Right Arm Drill for more Power

Monday, December 9, 2013

If you want to increase your distance, you might want to try right arm drill.

 

Here is how to do it.

1. Put your left hand on your waist

2. Grip 9-iron with your right hand only

3. Take 20 practice swings

 

By swinging with your right hand only, you will feel the weight of the clubhead. In golf swing, I think it's very important to feel the weight of the clubhead during the swing.

 

So this drill will teach you about that.

 

Also, you will learn how to use your right arm during the swing.

 

After taking 20 practice swings, hit some ball with your right hand.

 

 

You don't have to hit it far. Just focus on hitting in the middle of the clubface.

 

After you get used to it, start trying to hit the ball to the left or right of the target. You will learn more about your swing path using this drill.

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How to Use the Weighted Golf Club

The weighted golf clubs are used by lots of pros and amateurs to train their muscles.

 

But there are few rules when using a weighted club. If you see use it incorrectly, you won't get any results.

 

1. Swing slowly

Tiger Woods said when he swings a weighted club, he tries to swing slowly. He always warm up his muscle before swinging it.

 

You should do the same thing.

 

2. Swing at something

You won't actually hit the ball with a weight club. However, you need to swing at something that represents the ball.

 

Pick a spot or piece of grass or something and swing your club.

 

Always be aware of your ball position because without the ball position in mind, you will waste your time.

 

The swing path changes dramatically depending on your ball position.

 

3. Spine Angle and Right Shoulder

When you swing a weighted club, try to set up as usual. You want to lower your right shoulder at address. This will tilt your spine little away from the target.

 

I see lots of amateurs swinging their weighted clubs with higher right shoulder at address. This will cause them to swing from outside to in.

 

So the more you practice with this type of faulty set up, the more you will tend to hit a slice with outside in swing.

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Bubba Watson's Secret Hitting over 310 Yards

Bubba Watson is known as one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour. Since he became to the PGA Tour, he had finished 1st or 2nd in driving distance. At 2010 Sony Open, he hit it 416 yards.

 

When he needs extra distance off the tee, he changes his set-up.

 

His secret to extra distance off the tee is to flare out his front foot toward target address.

 

By flaring out his front foot more than usual, he said he could get through the ball faster and add extra clubhead speed.

 

But when he does this, his hands and arms tend to stuck behind his body on the downswing. So he has to make sure not to do that and keep his arms and hands in front of his body.

 

When your hands get stuck behind your body on the downswing, the tendency is to block the shot to the right.

 

So you need to make sure you start down slowly.

 

When Bubba Watson's friends at home see that his toe goes out, they know he is going to hit one big.

 

Flaring your front toe a bit more is also a good way to fix your slice as well. Especially, if you are hitting push-slice, flaring your front toe will help you turn the clubface over through impact.

 

But if you do it too much, you will tend to hit lots of duck hooks.

 

Lifting his Heel and Hovering the Driver

I'd like to point out more 2 more things that Bubba Watson does to hit it long.

-Lifting his front heel on thebackswing

-Hovering his driver off the ground at address

 

When you watch his backswing, he has tremendous amount of shoulder turn. He does this by lifting his front heel.

 

There are lots of teachers who think you should keep your front heel on the ground during the backswing.

 

But I think unless you have a very flexible body, you should let your front heel you have a very flexible body, you should let your front heel rise as you swing back for more shoulder turn and better weight shift.

 

When Bubba Watson hits his driver, he tees the ball high and hovers his driver off the ground at address.

 

I think if you tee it up high, hovering your driver behind your ball rather than resting your driver on the ground will make things much easier.

 

Especially, if you tee it up so that more than 1/2 of the ball is above the driver head, you might want to hover the driver head off the ground.

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How to Regain or Increase Your Clubhead Speed

Some players have problems increasing their clubhead speed. No matter how hard they try to swing a golf club, they feel like they are still losing some clubhead speed.

 

When you see them swing, you don't notice any changes in their golf swing.

 

So what's the problem?

 

Often times, their problem is the grip pressure. When you feel like you can't create enough clubhead speed, you might want to try to loosen your grip pressure.

 

On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the tightest, you want to try 5.

 

When You Grip it too Tightly

When you watch the pitcher throwing a fastball, you'll notice that he has soft hands and arms.

 

But in golf, it's sometimes hard to loosen the grip pressure because by loosening the grip, you may feel like you will curve the ball even more.

 

Try to loosen your grip and take a practice swing. You will notice that your clubhead speed increases, but you will also feel like it's hard to manipulate your clubhead during the swing if you grip it lightly.

 

So when you actually hit a shot with a light grip pressure, you might hit a bigger slice or a hook because you have less chance of manipulating your clubhead or swing plane.

 

When that happens, keep your light grip pressure for faster clubhead speed but change your grip so that you don't have to manipulate your swing plane or clubhead during the swing.

 

When players see the ball slicing or hooking, most of them try to fix it by changing their swing. You may fix your ball flight this way but at the same time, lose the clubhead speed.

 

I've seen players losing as much as 50 yards on their drives by trying to change their swing. They quickly regained their distance when I ask them to change their grip instead of their swing.

