Driver Set-Up And Distance Tips

In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins offers some driver set-up and distance tips to help you hit the ball further off the tee.

Transcript

00:00one of the biggest problems that people tend to have when they are trying to hit

00:07the ball further with their driver is that they're not setting up to it

00:10properly when it comes to setting up to the ball with the driver it's really

00:13important and the ball is positioned opposite the inside of your front heel

00:17the reason for that is we want to collect the ball on the way through to

00:21that finish so with an iron we are up and over the ball we're going to hit down

00:25on it with the driver we want to be settled behind the ball because we want

00:29to be sweeping it or collecting it off the tee so making sure that your zippers

00:33or your buttons on your top aren't straight up and over and your spine

00:37isn't straight up we want to ever so slightly settle that behind the ball so

00:41this just means settling a little bit of weight gently onto this back foot here

00:47so it drops your back shoulder a little bit away this arm stays very relaxed it's

00:51a good idea just to swing it back on the club and from there you'll be able to

00:55swing right the way through to that photo finish that's so important when you're

00:59trying to get a bit of distance and get that ball soaring down the fairways so

01:03with getting yourself into this really decent setup position we want to make

01:08sure that we've got that weight gently settled on the back foot so you've every

01:13single tee area on the course you've got a nice little up slope even be a

01:17shallow one so you can stand on that and give yourself that feeling of being

01:21able to settle onto that up slope so just set up on an up slope set up where the

01:26ball would normally be and just wiggle yourself and settle that weight gently onto this foot so the

01:31shoulders end up perpendicular to the slope what you can then do when you come

01:35on to the actual tee area is you can stand there set up to your ball and just settle

01:39again and almost reignite that feeling that you had on the slope on the tee

01:44probably one of the biggest faults that I see is lack of body rotation and lack of

01:49wind up in the back swing when it comes to the driver the swing it seems to be powered

01:54solely by the arms going up and down usually this is down to poor posture

01:58people are just sat like this at a dress rather than in an athletic position

02:02being in an athletic position means that we can rotate and wind our body up and

02:07turn our back to the target when you're not in that position your body can't turn

02:12because you're not in balance if you're not in balance you'd probably end up

02:15falling over so as a result our arms go straight up and straight down the ball

02:20ends up carved down the fairway it feels a lot of effort yet the distance just

02:24isn't there so making sure at the top of the swing that you can feel a turn so

02:31you're turning that left shoulder under your chin that lovely rotation and that

02:36will give you a lot more power it'll generate a lot more speed off the cover face