Why Hitting The Golf Ball On The Upswing Leads To Power (Video) - by Peter Finch
Why Hitting The Golf Ball On The Upswing Leads To Power (Video) - by Peter Finch

Many people are always searching for extra yards with that driver, just try and get the ball out there as far as possible. Now one way to do that which is often less destructive than many of the paths that people follow, you should try and get your angle of attack moving up through the ball as you hit.

Now generally speaking, if you have a look at some of the very best ball strikers in the world Rory Mcllroy for example, he is able to control his angle of attack wonderfully well. And when he is striking iron shots, his angle of attack is moving down through the ball. He hits the ball first and then the turf, is a descending angle of attack. Because the irons have a shared amount of loft, because he wants to generate backspin, what he is able to do, strike the ball first, then the turf, launching it high with the loft and control it with the spin. However when he switches over to the driver, he is able to change the angle of attack, so all of a sudden it is moving upwards through the point of impact. This is something you see with some of the very biggest drives at the golf ball, Mcllroy being one of them, but then also when he switch over to the very biggest hitters, so if you are go on to the long drive tours and you have a look at those guys, they are hitting up on the ball by a long, long way. Now there must be a reason for that, this isn't just a mad coincidence that these biggest ball strikers tend to hit up on the ball. Now some of this has to do with swing arc, and some of it has to do with how the club reaches it fastest point within the swing. As the club travels around the body it moves in a pretty big circle. As it is moving down into the ball, as the wrist is still hinge is building up power, as the arm straighten and as the body turns, and it reaches its fastest point just after the ball. Now it goes to, it’s commonsense that if the fastest point that a club had to reach it, is after the ball in generally most shots around this point. If you are striking a ball which is at the back of your stance, the club will not be traveling as fast as if you were hitting the ball at the front of the stance. That’s why you see the longest players in the world, the Long-Drive Tour Championships, that tee is so, so high and the ball is of around this point, not quite and not far off. So when they are swinging through the hitting up so much, so that fastest point of that swing is being found around this point. Now obviously we are not interested in turning you into a Long Drive Champion unless that’s what you want to do. We want to get you more consistency to go along with that power. So what we are going to be doing is really focusing on how you can hit it more successfully, the exact science of what it does with spin and launch conditions, and also how you can try and build a little bit more of an open angle of attack with the driver into your game, to try and give you that bit more power. 2016-10-27

Many people are always searching for extra yards with that driver, just try and get the ball out there as far as possible. Now one way to do that which is often less destructive than many of the paths that people follow, you should try and get your angle of attack moving up through the ball as you hit.

Now generally speaking, if you have a look at some of the very best ball strikers in the world Rory Mcllroy for example, he is able to control his angle of attack wonderfully well. And when he is striking iron shots, his angle of attack is moving down through the ball. He hits the ball first and then the turf, is a descending angle of attack. Because the irons have a shared amount of loft, because he wants to generate backspin, what he is able to do, strike the ball first, then the turf, launching it high with the loft and control it with the spin.

However when he switches over to the driver, he is able to change the angle of attack, so all of a sudden it is moving upwards through the point of impact. This is something you see with some of the very biggest drives at the golf ball, Mcllroy being one of them, but then also when he switch over to the very biggest hitters, so if you are go on to the long drive tours and you have a look at those guys, they are hitting up on the ball by a long, long way. Now there must be a reason for that, this isn't just a mad coincidence that these biggest ball strikers tend to hit up on the ball.

Now some of this has to do with swing arc, and some of it has to do with how the club reaches it fastest point within the swing. As the club travels around the body it moves in a pretty big circle. As it is moving down into the ball, as the wrist is still hinge is building up power, as the arm straighten and as the body turns, and it reaches its fastest point just after the ball. Now it goes to, it’s commonsense that if the fastest point that a club had to reach it, is after the ball in generally most shots around this point. If you are striking a ball which is at the back of your stance, the club will not be traveling as fast as if you were hitting the ball at the front of the stance. That’s why you see the longest players in the world, the Long-Drive Tour Championships, that tee is so, so high and the ball is of around this point, not quite and not far off. So when they are swinging through the hitting up so much, so that fastest point of that swing is being found around this point.

Now obviously we are not interested in turning you into a Long Drive Champion unless that’s what you want to do. We want to get you more consistency to go along with that power. So what we are going to be doing is really focusing on how you can hit it more successfully, the exact science of what it does with spin and launch conditions, and also how you can try and build a little bit more of an open angle of attack with the driver into your game, to try and give you that bit more power.