The ability to hit a driver straight shots and knowing how to keep them low and long are important keys for improving your game.

Let’s break it down to basic elements to show you how to hit the golf ball correctly with your driver.

• The ONLY guaranteed way to start swinging properly…

No matter what secrets you might want to hear about improving your swing, having a correct stance is critical.

You simply can’t ignore the foundation of the swing.

What matters the most is a balance throughout the swing. To achieve a good one, make sure to widen your stance to slightly more than your shoulder width. Keeping your stance too narrow is really not the right method for how to hit a driver straight.

• Keep the club head on plane

At the top of your backswing make sure that the clubface is pointing directly towards the target.

The ideal posture is having your hands higher than your back shoulder and at the same time pointing the club towards the area you want the ball to go. Practice in front of the mirror to make sure the driver is getting to the right position

Check out all pro players to see that their driver is always pointing in the direction they want the ball to travel in.

Remember, this is a key to improve your swing. Implement these tips for how to hit a driver straight and you will achieve accuracy as well as distance.

• Hitting the ball farther

No discussion on the driver swing would be complete without a tip on gaining distance. To get more distance you will need to check and correct your body movement throughout the swing.

First, increase your shoulder turn and second, resist with the hips.

Become more flexible and you are guaranteed to start hitting your driver further.

Again, watch all tour players and see how big their shoulder turn is. Their swing is packed with energy and is way too flexible than yours.

There are many ways to increase your distance but this is the only one that is guaranteed to work for every player.

Use these tips for how to hit a driver straight and far and you will see a big improvement in a hurry.

Lukas

Have you ever thought about a putter length that suits your needs?

In case you have not, you should do it right now.

While it is the shortest club in your bag, the putter is probably the most important in terms of the number of strokes.

The length of a putter is determined by three factors: golfer’s height, putting stroke and your comfort level.

If you don’t use the right one, then your effort to build a consistent golf putting stroke is pretty much meanigless.

To determine the correct putter length, follow this training aid:

Step 1
First I want you to approach the golf ball like you normally do. As you are in a putting stance over the ball, check/correct your body posture.

Your legs should not be bent. Your arms should be bent at the elbows and a slight but comfortable bend should form at the waist toward the golf ball.

Step 2
Now, take another golf ball and let go of it from your nose. The ball should strike the ball that you were about to putt.

If your putter is too long, the ball will drop between the ball on the ground and your feet. If the putter is too short, the ball will drop outside of the ball on the ground and your feet.

Step 3
To correct this, just choke down on the putter in case the ball falls outside of the space between your feet and the addressed ball or choke up on the putter if the ball falls inside of the space between your feet and the addressed ball.

Step 4
Finally, with a piece of tape, mark the top of your hands after you have determined the optimal length of the putter. This is how long your putter needs to be.

By now you should know the precisely selected spot on the shaft where your hands should be while putting.

If you have followed the information in this golf tip I can guarantee you to experience way more consistent putting strokes in a few days.

Your online golf instructor,

Lukas.

See Time to get a grip (part 1) before you start reading.

A common mistake is to set the club more in your palms, instead of in your fingers.

Follow three easy steps, and become a grip master:

1. Place the golf club across the fingers in your left hand [for righties], from the mid-section of the forefinger to the top of the pad of the pinkie finger. And when you close your grip, the shaft should be pressed against the muscular pad of your palm and your left thumb should be slightly right of center of the grip. And if done correctly, you should see about two and a half knuckles of your left hand.

The correct position of your thumb is very important because your left thumb supports the club at the top of your backswing.

2. Next, the right hand doesn’t come from underneath but from the side.

When placing the club in your right hand, the shaft should be again placed along the fingers and not the palm! Lightly close the fingers so the golf club is controlled by the two middle fingers. And now, your right thumb should be placed just to the left side of the center of the shaft.

3. I like grip tension at about a 4 on a scale of 1-10. You hear about gripping the club like you’re holding a baby bird. You want to hold it tight enough to control its movement, but of course you don’t want to choke.

Some golfers hold it tighter, imagine gripping it like a tube of toothpaste—you want to squeeze just enough paste for one brush’s worth.

I guess many of you associate power and distance with a very firm golf grip.

But if you thunk like this, then you are totally wrong.

The faster you can swing the golf club, the farther the ball will go. That sounds right.., however the energy your body generates is transferred to the club through your hands. Sounds right too, but here is the key:

If there is too much tension on your hands, you will reduce the speed the club can travel. Remember, too much tension reduces club speed!

If you are confused read it one more time, or go to video page of golf training room to see training video aid that I have found online. Look for Golf Grip.

Remember, proper grip is a key element to improve your scores!!

To your golf success,

Lukas.

If you are like most golfers and your backswing is full of errors or you just want to improve but you don´t have time to train properly, then I have a routine for you which is gonna help you a lot.

Have you ever practiced your backswing at home? No? You should consider doing so as it has helped ton of golfers. And you may be the next.

Practice your backswing at home with a new twist: make your backswing last an entire minute. You heard me right, give yourself 60 seconds to perform One backswing.

I am no joking, this technique has been proven to match the effectiveness of hitting thousands of golf balls.

When you reduce your backswing speed to extra-slow-motion, your concentration and muscle memory soar to new levels. Get into your address posture with your driver, and then start moving the club back very slowly.

The club should literally move at a snail’s pace.

It should take you approximately 10 seconds to swing your hands from address to mid-high, then another 10 seconds to get the shaft almost to parallel, and so on. The motion should be really extra slow, however you should never stop moving.

Perform this drill every day, and after a week or two, go to the driving range to see how it now feels in the real speed.

You’ll be surprised at your results, and how easily your body remembers the positions you practiced in your slow-motion swing.

Before performing any of these exercises, make sure you know exactly how the correct positions should look like!!!

Lukas

This is the first post from “More pars & more birdies” series, a recurring feature dedicated to taking your game to the next level.

Why not to start with very important, in fact I would say with the key factor to a great golf swing.

The golf grip. I am sorry to say that but chances are, yours is wrong.

It took me five long years to understand that without a good grip I couldn’t play a good round. And it had lasted another 2 years before I have perfected it.

In fact, the majority of everyday golfers take a fundamentally unsound grip on the club, they may play for ten years and then come to me and say “hey I wanna play better rounds, but I just can’t do it, what I am doing wrong?”

And believe me half of them have troubles gripping the club correctly…

A poor grip is one of the biggest obstacles to a game-changing breakthrough, if you don’t have a proper grip, then everything else in the swing is very likely meaningless.

When playing golf, you may use one of three grips to hold the golf club: The overlap, the interlock, or the 10-finger grip.

No matter what grip you are using, placing the club in your hands is when all the mistakes happen.

Lukas