Stand Closer to the Ball for Higher Drives, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Stand Closer to the Ball for Higher Drives, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

One really important fact when you are looking for a consistent golf swing can be the distance that you stand away from the golf ball.

Now if you have followed my teachings from before you will appreciate I like to get this position with the driver, but I am standing a good distance from the ball and I can drop the golf club down and just let it rest between an inch and two inches above my left knee cap for the right handed golfer that works nicely, obviously using the other leg for the left handed golfer but for the right handed golfer, left knee position two inches. Now if I then decided to stand a bit closer to the golf ball from there, that would force my swing to be a little bit steeper, having a steeper golf swing and coming down into the golf ball is often got to put me in a position where I am swinging slightly from out to in, with a slightly more open club face and encouraging a much higher ball flight. So it’s going to spin the ball up into the air a little bit more, more than open club face as well.

Now if you decided that you desperately wanted to hit the ball down the wind to get the ball up into the air and carrying and you were very afraid of sort of hooking it down the left hand side a little high fade shot might be something that you would like, so you can just stand yourself a little bit closer, feel like your swing has to come up a little bit steeper to compensate for that change. Now it should give you a nice, high sort of flight so you can see that from down the angle here, if I have to setup in my normal position of an inch or 2-inches but if I shift myself a little bit closer, maybe 3 or 4 inches above my leg then I would have to make a slightly steeper swing. If I made my same normal flat swing I will probably miss the ball or heel the ball because I have gone out that way. So I make a little bit of the steeper swing.

Now the one thing I would suggest here is that you actually practice that on a driving range if that’s what you chose to do because it’s a bit of a funny technique and that you are actually moving away from the good consistent position that we have worked out so hard to get you into. So by changing that position you are getting closer, there is a risk you would mis-strike it, that tip doesn’t work for everybody but if you had a little bit of a hook or a low flying shot and you wanted to hit the ball a big high with the cut, getting a little bit closer might work for you.

 2012-07-12

One really important fact when you are looking for a consistent golf swing can be the distance that you stand away from the golf ball.

Now if you have followed my teachings from before you will appreciate I like to get this position with the driver, but I am standing a good distance from the ball and I can drop the golf club down and just let it rest between an inch and two inches above my left knee cap for the right handed golfer that works nicely, obviously using the other leg for the left handed golfer but for the right handed golfer, left knee position two inches. Now if I then decided to stand a bit closer to the golf ball from there, that would force my swing to be a little bit steeper, having a steeper golf swing and coming down into the golf ball is often got to put me in a position where I am swinging slightly from out to in, with a slightly more open club face and encouraging a much higher ball flight. So it’s going to spin the ball up into the air a little bit more, more than open club face as well.

Now if you decided that you desperately wanted to hit the ball down the wind to get the ball up into the air and carrying and you were very afraid of sort of hooking it down the left hand side a little high fade shot might be something that you would like, so you can just stand yourself a little bit closer, feel like your swing has to come up a little bit steeper to compensate for that change. Now it should give you a nice, high sort of flight so you can see that from down the angle here, if I have to setup in my normal position of an inch or 2-inches but if I shift myself a little bit closer, maybe 3 or 4 inches above my leg then I would have to make a slightly steeper swing. If I made my same normal flat swing I will probably miss the ball or heel the ball because I have gone out that way. So I make a little bit of the steeper swing.

Now the one thing I would suggest here is that you actually practice that on a driving range if that’s what you chose to do because it’s a bit of a funny technique and that you are actually moving away from the good consistent position that we have worked out so hard to get you into. So by changing that position you are getting closer, there is a risk you would mis-strike it, that tip doesn’t work for everybody but if you had a little bit of a hook or a low flying shot and you wanted to hit the ball a big high with the cut, getting a little bit closer might work for you.