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

In today's lesson...

I'll reveal the three swing keys that, if you get right, will produce consistently straight drives...

...along with a unique driver hack that will help you smash the sweet spot consistently!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:10

Video Transcription:

All right. Nice little draw down the right center. If you want, hit the driver straight. There's really just three things that you have to do. You got to swing the direction of the club straight. You got to deliver with a nice square face. And you also have to hit it somewhere relatively in the center of the clubhead. You do those three things.

You're going to be a great golfer. Well, the question is. I'd love to do that. If I could just do those three things, I probably wouldn't be here watching this video. I'd be out on the PGA Tour Well, you'd be surprised if I can give you these special drills. I'm going to give you here a couple real tricks.

You'd be surprised how much headway you can make, how much straighter you can hit it in just one practice session. It's all about knowing what to do and how to read your ball flight, which I'm going to get into. So the first thing is the path. So if you're gonna play a nice little draw like I did on that one, you're going to want to swing slightly to the right.

And what that means is, as my club comes to contact. It's going to be coming from the inside, hitting the golf ball and going to the outside this way. So from inside out, if you're looking at it from this direction, if you're going to play a fade, your club going to be coming out here, swing slightly across the ball.

Now, here's a technique thing that I see all the time. Where people get dead wrong. They think if I want to swing more inside out, hit more of a draw, which most players are working on, they think, well, if I'm going to swing more this direction, I'll just take the club back in my take away more that direction.

And that will help. It actually hurts. What will happen is if you take it more inside, you're going to tend to come over the top. What you want to do is feel like you come a little bit more outside. Have the club go up, and then it's easier to shallow it out and hit from the inside in the downswing.

Now, that's a good tip, but you need feedback if you're really going to make some headway with this. Now, I like to use a little device called the speed trap for my line golf. It makes some great products. I like this one because it's a plexiglass board. You can also put your golf ball in here and it trains you to hit the ball first and then the ground.

So get that divot in front of the golf ball. One of the best devices to give you feedback for that. Now you can set this up to kind of guarantee that you're going to hit a draw. So I set this up here. I put a golf ball on it. And now if I was going to swing more over the top, I'm going to feel like I'm hitting these red things here.

And it's going to be a mess. But you can see that there's a big gap to come more from the inside. And it really just makes it much, much easier to get a feel for what you need to do to swing from the inside. And again, it's all about coming through the ball that it matters. The takeaway doesn't make much difference on this.

Let's go in here. Nice little draw here again.

There you go. And that ball started to the right, Drew, back to the left. I think I was a misread sometimes I'm indoors here, hitting driver the ball is going so fast into the screen, it misreads it a little bit. Felt like a pretty good shot. Didn't seem like a big hook like that to me. Also hit it on the sweet spot, which I'll get here in a minute.

Now, if you want one of these, I have a link down below in the description. I get a few bucks, helps to grow the channel and keep me making these videos. But if you don't want to buy one of these, that's totally fine. You can use something else. Just use a head cover or anything else that you can set up.

Maybe have a couple styrofoam cups lying around. Or maybe the pro shop has some. But you going to set up those same kind of gates in the same fashion to where now it's making you swing it inside out and giving you that visible feedback. And you'd be surprised how much that can shift the results that you get in a single time.

Now, I like the speed trap because you can use it for a ton of things and you throw it in your bag. It's just easier than having to get Styrofoam cups or mess around with much stuff. But again, no worries. Whatever you can find that will work will be completely fine. It will get your results. Now, piece number two is I have to hit it relatively on the sweet spot.

Now, I already know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Clay, if I could hit the sweet spot again, I'd already just be doing it. But you actually be surprised when you use some Footspray powder. This is Dr. Shoals odor ex. This is a good one because it leaves a pretty white film. It's a pretty bright white film that you can actually see when you spray it on the Clubface.

And as soon as I hit a golf ball, you'll be able to tell exactly where I hit it. That Now, what you're going to find is if you hit about four or five balls, everybody has a pattern. I hardly ever I'll see. I virtually maybe a few times Unless you're a beginning player, which you're watching this video, you're probably not probably an intermediate or advanced player, but I never find anybody that hits it low and then high and then off the toe and off the heel and just all over the face.

You'll find some kind of a pattern. And once you know your pattern, you identified some really easy drills that you can do to fix that pattern. So you're trying to hit it toward the sweet spot or toward the center of the face. If you're going to hit a draw a little bit more toward the toe helps. That helps to draw.

