Turning instead of lifting during your driver shots can have a significant positive impact on your golf game. Here are some benefits of focusing on turning and how it can improve your driver shots:

1. Increased Distance: Turning generates more power from your core muscles, allowing you to generate higher clubhead speed. This translates to longer drives and greater distance off the tee.
2. Improved Accuracy: Lifting the club can lead to inconsistent ball striking and mis-hits. By turning correctly, you maintain a more consistent swing plane and club path, leading to better accuracy and more fairways hit.
3. Consistent Ball Flight: Turning helps you maintain a proper angle of attack, leading to a more consistent ball flight. You're more likely to achieve the desired trajectory and shot shape, reducing the likelihood of slices or hooks.
4. Efficient Energy Transfer: Turning your body effectively allows for the efficient transfer of energy from your legs and hips to the clubhead. This energy transfer results in a more powerful and controlled shot.
5. Better Timing: Proper turning promotes better synchronization of your body and club during the swing. This improved timing can lead to a more rhythmic and fluid swing motion.
6. Reduced Tension: Focusing on turning helps prevent tension and stiffness in your swing. This relaxed motion allows for better clubhead speed and a smoother transition through impact.
7. Enhanced Body Rotation: Turning engages your core muscles, promoting better rotation and flexibility. This increased rotation allows for a more complete backswing and follow-through, improving overall swing mechanics.
8. More Solid Contact: When you turn instead of lifting, you're more likely to make solid contact with the sweet spot of the clubface. This leads to a more powerful and satisfying feel at impact.
9. Better Clubface Control: Proper turning helps you control the position of the clubface throughout the swing. This control minimizes mishits and promotes a square clubface at impact.
10. Improved Overall Swing Mechanics: Turning promotes a more efficient sequence of movements in the golf swing. This includes proper weight shift, hip rotation, and shoulder turn, which are all crucial for a solid and effective driver shot.
11. Lower Risk of Injuries: Turning with a fluid and controlled motion reduces the risk of strain on your back and other muscles. This can help prevent injuries and ensure a longer, more enjoyable golfing experience.
12. Confidence Boost: As you see the positive results of turning instead of lifting, your confidence in your swing and ability to hit driver shots effectively will naturally increase.

Incorporating the proper turning motion into your driver swing takes practice and commitment, but the benefits are well worth the effort. It's recommended to work with a golf instructor or coach to fine-tune your technique and make sure you're on the right track to better, more consistent driver shots.

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Turning your body through the golf swing, also known as “rotation,” is essential for generating power and hitting the ball farther. When you turn your body, you are using your hips, shoulders, and torso to create centrifugal force. This force helps to accelerate the clubhead through the impact zone, resulting in a longer and more powerful drive.

Lifting the clubhead up at impact can actually reduce power and accuracy. When you lift the clubhead, you are taking it out of the optimum position to make contact with the ball. This can lead to a topped shot or a slice.

Here are some tips for turning and not lifting for better driver shots:

• Start with a good setup. Make sure your feet are shoulder-width apart and your weight is evenly distributed. Your knees should be slightly bent and your back should be straight.
• Take a backswing that's not too long. A long backswing can make it difficult to turn your body through the swing. Aim for a backswing that's about 70% of your full range of motion.
• Turn your body through the swing. As you swing down, focus on turning your hips, shoulders, and torso. Keep your head still and your weight on your front foot.
• Don't lift the clubhead up at impact. Keep the clubhead low to the ground and make contact with the ball on the downswing.
• Follow through with your swing. After you make contact with the ball, continue to turn your body and swing through the hitting zone.

By following these tips, you can improve your ability to turn and not lift for better driver shots.

Here are some additional tips that can help you hit your driver straighter:

• Aim for a target. Don't just aim for the middle of the fairway. Pick a specific target, such as a tree or a bunker, and focus on hitting the ball there.
• Keep your head still. It's natural to want to turn your head to watch the ball, but this can lead to a slice or hook. Keep your head still throughout the swing to help you maintain your alignment.
• Minimize your wrist movement. Wrists should be firm and avoid too much movement during the swing. This will help you hit the ball with a straighter path.
• Work on your grip. A good grip is essential for hitting a straight drive. There are many different grips, so experiment to find one that feels comfortable and allows you to hit the ball consistently.

By following these tips, you can improve your driving distance and accuracy and hit more fairways.

 Just talked a little bit now about how the angle of attack of the driver coming into the golf ball needs to be nice and shallow to avoid a steeply hitting down shot that hits the crown of the golf club and pops it too aggressively up into the air.

Now there is a movement that you might be making in your golf swing particularly in the very first elements of your golf swing that could be doing you a disservice here in creating and causing some of the bad habits and shots that you have particularly that skied shot.

So during the set up phase of the swing, we need to be aligning ourselves nicely here level to this cane on the ground, pointing myself out towards my red target flag. And then my takeaway should be a nice sweep away from the ball and the fact that there is a sweep almost feels like the club is low and slow in the takeaway. So a nice low and slow take back, keeping the club close to the ground and turning nicely to the top. It’s very much a turn in the backswing.

Now the fault that I see some golfers get into particularly those that sky the ball tends to be a little bit of a lift, so they pick the club up here, so they are lifting the golf club up outside the line. From that position they’ll generally get a little steep and a bit choppy and coming down in a similar fashion. And anyone that chops down into the driver the angle of attack is too steep.

They got to bury the club head down underneath the ball, potentially causing the top or the crown of the golf club to be the thing that contacts the ball first, so we are hitting down here, hits the top and we sky the ball up into the air, so really simple takeaway exercise to help you bring the club back on the right line. We are going to take the club and just drop the ball about two feet back behind, and my feeling here is I should hit that ball gently on the way back, actually I should push it away with me.

So I am setting up to a tee peg and about two feet back I’ve got the ball. And if I lifted that club up I would miss the ball, I would feel that my hands and arms are picking the club up and there is my problem.

I want to feel that I sweep that back catching that ball in my takeaway as I turn to the tock, before hitting back through to the tee. Now I have got it to around 18 inches to two feet away here I can just gently push that ball back in my takeaway before coming back through to the tee peg. And if you practice doing that, even if you just did that in the back garden just a few times to feel the width in your takeaway, so rather than picking the club up steeply just sweep it away on the way back.

If you practice doing that, it gives you the sensation of using the big muscles in your takeaway for the hands and the arms to work together rather than the hands and the arms working independently. Changing the angle that you take the club back should change the angle of attack coming into the ball, improving your ball striking and avoiding that nasty little popped up tee shot.