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Driver Set-Up And Distance Tips
Golf Monthly
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28/06/2025
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.
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one of the biggest problems that people tend to have when they are trying to hit
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the ball further with their driver is that they're not setting up to it
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properly when it comes to setting up to the ball with the driver it's really
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important the ball is positioned opposite the inside of your front heel
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the reason for that is we want to collect the ball on the way through to
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that finish so with an iron we are up and over the ball we're going to hit down
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on it with the driver we want to be settled behind the ball because we want
00:29
to be sweeping it or collecting it off the tee so making sure that your zippers
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or your buttons on your top aren't straight up and over and your spine
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isn't straight up we want to ever so slightly settle that behind the ball so
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this just means settling a little bit of weight gently onto this back foot here
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so it drops your back shoulder a little bit away this arm stays very relaxed it's
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a good idea just to swing it back on the club and from there you'll be able to
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swing right the way through to that photo finish that's so important when you're
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trying to get a bit of distance and get that ball soaring down the fairways so
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with getting yourself into this really decent setup position we want to make
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sure that we've got that weight gently settled on the back foot so you've every
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single tee area on the course you've got a nice little up slope even be a
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shallow one so you can stand on that and give yourself that feeling of being
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able to settle onto that up slope so just set up on an up slope set up where the
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ball would normally be and just wiggle yourself and settle that weight gently onto this foot so the
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shoulders end up perpendicular to the slope what you can then do when you come
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on to the actual tee area is you can stand there set up to your ball and just settle
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again and almost reignite that feeling that you had on the slope on the tee
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probably one of the biggest faults that I see is lack of body rotation and lack of
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wind up in the back swing when it comes to the driver the swing it seems to be powered
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solely by the arms going up and down usually this is down to poor posture
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people are just sat like this at a dress rather than in an athletic position being
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in an athletic position means that we can rotate and wind our body up and turn
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our back to the target when you're not in that position your body can't turn
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because you're not in balance if you're not in balance you'd probably end up
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falling over so as a result our arms go straight up and straight down the ball
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ends up carved down the fairway it feels a lot of effort yet the distance just
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isn't there so making sure at the top of the swing that you can feel a turn so
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you're turning that left shoulder under your chin that lovely rotation and that
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will give you a lot more power it'll generate a lot more speed off the cover face
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