Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Now if you feel that you are not quite hitting the ball as far as you like to with your driver, maybe it is because you are not keeping up with your mates. You might consider that well a big strong person you are hitting the ball as far and as fast as you can with what you think is decent technique, but the ball is just not getting out there. Let's consider why that might be and certainly how we can improve on that for you. So ultimately you do hit the ball a little bit further the 1st consideration is going to be the spin that is on the golf ball understanding that we do need some degrees of backspin to keep the ball in the air a bull flight particularly with a driver that doesn't have enough backspin will just like it falls out the sky an old dip a bit too early. Now depending on the fairways that you're playing on the ground conditions a ball that lands too early could also be a ball that stops to early. Sometimes on very hard conditions that of the open conditions that you see in the seaside links of Scotland a low flying ball lands on a hard fire when scuffles on the rolls for the 100 yards if you did that on a well worn down fire white it's going to land short it's going to finish short.
So we need enough backspin to really fly the ball up in the air to keep it carrying as far as possible to get my best. Modern technology radar tracking devices can tell you how much spin you're creating whether you need to create more or less fuel optimum conditions or the considerations. Also particularly with your driver need to be that we shouldn't be hitting down on the ball quite often with our irons in particular without wedges we talk about having it down was in part position a ball taking a divot impact position where we actually have the hands in front of the club. I don't part and we hit down and we take a bit with the driver simply not the case we very much need to create a sweeping angle of attack and actually hitting up on the ball. So we have the ball nearer to the front side we have the hands level slightly back up and then we hit the ball on the rise as we hit through and hopefully that creates a nice launch that gets maximum distance. One last consideration when you're looking for extra distance just make sure you hit through the ball often see golfers that are so worried about hitting the ball and particularly the direction it goes there was diesel or it coming into impact. So coming into was the bull they start to slow down and pull the club out of it we've got to make sure that as we hit through this bull we keep accelerating all the way round and we have that great big full finish the balance rather than hitting it and then stopping and seeing where it went. So work on those 3 key elements to hopefully get your golf drives a little bit higher and definitely carrying further.
2017-05-03 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Now if you feel that you are not quite hitting the ball as far as you like to with your driver, maybe it is because you are not keeping up with your mates. You might consider that well a big strong person you are hitting the ball as far and as fast as you can with what you think is decent technique, but the ball is just not getting out there. Let's consider why that might be and certainly how we can improve on that for you. So ultimately you do hit the ball a little bit further the 1st consideration is going to be the spin that is on the golf ball understanding that we do need some degrees of backspin to keep the ball in the air a bull flight particularly with a driver that doesn't have enough backspin will just like it falls out the sky an old dip a bit too early. Now depending on the fairways that you're playing on the ground conditions a ball that lands too early could also be a ball that stops to early. Sometimes on very hard conditions that of the open conditions that you see in the seaside links of Scotland a low flying ball lands on a hard fire when scuffles on the rolls for the 100 yards if you did that on a well worn down fire white it's going to land short it's going to finish short.
So we need enough backspin to really fly the ball up in the air to keep it carrying as far as possible to get my best. Modern technology radar tracking devices can tell you how much spin you're creating whether you need to create more or less fuel optimum conditions or the considerations. Also particularly with your driver need to be that we shouldn't be hitting down on the ball quite often with our irons in particular without wedges we talk about having it down was in part position a ball taking a divot impact position where we actually have the hands in front of the club. I don't part and we hit down and we take a bit with the driver simply not the case we very much need to create a sweeping angle of attack and actually hitting up on the ball. So we have the ball nearer to the front side we have the hands level slightly back up and then we hit the ball on the rise as we hit through and hopefully that creates a nice launch that gets maximum distance. One last consideration when you're looking for extra distance just make sure you hit through the ball often see golfers that are so worried about hitting the ball and particularly the direction it goes there was diesel or it coming into impact. So coming into was the bull they start to slow down and pull the club out of it we've got to make sure that as we hit through this bull we keep accelerating all the way round and we have that great big full finish the balance rather than hitting it and then stopping and seeing where it went. So work on those 3 key elements to hopefully get your golf drives a little bit higher and definitely carrying further.
