Why You Need This: Today, you'll learn to "Hit Your Driver Further - No Matter Your Age or Flexibility"

And​ it can't be overstated just how important distance is for your golf game...

...and the worst part is a LOT of modern instruction is actually killing your distance.

So today, you're getting some of the best secrets to cranking up your distance...

...and even better, these actually make things easier for your body!

Start incorporating these 3 tips into your swing (which includes a simple swing thought with your trail quad muscle)...

...and feel your swing get easier and more free-flowing...

...and you'll be watching your ball soar much, much farther than ever before!!

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:13

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: All right, hammered that one. Everybody wants to hit the driver far, let’s be honest. It’s one of the most important things in golf.

But, it can be difficult sometimes especially when the instruction you’re getting is actually killing your swing speed and your distance, rather than building your swing speed and your distance.

Let me give you some of my best secrets to crank up the speed, crank up the distance, and make it even easier on your body.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so piece number one is making sure that we get a little bit more of a weight shift to the right. Every athletic motion that you have you’re going to have a weight shift.

Same in golf. I want to get an early weight shift to the right, so I realy load up on my right side and then I can shift all that energy through the ball. It’s going to help me to complete the swing.

It’s going to help me accelerate through the ball into the finish, and just make it a lot easier in general.

Let me try to go ahead and hit one here where I don’t get much of a weight shift. Not only am I going to decrease power, I’m also going to feel like my swing is all out of coordination.

So here, I’m going to feel like my weight kind of stays to the left and falls back to the right. I’m really going to have to feel like my arms and hands take over to try to save the shot.

Instead of going right and then shifting through the ball, I’m going to stay left and then fall back away from the shot.

So I’m left, falling back, and again, the shot went off the hosel, lost a ton of distance just because I felt like I couldn’t really get all my energy into it, and then also I lost awareness of the club face.

I’m going to start to hit not only slices like I did there, or hooks also, but I could just hit it all over the place.

Now here’s the solution for that. Very early in your backswing, I want you to feel like you load your right quad. So this muscle on top of your right leg.

I want you to feel like you can feel some pressure into that muscle very early in the backswing. So when you want to feel that is right as soon as you’re taking the club away.

So here, even if my club’s only moved a foot, I want to feel like I’m loaded into my right leg and I’m getting a little bit of a pressure shift that direction.

Then, as I complete my backswing, I’m going to actually shift back to the left and swing through the ball. Again, so it’s an early shift to the right and then once I get to the right, I’m going to shift left and swing down.

That’s the same thing as if you’re going to throw a baseball. I’m shifting right and then I’m shifting left through the ball.

If I’m throwing a football, if I’m swinging a baseball bat, everything is right side early, shift left, and then swing through this golf ball.

Make a couple practice swings doing that. Feel that right quad engage very early, and you’re going to make a better golf swing.

Let’s go ahead and give it a try here, where now I feel like almost before I even start my swing, I’m getting a little pressure into my right leg there. Let’s give that a whirl.

There we go, hit that one awesome. Couldn’t do much better than that. We saw the first drive went 313, I believe is what it was. The second was down at 260, so I lost 50 yards or so.

This third one was 324. So definitely much more powerful when I can get right early, and then I can get everything to shift through the ball, accelerate through the ball. It just makes it a lot easier.

Now with that, is also your hip turn. You really don’t want to turn those hips off to where you feel like they’re locked up. So very common thing that I see is for people to try to get the feeling of a big stretch in their body.

Some instruction is going to tell you that you should restrict the amount that your hips turn in the golf swing.

So in my backswing, I’m going to feel like I keep this right leg really flexed, and even if I shift to the right, I’m not going to rotate my hips very much, and I’m going to get a big stretch between my hips and my shoulders.

I feel really locked up here, even though I’ve only made half a backswing. Well, when you do that, again, the distance plummets.

So if I feel like I restrict my hips here, I’m not going to get nearly the distance that I want to have. So that one, I hit as perfect as I can hit a golf ball with the restricted hip turn.

I mean, it is dead straight on there, right down the middle of the fairway, couldn’t be any better, but it’s still not going to be as good as the ones that I just made decent swings on when I’ve made my full turn.

So that one was 244, 100 miles an hour of swing speed. Even though it was dead flush, I just can’t generate the speed and the power I can when I really rotate those hips.

I want you to focus in again, on that right leg. Add this to what we talked about before. I want to feel a little pressure in my right quad, early in the swing, and I also want to feel like I go ahead and push in the ground, my right leg straightens up a bit.

Now I don’t want to do this and sway to the right. I want to feel like I’m staying here, I’m keeping this angle in my leg but I’m loading the right leg, and I’m straightening my right knee at the same time.

