Senior Golfers Should Draw The Ball With The Driver For Maximum Distance (Video) - by Dean Butler
Senior Golfers Should Draw The Ball With The Driver For Maximum Distance (Video) - by Dean Butler

If you’re looking for a little bit more distance with your driver, maybe the shot to consider will be to draw the ball. Now just in case you’re not sure what a draw is, a draw is a ball that will start slightly right to the target and bring itself back into the target line, that’s a draw. Now from the draw position, the reason it gives you more distance is because of the body position at address. I’ll demonstrate, here we have the water target line and here will be feet parallel. So here would be the normal setup, to draw the ball, we would stand slightly closed, so you can see here I’ve now moved my feet from having being parallel just slightly close. What this is going to do from here is draw the club face more around my body. So it’s a much more rounded swing as I go back. As I go around my hips, my shoulders, my trunk they’re all turning a little bit more than what they would normally do and as the club comes back down from here, the weight is being transferred in, and from here it’s almost like a sling shot from here, the club will then go through. You can just imagine this action, look at the side as it comes through the ball where the weight, the weight has gone through. Something that most senior golfers tend to fail is tend to stand the back foot.

The draw is a very dangerous shot because when you hit the ball lines then shaping, it’s a little bit roll at the end. So you could sometimes turn that draw into a hook but here if you get yourself over the ball and you stand slightly close, and you just follow, remember, aim the club face where you want that ball to start, stand slightly close and then from there just swing on the line of your feet, so bring that club on the inside, from here the body will come back, that’s why I call it a sling shot, from here that sling shot coming back. Because it’s a much more rounded swing, there is much more body weight going to the ball. So it drives the ball, a lower ball, fly a little bit a release at the end, but from that you can see, that ball is going to give you a little bit more distance. The only danger is, is that you need to practice this shot in all four lots. There’s a very fine line between drawing the ball and getting the hook which then would start slightly to the right but finish well left of the target. So if you’re going to, you’ve now got the method of how to do this shot, but go to the driving range, don’t practice this on the golf course, go to the driving range, hit a bucket of 50 balls, see how you do and remember put a couple of sticks down or a couple of the clubs down. So you’ve got your parallel line and just move yourself round and follow it, the swing will become a much more rounded swing and that’s where we get that extra distance from. Give it a go, but remember you need to practice this. 2013-12-12

If you’re looking for a little bit more distance with your driver, maybe the shot to consider will be to draw the ball. Now just in case you’re not sure what a draw is, a draw is a ball that will start slightly right to the target and bring itself back into the target line, that’s a draw. Now from the draw position, the reason it gives you more distance is because of the body position at address. I’ll demonstrate, here we have the water target line and here will be feet parallel. So here would be the normal setup, to draw the ball, we would stand slightly closed, so you can see here I’ve now moved my feet from having being parallel just slightly close. What this is going to do from here is draw the club face more around my body. So it’s a much more rounded swing as I go back. As I go around my hips, my shoulders, my trunk they’re all turning a little bit more than what they would normally do and as the club comes back down from here, the weight is being transferred in, and from here it’s almost like a sling shot from here, the club will then go through. You can just imagine this action, look at the side as it comes through the ball where the weight, the weight has gone through. Something that most senior golfers tend to fail is tend to stand the back foot.

The draw is a very dangerous shot because when you hit the ball lines then shaping, it’s a little bit roll at the end. So you could sometimes turn that draw into a hook but here if you get yourself over the ball and you stand slightly close, and you just follow, remember, aim the club face where you want that ball to start, stand slightly close and then from there just swing on the line of your feet, so bring that club on the inside, from here the body will come back, that’s why I call it a sling shot, from here that sling shot coming back. Because it’s a much more rounded swing, there is much more body weight going to the ball. So it drives the ball, a lower ball, fly a little bit a release at the end, but from that you can see, that ball is going to give you a little bit more distance. The only danger is, is that you need to practice this shot in all four lots. There’s a very fine line between drawing the ball and getting the hook which then would start slightly to the right but finish well left of the target. So if you’re going to, you’ve now got the method of how to do this shot, but go to the driving range, don’t practice this on the golf course, go to the driving range, hit a bucket of 50 balls, see how you do and remember put a couple of sticks down or a couple of the clubs down. So you’ve got your parallel line and just move yourself round and follow it, the swing will become a much more rounded swing and that’s where we get that extra distance from. Give it a go, but remember you need to practice this.