Trey Niven talks about how to drive for beginners, tips and advice.
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00:00You're not quite getting the distance with the driver that you should be, we're going
00:07to break down the simple points at set up and the simple movements that we can make
00:12in the swing to start to optimise the distance for the driver.
00:15But firstly let's look at the differences between hitting an iron compared to a driver.
00:20Now an iron, the golf ball is on the floor and we typically need to hit the golf ball
00:24with a downward attack angle where we hit the ball and then the turf after.
00:28For the driver it's got a lot less loft on it, it's on a big tee, so we need to start
00:33to hit up onto that golf ball a little bit more, that's going to really help firstly
00:38optimise those numbers to try and carry the ball further and give you a lot more distance.
00:43Let's look at the set up first, so firstly to really encourage us to create this upward
00:48attack angle we're going to have to put the golf ball further forwards in the stance and
00:52when we say forwards it's more towards the target.
00:56So you can see what I did there at set up, I had the feet close together, the ball towards
01:00the left foot and I took a small step with the left foot and a bigger step with the right
01:05foot and you can see how far forward now that golf ball position is, so it's almost just
01:11inside the left heel.
01:12What I also did is took a bit of a wider step, so this is going to give us some stability,
01:17this driver is a lot longer, well it's the longest club in the bag, we swing it a little
01:22bit quicker so we need the stability from the ground.
01:25You can see already as I move the golf ball position forwards in the stance how my shoulders
01:31have now tilted and just to be weary of here, as we move the golf ball forward in the stance
01:38what typically happens is our shoulders start to point a little bit more to the left.
01:44What often we see with instruction with drivers is that we need to tilt a lot more towards
01:50the right side so the right shoulder gets nearer to the right pocket but what happens
01:54when we move the ball position forwards is that the shoulders point more left so we have
01:58to counteract that just by sitting the right shoulder back, so don't worry too much about
02:03sitting your right shoulder down.
02:06So that's a couple of points that's set up, ball position forwards, wider stance, we're
02:10going to softly sit this right shoulder down and now we're ready to launch this driver.
02:16A really easy point that we can do with the motion now is maybe think about how we load
02:22into this backswing to help optimise the attack angle.
02:26So a really good little simple point you can do is imagine the chest, centre of the chest,
02:31the sternum or the zip through the middle of my top here is actually working more towards
02:37the right foot here.
02:38I quite often see with people with drivers that they'll lean into the golf ball this
02:43way and that really is going to encourage that downward hit, the ball's going to spin
02:47too much, it's typically going to slice off to the right as well.
02:51So let's give those points a go, so ball position forward, wider stance, just softly
02:56sitting that right shoulder down and I'm going to encourage my chest to rotate and work more
03:02towards the right foot.
03:04You can see that motion there is really bringing this club into the golf ball on that upward
03:09attack angle.
03:10Let's give these a go.
03:11Okay, so we can see there the ball was brushed off the tee, not much contact with the tee
03:24peg there and you can really see how my body was really working towards the right side,
03:30almost gearing myself up to let these arms go.
03:34So really simple points that you can take away there for the driver to start maximising
03:38the distance.
03:40A nice drill that you can do to further encourage that upward attack angle, you can simply do
03:45with a head cover.
03:46Now everybody's got a head cover that they can use or a glove or perhaps a tee peg in
03:50the way.
03:51So we're going to take the head cover and we're going to put it just maybe one foot
03:55past the golf ball on the target line and I really want you to just flatten that down
03:59there.
04:00Okay, so you can really start to build the picture for how this is going to start to
04:04encourage this attack angle.
04:06So if I get this wrong, I'm going to start to lean left, I'm going to hit down onto that
04:10golf ball and my golf club post impact is going to carry through and you're going to
04:14batter that head cover.
04:15So let's make sure that we put those set up points in play, we're going to get over to
04:19the right side and we're going to try and sweep that golf ball off the tee and avoid
04:24hitting that head cover.
04:25Let's give it a go.
04:26Ball position forward, wider stance, just sitting that right shoulder down, moving to the right
04:35and avoiding that head cover.