Longer Golf Drives - Ramping Up The Power

Many club golfers are constantly looking to hit longer golf drives. There is no doubt that hitting the golf ball a long way off the tee is an attractive and immensely rewarding golf shot to hit. These...

Many club golfers are constantly looking to hit longer golf drives. There is no doubt that hitting the golf ball a long way off the tee is an attractive and immensely rewarding golf shot to hit. These are the kind of shots that get noticed around the golf course, with everybody looking round to see who is hitting their golf drives so far.

Can the average golfer hit longer golf drives?

They certainly can. Very often, the reason golfers do not hit their golf drives very far is they do not know what they should be doing in order to hit those longer golf drives. Some equate distance with a fast swing. That together with the erroneous idea that brute force alone is needed, will often result in failure and frustration. All this leaves the golfer floundering and wondering what to try next.

Take a tip from me, and learn a lesson from one of the masters of golf, Fred Couples. If you ever get the chance to see the Fred Couples golf swing, especially with the driver, you will appreciate the sheer power and control there is in that swing. He does all the right things that we need to learn from in order to hit those longer golf drives.

Mainly, there is the smooth, flowing tempo. All golfers need to have a full shoulder turn, keep the lower body still, maintain the angle of the left forearm and club as far as waist height before unwinding the wrists into and through the ball at impact. This is the so called late hit, and it is a characteristic of the longer golf drive.

It is beneficial to your golf game if you can learn, and practice this late hit golf swing. From my own experience, once I had learned it, I was very soon afterwards hitting longer golf drives.

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