What Is The Best Set Up For Straight Golf Drives (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Is The Best Set Up For Straight Golf Drives (Video) - by Peter Finch

What is the best setup for straight golf drives? When you’re getting settled to a drive, pay particular attention to how you align you club, your ball, and your body. There’s nothing worse than getting on that tee, aligning yourself incorrectly, and then putting a fantastic swing on the ball. Because more often than not, if you’re aligned 10 yards to the left and you put a great swing on the ball, it’s going to go 10 yards to the left and you could be left on that tee scratching your head why you actually went in that direction. So to ensure that your setup is correct and your alignment is correct just follow this kind of basic guide. Now the first thing you want to be doing to make sure your alignment is correct is picking out your target which could be down in the middle of the fairway for example, drawing a line down to the ball, and then picking something just before the ball which sits on that line. This is your intermediate target.

Now with the ball, all balls have some markings or a manufacturers’ logo; all you want to be doing is lining up the markings to that intermediate target. Now the ball is pointing at the intermediate target which sits on your target line. From there all you need to do is get the club face and the alignment tide which is normally on the top of most drivers pointing at the intermediate target, pointing down at your overall target. Now from there you want to set the body what’s known as parallel and square to your target line. So you have your target line and you want your feet, your hips, your shoulders all lined up parallel to that line. So you don’t aim the body at the target you aim it parallel and slightly off to the left hand side. The best analogy often used is one of a train track. So you’ve got the ball on the outer rail, you’ve got the builded body on the inner rail of the train track. If those lines cross then the train is going to come off their tracks unfortunately so. Now with the rest of the setup you want that ball just inside the left hill so you can sweep it off of the way you want to slide tilting the shoulders and the spine angle and you want the weight nice and even. And from there if you put a good golf swing onto the ball you should be seeing some pretty straight golf shots. So if you aren’t sure why the ball might be going slightly off line, check your alignment, check your setup, go to those fundamental aspects, and this will hopefully help you hit much straighter shots. 2014-11-20

What is the best setup for straight golf drives? When you’re getting settled to a drive, pay particular attention to how you align you club, your ball, and your body. There’s nothing worse than getting on that tee, aligning yourself incorrectly, and then putting a fantastic swing on the ball. Because more often than not, if you’re aligned 10 yards to the left and you put a great swing on the ball, it’s going to go 10 yards to the left and you could be left on that tee scratching your head why you actually went in that direction. So to ensure that your setup is correct and your alignment is correct just follow this kind of basic guide. Now the first thing you want to be doing to make sure your alignment is correct is picking out your target which could be down in the middle of the fairway for example, drawing a line down to the ball, and then picking something just before the ball which sits on that line. This is your intermediate target.

Now with the ball, all balls have some markings or a manufacturers’ logo; all you want to be doing is lining up the markings to that intermediate target. Now the ball is pointing at the intermediate target which sits on your target line. From there all you need to do is get the club face and the alignment tide which is normally on the top of most drivers pointing at the intermediate target, pointing down at your overall target. Now from there you want to set the body what’s known as parallel and square to your target line. So you have your target line and you want your feet, your hips, your shoulders all lined up parallel to that line. So you don’t aim the body at the target you aim it parallel and slightly off to the left hand side.

The best analogy often used is one of a train track. So you’ve got the ball on the outer rail, you’ve got the builded body on the inner rail of the train track. If those lines cross then the train is going to come off their tracks unfortunately so. Now with the rest of the setup you want that ball just inside the left hill so you can sweep it off of the way you want to slide tilting the shoulders and the spine angle and you want the weight nice and even. And from there if you put a good golf swing onto the ball you should be seeing some pretty straight golf shots.

So if you aren’t sure why the ball might be going slightly off line, check your alignment, check your setup, go to those fundamental aspects, and this will hopefully help you hit much straighter shots.