How To Drive A Golf Ball

Accuracy and distance are always the two factors that most golfers tend to aim to improve in their game. The more distance you can yield in a shot, the more likely you are to drop your strokes, resulting in higher possibility of birdies or eagles. Essentially, the better your striking accuracy is, the straighter the ball will go. This will reduce the number of hooks/slices you do.

Perfecting distance plus accuracy off the tee is absolutely essential to a great golf game.

In order to get better at your accuracy and distance you will need to ensure that your setup and stance is perfect. Always remember to keep your feet shoulder width apart when addressing the tee.

You must always remember to address the ball with a square stance, this is a very significant technique! You should set your feet up in a way that they are lined up to the target. It is often advised to always maintain a square stance, but as you might know, there are times when you may need to alter the stance a little to slightly open or close your placement, this can be done by moving the front foot up or back. This same rule applies to your hips and shoulders, these should remain square to the target. Maintaining this square stance will see you having fantastic results in no time.

The art of increasing distance is to increase the club head speed, this requires a lot of skill and often not as easy as it sounds. While keeping your knees flexed, you should make sure that you can fully coil and uncoild your body. Remember, your distance will suffer if your body is to rigid and tall.

If you notice some wayward shots too often you must realize that you are doing something wrong. Sometimes your grip can be to blame if your shots are inconsisitant. Try to avoid gripping the club too hard or too soft, this can lead to your club face opening or closing upon impact. Practicing a neutral grip will allow you to hit the ball off the tee with a nice square club face, resulting in smooth, straight, and consisitant shots.

When addressing the ball, you must play it forward. This means that in your correct stance, the ball should be closer to your leading foot, not in the center. Your shots will sail high and accurate with this small adjustment.

Sadly, a lot of beginners often overlook the techniques involved with the backswing, you must always make sure that you hips are starting the backswing, the hands should never lead the backswing. Doing this proper hip turn throughout the swing is a very important aspect of gaining much needed distance. This is because as your hips initiate the turn, the hands, arms, head, and upper body will follow suit.

The top of the backswing is hugely important to your swing. At the transformation between the backswing and downswing, you should let your hips lead the downswing. After mastering the tactic of letting your hips lead the way, you will no doubt be surprised at your improvement.

One of the more well known techniques to improving your accuracy is to make certain the club head is followed by the hands through the strike. This will allow you to keep the club face square upon impact, therefore giving you a nice straight and accurate shot, rather than a hook or slice.

It might also be worth checking out the new 460 cc drivers to improve on any of the above golf driving techniques. The 460cc driver is the heaviest driver on the market, you can blame this on the bigger club head. This can help with gaining more distance but you must be aware that without proper practice, these clubs can be problematic to master the accuracy. – These things can take a bit of work to master.

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