Load Up Your Backswing to Increase Driving Distance, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Load Up Your Backswing to Increase Driving Distance, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you feel that when you hit your tee shots, you’re not quite generating as much distance and as much power as you possibly could. There's a couple of little tips that I think would help you generate a little bit more distance on your tee shots.

In your address position, we want you to be able to feel that your body weight is just slightly on your right side to start with. Maybe just slightly 60%, 40% leaning on to your right side in favor and then as you turn back we really want to load up into that right leg a little bit more, generating more power, more weight into that right side. Because once it’s on your right side, you can then use it to push off, to get back to your left side and generate the power down there on the fairway and with the club head.

So, here is a little tip for you making sure you get onto your right side correctly, but you don’t sway onto your right side. What I’d encourage you to do would be, is just to place an old grip on the floor here, an old golf club on the floor, if you don’t have any old clubs, you can use one of your own, but just be careful you don’t stand on it too much, particularly if it’s not graphite shaft, you don’t want to break through the graphite there, so just a grip on the floor. I’m just going to position my little toe of my right foot, up against that grip.

I am almost going to use that wedge now, it’s like a starting block, I turn back into my backswing, I press down on the starting block and I explode forward into my follow through. And the reason why I would suggest this, it would help you to stop swaying because if you sway over your right foot, there is a risk that your right foot would actually roll away on you, so you can wedge your foot against that, you can wind up in your backswing and then drive off that right side in committing to the follow through, so its loading up and releasing. You can’t release if you don’t load up in the first place. So here we go, nice setup position, load up and release.

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If you feel that when you hit your tee shots, you’re not quite generating as much distance and as much power as you possibly could. There's a couple of little tips that I think would help you generate a little bit more distance on your tee shots.

In your address position, we want you to be able to feel that your body weight is just slightly on your right side to start with. Maybe just slightly 60%, 40% leaning on to your right side in favor and then as you turn back we really want to load up into that right leg a little bit more, generating more power, more weight into that right side. Because once it’s on your right side, you can then use it to push off, to get back to your left side and generate the power down there on the fairway and with the club head.

So, here is a little tip for you making sure you get onto your right side correctly, but you don’t sway onto your right side. What I’d encourage you to do would be, is just to place an old grip on the floor here, an old golf club on the floor, if you don’t have any old clubs, you can use one of your own, but just be careful you don’t stand on it too much, particularly if it’s not graphite shaft, you don’t want to break through the graphite there, so just a grip on the floor. I’m just going to position my little toe of my right foot, up against that grip.

I am almost going to use that wedge now, it’s like a starting block, I turn back into my backswing, I press down on the starting block and I explode forward into my follow through. And the reason why I would suggest this, it would help you to stop swaying because if you sway over your right foot, there is a risk that your right foot would actually roll away on you, so you can wedge your foot against that, you can wind up in your backswing and then drive off that right side in committing to the follow through, so its loading up and releasing. You can’t release if you don’t load up in the first place. So here we go, nice setup position, load up and release.