How to Add More Power to Your Golf Swing
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can EditTired of hitting the ball with your driver and have it go as far as your five iron? You do not have to settle with drives like that any longer.
Steps
- Your hips are the the key to
new power. At the top of your back swing, make your first move a kind of a
"bump" with your hips.
- Turn your hips towards the
target fully as fast as possible while holding your shoulders back as long
as possible.
- Swing golf club back-not too
far (your hands should reach to about your shoulder)
- Bring your golf club down and
focus on the ball
- Keep a light grip--tense
muscles in your hands and arms kill swing speed.
- Maintain balance throughout
swing keeping your weight on the balls of your feet--this will ensure the
most solid strike to the ball.
Tips
- Do stretching exercises
(after warming up) to isolate your shoulders from your hips (i.e., sit on
ground and cross your right leg over your left (bent up) and twist your
upper body to the left). Switch sides.
- Read articles about the
"new X factor".
- You may want to take a golf
lesson before you try this (if this is all new to you then perhaps you
take a lesson or two)
- Swing through the ball not
"at" it
- BE SURE that on the
backswing, all your weight is on your right side (for right handed
golfers) and on the follow through all the weight is transferred to the
left.)
- On the downswing, lift your
right heel and you should feel your hands "whip" through the
golf ball.
- Although many people
still prefer to tee the ball low, as it worked for old drivers. the new
drivers, with their lower center of gravity and bigger heads, need to
have the ball teed high to get full length. This meaning an inch or so,
so that you are sweeping it off the ground.
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- Although many people
still prefer to tee the ball low, as it worked for old drivers. the new
drivers, with their lower center of gravity and bigger heads, need to
have the ball teed high to get full length. This meaning an inch or so,
so that you are sweeping it off the ground.
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