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Hello friends, welcome back into the Green Grass Golf Shop. Today I just have a quick tip, but it’s one that can certainly help every golfer hit higher, longer, and straighter drives all at the same time. So let’s just dive right in.

Now, if you’re new to the game or if you never knew, one thing to understand is that the driver swing is one of the few full swings that we take that will be different than the rest of our bag. Rather than wanting to hit slightly down on the ball, like we do with the irons, woods, hybrids, The design of the modern driver head dictates that we want to do the opposite. We want to hit slightly up on the golf ball. By doing so, you can maximize your launch angle, minimize the spin that you put on the golf ball. High launch, low spin. That’s what we’re looking for here. These are all relative terms though. Far too often, I see an amateur with an 85-90 mile an hour swing speed trying to tinker with their gear, spend thousands on new shafts and heads, trying to achieve a spin rate under 2,000 RPMs like the pros are after when that’s not even close to ideal for their swing speed. All of these sexy spin rates set an unrealistic expectation for our impressionable young golfers, and they need to be addressed. We need to save our sweet babies from these PGA Tour harlots plastered all over our Golf Channel…scantily clad, with almost no spin on their balls. It’s just not right, it’s Barbie all over again.

If your swing speed isn’t over 120 miles an hour, your ideal spin rate does not start with a 1, I promise you that. In order to maximize both carry and roll, with ball speeds under 180 miles per hour, which is the most you can get out of 120 miles an hour at club head speed, you need to get your spin rate between 2000 and 2200 RPMs, depending on your launch angles. With that few extra hundred RPM of spin rate, those situations you get into where you need every single inch of your max carry distance are going to have a lot more narrow (wider*) margin for error. And when we’re really trying to shoot more consistently at lower scores, widening that margin for error as often as we can is best way we can go about that. The pros aren’t out there wondering what shot they need to hit to bring themselves as close to the hole as they can. Half the time, they’re not even aiming for the hole. The most important part of that process for them is not the closest to the hole part, right? It’s about the confidence that they have in being able to hit that shot in their sleep. They’re looking for the shot that they can hit that will not only bring them closer to the hole but will also offer them the widest margin for error to get them there as easily as possible. If you want to be consistently better, you need to be thinking the same way that they do.

Okay, PSA over, back to the drill. Now, all we need for this is our driver and an alignment rod. There are other things we can use for this drill, even some things that we’ll find on the course. I’ll touch on that in the end. For now, we’ll just start with this. First, I’m just going to get it started in the ground, alright, and then I’m going to angle it down just like that [and push it a little further in the ground]. That’s where it’ll stay. When we’re swinging with our driver, we really don’t need more than two or four degrees [of upward attack angle] we don’t need a ton of angle here to over-accentuate like we do with our with our drills nothing too crazy, maybe 15 [degrees]. This is probably too high the way I have it here, but that’s the whole setup. All we’re trying to do with this drill is pretend we have the ball teed up on the end of the stick here. Right up to that spot, right over the tip. Now all we’re going to do is take some practice swings and try not to hit that stick. Now if I’m on the range, to groove that into the muscle memory, I’m going to set that up right outside the ball, take a few practice swings that way I can just pet my practice swings grooved in, then step in take that same swing with the ball just getting in the way. Now on the course one of the great ways about the way they are designed is that most of the tee boxes that you’re going to walk up to are built on sort of platforms you have to walk up a slope to get to the tee you can use that for this drill and his prime Vijay Singh, when the driver had switched from the smaller heads to the bigger ones to get the feel for that, he used to swing up those hills to get him a really good feel for that new upward angle of attack. Even if you don’t have a slope or an alignment rod, you can easily pretend you have one now that you’ve seen this video. Start with the clubbing arm straight out, pretend the ball is about a foot or two in the air, take your practice swings from there down, and up that imaginary stick. Now the second most important part of this drill specifically is going to be the grip. now in this drill, I’m going to double, triple, quadruple check make sure my grip is in the right spot, especially that bottom hand being down more towards the bottom of the club instead of way over top. For this one, I really, really want to see those hands released. The biggest thing that i see with people trying this bill for the first trying this drill for the first time is that you’re swinging up like this, right? With the chest coming up, not releasing through the impact zone. And that helps you swing up, sure, but it also leaves the club face pointed way away from your target, creates a ton of unnecessary loft and back and side spin and would certainly not fix the slice that we’re trying to help with this drill. A nice strong grip and the club releasing naturally through the swing, you can hit those high nasty draws that Rory does in his sleep, really help you keep your ball both in the fairway and maximize your distance at the same time.

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