Just because you’re a beginner, golf driver tips and drills can quickly get you hitting the ball straight and long.

Golf Driving Tips

Strong Grip: You you want to turn the ball over and get lots of roll when it hits the fairway, you’ll want to strengthen your top hand, left hand grip if you’re a right-handed golfer.

What this does really turns the clubface over at impact. If you’re not careful, you can start hitting hooks. But many amateurs have a weak grip causing the club to get stuck and not rotate over at impact resulting in a weak slice that goes nowhere.

Ball Forward:  Getting the ball more forward in your stance (closer to the left heel if you’re a right-handed golfer). This enables you to hit up on the ball giving it more height and launch to the ball.

Tilt Your Spine Away: Another great tip and drill is to tilt or angle your spine away from the target. This enables you to sweep up on the ball giving it more loft and distance. The most common position for amateurs is a straight or reverse tilted spine causing you to hit down on it and losing valuable height and distance.

A beginner golf driver of the ball does not have to give up years of frustration when you apply the above golf driving tips to your practice sessions. Beginning golfers need to learn the fundamentals first, and the swing then gets much easier.

Simple Golf Exercise To Improve Your Golf Swing Power

This exercise can be done by any golfer no matter their age, sex, ability and starting point.  All you need is a single dumbbell weighing between 3 and 10 pounds…and follow along to learn how to do it correctly and avoid injury.If you’re looking to inject power in your swing, take a look at the golf exercise dvds over at Mike Pedersen’s Perform Better Golf site today!

Golf drills can be a quick way to fix a swing fault or to ingrain new muscle memory when changing your golf swing technique. Any drill can be done not only on the golf course but many can be done right in your home.

I have heard countless times how a golfer has done a simple golf drill and seen almost immediate improvement in their swing. The beauty of doing drills is the repetitive nature of instilling the right motion you are trying to achieve. Through repetition, you’ll achieve the swing change you’re working on.

Doing golf putting drills can have an immediate impact on your score. Making more of those 3 footers can instantly shave 3-4 strokes off your score! Make sure you get your drills from a reputable source (like this site). There is a lot of garbage out there, and you surely don’t want to mess with your swing with shoddy instruction.

Using a mirror to check your swing plane, take-away, impact position and even through swing is critical. The mirror doesn’t lie and is a great tool to us to do your golf swing drills and technique work. I have actually taped a swing plane line on the mirror for my 5 iron and checked that position dozens of times. It made a huge difference on the course.

Impact is the moment of truth in a golf swing. If your impact position resembles the picture at right, you’re already a very solid player.

This position is the key to power and consistency, and you can see it among all the best players in the world.As unique as every professionals swing is, their impact positions are pretty much identical. There are two key features to an ideal impact position.1) Your head should be behind the ball.

As you swing into impact your body is transferring all the power created by your larger muscles into the smaller quicker muscles into impact. Anatomically, power is generated first with your core or stomach muscles, as your weight begins to transfer over your legs kick in and add to the power.

This power is then transferred to your shoulders, down your arms and finally as your wrists release from their cocked position, into the club.

With the rotation and movement your body is experiencing, your body center must remain relatively still to ensure you make contact with the ball. This balanced position is what creates consistency. So what does this mean for you? If your head is ahead of the ball at impact, you’re not creating power properly, and your swing is inconsistent.

2) Your hands should be ahead of the ball it impact.
This is a sure sign of creating and using lag. If you can get into this position, you can be sure you’re not casting and losing distance.

As described above this picture captures the last moment of the power transition. This is where the wrists are transferring the power at the last moment to the club head. You will see this position in every professional on tour.

Take a look at Tiger Woods on the right, you will notice how similar our impact positions look.

To get into these positions however, is not a matter of copying what you see above, it takes a combination of proper transition at the top, transferring your weight and creating lag. Understanding why this position is so important is the first step to incorporating it into your swing.

This drill was provided by Duncan McGillivray at TheGolfDrillGuru.com

Slicing is by far the most common ball flight us instructors see. Over 90% of the golfing population suffer from it, so you’re not alone out there guys. Unfortunately the slice can be caused by many different factors, anything from your shaft type and clubs to the type of golf ball you use.

However, the most common cause boils down to improper fundamentals. Below are the top five fundamental flaws that will cause a slice, ranking in order of their frequency.

5) Open Stance / Open Shoulders

Setting up slightly open to your target line is number five on our list. Opening your stance causes your body and shoulders to also align themselves slightly to the left of your target. This will encourage and out to in swing path (over the top). This alone will make squaring the club at impact very difficult, usually resulting in big pull hooks.

4)Ball Position Too Far Back in Your Stance

Proper ball position is extremely important to insuring solid, square contact at impact. If everything else is perfect but your ball position is too far back, the club won’t have yet squared in its natural rotation through impact, resulting in your banana ball.

Another problem stemming from poor ball position is that if your body gets ahead of your arms into impact (you’re rushing your lower body into impact), the club face is left wide open at impact, because your wrists have not even begun to rotate yet.

3)Weak Grip

Number three on the list is a weak grip, now remember this has nothing to do with grip pressure, it’s the positioning of your hands on the club. You have a weak grip if your hands are resting on top of the club as shown. The V’s created by the webbing in-between your thumb and index fingers will be pointing to the left of your body. This is quite a common fault, but those V’s should be pointing at your trailing shoulder.

2)Standing to Close to the Ball

Next on the list is standing too closely to the ball; it’s a fault that is very common among women. When you stand too close to the ball, you’re swing is forced to become very upright. This leads to a couple more problems. An upright swing can very easily turn into an over-the-top, out to in swing path which as described above causes a slice.

Another problem occurs because the club tends to rest on the toe slightly at address in this position. At impact the toe of the club makes contact with the ground first, slowing it down. The heel then outpaces the toe, opening the clubface, leading to your slice.

1)Gripping the Club Too Tightly

The number one fault that causes a slice is grip pressure. Again and again I see my students literally strangling the club, so much so their knuckles turn white. This is extremely common in very active and muscular guys. They know the clubface is open at impact, so they try and force it square by gripping it tighter.

Unfortunately, gripping the club this way reduces wrist hinge and arm movements drastically. Without these natural movements the club face will never square at impact. Your wrists are unable to rotate properly into impact, so the club is left open, and bang… you get your massive ‘cut’.

This article was provided by thegolfdrillguru.com. For detailed pictures for this article, visit his slicing article.

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