The EASY Driver Swing That Requires Almost No Practise

So these are my two best, most influential driver tips to make you play better golf. So the driver, it's a pretty hard golf club to hit, let's be honest. So what we're trying to do with the driver basically is hit up on the golf ball, hit from the inside, hit lots of fairways, lots of greens in because we hit the fairways and no disaster shots, get the ball in play every single time. Now the most common faults we see with the driver is people come over the top, hit down on the golf ball and hit that big slice shot. So the two driver tips we're doing are really designed to get rid of those. So if you've seen my channel before, you know I love you to set up with a golf club with the driver back from the golf ball. And in some videos I talk about it being 10 inches, some videos I talk about it being more. The idea is really you can change the amount depending on how much of an over-the-top golfer you are. So the more severe you slice the golf ball, the more further back you place this club head. But certainly from an exercise point of view, we can go all the way back to this trail foot and hit shots from here. And then when we play, you can play probably from about 10 to 15 inches back from the golf ball. But again, it can be 5 inches, it can be 15 inches. It depends how much you need to influence it. For me on the golf course, if I'm trying to hit a little draw shot, I'll go about 6-7 inches back. For most golfers I would coach, I would recommend they probably go 10 inches back, maybe more. So if you're an over-the-topper, your club path is out to in this way across the golf ball, the more back you go, the more it helps you. Why does it help you? Well, if we do it correctly, the shoulders become closed, the hips become a little closed. Visually, the eyesight goes more this way. So we start to get a bigger turn in the backswing, we're more behind the golf ball, and that allows us to deliver that club more from the inside. And visually, we start to see a straight line is more to the right. All these things influence our club path, our swing path, which then helps to bridge the over-the-top move, the out-to-in path move. We still have to hit it in the middle of the club. And ideally, we still need that golf club to be square or closing to get that draw shot. So tip number one, basically, is that. It's setting up behind the golf ball. So if I'm here, this is my normal setup. Ball position left heel, head behind the golf ball. I want to move that golf club back, say, 10 inches. Make sure when I do it, I move the shoulders and the hips back there. And this is my start position. So from there now, I'm going to smack this golf ball. Try and visualize a bit of a draw shot, but I'm going to smack this golf ball. And that's how I play golf if you don't already hit your drives straight over the draw. If you hit the ball straight over the draw, then set up as you are. But most of us need to encourage that more right-to-left shape on our drives. Now, the second tip is basically all about rotation. So I want you to make a nice rotation in the back swing, and that's not the tip. The tip is basically, I want you to have zero rotation on the way down. I want you to feel that you are facing back here as long as you possibly can. Your sternum faces over your right foot, your trail foot. And from there, you feel like you then release that golf club. You throw that golf club. That helps close the face and add loft. Again, things that people need to do with the driver generally. You might turn around and say to me, well, I hit my driver really high. It's probably because of where you're hitting it in the face. If you hit it higher in the face and you're hitting down on the ball, you can skylaw drives. We're not looking to do the skyballs. We're looking to launch it high with low spin. Ideally, that gives us the best distance protocols. But we're trying to go, can I stay closed in my downswing? In fact, if we take an alignment rod here, and there's two things we can do with this alignment rod. One, we can place it at a very closed angle like so. And then when I'm swinging down, I'm trying to get my shoulders to match that alignment rod. So we're going to keep that there for a second. But also the second thing we've got to look to do for the release of this. So if I'm looking at making a noise with this rod, I hope you can hear that. I want this noise to happen before contact with the driver. So we want the speed to be in the end before contact with the driver. That all happens because of how we accelerate and decelerate. So the idea in the golf swing, we should always be decelerating when we hit it, apart from the club head. So the idea is the body will slow down, the arms speed up, then they slow down, then the hands speed up, then they slow down. That all should happen before contact. If I never slow down, there's not much of a whip. We want the body to be in a closed position. We want that whipping noise to be before contact when we're practicing with the rod, with the driver. With an iron, I'd have it much more around the golf ball. Or even for some golfers, I might even feel it's just after the golf ball because we get a lot of golfers with irons that are a bit too scoopy. And whereas a driver, we can really scoop the ball because the ball's teed up. If you've got tons and tons and tons and tons of speed, you can get away with some sharp lean. Jon Rahm, Rocky McIlroy, all have sharp lean with the driver. Obviously, the loft of the driver needs to be fitted correctly for that protocol and hitting the right way up in the golf ball. And that's the way to get the lowest amount of spin, the lowest spin loft and hit the ball the furthest in theory. But again, for the guys who haven't got that speed, getting that speed before the ball and trying to keep closed is the big tip. So we'll put this rod back down. If I take my, again, square alignment here, I'll put that down at a closed, very closed angle. Again, I'm pointing that out to the trees on the right hand side here. So 30, 40 yards to the right of target if you want to look at it from that point of view. And I'm going to try and feel when I swing down now, I'm going to try and feel I stay closed. I also describe this sometimes as if the camera is pointing back at me from this view, I want to feel like I'm hiding my trail side, my trail peck, my trail shoulder, my trail bicep wants to be hidden. I want to be in that closed position at contact. In reality, I'm going to be pretty square. But again, for most golfers that come up over the top, they're too open with the torso and too forward with the torso early in the downswing. If we get the hips to feel like they're going towards target and then starting to open up, that's the kind of sequence you want. And again, if the club is behind us, then you can really rotate hard through the golf ball. And that's what we're trying to get to. But initially, for most golfers, setting up behind the golf ball, feeling that there's no rotation on the way down, there's only kind of a lateral movement and we're staying in this closed position, is the perfect way to deliver that golf club from the inside on the way up and be more successful with the driver. Anything that's teed up, essentially. So let's go ahead and do that. So set for the golf ball. What I feel is pretty square. Club it back about 10 inches or so. When I do that, again, just make sure my shoulders go with it. Now I'm trying to stay closed on the way down and give it a smack. Release early. Beauty. Little draw there. Straight down the middle of the fairway. Yeah, that one's just got on the green there. Perfect. If I was trying to hit it towards that flag, that would be the shot to play. Little draw landing just on the front edge of the green and rolling after that back flag. Be perfect. Did that feel natural and normal to me? No. Is that how I need to feel to hit draw shots? Absolutely. If ending my transition is a bit steep, my golf swing is not perfect. So my transition tends to go a little bit too vertical with the shaft. Little bit. And then I have to stall and recover my body. Whereas if I can keep in this closed position, that golf club can get deeper as it starts down more behind me to allow me then to sweep and release that golf club with the driver to hit that shot I just hit there. Basically that little kind of starting down the right side of the fairway and draw back. So starting back helps it massively. And I think that's a no-brainer. That's a cheap instant win that happens without you even have to do any homework. Who likes homework? Then the kind of conceptual idea of kind of staying closed. I'm not rotating the way down also is an instant win. No homework. But you might have to hit a few shots to be comfortable. But again, no homework. And you can use the visuals if that helps you just to encourage that. But certainly when you're on the practice ground with the driver, try and hit big starting right. Draw shots, hook shots is good exercise for most of you golfers. If you hit the ball straight or draw already, again, don't do this. But for most of us, 90% of us that need to hit the draw shot more with the driver, it's exactly what you should be trying to do. If you're new to the channel, please like, subscribe and comment. 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