How to drive a golf ball | Driving Tips

Driving Tips

Sadly, the summer golf season is now behind us. Our chances of winning major club competitions or golf days will now have to wait until next year. But it doesn’t mean the clubs should go into cold storage for six months, not by a long shot. Although in professional golf, the gap between one season ending and another one beginning can sometimes only be a few weeks, it does not mean the pros lie idle. That gap can be the chance to implement the changes they think are necessary to improve their game.

If the top pros can do it, so can we. And we don’t have a few weeks to get our game ready, we have a good few months to master new methods and techniques. None of us will have had the perfect summer on the golf course because that does not exist. Maybe we missed a few clutch putts in the last few holes. The driver could have been wayward, putting pressure on the rest of the game. Or perhaps our chipping and short game needs tidying up. There is always something to work on. And we at AMERICAN GOLF can help. PGA professional James Need has done a series of videos that offer valuable tips and pointers that we can try to implement into our game and practice over the winter so it can be second nature for us in time for the first buds of spring in 2025.

This video focuses on the biggest club in the bag. The club that can hit the ball furthest, but also has the capability of putting us in the most trouble. Now we’re not suggesting that we are going to turn into Rory McIlroy and start hitting those majestic 350-yard booming drives of his, but we all want that bit more consistency with the big stick. A bit straighter and more confident standing over the ball about where it’s heading will be perfectly acceptable and with these tips, we can work on these on the course or at the range in the coming months.

Driving Drill

1. Cross your driver over your chest and stand in your golf posture
2. Keep pressure on your left thigh as you turn your hips and shoulders left

*Key Focus here is turn your shoulder down and around your body and you should feel pressure in your legs and back as your try to coil your body

3. No that you have coiled you body around like a spring its time uncoil yourself as though you are hitting a golf ball

Now stay focused for next week when we talk about the top of the backswing