If you're playing a fade, a little more toward the heel helps. That helps it to to fade. So let's go ahead and try to hit that draw again and see how I do. As far as hitting on the sweet spot here, That felt pretty solid to me. Yeah. I don't know why it's reading it. Drawing that much felt like a pretty dang on good swing.g

And we'll see here. When I look at the sweet spot, it's pretty much dead on the sweet spot, just a fraction toward the toe, which would be great for getting a nice little draw there. But if you find yourself hitting it toward the toe or hitting it toward the heel again, you can use the speed trap or some head covers to adjust for that.

So let's say that I'm hitting it too far off the toe and I want to get one off the heel. I put both these on the inside here now. And now when I set up to this golf ball, what's going to subconsciously happen is if I go more toward the toe of the clubs, I pull the club in toward me.

All of a sudden the shaft in my club is going to knock into these red things. Subconsciously, I'm going to realize I don't want to do that, and I'm naturally going to go more toward the heel. Same thing. If I'm going too much toward the heel, I just flip them over on the other side. And now I'm subconsciously going to hit more toward the toe to miss those red things.

And you'll be surprised, even players that struggle to break 100 You put a device down like this and immediately they start giving some feedback. So if you get a low to mid handicap player, the feedback is going to be great with something like this. Again, if you don't have this, use a box. You can put anything like a box head cover, a Styrofoam cup, any of that's going to be completely fine.

So find your pattern first. Once you identify toe or heel, then you can adjust by putting the barriers down. If you're hitting low on the face, the first thing that you want to do is tee the ball up higher A lot of times people just turn up too dang on low and they can't get to the ball to contact high enough on the face.

If you are ting it up higher and still having trouble with that, most likely what's happening is you're falling back a little bit and you're not being able to reach the ball, hitting it off the bottom of the face. Make sure that you get your weight to your front foot feel like your your your weight is on the left side and on your left foot as you make contact.

And sure enough, most of the time that's going to help a ton. You may even feel like you're hitting down on the ball a little bit to get it higher on the face. In reality, you're probably not actually hitting down on it. That's just a sensation that you're going to have if you're hitting it too high on the face.

Either hitting it a little bit lower or you could be hitting down too much. Just go ahead and do the opposite of what I just recommended. Again, this isn't rocket science, but it works. You do this for a single session. You're going to hit the ball better some straighter. You're going to really enjoy hitting a driver. Now, lastly, we have to square up that face.

So on here on all three of those shots, my path was to the right, my face angle, as has to be to the left of that or pretty dang on straight to get that to draw. Now, most people are having a tough time getting the ball to draw like I've been doing here. And a lot of times I'll see players grips are just wrong.

So a lot of times players will set up with a grip that looks something like this. And I'll tell you I feel like it's going to be pretty dang on tough for me to hit a draw from this position specifically with the left hand. I want to feel like the left hand goes more on top of the grip. And that the in your fingers points more to your right shoulder.

If you're struggling to hit a draw now from there, once you get this hand in this nice position similar to what Dustin Johnson or Sergio Garcia uses for their grip, now you're going to be much more likely to hit a draw. I'm also going to do the same thing with the right hand. I'm going to turn it a little bit more under the club and that just makes it slightly easier.

Now, the surefire way here is when I release it, I want to have this club face closing on down. So I don't want to have the face open like this. That's a big old slice, meaning that the face is pointing this way. I'm going to rotate the face until it's turning down. If you're wondering if you're doing it enough if you're still hitting a fade or a straight shot, you need to do a little bit more.

You can't overdo this. You'll be surprised how much a pro player's face turns down just after impact. Sometimes it looks even something like that. Whereas I see a lot of recreational players with a club like this. So going in, releasing that club makes a world of difference. Now, there is one more piece of this that we need to go over.

You see, a lot of times players will come down and they really have a tough time releasing that face. Like we talked about. And that's because they're starting down from a steeper angle. And what happens is, if you start now with your club at Steep, as you continue to swing down, it ends up dropping under you feel like you're stuck, you feel like the face wants to open up and almost feels that there's nothing that you can do about it.

Well, I have a surefire method that fixes this. It's called the 20 minute shallowing fix. And you can do all of it in just a single bucket of range balls. So go to the if you remember Topspeed Golf, click on the instruction tab. Top Speed Golf System and then the 20 minute shallowing fix. And I want to lead you through a progression that's going to finally get you to shallow at that club from the inside, just like all the pros do.

You're going to have a ton of lag. You're going to be able to release the club to get that draw. Time after time after time. You're going to feel like the momentum of the club is working for you instead of against you. So head over there right now. I can't wait to share with you some of those drills that I have in there that you can do in just a single session.

I know you're going to love it, and I can't wait to hear how well you do with it hitting those draws once you do the 20 minute shallowing fix. Let's go and get started right now.