Why You Need This: Today you'll get some great tips to drive farther over age 50.

That's right...

You're going to learn how to get more club head speed even if you're getting a bit older.

No more excuses!

So where do we start?

Well, you first need to understand that you've gotta swing a bit differently than you did when you were 18 years old.

I'm only 32, but I already notice the differences between now and over 10 years ago…

As you get older, you're likely getting tighter...

And losing some of the flexibility that you once had.

But there are a few simple "cheats" that'll help you overcome any flexibility issues...

And you're about to learn them.

In this video you'll get 3 tips to increase your drives as you get older.

These tips will work for you no matter what your club head speed is currently...

So check out this video now to b18elt your drives…

and tell Father Time who's boss!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:55

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Hope you guys are having a good day. In this video I’m going to focus in on how you can get good club head speed, how you can get a little bit extra distance even when you’re getting a bit older.

So if you’re older 50 years old, we can still get that club head speed but we do have to a swing a little bit differently than say an 18-year-old.

I’m not that old of a guy, I’m 32 years old, but it’s even tougher for me. I can tell a difference from when I was 18 to when I’m 32, and as you get older things get a little bit tighter, we’re not as flexible, and we’re going to need to do things slightly different to get good club head speed.

On that one I made a pretty good swing, hit that ball nice and solid, about 119 mph club head speed, looks like it was a little over 300 yards of total distance.

There’s a couple of things that we can do to really make sure that we get that power. No matter what your swing speed is, even if your swing speed is, you know, 70 mph versus anybody else’s, we can use these same techniques, these same principles to get you a few extra yards.

So let me grab another golf ball here. On the PGA Tour the average shoulder turn in the backswing, with those guys, a lot of those guys are very flexible, especially if you’re talking about Dustin Johnson, or Rory McIlroy, I mean those guys are super, super flexible, almost hyper-flexible.

But in the backswing the average for the entire PGA Tour for a shoulder turn is about 126°. So that means the shoulders, if we go from shoulder socket to shoulder socket, are rotating until they’re facing well behind the golf ball, 126° of rotation.

So 90° is kind of the minimum that I like to see everybody get. I think it’s going to help you to get the most distance.

For the hip turn, it’s going to be about 45°, so one of the biggest things out there that a lot of people are preaching right now is to restrict your hip turn, and to get some separation between the hips and the shoulders.

Well, if you’re not very flexible, if you’re getting older in age, that’s going to kill your distance. Because we’re not going to be able to create enough separation to really get wound up. We’ve got to get wound up.

So as you get a little older, I recommend getting a little more hip turn, and I’ve got a great test for you.

Go ahead and stand up out of your chair if you’re watching at your computer, or if you’re at the golf course, go ahead and try this drill out.

I want you to keep your belt buckle facing straight forward, and I want you to rotate your shoulders as far as you can. As we stand up here, I’m going to rotate my shoulders as far as I can without letting my belt buckle rotate at all.

You can see now that I’ve gone about 45°, maybe a little bit more. I want to turn my hips 45°, I’m going to get to about 90° with my shoulders, maybe a little bit extra if I really force it, because I’ll have some momentum.

But there’s no where I’m going to be able to get to that 128° unless I’m pretty dag-gone flexible like a lot of the guys on the PGA Tour are.

So as you get a little bit older, getting those hips to rotate a little bit more, I recommend as you get older in age, instead of being 45°, let’s go ahead and let them rotate 50°-55°, that way it’s going to help us to turn those shoulders and get a little bit more flexibility.

The second thing that helps with that is going ahead and lifting your left heel up. So as I go into my backswing, I’ve actually been doing this, I didn’t used to lift my left heel up, but I realized I’m not the most flexibility guy in the world.

If I lift my left heel, just very slightly, that frees up my hips, it gets me wound up a lot more, and then as I push the heel into the ground, I can really let that club whip through contact and actually get more speed coming through contact when I lift my heel and then put it back on the ground.

I’ve seen absolutely no difference in distance, some of the best players in the world, Jack Nicklaus lifted the heel, a lot of other players lift the heel and do very well with it.

When I put both of those things together, I’m going to let my hips rotate a little bit more, and I do that by feeling like I’m pushing out with my right foot.

I’m pushing back with my left foot, that’s going to get my hips to actually move, I’m putting pressure in the ground to get my hips to twist.

Then I’m lifting my left heel, and when I do that, we can see I get a big shoulder turn, really get wound up and I can get a lot of power. So that’s the first part of it.

If we don’t get wound up, we’re not going to be able to swing through with a lot of speed.

What I want you to do now is go ahead and put your club across your shoulders. Do about 100 repetitions here, lifting that left heel, getting the club to point behind the golf ball.

It’ll be pointing out in front of the golf ball, so it would be pointing outside of it, but it’s going to rotate behind it, and then we’re going to come all the way on through to where my club is now facing over to the left a little bit.

100 repetitions of that. Make sure the left heel just comes up just a little tiny bit. The third thing we’re going to work on here is as I set up, I’m going to go ahead and open up my hip a little bit, or open up my left foot a little bit.

What that does, is that takes your actual hip socket here, and it opens that up so now as I come on through, I can rotate through a little more easily.

That’s the same thing as we’re going back. We get a little tighter, we can’t load up as we come through, if we get a little tighter and we can’t rotate on through the shot.

So I recommend playing the foot open, probably 20° or 30°, and as you come on through the shot, now that’s going to allow your hips to rotate so you can get those shoulders to rotate all the way on around like that, and that’s going to help with your speed.

Now one question I get a lot of times is, well why does that matter? Who cares how far I rotate through? I’ve already hit the ball when I’m coming through the shot, doesn’t really matter if I stop right here, the ball is already well on its way.

Well what’s really happening there, is in my downswing I’m going to start decelerating here, and that ends up in kind of a short, abbreviated follow through. If I continue to accelerate through the ball, I’m going to finish all the way on around.

So those few little tricks there are going to help you to bump up your speed. If you put those together, we’re going to be able to get a good full shoulder turn going back, good full turn coming through, and we’re going to pick up some great distance.

All right guys, go out there take a nice, aggressive swing. Free up your swing even if you’re over 50 years old. You can still rip the ball. Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.