Now, here’s a great way of generating maximum power when you’re hitting your driver. So for the biggest club in the bag, we actually need to stay back when we’re hitting the golf ball, which feels counterintuitive because with a lot of the iron shots we’ve talked about moving through the ball, getting in front of it, hitting down on the ball. But to maximize the distance out of your driver, we take a slightly different approach.

We play the ball nicely up against the front of the instep, we play a nice, wide stance and take about 60% of your body weight into your right leg in the address position, but then we’re going to utilize this 60% position for impact as well. We make a nice, big coil in the backswing, turning away to your right side and then through impact, drive with your hips forwards but don’t let the head in the upper body move too far in front of the golf ball here. This would result in leaving the hands and the arms behind, struggling to get the club into the ball, struggling to generate power and may often result in slicing down the right hand side as well.

So, from a good address position, turn nicely into your right side. Shift the bottom half in, but feel like your head and your chest are actually going to stay slightly behind the ball, encouraging to hit the ball on the way up and then fully finishing after you’ve hit the ball with all of the body weight on the left side but just delay that shift across. Different to an iron where you would shift across more first, stay behind that little bit long with the driver so your impact position here with the driver, head, and chest behind the ball, hitting the ball on the way up and then moving through to the full finish. Try that next time you’re on the range and see if you can hit the ball further with that little stay behind the ball exercise.