The main winner shares 10 keys to sharing each right road

Golf guidance is always developing, but the best advice lies in the test of time. In the new Golf.com series, eternal tips, we are emphasizing some of the biggest tips that teachers and players have shared on the Golf Magazine pages. Today we look back at Hal Sutton’s 10 tips to hit more roads from our publication in April 2001. For unlimited access to the Digital Golf Magazine archive, join Indoor tODAY; You will enjoy $ 140 value for only $ 39.99/year.

Discount from trouble -free tee is an essential golf skill. Regardless of your talent level, you will always have a lighter time by scoring when you are playing from short grass.

The goodies do this better than the majority. This year in PGA Tour, players are hitting nearly 60 percent of the right roads – and this is while many are playing the ball over 175 MPH rapidly. Simply put, if you want to shave some strokes from your results, learn how to play a reliable blow.

For more for this, we turn to the 1983 PGA winner winner Hal Sutton. Back in 2001, he joined Golf to share 10 tips in hitting more straight ways. Put them in action and you are sure you will become a more accurate tee driver.

10 Sutton tips for the accuracy of the direction

Everyone wants to take out the driver and rip a shot down the road. And in PGA Tour, no one has hit the driver with more durability over 20 years than Hal Sutton.

Sutton is at the top of his game now with five wins in the past three seasons. It is constantly ranked in or near the tip of the tournament in Hitways Hit and total driving (a statistic that combines distance and accuracy of the direction). The secret of Sutton’s swinging is not really a secret at all: it makes a relatively simple movement and repeats it day by day. Most players – including many amateurs – are physically capable of making a rhythm similar to Hal’s.

Here’s how he does it, along with the keys that every golf player has to copy to hit more roads.

1. There is no manipulation

Before you can merge the parts that make a recurring rhythm, it is important to understand what that movement looks like. The photo above shows how the Sutton club moves along the target line with the target facial square for just a moment. Excellent executives know this and do not try to run the club along the target line. Many amateurs try to manipulate the club, so it faces the target on influence, but this actually impedes a sustainable movement. The best executives have full confidence in their activity. They let it happen. Because the driver’s swinging arch is almost a circle, the trick is to position the ball where the club will face the target, this place is also with the exterior of the left hip plug.

2. Addressing accuracy

At the address, relax your arms and keep the club lightly but safe on your fingers. This gives the swing a quiet start, leading to a rhythm and repeated rhythm.

Sutton’s attitude is relatively wide, his shoulders that fit among his heels. This creates a very durable base. The more durable the foundation, the less likely you have to turn the center (bend toward the target at the top of the back). An opposite pivot kills power and accuracy.

3. Gradual acceleration

As mentioned earlier, Sutton realizes that the club swings on an almost circular road. He also knows that this movement is stable, the Clubhead must gradually create the downward speed. If you rush the passage from the falling back, or try to hurry up the lift, the time between the body and the wings jumps and the disasters occur.

Golfists with poor time try to manipulate the club through influence and run the ball toward the road. But trying to control the club forces the wings and hands tighten, so the club club is in a different position for every pace. Tightness also means tension, which decreases in accuracy and distance.

To learn the feeling of gradual acceleration, make six practical oscillations with stopping between shakes. Start slowly and gradually increase the speed until you feel the centrifugal force that attracts into your hands. At full speed, this sensation should be stronger immediately after impact. It means you are swinging along the right bow at the right rhythm without tension or excessive manipulation. Clubface will be square in the same place at any rate. If yo can feel this in your real swinging, you will hit more roads.

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To generate the maximum speed of the club while maintaining control, the body must return to the right sequence. Many players’ players try to start the club again by turning their wings than the arms and shoulders, which leads to non -consistent contact and a less powerful coil.

The body should be wrapped from top to bottom along the back, then immature from the bottom up during landing. Sutton uses shoulder rotation to get away from the ball.

To feel this right spiral, you don’t need a club, just sit in a stool bar to immobilize hips. The shaky practice back until the club was parallel to the land; You need to feel the shoulders – not the hips – that rotate the spine. If the hips do not push the excrement back, they are durable and the coil action is incorrect.

5. The hands stand between the elbows

Almost every poor driver begins shaking by pulling hands and club too far inside. From here, the only way to get back to the right track is to reburden it, and if you don’t do it the same way every time, you are guaranteeing non -continuous results.

The hands should stand in front of the chest all the way to the top of the back. As you look at Sutton, imagine two thin walls that pull straight from his shoulders: note how his hands stand inside these two walls.

6. The axis points within the target line

About the back half, when the left arm is parallel to the ground, check that the bottom of the point butt but inside the target line (but never off the line). This position means that the wrists are hanging correctly and that the wings are swinging the club up, than around the body, at the top.

7. Select the best angle

Create the best corner for hitting the road. In this hole – a left dogleg – I will collect the ball near the right marker to open a better angle around the corner. Note that I am not standing against the markers; This is because it is important to swing from an area of ​​level. Generally, if you dim your discs, paint the ball on the right side of the Tee and aim at the left edge of the road, if you draw the ball, paint up on the left side and aim at the right side of the road.

8. Think before you drive

For sustainable, accurate discs, build consistency and accuracy in your pre-curve strategy and routine. Here’s how.

First, glue it with a shot for each car. If you are more comfortable by hitting a pallor, use it every time. If you prefer to draw the ball, you always plan to hit a draw. Making and climbing, this decision will eliminate tension.

Second, choose a target that can hit eight by 10 times with your average swing. Do the right path your first priority; Second distance.

I try to include the pre-creek keys in front of each car. If you do the same, you can’t help but hit more straight ways.

9. Use the same tee height

I want the ball equator even with the top if the club to the address. This provides the best opportunity to make square, rigid influence as the club crosses the bottom of its bow. A trick I use to remove the ball alike – and favorite – the height is to push the tip to the ground with my elongated ring finger; When my finger touches the ground, the ball is at the right height.

10. Choose an intermediate target

I have never hit a car without choosing a direct target directly on the ball flight line and within three legs of tee. After I had chosen my target from behind the ball, I kept my eyes on that place as I walked up to the ball and get to the address. I don’t look far until my club is perfectly connected. Then it’s time to start swinging and hitting the right path.