Tips to Hit More Fairways With Your Driver, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Tips to Hit More Fairways With Your Driver, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you're struggling to hit the fairways with your driver. Here's a couple of little quick tips that will hopefully help you hit more fairways next time you play. First one would be just to make sure you swing the driver with the same sort of rhythm and tempo that you swing throughout the rest of your in the bag. We see a lot of golfers who set up nicely to the driver and then go to fast to unleash on it trying to hit the ball way too hard and way too far. What I'd like to do is next time you play just think about swinging your driver with the same tempo that you swing in the wedge. So maybe even look for a target it's only a hundred yards away. Okay. In line with the rest of the fairway, but I'm not looking 300 yards, 350 yards down the fairway, I'm only looking 100 yards away.

And then when I set to the golf ball I swing with the similar sort of rhythm and similar tempo. So my set would still reflect the same way I would with my driver, and my tempo would be a little bit more wedge or iron related rather than winding up and trying to really smash the hell out of the club. The other thing that could help you hit a few more fairways next time you play as well would be just gripping down on the club. When you're holding right at the top end of the golf club, the driver 43-44, even 45 inches long can feel a little bit cumbersome and a little bit out of control.

If you can grip down on the golf club by an inch or two, you'll just make you get slightly closer to the ball instead of little bit more posture over the top of the ball and you'll swing with that be a little bit smoother, little bit more relaxed, and you'll have a lot more control at the club head. So if next time you play accuracy is a premium to grip down a little bit, swing with the tempo of the wedge forcing on the target it's only a 100 years away, hit it over the top of that 100 yard target and hopefully that will help you hit more fairways next time you're on the golf course.

 2012-06-12

So if you're struggling to hit the fairways with your driver. Here's a couple of little quick tips that will hopefully help you hit more fairways next time you play. First one would be just to make sure you swing the driver with the same sort of rhythm and tempo that you swing throughout the rest of your in the bag. We see a lot of golfers who set up nicely to the driver and then go to fast to unleash on it trying to hit the ball way too hard and way too far. What I'd like to do is next time you play just think about swinging your driver with the same tempo that you swing in the wedge. So maybe even look for a target it's only a hundred yards away. Okay. In line with the rest of the fairway, but I'm not looking 300 yards, 350 yards down the fairway, I'm only looking 100 yards away.

And then when I set to the golf ball I swing with the similar sort of rhythm and similar tempo. So my set would still reflect the same way I would with my driver, and my tempo would be a little bit more wedge or iron related rather than winding up and trying to really smash the hell out of the club. The other thing that could help you hit a few more fairways next time you play as well would be just gripping down on the club. When you're holding right at the top end of the golf club, the driver 43-44, even 45 inches long can feel a little bit cumbersome and a little bit out of control.

If you can grip down on the golf club by an inch or two, you'll just make you get slightly closer to the ball instead of little bit more posture over the top of the ball and you'll swing with that be a little bit smoother, little bit more relaxed, and you'll have a lot more control at the club head. So if next time you play accuracy is a premium to grip down a little bit, swing with the tempo of the wedge forcing on the target it's only a 100 years away, hit it over the top of that 100 yard target and hopefully that will help you hit more fairways next time you're on the golf course.