More Golf Driver Instructions: Driving Tips continued…
Tip 9: Always Keep Your Foot Anchored
One of the essential golf driving tips to hit longer is to keep your foot anchored and your body behind the ball. The anchored foot is the foot which you swing away from and towards the ball. If you’re right handed it will be your right foot and the left foot for the left hander. Lifting your foot too early on a golf swing decreases the power and the length of the shot. Keeping your foot anchored on any lofted shot also stops you from going into your downswing too early and interrupting the fluid motion of a full swing, which also results in a loss of distance on the shot.
Tip 10: Level Rotation of Hips and Shoulders
One of the keys to a solid drive is to make sure that on your backswing you keep your backswing side as motionless as posibble, so you can and let your front side do all the work. This keeps the shoulders and the hips at a level alignment and it allows you to make a good solid rotation for a great backswing and a powerful, solid shot.
A good way to practice the level turns of the shoulders and the hips is to take a couple of help speed practice swings with the arm you use at the front of the swing, and just that arm only. Make sure you concentrate on keeping the shoulders and the hips on a level rotation while doing so.
Tip 11: Hang a Shirt on Your Club
As whacky as this may sound it is really effective practice purposes nonetheless. It is preached (along with many other golf driving tips) by a lot of professional golf instructors and is proven to work. It not only helps to slow down your swing and prevent slice or hook, it also encourages you to finish your swing off completely. Don’t make the mistake however of pausing at the top of your backswing as you still want that natural fluent motion of a normal golf swing.
Tip 12: Imagine You’re Playing Baseball
Yep, another one of those great golf driving tips you know us so well for. This is not your average tip for driving but it works just as well, if not better.
Make some waist-high practice swings as if you were hitting a pitch. Increase your speed after each swing, really trying to feel and hear the clubhead whip through impact as if you were “swinging for the fences.” Gradually lower the height of the swing as if a pitcher were throwing you lower pitches. Continue until the clubhead contacts the ground.
You’re now well on your way to adding an extra 20 yards to your drives!!
Tip 13: It’s All About The Arms
Every golfer goes through fazes of inconsistency in their ball striking no matter how experienced they are. A good golf driving tip to get rid of this incosistency is to get used to swinging with the arms. The arms are often forgotten about in golf driving tips, and more emphasis is placed on the trunk. Your arms are just as important in any golf swing.
To start getting your confidence and reassurances back all you have to do is swing your club as you would but as you follow through bring back to a backswing again, and keep it going like this for a few repetitions, or until you feel comfortable again with the club and the line of your swing. Make sure you keep this action going in a consistent motion with no pauses in between.
You will be hitting consistently again in no time at all.
Tip 14: Minimizing Spin To Get More Length
Having spin on the ball off a drive can seriously shorten the distance of which you hit. Some golf driving tips for getting rid of spin are outlined below:
Use a higher tee than normal. The best tees for this are the 23/4 inch tees that peg the ball as high as possible. Having a higher tee like this promotes the golfer to swing up on the ball rather than flat on it or even down on it in some bad cases..
Get rid of any downward action. Swinging up instead of down on contact with the ball will minimize spin and improve your overall driving distance.
Remain behind the ball. Any tendency to slide ahead of the ball at impact will lower the launch angle and create more spin. Stay down and through the shot at impact, swinging the club up, out and away from the body, not down and across it.
Tip 15: Get Fit For Longer Drives
No matter what you have done in the past to increase your drive, none of them can be as effective as actually getting fit to perform your swing and drives better. If you still can’t get up there in the 300 yard marker I think it’s time to hit the gym. No matter how good and fluid your swing is, if you’re not strong and flexible in the correct places then you’re not going to get maximum distance. My advice to you is sign up for one of the many golf fitness programs available on the internet and get hitting longer drives.
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