how to get more distance?

[golfinguy28]

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[bill reed]

Re: how to get more distance?

hi
hitting the ball on the sweet spot or very close to it will give you more distance. if you go to the range and put impact tape on the face of your driver you will see just how often you miss the sweet spot and many drivers have a mark above the sweet spot but often that don't line up when you set up to the ball, if you hold the driver where you think its in line with the middle of the ball and then move closer to the ball and look down you often see it about 1/4 of an inch out and most times the ball it out more to the toe. if you use impact tape you can set up so you know how to a-line the mark on the driver with the ball. with me i set up with the makers name across the top of the ball and set the mark of the driver up with the start of the name and not the middle and that way i hit the ball more closer to the sweet spot. i also find the harder i swing the more erratic the marks on the impact tape become.
cheers
bill

[Neil18]

Re: how to get more distance?

Hi golfinguy,

Glad you found the post and website useful.

Funny you should mention the desire to crank it up a notch.

There's a film you may or may not have seen called Million Dollar Baby. Clint Eastwood is a boxing trainer who gets harrassed into training a 31 year old woman to become a fighter.

The best piece of advice ever was thrown into one of Eastwoods lines when he was talking to her about using the speed bag, and I quote:

"It's not how hard you hit it, it's how well you hit it"

The same is paramount in golf. If you've got a technique you like, how far you hit it is how far you hit it. If you wanna hit it a bit further, take another club and grip down on it a bit.

I am slowly learning that there is no value in muscling one. Invariably it goes offlne and short.

But then we've all hit the bomb that we want to surpass, so on the next drive we give it a bit more and what do ya know? Fore right!

I did it twice today. Two holes in a row I was concious of the fact that I had absolutely and utterly nailed one without even trying earlier in the round. It was one of those drives where you can still hear the swish of the ball through the air when it's 100 yards away. So I tried these two drives better it by crunching one and giving it a bit extra.

I hit both tee balls OB. Then I relaxed and played to just get it in play and KABOOM! The positions I hit and the rhythm was perfect and I outdid my 17 year old "big hitting" () playing partner by 25 yards.

Stupid game.

I would suggest that if you have truly gained 50 yards, then what more would you like (unless you were only hitting your driver 100 yards to start with!)?

Only other thing to do is lift weights and improve flexibility so that the same technique and rhythm produces more power from your muscles.

Glad you're playing well.

[jbrunk]

Re: how to get more distance?

IMO, there are 2 components to increasing distance (all other factors remaining constant): pivot faster and increase lag. I think pivoting faster does increase lag, so maybe that is 1 component. Anyway, you have to learn to pivot faster/harder while maintaining the other components of the swing.

The only way that happens for me is to get in better shape and get more flexible.

[BrianW]

Re: how to get more distance?

Only other thing to do is lift weights and improve flexibility so that the same technique and rhythm produces more power from your muscles.

Can my weights be flexible please?

Seriously now I can get another 50 yards on my drives by running like the clappers in the other direction after impact.

[ben hogan]

Re: how to get more distance?