Tips For How To Drive In Golf For Beginners

Golf Monthly

Trey Niven talks about how to drive for beginners, tips and advice.

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00:00you're not quite getting the distance with a driver that you should be we're going to break

00:08down the simple points at setup and the simple movements that we can make in the swing to start

00:13to optimize the distance for the driver but firstly let's look at the differences between

00:18hitting an iron compared to a driver now an iron the golf ball is on the floor and we typically

00:23need to hit the golf ball with a downward attack angle where we hit the ball and then the turf

00:27after however the driver it's got a lot less loft on it it's on a big tee so we need to start to hit

00:34up onto that golf ball a little bit more that's going to really help firstly optimize those numbers

00:39to try and carry the ball further and give you a lot more distance let's look at the setup first so

00:44firstly to really encourage us to create this upward attack angle we're going to have to put the golf

00:50ball further forwards in the stance and when we say forwards it's more towards the target so you can

00:56see what i did there at setup i had the feet close together the ball towards the left foot and i took

01:01a small step with a left foot and a bigger step with the right foot and you can see how far forward

01:07now that golf ball position is so it's almost just inside the left heel what i also did is took a bit of

01:14a wider step so this is going to give us some stability this driver is a lot longer well it's the

01:19longest club in the bag we swing it a little bit quicker so we need the stability from the ground

01:25you can see already as i move the golf ball position forwards in the stance how my shoulders

01:30have now tilted and just to just to be weary of here as we move the golf ball forward in the stance

01:37what typically happens is our shoulders start to point a little bit more to the left what often we see

01:45with with instruction with driver is that we need to tilt a lot more towards the right side so the

01:51right shoulder gets nearer to the right pocket but what happens when we move the ball position

01:55forwards is that the shoulders point more left so we have to counteract that just by sitting the right

02:01shoulder back so don't worry too much about sitting your right shoulder down so that's a couple of

02:07points that set up ball position forwards wider stance we're going to softly sit this right shoulder

02:12down and now we're ready to launch this driver a really easy point that we can do with the motion

02:19now is maybe think about how we load into this backswing to help optimize the attack angle so what

02:27a really good little simple point you can do is imagine the chest center of the chest the sternum

02:32or the zip through the middle of my top here is actually working more towards the right foot here

02:38i'll quite often see with people with drivers that they'll lean into the golf ball this way and that

02:45really is going to encourage that downward hit the ball's going to spin too much it's typically

02:48going to slice off to the right as well so let's give those points a go so ball position forward wider

02:54stance just softly sit in that right shoulder down and i'm going to encourage my chest to rotate

03:00and work more towards the right foot you can see that motion there is really bringing this club

03:08into the golf ball on that upward attack angle let's give these a go

03:11okay so we can see there the ball was brushed off the tee not much contact with the tee peg there

03:25and you can really see how my body was really working towards the right side almost gearing myself up

03:32to let these arms go so really simple points that you can take away there for the driver to start

03:37maximizing the distance a nice drill that you can do to furtherly encourage that upward attack angle

03:43you can simply do with a head cover now everybody's got a head cover that they can use

03:48or a glove or perhaps a tee peg in the way so we're going to take the head cover and we're going to put

03:53it just maybe one foot past the golf ball on the target line and i really want you to just flatten

03:59that down there okay so you can really start to build the picture for how this is going to start

04:04to increase this attack angle if i get this wrong i'm going to start to lean left i'm going to hit

04:09down onto that golf ball and my golf club post impact is going to carry through and you're going

04:14to battle that head cover so let's make sure that we put those setup points in play we're going to get

04:19over to the right side and we're going to try and sweep that golf ball off the tee and avoid hitting

04:24that head cover let's give it a go ball position forward wider stance just sit in that right shoulder

04:30down moving to the right and avoiding that head cover

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