Higher Straighter And Longer Golf Drives – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
Higher Straighter And Longer Golf Drives – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer encourage you to focus on the strike location of your golf shot particularly with your driver. Understanding the strike location and its impact on the overall shot direction, distance and shape is a fundamental part of improving as a golfer. Matt and Pete will help you to understand how striking the golf ball high up in the centre of the club face will create a longer and straighter ball flight, which is a fundamental part in every golfer's armoury.

As you can see Pete we've both got our driver's in hand here favorite part the day isn't it the big stick. It is indeed and if I were to describe my perfect drive to you the big 3 elements that I would want from them. Number one it's going to be long of course, number 2 it's going to be high love it and number 3 it's going to be straight you're always asking for a lot you know what the most from your drive. So if I were to get those 3 things on my wish list what would I need to be doing to create that wish list. Long you say long long is going to be a combination of fast clubhead speed yes a bit of effort from the golf a fast clip speed was going to be good strike yet there's no point swing in it really fast and then missing the middle of the clubhead because the club doesn't work to invest in its extent if you don't like that script so fast and a good concept Yeah straight straight well straight going to have to be a good pass and a good face combination so you pretty decent swing but again it's going to have to have a decent strike OK yelling from the tile hitting from the heel does affect the direction the shot goes and if you get really far off then you'll hit it soft and sideways and a lot of stuff in the final on the highway and you want to high Well well a lot of that will come from the club the right having the right shaft having the right loft combination a lot of that will come from the south of having the ball positioned in the right place yeah I guess what a lot of it comes from the strike so that's key words you've hit on 3 times a strike location is in all 3. Yeah in terms of getting your 3 things you want high long and straight I've got to do the right thing with strike strike and strike.

OK So if we're going to give the people watching at home here a tip on striking and how we can create this center to strike what would that they were real top tips for that one? I think the 1st consideration must be where the golfer is currently hitting the ball from. Great you're not hitting the right place now but you don't know about you don't know what the correction can and should. Yes The 1st thing is understanding where you're currently hitting Now you can get there because that's what's on the face of the driver Yes some people use less how compiled a spray address shampoo or an athlete's foot right simply to go to a relatively clean dry cloth site just sweat it starts a little bit of space on the clubface or don't tell my mom I did that. Now if I hit a ball from that head I'll be able to look and I'll be able to identify the whereabouts stright was so used to take the spray or wipe it plane hit the ball see where it currently hits and I'd say you probably had a good 5 to 10 shock as an average day again and I would you call it yeah normal swing so not necessarily making too many adjustments and changes not trying to hit too hard once you've got your average you can then go about making some changes now your strike might be toast sided if you hit that's how every time the change might be as simple as just moving a bit nearer to the golf or if you're hitting the heel every time it might be just as simple as moving further while for some golfers particularly those that use the plank holders for rackets for balls balls they can be almost used to insure to sweep they see there has one player so how did I call an action and find the spot the hand eye coordination the balance kicks in and they just start to strike it better. Ok none of that works if they don't know where they're hitting it yeah.

The one last thing I would suggest that safely just hit the 3 key elements you won't get high on long the sweet spot of your driver and needs to be known. You have a lot of people a sweet spot slightly above the center and very slightly in the toe ok and particularly if you are hitting below the equator of your driver your really not really maximizing the efficiency of the club. By you going to see a lot so low drillers and yet run to really get the ball launching up in the. Fight if I go ahead and set my festive with all of the bad in mind I've got my ball position for with the fences you have got my nice wide stance and that should help me create our full swing into the you talked upon distance from the golf ball that's going to be a real key to fire well. Yet the middle of the face too close too far away in terms of your feet would you be heels toes middle of the feet would that affect large strike if I try to get balance Yeah and I try to maintain that balance in the middle of the feet throughout this way OK I started on my heels for example and then hit the ball across them so chances are I'm going to hit the ball he'll yeah life was fine on my face it's over my rock bottom. From my body what my heels Yeah going to hit the top of the club like maintain my balance start my head my balance out that's right that's going to give me the best consistency of striking try so if I go ahead and hit what I will look for it on balance after I've hit this shot so it's a nice set of the smooth have. A good stride and I can hold it the whole lot down. Every key point on my wish list and I'm betting if we were to have a look as you know we don't get much more middle than that one Pete. Thank you very much so Matt wanted high long straight you delivered it was dry to help me deliver those 3 point one definitely it's one of those things a strike I wouldn't have thought about was write a good play such a key element nice safe we are pattering the fate is going to have a massive effect on that golf ball so 1st things 1st instead of thinking of all these crazy things shallow in the shaft on different bits let's make sure we get in the middle of the turf stuff that is the case so if you're at home watching this and you want to hear how long the straight to drives. Let's focus on the strike where you striking a currently at the moment and then can we bring it more central and see that we can get out of the spot more frequently and you should start to see higher straighter longer drives.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer encourage you to focus on the strike location of your golf shot particularly with your driver. Understanding the strike location and its impact on the overall shot direction, distance and shape is a fundamental part of improving as a golfer. Matt and Pete will help you to understand how striking the golf ball high up in the centre of the club face will create a longer and straighter ball flight, which is a fundamental part in every golfer's armoury.

