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Tips On How To Increase Distance By Controlling The Spin Driver
Golf Monthly
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16/02/2025
In this video, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Dan Grieve offers some simple advice for keeping your driver spin rate under control.
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So a good way to maximise distance and improve your accuracy is to try and reduce the spin
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on the ball.
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Obviously you can have too little spin but generally in my experience golfers have too
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much spin with their drivers so they're hitting down on the ball too much which is creating
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too much spin and it costs a lot of yardage.
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Very important regarding tee height that you tee it nice and high like this.
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I see a lot of golfers teeing it down.
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The lower you tee it that's going to encourage you to hit down on the ball too much.
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The angle of attack will be 2, 3, 4, 5 degrees down and that's what creates excessive spin.
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So just by teeing that ball higher making sure that more or less half of the ball is
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above the top edge of the club there is going to encourage you instinctively to really feel
00:52
like you're going to hit up on the ball rather than down on the ball.
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You can see here when you tee it higher the right shoulder starts to sit much lower giving
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that nice shoulder tilt.
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So a nice simple drill you can do to start hitting up on the ball a little bit more after
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you've given yourself the correct tee height of course is use a golf ball box around about
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a foot in front of the ball that you're hitting.
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This is a good indicator because if you're going to hit down on this you can see how
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the club will hit down into the ball, maybe break the tee peg if you're using a wooden
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one and the club head will extend through into the box.
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If you've got the correct angle of attack of hitting this up say 1, 2, 3 degrees on
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the up you can see how I'll strike the ball and go above the box.
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So a really simple measure of how your angle of attack is if you haven't got the launch
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monitors etc.
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So let's set up, let's give that a go and see if I can miss the box.
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So a nice tee shot straight down the middle, very little spin on it, it's going to give
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me plenty of run and I miss the box.
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So simple drill to reduce your spin, hit longer and straighter drives.
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