Why You Need This: In this video, you'll learn how to hit your driver over 300 yards.

Imagine you're on a par 5 tee box...

The wind is with you and the fairway is wide open...

You have the green light!

Are you ready to crush it?

If your answer is "heck yeah" then you'll love this video...

You'll get simple and quick tips to max out your driver distance.

You may want to push aside consistency for this video.

After all, if the fairway is wide open, then why not go for more distance???

Let's get started...

Here's how to let your driver rip...

#1: Launch the ball high

If the wind is with you, hit it high to ride the wind.

You want the driver to crush the ball with a slightly positive angle of attack (nothing crazy, maybe 2 to 4 degrees).

To hit with a higher angle of attack...

Have the ball further up in your stance, off your lead toe is fine.

Also, deloft the driver a bit.

This may seem counter intuitive, but delofting the club will help you make better, more solid contact with the ball when you swing with a positive angle of attack.

#2 Swing with a full turn

For a normal swing, you likely keep your left foot grounded in the backswing.

Allow your foot to come off the ground a bit and let your hips rotate back in your backswing.

These two moves will help you make a bigger turn so you can load up for more power.

Now it's your turn!

Watch this video now to learn how to hit your driver over 300 yards!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:55

Video Transcription:

All right, guys. Let’s say you’re up on that hole and you want to absolutely crush one. It’s a par 5, it’s wide open. Maybe you’ve got some wind at your back, you really want to hit it high like the pros do, and just let it carry a mile.

This is going to be a couple of really quick, easy tips to get you to crush the ball. So it’s only going to use this, you may get a little bit of inconsistency when you’re trying to hit it this hard, but if you’re on an open hole, go ahead and let it fly.

If there’s no trouble on the hole, try to rip one. It’s fun to hit it far. I’m going to give you a few things that are really going to help you to do this.

Number one, if we’re looking at launching the ball really high, getting the most distance we can, we want to have a positive angle of attack.

What I mean by this, is as you swing this club imagine it’s coming down and it’s a pendulum. The bottom of this pendulum would be dead flat, the club is moving perfectly level with the ground. As it starts to come back up that would be a positive angle of attack, meaning the club is moving upward.

If we’re watching long-drive guys, the guys that are hitting it absolutely as far as anybody on the planet, swinging 150 miles an hour, carrying the ball like almost 400 yards sometimes, they’re hitting the ball about 6° or 7° on the upswing.

That’s a bit extreme. We’re not going to be able to do that very easily on our normal swing and then go back to hitting down on an iron -3°, -5°, that’s a little too much discrepancy.

But if you want to have a special shot like this, where you have a wide-open hole, it’s OK to feel like you at least get 2°, 4° up on the ball, that’s perfectly fine.

So how we’re going to do this, is we’re going to go ahead, if this is our normal stance and our normal ball position with a driver, that’s for that level angle of attack. We’re going to go ahead and move the ball up in our stance.

Basically here if you’re trying to go all out max distance, go ahead and put that ball just kind of on your front toe. Now as I swing, I’m going to be hitting up on this ball. That ball is going to be coming on an upward ascending blow as I hit it.

Now we’re launching the ball high as we’re doing that because we’re adding some loft to the driver head, because now it’s moving up plus it’s going to have the loft that’s on the head.

We want to go ahead and make sure that we deloft the club a little bit so that we transfer all the energy into the ball. Imagine you have a pitching wedge. I’m swinging 120 miles an hour, big-time speed like PGA Tour-type speed.

I have a pitching wedge where the face has 45° of loft on it. If I come down and swing 120 miles an hour, it’s a glancing blow because this ball is hitting at an angle against the face.

Well if I take all that loft off, and let’s say I had 0° loft, and I came in and hit it dead square, now all the energy is transferring directly into the ball. The more loft we can take off the club, as long as we’re hitting up on it enough to get it up in the air, the more energy that’s going to go into the ball.

A great way to do this is an awesome little training aid I have called the Impact Snap. I wish I’d come up with this training aid, I didn’t, but I definitely like to use it.

You go ahead and set up with this Impact Snap in your hands, and now I’m going to go ahead and roll my hands until at impact my forearm will be touching this yellow ball, the bottom of my right forearm. That’s really delofting the club.

This is exaggerated, this is a little bit more than we do when we’re really swinging, but it’s a great way to feel that exaggeration. If you have one of those, that’s fantastic. If not, what I want you to feel, if we’re looking from the down the line view, is that I’m going to be turning this face down toward the ground.

Then from there, as I hit up that’s squaring the face early, it’s delofting the face. As I hit up, I’m going to be taking that loft off there so that upward blow is going to get the ball launching high and by taking some loft off, I’m delivering the full impact, the full force.

Now here’s the last thing to do with your swing. I wouldn’t try to make a lot of swing changes when you’re trying to hit maximum distance, you really just want to use your normal swing. Well we want to make sure we really wind up with the torso.

Now traditionally, we would leave our left ankle on the ground. So as I’m loading up, I want to make sure my shoulders get this big turn. I let my hips go ahead and turn so I can really get wound up behind the ball.

Again, you watch long-drive players, they’re really loading up, that helps them a lot. For those of you guys that are a little bit older, make sure you let those hips go.

Now again, as you get older in age, it gets a little tougher to wind up, gets a little tougher to get that power. Don’t be afraid to lift your left heel slightly off the ground. We don’t have to get it way back here like this, like you see some people do, but just a little bit maybe an inch or two.

That’s going to allow your hips to rotate a little farther. See if my ankle’s on the ground I can’t rotate my hips as far as if I let my ankle come off the ground. Then from there, my shoulders are going to load up even more as I’m going back.

I’m going to put it to the test. I’ve got my FlightScope radar out here. I’ve got a range ball, it’s limited flight. We’re going to put it to the test.

This all great to say this kind of stuff, but we’ll see if we can hit this ball 300 yards, which I’ll be impressed if I can make it happen, because these balls aren’t going to go quite as good as a normal Pro V, but let’s try it out.

Ball up in the stance, I’m delofting that club, so I’m hitting up, almost feeling like I’m putting topspin on the ball, and I’m going to let my left ankle lift a little bit to get a little bit extra swing speed and really load up.

There we go, hit it pretty hard. Just down the left edge, left edge of what would be the fairway. Let’s see what I got out of it. Aw, 297.8, almost 300 yards. Again, limited flight golf ball’s going to be tough for me to crank 300.

I’ll go ahead and swing a few more, we’ll see if I can break the 300 mark. All right guys, took a few more swings. Absolutely crushed the last one, 316 was the total distance.

Go ahead and take a rip at it, have fun, get on those holes where you’ve got a little bit of room, it’s open, you’re downwind, and have a good time. Just go ahead and take a rip at it. If you hit a bad shot, it’s all right. It’s no big deal, you’ll be able to straighten out on the next hole.

See you guys soon, have some fun.