Here are three straightforward ways to add more distance with your driver. Start by flaring your lead foot and moving the ball farther forward in your stance, which helps you rotate better and hit up on the ball. Next, create a slight tilt away from the target at address to set up the proper launch conditions. Finally, feel more width at the top of the backswing by getting the hands further away from you. These three changes work together to help you hit it longer with more consistency.
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Feet together, ball in the middle of the stance. We’re going to get the left foot, we’re going to flare it, and the right foot, we’re going to move to the side like so. Straight away, that moves the golf ball well forward in the stance. The next thing I want you to do is to get the right hand on the side of your leg and just drop it down an inch. Just that little inch there is creating these tilts. Again, if we think about it now, ball is well forward and we’re very much behind it as a result of those tilts. If we think about it, the ball is forward, I’m tilted behind. obviously has more chance of hitting up. Now, from here, this is the one that not a lot of people talk about, and this is something I work at a lot in my golf swing, is from the top of the back swing, I want the feeling of the hands going more this way. So, more horizontally as opposed to being pulled down. I get a little bit narrow here. But if we can get the hands moving that way more, feeling that they’re moving that way, it’ll hardly move that way at all, but it will just give you that extra bit of width in your transition. Again, that width will help you hit up on the golf ball. If you can combine those three things, you’re going to start hitting some high bombs. Flare, step, tilt, and then hands horizontal in transition.
