Whatever the myths you may have heard about the short game’s overriding importance over all other aspects of golf increased driver distance is critical to improving your scores.
In short without getting more distance off the tee there will be a ceiling to how much you can improve.
With this in mind in this video we run through 5 top tips to help you hit the ball further off the tee and maximise your distance.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:42 Tip #1 – Speed
2:21 Tip #2 – Strike
4:02 Tip #3 – Ball position
5:28 Tip #4 – Shoulders
6:50 Tip #5 – Tee height
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Whatever the myth you may have heard about the short game’s overriding importance over all other aspects of golf increased driver distance is critical to improving your scores in short without getting more distance off the tea there will be a ceiling to how much you can improve while acknowledging that every
Golfer and every swing is of course different and as unique to them as their own voices when it comes to driver distance certain general principles apply and with these in mind in this video we run through five top tips to help you hit the ball further off the te and maximize your
Distance welcome back to the golfing Focus Channel everybody and when it comes to driver distance it in short stems from a golfer’s ability to translate Club head speed often also referred to as swing speed into ball speed and while ball speed is the biggest factor in how far a golf ball
Actually carries Club stroke swing speed is the key factor for determining a golfer’s potential driving distance to get more distance off the te therefore one of the best things you can do is increase your driver Club head speed an average Club head speed of around 114 m hour for example delivers an average
Total driving distance of just under 300 yards on the PGA tour while the average male amateur manages a distance of only 219 yards approximately with his much lower average driver swing speed of 93.4 M hour and how could you go about increasing your Club head speed to increase your driver distance here are
Three top tips you can try number one increase the speed of your backswing as a general rule a faster back swing results in a bigger hip and shoulder turn which then helps to lengthen the swing and gives golfers more time to generate more speed in their downswing number two practice harder practice
Swings to be able to increase your swing speed you need to practice so a simple way to start is to practice moving the club faster in your practice swings and number three speed train as every golfer knows all too well golf is about practice and when it comes to
Getting more Club head speed it’s no different and you can practice increasing it by following specialist training programs or hitting the gym while it is all very well however for us to say you need to generate more driver swing speed to increase your driver distances for many golfers it is not an
Option because of time and often physical constraints so if you’re in that category and still want to make the golf ball go further off the te another way you can do it with the exact same Club stroke swing speed as you have currently is simply by improving the consistency
With which you strike the golf ball to highlight how poorly the average amateur typically strikes the ball Jacob Bowen one of the leading experts in swing speed training points to the following data the average driver Club head speed in the PGA Tour h s around the 114 m
Hour mark and with that they post an average Drive of around 296 Y which gives them a driving efficiency close to 2.6 yards per 1 mph of swing speed the average male amateur golfer with a handicap of between 14 and 15 meanwhile posts a driving efficiency of
Only 2.34 yards per miles hour based on their average Drive of around 219 yards with a driver Club head speed of 93. 4 M hour by striking the ball badly with glancing blows creating slices and hooks amateurs lose lots of energy impact when swing speed gets converted into ball
Speed and as a result lose distance striking the ball more consistently than you do currently will therefore help you increase your driving distance irrespective of your driver swing speed and if you’re one of those average amateurs you can turn that 219 yard drive into a 242 yard Drive simply
By striking your drives better another way you can try and get more distance off the tea without swinging faster is to make sure you’re hitting up on the ball as PGA teaching professional and Us Golf TV director of instruction to CB States we know without a doubt that in
Order to maximize distance when hitting the driver based on whatever your Club head speed is that you want to hit up on the driver and what this means in practice is that large number of amateurs are not hitting the ball further off the tea because they’re losing power by hitting
Down in the ball and creating a negative attack angle at impact as col explains when you come in contact with a golf ball and the club is traveling in an upward motion toward the ball what that does is to increase launch which is a good thing and it decreases
Spin you may have already heard the phrase launch it high and spin it low when it comes to trying to maximize driver distance and this is exactly what hitting up in the ball as opposed to down lets you do to make your drives go further so if you want to make your
Drives go further make sure you’re hitting up in the ball and according to culb a great way to start if you’re not already doing this is to check your ball position at address with your driver chances are you have the ball too far back in your stance and by moving it
Forward probably more than you think you should or feel comfortable with you’ll be more likely to hit up on the ball with your driver and as a as a result get more distance when your goal is to get more distance off the te one of the keys as
We have just noted is to hit up in the ball with a positive attack angle according to trackman an average male golfer with a driver Club head speed of 95 mph who hits their drive with a positive plus 7° attack angle will reach a carrying total distance off the te in
Excess of 30 yards further compared to a player with the same swing speed but who attacks the ball with a negative -7° attack angle and a great way you can try to achieve this is to use your shoulder when you set up to hit your drives at
The same time as moving the ball forward in line with the InStep of your lead foot your left foot if you’re a right-handed golfer tilt your shoulders back and away from the direction in which you’re hitting the ball so that your lead shoulder left again for a right-hander is higher than your Trail
Shoulder a great demonstration of how this should be done is shown in this image of Roy maoy standing ready to hit his driver and in this example from his interview with me in my golf alongside Golf Works he demonstrates both the ideal starting position of tilted shoulders and the ball set forward in
His stance this setup helps golfers to have a proper swing path so that the driver is launching the ball up at impact and although it is likely to look and feel odd when you try it at first if you can get it right it will help you get more
Distance when it comes to making your drives go further you may already have heard of the phrase Tee It High and let it fly and the simple reason for that is teeing the ball higher when you hit your driver is a well-known way of helping golfers increase their distances off the
Tea especially if they like a large number of regular golfers hit their drives with a negative attack angle and strike the ball in the lower portion of the face in a recent robot test conducted by golf Magazine’s Jonathan wall golf technology expert Jean parenti and truspec master fitting professional
Chris McCormick discovered that such golfers could potentially gain 25 yards simply by raising the te adjusting the te height for such players as this graphic illustrates could help them get more driving distance as it would result in the impact location of their drives moving from the lower half to the upper half of
The driver face now all go swings are of course unique and for some simply teeing it higher will not be an automatic fix as when they start teing it higher and still come with a negative angle of attack then they can start delivering too much loft to impact hit it off the
Top of the face and make bad contact but when one thinks that the average M amateur golfer has a negative attack angle ofus 1.6 de and a driver swing speed of 93 mph according to trackman it suggest that there are a very large number of golfers out there
Who would gain some serious distance benefits by experimenting with teeing the ball a bit higher Rory maoy arguably the best and most consistent driver in world golf over the last decade or so certainly seems to think so so that’s it for a look at different ways for you to try and get more
Distance of the tea as ever and most important importantly we hope you’re enjoying your golf and if you like this video tap in one of those boxes on the screen and we’ll see you over there in another one shortly
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Excellent vlog. Thanks – will test tee height and see what happens.