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Tips For How To Drive In Golf For Beginners
Golf Monthly
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15/02/2025
Trey Niven talks about how to drive for beginners, tips and advice.
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You're not quite getting the distance with the driver that you should be, we're going
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to break down the simple points at set up and the simple movements that we can make
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in the swing to start to optimise the distance for the driver.
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But firstly let's look at the differences between hitting an iron compared to a driver.
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Now an iron, the golf ball is on the floor and we typically need to hit the golf ball
00:24
with a downward attack angle where we hit the ball and then the turf after.
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For the driver it's got a lot less loft on it, it's on a big tee, so we need to start
00:33
to hit up onto that golf ball a little bit more, that's going to really help firstly
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optimise those numbers to try and carry the ball further and give you a lot more distance.
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Let's look at the set up first, so firstly to really encourage us to create this upward
00:48
attack angle we're going to have to put the golf ball further forwards in the stance and
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when we say forwards it's more towards the target.
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So you can see what I did there at set up, I had the feet close together, the ball towards
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the left foot and I took a small step with the left foot and a bigger step with the right
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foot and you can see how far forward now that golf ball position is, so it's almost just
01:11
inside the left heel.
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What I also did is took a bit of a wider step, so this is going to give us some stability,
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this driver is a lot longer, well it's the longest club in the bag, we swing it a little
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bit quicker so we need the stability from the ground.
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You can see already as I move the golf ball position forwards in the stance how my shoulders
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have now tilted and just to be weary of here, as we move the golf ball forward in the stance
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what typically happens is our shoulders start to point a little bit more to the left.
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What often we see with instruction with drivers is that we need to tilt a lot more towards
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the right side so the right shoulder gets nearer to the right pocket but what happens
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when we move the ball position forwards is that the shoulders point more left so we have
01:58
to counteract that just by sitting the right shoulder back, so don't worry too much about
02:03
sitting your right shoulder down.
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So that's a couple of points that's set up, ball position forwards, wider stance, we're
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going to softly sit this right shoulder down and now we're ready to launch this driver.
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A really easy point that we can do with the motion now is maybe think about how we load
02:22
into this backswing to help optimise the attack angle.
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So a really good little simple point you can do is imagine the chest, centre of the chest,
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the sternum or the zip through the middle of my top here is actually working more towards
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the right foot here.
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I quite often see with people with drivers that they'll lean into the golf ball this
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way and that really is going to encourage that downward hit, the ball's going to spin
02:47
too much, it's typically going to slice off to the right as well.
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So let's give those points a go, so ball position forward, wider stance, just softly
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sitting that right shoulder down and I'm going to encourage my chest to rotate and work more
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towards the right foot.
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You can see that motion there is really bringing this club into the golf ball on that upward
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attack angle.
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Let's give these a go.
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Okay, so we can see there the ball was brushed off the tee, not much contact with the tee
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peg there and you can really see how my body was really working towards the right side,
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almost gearing myself up to let these arms go.
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So really simple points that you can take away there for the driver to start maximising
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the distance.
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A nice drill that you can do to further encourage that upward attack angle, you can simply do
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with a head cover.
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Now everybody's got a head cover that they can use or a glove or perhaps a tee peg in
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the way.
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So we're going to take the head cover and we're going to put it just maybe one foot
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past the golf ball on the target line and I really want you to just flatten that down
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there.
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Okay, so you can really start to build the picture for how this is going to start to
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encourage this attack angle.
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So if I get this wrong, I'm going to start to lean left, I'm going to hit down onto that
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golf ball and my golf club post impact is going to carry through and you're going to
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batter that head cover.
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So let's make sure that we put those set up points in play, we're going to get over to
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the right side and we're going to try and sweep that golf ball off the tee and avoid
04:24
hitting that head cover.
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Let's give it a go.
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Ball position forward, wider stance, just sitting that right shoulder down, moving to the right
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and avoiding that head cover.
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