So I feel a little pressure in my right quad, and I also feel my leg straightening at the same time. That’s what allows you to get the hips to turn in the backswing.

Watch my hips this time, you’ll see how it’s a much bigger turn in the backswing, and I really get much more loaded up. There we go, and another good one.

All right, so now let’s talk about the third piece which is making short, compact swing and having our arms kind of be on plane as a lot of people call this.

So I’m making shorter swing, my hands aren’t going as far back, and while I’m doing that, I’m keeping my arms, the arc angle of my left arm is kind of matching the angle that my shoulders are on. This is kind of on plane here.

Now that’s going to look good on camera. It’s going to look like a very nice-looking swing. It’s also, I can hit some solid shots from there. I can really play some pretty good golf doing that.

But the problem is, I have to work hard to be able to get the kind of distance I need. I have to have a great round to shoot a good score because I have to maximize hitting every shot solid to make up for the distance.

If I can get a little farther, I don’t have to play as well and I can still shoot the same score. So here, more compact, left arm matching the shoulders, let’s see what that looks like.

All right, so that one I hit nice and straight, really hit a good shot there. That’s what I was saying, you can hit some good shots doing that, but with that shorter more flatter swing, not going to get the swing speed that I wanted.

105 miles an hour on the swing speed, and 287, because that was a great flight. It had a lot of good roll, it carried 255, but that was basically a perfect shot with that type of swing.

But you have more in your body, you could actually do more than that. So for you, that may be if you’re swinging 90 miles an hour, or 100 miles an hour, that may be the shot that goes, you know, 200 yards or 220 yards, when really your body has potential to swing a lot faster than that.

So let me go ahead and get one now where I feel like my arms elevate and my left arm specifically is higher than the angle of my shoulders.

What that allows me to do is to add to that big body turn I talked about, and get my hands higher up here. It’s actually easier to do to create distance that way.

If you feel like you’re more around your body, you’re going to feel tight, restricted, and you’re not going to feel like you have as much power.

If you let your hands elevate, now you feel like you’re freer, you create easier swing speed so you don’t really have to swing very hard, and you can still get a lot of pop on it.

So here, I’m going to go ahead and swing easy, but I’m going to let my arms go a little higher and let’s see what it changes in my swing speed and my carry distance.

There we go, so I felt like, for me, I didn’t swing that hard. I hit a really nice shot right down the middle of the fairway.

My swing speed on the last one was – and I can see the ball carried way farther – my swing speed on the last one was 105, that one was 120.

The last one carried 255, that one carried 292. The last one’s around 287, that one was 319. So again, it doesn’t matter if you’re hitting it 200, 250, or 300, the same general principle and how your body works is going to help you to get more effortless distance.

So if I can get my left arm more up versus around, that not only makes me have a longer swing, but also helps me just to be freer and make a more relaxed swing. Kind of like a Fred Couples would do, and create a lot of power that way.

Let’s recap these three pieces. Number one, weight shift has to be early. I want to feel like I load my right quad.

Number two, I have to rotate my hips. That’s me feeling like I push into the ground, this right leg straightens, and I get my hips to rotate as I’m doing that. So early weight shift and I’m letting my hips rotate.

Number three, really give yourself that effortless power by letting your arms go up instead of making your arms go short and around your body.

You do those three things, you free up your swing and you just hit it a whole heck of a lot farther. Golf is a whole heck of a lot more fun.

Now everything I talked about here today, whether it’s that weight shift to the right, whether it’s that hip turn by using your right leg correctly, or getting those hands higher, those are all pieces that I cover in my 20-Minute Distance Fix program.

Now if you want to be the man in your local foursome, you want to be the guy that can hit it way past your buddies, I’ve had players that went from below average swing speed and distance, pick up up to 70 yards of driving distance.

They go from one of the shorter players in their group to hitting it 40 or 50 yards past their buddies. I’ve seen it time and time again as people walk through the 20-Minute Distance Fix.

Now if you’re a member of Top Speed Golf, that’s included in your membership. All you need to do is go ahead and click the Instruction tab at the top of the screen, and the very first tab there, that’s the 20-Minute Distance Fix.

You just do the first video and you can build on what we talked about today. Today’s going to get you started, you do the first video in that course, I promise you if you just do the average results, you’re going to be 15 yards farther in the next 20 minutes when you combine these two drills.

That’s just average. I’ve seen many players get much better results than that. So I can’t wait to help you to really share my true secrets on distance.

I haven’t seen these results anywhere else. I’ve got a lot of good stuff in there. Go there now, walk through the 20-Minute Distance Fix program if you haven’t done it so far, and you’re going to be booming your drives.

I’ll see you there.