Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Hit a Driver Straight"

Throughout my golfing career, I've had many things that weren't perfect about my swing...

...but fortunately, I've always been a really good driver of the golf ball.

From an early age, I was given two incredible bits of advice...

and it's made driving the ball almost second nature for me.

But honestly, I very rarely see anyone else using these simple tips...

...and If you haven't heard these "secrets", you probably struggle to hit the ball straight, consistently.

That all changes today, as I'm going to let you in on these simple keys...

...so now, you can start driving the ball straight (and you'll probably start out-driving your buddies as well).

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:23

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Almost every golfer I see that struggles hitting it straight does pretty much the same thing. They’re going to have the hips bump this way a little bit to the right in the backswing.

In the downswing, they’re going to stand up and lose their posture a little bit, and then that club’s going to do all kinds of different things.

It’s going to slam shut, and that ball’s going a mile to the left, or they’re going to fall back and keep the face open, that ball’s going to go a mile to the right.

There’s a lot of things that could happen that we don’t want to have happen when we move that way.

The secret to hitting the driver really straight, and I was lucky enough to be taught these things correctly at a very young age, these couple things that I’m going to talk about in this video.

I had a lot of things wrong, but I’ve always been a very good driver of the golf ball because of this. Number one, I have to be angled away from the target.

I measured 50 Major winners from the year 2000. Every single one of them at contact, when they hit this golf ball, their upper body was angled away from the target.

So many golfers bump that hip, now all of a sudden my upper body gets angled this way, and then we stand up and we’re almost straight up and down.

When I see, I’ve seen almost probably 10,000 swings online, and the vast majority of them do that pattern that I just talked about. Their spine angle’s way too vertical, and the ball goes this way, and it goes that way.

Let’s talk about how to do this. Number one, we want to get this set up right at address. I’m going to get a little bit of bump.

So I’m feeling like my hips actually go this way. My right hip is lower than my left hip. It’s just slight, I’m exaggerating here. I’m feeling like my shoulders are also tilted.

That’s going to get my entire spine angled back. From there, I want to feel like I get a little weight shift to the right, so my weight’s moving to my right foot, but I don’t lean this way.

As I do that, I want to feel like if I had a club hanging from my chin, that that club would be off my chest and it would be kind of on the inside of my right foot.

So if I did it the wrong way and I did this, all of a sudden the club would be laying across my chest and that club would be up here by the ball instead of being back here like this.

It’s a slight move, we’re talking a couple of inches, it makes all the difference in the world. So a little bit of bump at address.

As I go to the top of the swing, I’m keeping that angle there. If I don’t keep that angle, I’m going to hit it all over the place.

That’s piece number one, let’s go ahead and try that out and notice how this angle stays tilted away the entire time in my swing. There we go, hit that one right down the middle, just like a bullet.

So driving to me, and I hate feeling like I’m being bragging or anything, but driving feels very easy. If I could do one thing over and over again, I would love to hit the driver every single time because I’m able to hit it very straight and very far.

It’s not because I’m just an extremely great athlete, because there’s other parts of my game where I’m not as talented as the pros would be.

When it comes to driving, I have these fundaments right and it makes it easy for me to hit drives just like you see with the pros. I think you can too.

If you’re up a little bit in age, that’s OK, you may not go quite as far as Bryson DeChambeau or whoever, but it’s going to be pretty dag-gone good.

You’re going to be outdriving your buddies and you’re going to be hitting it solid at the same time. That’s the first piece.

The second piece here is as I start my weight shift to the left, I have to feel like I keep my head behind that golf ball and behind my lead foot.

So this is a tricky one for a lot of players. I’m angled back, wouldn’t I be falling back to the right? No, you’re actually moving to the left.

So I can go ahead and step just like a baseball hitter would be doing, they’re going to step in this front foot, this is angled back, and their weight is staying behind that lead foot.

If I’m wanting to swing from the inside, I have to get that weight moving to the left, but I have to be angled back so I can get this club moving from the inside here.

So that’s the second piece. You can’t just be angled back and stay there, and swing off your back foot. That’s not going to work.

I have to get angled back and then shift my weight into my front foot and finish over my front foot. So that looks just like this.

Again, I’m angled back, early shift to the right. From there, I’m beginning to shift left, and my entire downswing, I’m driving weight into my left foot as I’m angled back.

Then as I finish my follow through, the momentum of the club is going to pull me all the way around to that good, full finish.

So that’s what you want to feel like. I want to feel like I’m almost like a spike being driven into my left foot from my right shoulder.

As I shift weight, that spike is going this way. I’m not doing this and sliding in front of it, I’m staying back and shifting into that left foot.

That allows me to swing from the inside, it allows me to get tons of power, and really hit this driver extremely straight.

Let’s go ahead and try another one out here, get my tilt. On this one I’m really feeling like my weight goes to the inside of my front foot, but I’m staying behind the golf ball. My head is always behind the golf ball.

There we go. Hit that one nice and solid again. Nice little tiny fade, hit really solid. The only reason I’m getting all the way up on my front foot is that my club eventually pulls me around and I’m balanced over this front foot.

Up until then, even though I’m shifting hard to the left, I’m staying behind it. Let me hit one final one here, and you can see again just how much force I’m moving to the left.

Really pay attention to how hard I shift to the left even though my head is staying behind the golf ball.

There we go, another good shot right down the left side of the fairway, what would be the fairway. That’s going to help you to hit it a whole heck of a lot straighter while keeping the power.

Now this isn’t something brand new. This is actually one of the five real fundamentals of the golf swing, what’s called the Stable Fluid Spine. I call it the number one fundamental. You have to get that body tilted away, just like I said.

50 of the last 50 Major winners were all tilted away, and the 50 before that, and the 50 before that, however many Major winners there’s ever been, I guarantee you, I bet every dime I have, their spine is not straight up and down at contact, it’s tilted away like this.

On average, the pros are tilted away about 20°. Now there’s a right way and a wrong way to do this. I see the majority of players do this, and they just tilt their shoulders. That would be the wrong way.

I have to get my entire body tilted the correct way, and I’m going to go over that and many more secrets on how to do this correctly in my Stable Fluid Spine section of the Top Speed Golf System.

If you’re a member of Top Speed Golf, go over to the Instruction tab. Click on the Top Speed Golf System. Work your way through level one.

As you do that, this is one of those that’s going to become really natural really quick. You’re going to start to notice a lot straighter shots, the club coming from the inside, feeling like you’re playing a lot better golf, very quickly.

Doesn’t take very long at all. So work through level one, you’re going to start playing better. Then as you work through level two and level three, it’s going to become completely natural.

So I can’t wait to see you over there in the Stable Fluid Spine, I can’t wait to share some of those secretes with you, because I know you’re going to have so much more fun playing golf.

Let’s go and get started now.