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 a driver that you should be we're going to break
00:08down the simple points at setup and the simple movements that we can make in the swing to start
00:13to optimize the distance for the driver but firstly let's look at the differences between
00:18hitting an iron compared to a driver now an iron the golf ball is on the floor and we typically
00:23need to hit the golf ball with a downward attack angle where we hit the ball and then the turf
00:27after however the driver it's got a lot less loft on it it's on a big tee so we need to start to hit
00:34up onto that golf ball a little bit more that's going to really help firstly optimize those numbers
00:39to try and carry the ball further and give you a lot more distance let's look at the setup first so
00:44firstly to really encourage us to create this upward attack angle we're going to have to put the golf
00:50ball further forwards in the stance and when we say forwards it's more towards the target so you can
00:56see what i did there at setup i had the feet close together the ball towards the left foot and i took
01:01a small step with a left foot and a bigger step with the right foot and you can see how far forward
01:07now that golf ball position is so it's almost just inside the left heel what i also did is took a bit of
01:14a wider step so this is going to give us some stability this driver is a lot longer well it's the
01:19longest club in the bag we swing it a little bit 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
01:30have now tilted and just to just to be weary of here as we move the golf ball forward in the stance
01:37what typically happens is our shoulders start to point a little bit more to the left what often we see
01:45with with instruction with driver is that we need to tilt a lot more towards the right side so the
01:51right shoulder gets nearer to the right pocket but what happens when we move the ball position forwards
01:56is that the shoulders point more left so we have to counteract that just by sitting the right shoulder
02:02back so don't worry too much about sitting your right shoulder down so that's a couple of points
02:07that set up ball position forwards wider stance we're going to softly sit this right shoulder down
02:12and now we're ready to launch this driver a really easy point that we can do with the motion now is
02:20maybe think about how we load into this backswing to help optimize the attack angle so what a really
02:27good little simple point you can do is imagine the chest center of the chest the sternum or the zip
02:33through the middle of my top here is actually working more towards the right foot here i'll quite often
02:39see with people with drivers that they'll lean into the golf ball this way and that really is going
02:45to encourage that downward hit the ball's going to spin too much it's typically going to slice off to
02:50the right as well so let's give those points a go so ball position forward wider stance just softly sit
02:57in that right shoulder down and i'm going to encourage my chest to rotate and work more towards
03:03the right foot you can see that motion there is really bringing this club into the golf ball on that
03:09upward attack angle let'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 peg there
03:25and you can really see how my body was really working towards the right side almost gearing
03:31myself up to let these arms go so really simple points that you can take away there for the driver
03:37to start maximizing the distance a nice drill that you can do to furtherly encourage that upward attack
03:43angle you can simply do with a head cover now everybody's got a head cover that they can use
03:48or a glove or perhaps a tee peg in the way so we're going to take the head cover and we're going to put it
03:53just maybe one foot past the golf ball on the target line and i really want you to just flatten that
03:59down there okay so you can really start to build the picture for how this is going to start to
04:04increase this attack angle if i get this wrong i'm going to start to lean left i'm going to hit down
04:09onto that golf ball and my golf club post impact is going to carry through and you're going to battle
04:15that head cover so let's make sure that we put those setup 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 hitting that
04:25head cover let's give it a go ball position forward wide distance just sit in that right shoulder down
04:31moving to the right
04:32and avoiding that head cover
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