The Downswing Fix For Straighter Drives – Easy Golf Swing Tips

In this video, you will learn a drill that will help you hit straighter tee shots, better golf drives and hit more fairways. This drill will help you correct two common swing faults: the over-the-top and the early extension. These faults can cause you to slice or hook the ball, lose distance and accuracy, and hurt your consistency.

The over-the-top occurs when you start your downswing with your upper body instead of your lower body. This causes your club to move outside the target line and across the ball, resulting in a slice or a pull. The early extension occurs when you thrust your hips towards the ball instead of rotating them. This causes you to lose your posture and your spine angle, resulting in a loss of power and control.

To fix these faults, you must learn how to initiate your downswing with your lower body and keep your club on the correct swing plane. You must also learn how to maintain your posture and spine angle throughout the swing. This will allow you to swing from the inside and hit the ball with a square clubface. You will also generate more speed and compression at impact, increasing your distance and control.

The drill I will show you is simple and will help you achieve this. All you need is a golf club and a ball. You start by swinging back normally, but before you reach the top of your backswing, you step out with your lead foot and start your downswing. This will force you to shift your weight and hips faster, creating a better sequence of motion in your swing.

You can practice this drill with different clubs and ball positions and see how it improves your ball striking and distance control. You will be amazed by how much more consistent and powerful your drives will become. Try this drill today and see how it can help you play better golf.

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If you’re worried about slicing t-shots trouble on the right hitting over the fence losing golf balls and you struggle with this hip moving forwards in your down swing pushing that club on the out Towing path this drill’s really going to help you to start hitting straight A

Dries and it’s so simple that basically anybody can do it so with so many golfers getting to the top this knee going out and forwards pushing this hip forwards pushes the club out encouraging these kind of C where we want to hit down and to the left you can get these

Kind of low squirters to the left or the ones that slice off to the right which is so common obviously within this movement as well and this is where lots of golfers get lost is they do the same move and then they hit Target and I think what was different between that

One and the one that went out of bounds I must have moved different and often it’s not any different certainly not in the key fault the difference is that they just struck the ball in a different part of the face meaning that the curvature was reduced that sends it off

To the right so gear effect as it’s called search that up if you want to know more about it has saved you it’s not that you haven’t made the swing fault where often what we’re seeing from better players as they start the downswing is they do create this action

Where they kind of crunch down but at the same time their hips are also starting to go this way and around meaning they’re not what you read as early extending so much pushing this hip forwards now I’m not a great fan of the term early extension just purely as a

Fault so you’ll see lots of good players in the world actually going this way you won’t see many where the knee goes right out over here which is quite common with golfers who struggle with the slicing you need to do this one tip honestly it’s helping so many golfers I want you

To start making some actions where you focus on your Trail knee in the down three and we want this Trail knee to actually come over and meet lead knee in the follow through so we’re actually going to start feeling that the down swing that the knee wants to go a little

Bit down and then across so the amount of out action is Tiny it goes out a little little to then come across to meet lead knee on the way through what we’re going to find this starts to do is a it’s going to start getting this foot

To peel a little bit more this way so onto the toe and in rather than just straight up with the heel it’s going to allow you to start producing more of a shift laterally onto your lead side cuz obviously the more I turn this way the

More that shifts me onto that lead side and then to get this to meet this so Trail need to meet Ley yeah I’m going to have to really turn and rotate out of that rather than give it the often the lean back that we see with golfers or

The knee this way and then that one collapsing as well creating these horrible crashes work it into the practice swing Trail knee right up towards lead knee don’t let lead knee run away we don’t want both knees going we want them coming together a feeling of them actually starting to come together and

Then we can work that into the shot obviously the more we do it at home before we hit shots doing it in your practice it’s just going to bleed absolutely lovely into much straighter Fairway found t- shots that will keep you in play now if

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