Longer Drives: The Pursuit of the Elusive "Few More Yards"

In my years as a professional club , What Should Be Your Training Priority? fitter/builder, and the years before that I spent as a player, , Need Some Help With Your Swing? I do not recall anyone asking for less distance in favor of accuracy. , Increase Flexibility for Greater Power In my studies of club , A Good Swing Starts with a Strong Base of Support fitting, every book and courses , ball divers first step is the player , Five Steps For Improving Bunker Technique interview. Every form for an online fitting has the question 'what are you looking for in a new set of clubs'? Virtually all answers are more distance. I had a call a while ago from a potential customer. He told me that he hit , The Physics of A Swing - Improve Your Score By Studying Your Swing his drives about 250 yards off the tee, , Controlling Back Pain on the Course and in the fairway. , Have They Improved The Masters Championship? He wanted to get another 25 yards! Every brand name club , Admiration Of A Better Player Is A Good Thing manufacturer, when marketing a new driver, , Courtesy on the Course makes the claim of longer distance. The point is that almost all golfers , The Worlds Elite Courses desire and try to get that 'few extra yards.'?

How can all the drivers , Increase Your Rotational Strength For A More Powerful Swing on the market be the longest? Of course, , The Most Useful Driver Swing Tip they cannot. When you hear these claims, how confident are you in them? Is there anyone that can get you those few yards? I may have a skewed perspective, but I tell my customers that I can guarantee more yards off the tee! , Simple Tips For Improving Swing In truth, there are very few golfers , 7 Tips To Improve Your that I can't get to hit , Step One to Your Perfect Vacation it a bit farther. While I guarantee more yards, I do not guarantee direction. Harvey Penick, who is arguably the best golf , Lessons From A Beginning er? teacher of all times, said that 'the woods , Increase Your Rotational Strength For A More Powerful Swing are full of long drives.'? I'm going to show some 'trade secrets'? of longer drives.

The fact is that the vast majority of golfers , Five Steps For Improving Bunker Technique have miss-fit equipment. The fitting process is a juggling act of trade-offs to achieve maximum performance. Properly fit clubs , - Fun For All Ages can help you attain more yards. What equipment changes can you make to result in more distance?

There are two ways to increase distance. The first is to increase your swing , Lessons From A Beginning er? speed. An increase in swing , 7 Tips To Improve Your speed of 1-2 mph can result in a distance gain of 2-6 yards. How can you increase your swing , How to Better Control-Your Ball Flight speed? The most obvious way is to increase the length of your club. , A Good Swing Starts with a Strong Base of Support If you have your club , Focus on Pars & Birdies lengthened ½ inch, you can see a swing , The Perfect Is Within Your Reach speed increase of 1-2 mph. That does not mean that you should lengthen your driver , How To Avoid Back Pain Caused By Golfing 4 inches to get up to 48 yards more on your drives. Length is a quick way to increase swing , End Confusion Forever! speed, but it is also a quick way to get your swing , Five Steps For Improving Bunker Technique off line resulting in shots that are not playable. It would increase the overall weight , The Trick of Choosing Shoes of the club , ball divers causing you to lose control. If you decide on a longer club, , A Good Swing Starts with a Strong Base of Support choose a lightweight shaft. This will help maintain control over head of the club , Electric Trolleys '? Reducing Injury or Adding Comfort? so you can bring it to the square position and on the correct swing , Need Some Help With Your ? plane at impact. , Step One to Your Perfect Vacation You can find out if length will help distance without a lot of cost by adding an extender to your driver. , Focus on Pars & Birdies This is cost effective, and can be brought back to the original length, if needed. I also recommend not extending any club , The Types of Grass and What It Means to Your Game more than 1 ½ inches as this could create a stress point on the shaft, increasing the possibility of breakage. Some players , A Good Swing Starts with a Strong Base of Support can get a swing , Traditions of the Masters Tournament speed gain by reshafting with a lightweight shaft and decreasing the overall weight , Focus on Pars & Birdies of the club. , Training Aids Can Ease Your Path to Fairway Success

There are equipment changes that can add distance. 1. Get a bigger club , Simple Tips For Improving Swing head. If you haven't made the move to the larger head clubs, , Women Golfers Have The Drive For Success it may be the time. The larger the head the greater the COR, (what some call the trampoline effect); the farther the ball , - Fun For All Ages will travel. In addition, the larger head allows for greater perimeter weighting, which helps the ball , Need Some Help With Your Swing? go straighter on off- center hits. , Simple Tips For Improving Swing

2. Get lofty. A mere 5 years ago, many golfers, , Electric Trolleys '? Reducing Injury or Adding Comfort? especially with high swing , Simple Tips For Improving speeds, were going lower on the lofts of their drivers. , The Trick of Choosing Shoes The thought was that by lowering the loft you would produce more roll. Today with all the data from launch monitors, we have learned that higher lofts mean more distance. Also, ball , Electric Trolleys '? Reducing Injury or Adding Comfort? technology has increased and balls , What To Expect From Royal New Kent And Stonehouse Courses are now being made with less spin. Backspin on the golf ball , Lower Your Score By Playing Position is what causes it to fly higher. Less spin makes the ball , divers fly lower, so to get the maximum distance, you need more loft on the driver. , The Most Useful Swing Tip Even the fastest swingers in golf , Women ers Have The Drive For Success are going to higher lofts than they used a couple of years ago.

3. Get flexible. Shaft flex can also get the ball , The Secret of further down the fairway. , The Perfect Swing I've stated before that club , Specific Weight Training...Don't Fear It fitting is a juggling act. As a general rule , Increase Your Rotational Strength For A More Powerful Swing the more flexible shaft a golfer , Step One to Your Perfect Vacation can use and still control direction, the more distance. Most male golfers , Have They Improved The Masters Championship? have a mindset that they need a stiff shafted club. , The Importance of the Putter The majority would be better off with a softer flex.

Start with these three tips and you can be on your way to more yards off the tee , The Power Of Your Core and The Swing and shorter irons , The Worlds Elite Courses shots to the green. , Five Steps For Improving Bunker Technique

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