Rory McIlroy’s advice for ‘really going after one’ with the driver? 4 moves

Rory McIlroy, after a brief warm-up, recorded 126.2 mph ball speed with his driver, along with 187 mph.

Then the 126 mph fastball and the 187.8 mph fastball.

Then 126.7 mph and 189.8 mph.

Then 127.2 mph and 185.9 mph.

Then 126.6 mph and 188.3 mph.

Then 127.4 mph and 191.1 mph.

Then a voice asked, perhaps a little jealously: Do you ever get bored?

“No,” McIlroy said.

“It’s very nice.”

Indeed. But one should not be angry, he thinks. Knowledge can be transferable. Four times major winner was speaking in a video recently posted on his channel YouTube star Grant Horvatand the demonstration was part of a response to Horvat’s question about whether McIlroy could pop the hood, so to speak, and understand what makes his driver go away.

He had four pieces of advice. First, though, have a watch in the video below, and below we will discuss.

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Placing

“When I’m really trying to hit it hard, I think a lot of it starts in the setup,” McIlroy said during the video. “Like building a really good base to move strong from there.”

Mainly, the right-handed McIlroy will adjust his ball position.

“So if I’m really going after one,” McIlroy said. “I will try to improve a little in my attitude. So feel like it’s almost off my front foot. So act like I’m already behind the ball anyway. So I will try to keep him in my position. I’m not going to do anything with my left foot, but with my right foot, if it’s normal like here for my normal driving, I might give it a little bit of a base – a little bit wider, just my right foot. ”

He also said it aligns the left arm with the axis. They “create this a straight line”.

tremor

As for the swing itself, McIlroy said he’s “capable” of swinging the club faster, but he’s more focused on what’s next.

“It’s like when I load up, I get on my left side,” McIlroy said during the video, “but then I really try to feel like I’m hitting the golf ball with my right hip.”

He asked Horvat: “So you’re trying to clarify? You’re trying to feel your lower body.”

Said McIlroy: “… There are different ways. People say it takes your left knee out of the way. Or how Tiger (Woods) he said, snapped his left knee. But basically just trying to clean up and open up as much as possible to the influence. So then your upper body acts like a slingshot and it just goes.”

objective

Ignore the targets as you work to swing for speed, McIlroy said during the video.

And work on the swing for speed.

“For me, when I unlocked a little bit more speed,” he said, “I would swing into range and I wouldn’t care if I missed it. And I missed the range. And then you can bring it from there. But if we’re working alone quickly…”

Horvat said he thought he was trying to make a ‘golf swing’ in his efforts.

“Try and move the thing as fast as you can,” McIlroy said during the video. “That’s all you’re trying to do here. … Don’t even think about the target. … Try to move that club as quickly as possible. Don’t even think about the ball. Just move that thing as fast as you can.”

Working out in the gym

McIlroy said a medicine ball workout has also been effective. The motion looks like you’re throwing it like you’re shooting a shot put.

“So I’ll have the ball here – they’re like that Kyle Berkshire yes,” said McIlroy, speaking of the long drive world champion. “So he’ll press to his left, I’ll slide to my right, and then plant and then go that way. So I try to feel the same with my golf swing where it’s like I go left, right, and then I feel like all my weight is going forward.”

Editor’s note: To watch the full video with McIlroy and Horvat, please click here.

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