driving for distance. All golfers have good and bad days along the way. The trick for you is in find a way to have more good than bad days and then understanding what changes you made in your golf game to make this happen. If you do this, then driving for distance will be an occasional agony rather than a daily struggle.

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A Golf Driver Tip To Hit The Ball Long And Straight
by: Mike Pedersen

Every golfer wants to know the best golf driver tip. I hate to disappoint you but there are many great golf driver tips that could be the key to unlocking monster drives for you. Every month the golf magazines have dozens of tips in them, but none of them get to the root of the problem.

If I were to get the opportunity to write a golf driver tip for a magazine, I’d say something against the norm. Something teaching instructors wouldn’t want to hear. Do you want to know what it is? It’s not some quick fix, because they never work long-term. The “only” thing that works long-term is working on you.

Your body has a current level of physical ability. I don’t care how many balls you hit at the range; how many lessons you take; and what driver you’re swinging. Hitting the ball further takes an increase in clubhead speed. Period. So hitting more balls or taking more lessons won’t improve this.

The only thing that can improve clubhead speed is strengthening your core rotational strength and flexibility. Your core is the engine to your swing. A weak or inflexible core will not give you the results you are looking for.

The golf swing a turn back and a turn through. Isn’t that about as simple as you can make it? If that’s true, why wouldn’t you improve your body’s ability to rotate quicker and more powerfully? This is the ticket to longer drives!

There are many simple, yet effective core rotational exercises you can do in your home, or even office to greatly improve your clubhead speed and driving distance.

Do you want an easy one you can do right in your chair?

Cross your arms in front of your chest. Sit up tall and erect. With a fixed head position, rotate to the right and left slowly. See how far you can go. Do this without stopping. As you feel a loosening of the core, start to rotate faster and faster. Do this 20 or 30 times when you think about it and I guarantee you’ll feel it.

Since time is such a valuable commodity, you’ve got to get creative. I’ve put together a complete section of my manual that covers simples stretches and exercises you can do right in your chair in your office. You can’t get more convenient than that.

I hope I didn’t disappoint you with this golf driver tip.

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Driving Tip - Accuracy First and Distance Second.

Use some variety when planning your drives. We don’t always want our drives to be the same. If there is a strong tail wind you should take advantage of the extra distance that can be gained with wind assistance. To do this, tee the ball higher.

As a general guideline a ball placed higher on a tee will gain more height.

The inverse is the case when we want the ball to stay low. Lower the tee and the ball will travel lower. This is helpful where there is a headwind and when the fairway is fast and you can take advantage of the ball running on along the ground.

Depending on the conditions and your ability to use your driver it might be more beneficial to use your iron.

When the fairway is narrow and there is little room for error it might be better to use an iron for more control and even reduce your swing to maintain a more accurate trajectory.

The driver, being the longest club, is also the hardest to control.You might find that you get better results from a driving iron.It doesn’t matter what club you use provided it delivers accuracy first and distance second.

You will also need to practice drives that aren’t at 100%. Lowering your position on the grip slightly and reducing your swing can achieve these ‘smaller’ drives. The additional control that you gain will help in ’sticky’ situations where you aren’t confident to go for a long drive.

Everything is golf is variable even when using the same club and practice will help you to know the results that can be expected from changes in speed, swing and ball height on the tee.

There will be times when you need to decide what club to use when driving because the distance to the flag is between your club range.

The obvious choice is to use an iron rather than the driver, as safe shots are more productive to a good score than recoveries from overshooting the hole.

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