3 Ways You’re Losing Your Driving Range (And How to Fix Them!)

As an amateur golfer and handicapper, I often wonder what I should be doing to generate more distance from the driver. Of course, swinging faster would help, but it’s never that easy – increasing club speed it must come after the development of the proper foundations and ranking ranking.

I’m convinced that somewhere in my 40-year-old body is one Bomb 300 meters. But what will it take to do this consistently and not just get lucky once in a blue moon?

To answer this question, I turned to him GOLF Top 100 Teachers Mark Durland, who provided three common mistakes that are costing me driver mileage. Durland not only shared some traits that protected me (and most amateurs), but offered me some solutions that should make me hit it longer. Check out his advice below!

Improve your driving range by fixing these common problems

Find the center

If you’re not making contact with the face in the center, you have little chance of getting the driver distance you’re hoping for—and Durland says that’s one of the most common problems he sees with students, as many hit the driver off the toe. foot or heel of the club face.

In his eyes, hitting the heel of the club face is the worst place when looking for more distance.

“I see students miss 30, 40, even 50 yards off the tee hitting the heel of the club,” Durland tells me. “Most golfers don’t know they’re missing contact with the center face because they don’t have a way of knowing. But by using foot spray on the club face, you can get immediate feedback.”

Once the student establishes a baseline of where contact is occurring, they can make some educated decisions about finding the middle.

“If the student consistently misses the heel of the clubface, they need to stay farther from the ball at address,” he adds. “Finding the other side of the club face (the toe in this case) is a healthy exercise to help find the middle.

“Instead, if they’re consistently missing the toe of the clubface, they should start by staying closer and even heading to the ball with the heel of the clubface.” If a golfer can hit both toe and heel, he should be able to find the middle ground through some experimentation and self-discovery.

In addition to immediate all-around feedback, Durland says using foot spray on the clubface can help determine where the height of your mouse should be.

“Another great advantage of using leg spray is that it can help with the height of your hair,” he adds. “Many students wonder how high the ghost should be when using the driver, and using foot spray can help decipher if they are hitting too low or too high on the clubface.”

Create a spiral

What’s another possible reason you’re missing driver range? Durland says he regularly sees students just swinging with their arms and shoulders, which doesn’t allow them to properly generate energy.

“They’re not engaging other parts of their body like their core, torso or legs — that’s where the strength comes from,” says Durland.

So how does it help fix this common swing fault? Helping students understand how to create a proper spiral in their backstrokewhich requires rotation to the point where the rear and butt are exposed to the target at the top of the rear rotation.

“By doing this, it engages the core and legs, which helps generate more power,” he adds. “When a student wraps correctly, I often see a 3-5 mph jump in head speed.

“Each mile per hour of increase with the driver is about 2.6 yards of distance. So if you can increase 5 miles per hour with the driver, that’s almost 15 yards of added driver distance.”

Quit collapsing

OK, so let’s say you’re hitting the center of the clubface and creating the best possible spin, but STILL you’re not seeing the driver power or distance you want. What’s another reason you might be losing some power?

Durland says it could be due to the slump in the back movement, which means the elbows bend and the hands move too close to the head.

“If you’re doing this, it makes you jump or lunge as you open your elbows and bring your hands down from your head,” says Durland. “But what’s interesting about this swing flaw is that there’s a lot of speed in the golf swing, it’s just in the wrong place—which is ORDER before impact.”

Durland reminds the players that the speed must be the past impact, and provides three trail arm checkpoints to ensure this is happening.

“First, make sure the trail elbow is off the side of the trail and not connected. The second and third checkpoints require keeping the trail bicep away from the trail forearm,” he says. “By executing these three checkpoints, you will establish the correct position at the top of your backswing. If done correctly, you will hear the clubhead ‘swing’ past the golf ball, not in front of it.”

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Nick Dimengo

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