How To Hit A Driver Straight
Your standing on the tee and look down the fairway and to your horror it’s lined with trees and heavy rough with the odd bunker just for good measure. Getting edgy about it will only help you find difficulty down an unforgiving fairway. Being anxious tightens up the golfing muscles possibly affecting your action.
If you attempt to guide the ball off the tee you will commonly get very disappointing results. Instead endeavour to swing freely with rhythm ensuring you release through the ball – two essentials of how to hit a driver straight.
It is crucial to always visualize your shot before you make it. Visualize the hole shot, the flight path and where it lands. Selecting the correct club will be easier if you see the shot in your head.
To enable you to choose the correct club for a situation, you need to know how far you are capable of hitting each of your clubs. You don’t want to approach the tee with the attitude that you are going to strike the ball as hard as you can. This almost never works and inevidtably ends up in a really bad shot.. Distance is attained by swinging the club faster not hitting the ball harder. You will be surprised how much added distance you will get from all your clubs by increasing the club head speed.
Another common mistake is the tee itself. It’s vital that you tee your ball up at the correct height. If you tee the ball too low there is a good chance you will hit the ground or the ball on too vertical a bias. Really bad shots can result from the tee being too high as your club head will tend to go underneath the ball. A guide for the height of the tee is to have the ball sitting on the tee at the same level as the sweet spot of the club you are going to use.
If your ball starts out straight but then hooks or slices check your grip to make sure you are not using an overly strong or weak grip. A way of checking this is to look down at your grip and you should be able to see the first two knuckles of your left hand (for right handed golfers). A weak grip, where you can’t see any knuckles, will usually result in a slice. If you have a strong grip you will see more than two knuckles and tend to hook the ball.
Less lofted clubs will aid in keeping the ball low if you are playing on a windy day. If the wind is terrible your best choice is to keep the ball low. It can be really beneficial if there are trees on either side of the fairway you are playing on and you can use the trees as a buffer.
Head to the driving range and try the above hints and tips and you will probably find your answer to how to hit the driver straight. If you put the effort into lots of practice in all aspects of your game you will speedily lower your handicap.