 

Start with a Half Swing

You may find it hard loosen your grip pressure at first. So start with a half swing (with a light grip) and try to hit the ball on sweet spot.

 

If you hit it solid with a half swing, increase your clubhead speed and work your way up to a full swing.

 

If you don't hit it solid, don't increase your clubhead speed.

 

Catch the ball solid first with a slower swing speed and a light grip pressure and then increase your swing speed.

 

If you do this everytime you go to the driving range, you'll notice the big change in your clubhead speed.

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How to Train Golf Muscles: Lower Body

Long hitters have strong lower body without exception. They have strong quadriceps muscles (upper leg muscle) to hit the ball a long way.

 

The muscles of the lower body have an important role in your golf swing. You can try hitting the balls with your driver while sitting on the chair. You'll quickly notice that you can't hit it very far at all like that.

 

Squat Exercise

The easiest way to train quadriceps muscles is to do squat exercise. Squat is called the king of exercises. In just short period of time, you can effectively train your quadriceps muscle.

 

How to do Squats

In this exercise, we won't use any weight.

1. Spread your feet to shoulder-width

2. Bend from your hips

3. Flex your knees a bit

4. Put your hands behind your back or at your waist

5. Drop your body until your thighs reach parallel with the ground. You don't want to drop down any deeper than that.

6. As you bend your knees, you want to make sure your knees don't go past your toes (make sure your knees don't move too much forward.)

7. Do this for 30 reps

 

When doing squats, your form is very important to prevent injury. Before you drop down, make sure you bend your upper body from your hips and flex your knees a bit.

 

This will prevent you from moving your knees too far forward as you lower your body.

 

Also, you want to make sure you do this slowly. The speed is not the goal for this exercise.

 

If you feel like you can do more reps, do 2 sets every day.

 

You can alson grab 2 or 3 golf clubs, put them behind your back against your shoulders and do the same squats.

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The Easy Way to Gain More Distance off the Tee

Every golfer wants more distance off the tee. Even pros are seeking to get more distance.

 

To increase your distance with your driver or irons, what do you need to do?

 

Nowadays, pros spend lots of time training themselves. Some players dramatically increased their distance by training. Annika Sorenstam was one of them.

 

During her rookie season on the LPGA Tour, her average driving distance off the tee was 229 yards. But 5 years later, her average distance increased up to 270 yards. That's a lot!

 

Hoe did she do that?

 

 The main reason why she increased such amount of distance was training. During the tournament week, she spent 1 hour per day in the gym. During the non-tournament week, she spent 4 to 5 hours training.

 

But I can't tell you to do the same thing.

 

Training 4 to 5 hours per day isn't realistic for amateurs who have jobs and don't have enough time or money.

 

That is to spend 5 minutes every day for stretching every day, you'll be able to turn your body further back during the golf swing.

 

There are players over 50 years old who did stretching every day and dramatically increased their driving distance.

 

Here are basic keys when stretching.

 

1. Never stretch to the point of pain.

2. Warm up before you stretch. The good time to do stretching is after taking a shower.

3. Understand that everyone has different degrees of flexibility. You don't have to try too hard.

4. Do it slowly.

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How can a Female Golfer Increase Driving Distance

Female golfers often have problems with lack of distance off the tee with a driver or from the fairway with an iron.

 

Especially female golfers who didn't play other sports have problems increasing their distance.

 

But there are ways to increase your distance even though you don't have much power or athletic ability.

 

Here are the lists of things you can do to increase your distance.

 

1. Use ten-finger grip

The ten-finger is also called baseball grip. I recommend this grip to female golfers who lack distance or anybody who wants more power and control.

 

Because all the fingers are on the grip, you can add more power to your swing. Some teachers might say that you will lose control of your ball flight.

 

But by using and testing all 3 types of grip (ten-ginger, overlap and interlock grip) for many years, I've found that the ten-finger grip gives me more power and control.

 

Although I'm not against overlap or interlocking grip, I think that it's more natural to put all fingers when you grab a stick. You probably won't overlap your pinkie or lace fingers when you grab a stick.

 

So I think you should do the same thing.

 

But like I said from time to time, the correct grip differs from person to person. But if you feel like you are lucking distance, it is worth trying ten-finger grip.

 

2. Flare out your toes

When taking your address, make sure to flare out your toes. Both toes should be turned out about 30 degrees.

 

If you flare out your right toe, it can make your backswing bigger. If you flare out your left toe, it makes it easier to turn through impact.

 

One of the easy ways to increase distance is to make your backsing bigger. So you might want to make sure your right toe is turned out enough to support your bigger backswing.

 

3. Lift your heel off the ground on the backswing.

For female golfers who lack distance, I recommend lifting their left heel off the ground as they start their backswing.

 

This would really help shift your weight to your back foot.

 

However, you want to turn not slide. Some golfer slide and fail to reserve their power on backswing.

 

So make sure you lift your left heel and turn right as you make your backswing.

 

As you start your downswing, you want to replace your left heel back on the ground to shift you weight back to your front foot.

 

If you can do this correctly, you will easily add more distance to your driver and irons.

 

 Read more: http://www.golfsamurai.net/power/female-golfer-distance.htm

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