As you can see Pete we've both got our driver's in hand here favorite part the day isn't it the big stick. It is indeed and if I were to describe my perfect drive to you the big 3 elements that I would want from them. Number one it's going to be long of course, number 2 it's going to be high love it and number 3 it's going to be straight you're always asking for a lot you know what the most from your drive. So if I were to get those 3 things on my wish list what would I need to be doing to create that wish list. Long you say long long is going to be a combination of fast clubhead speed yes a bit of effort from the golf a fast clip speed was going to be good strike yet there's no point swing in it really fast and then missing the middle of the clubhead because the club doesn't work to invest in its extent if you don't like that script so fast and a good concept Yeah straight straight well straight going to have to be a good pass and a good face combination so you pretty decent swing but again it's going to have to have a decent strike OK yelling from the tile hitting from the heel does affect the direction the shot goes and if you get really far off then you'll hit it soft and sideways and a lot of stuff in the final on the highway and you want to high Well well a lot of that will come from the club the right having the right shaft having the right loft combination a lot of that will come from the south of having the ball positioned in the right place yeah I guess what a lot of it comes from the strike so that's key words you've hit on 3 times a strike location is in all 3. Yeah in terms of getting your 3 things you want high long and straight I've got to do the right thing with strike strike and strike.

OK So if we're going to give the people watching at home here a tip on striking and how we can create this center to strike what would that they were real top tips for that one? I think the 1st consideration must be where the golfer is currently hitting the ball from. Great you're not hitting the right place now but you don't know about you don't know what the correction can and should. Yes The 1st thing is understanding where you're currently hitting Now you can get there because that's what's on the face of the driver Yes some people use less how compiled a spray address shampoo or an athlete's foot right simply to go to a relatively clean dry cloth site just sweat it starts a little bit of space on the clubface or don't tell my mom I did that. Now if I hit a ball from that head I'll be able to look and I'll be able to identify the whereabouts stright was so used to take the spray or wipe it plane hit the ball see where it currently hits and I'd say you probably had a good 5 to 10 shock as an average day again and I would you call it yeah normal swing so not necessarily making too many adjustments and changes not trying to hit too hard once you've got your average you can then go about making some changes now your strike might be toast sided if you hit that's how every time the change might be as simple as just moving a bit nearer to the golf or if you're hitting the heel every time it might be just as simple as moving further while for some golfers particularly those that use the plank holders for rackets for balls balls they can be almost used to insure to sweep they see there has one player so how did I call an action and find the spot the hand eye coordination the balance kicks in and they just start to strike it better. Ok none of that works if they don't know where they're hitting it yeah.

The one last thing I would suggest that safely just hit the 3 key elements you won't get high on long the sweet spot of your driver and needs to be known. You have a lot of people a sweet spot slightly above the center and very slightly in the toe ok and particularly if you are hitting below the equator of your driver your really not really maximizing the efficiency of the club. By you going to see a lot so low drillers and yet run to really get the ball launching up in the. Fight if I go ahead and set my festive with all of the bad in mind I've got my ball position for with the fences you have got my nice wide stance and that should help me create our full swing into the you talked upon distance from the golf ball that's going to be a real key to fire well. Yet the middle of the face too close too far away in terms of your feet would you be heels toes middle of the feet would that affect large strike if I try to get balance Yeah and I try to maintain that balance in the middle of the feet throughout this way OK I started on my heels for example and then hit the ball across them so chances are I'm going to hit the ball he'll yeah life was fine on my face it's over my rock bottom. From my body what my heels Yeah going to hit the top of the club like maintain my balance start my head my balance out that's right that's going to give me the best consistency of striking try so if I go ahead and hit what I will look for it on balance after I've hit this shot so it's a nice set of the smooth have. A good stride and I can hold it the whole lot down. Every key point on my wish list and I'm betting if we were to have a look as you know we don't get much more middle than that one Pete. Thank you very much so Matt wanted high long straight you delivered it was dry to help me deliver those 3 point one definitely it's one of those things a strike I wouldn't have thought about was write a good play such a key element nice safe we are pattering the fate is going to have a massive effect on that golf ball so 1st things 1st instead of thinking of all these crazy things shallow in the shaft on different bits let's make sure we get in the middle of the turf stuff that is the case so if you're at home watching this and you want to hear how long the straight to drives. Let's focus on the strike where you striking a currently at the moment and then can we bring it more central and see that we can get out of the spot more frequently and you should start to see higher straighter longer drives.