I Wish A Coach Had Told Me To Hit Driver Like This Sooner

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You know, when I was a junior golfer, I so wish someone had just sat me down and explained this one simple concept about how to hit drivers straight. It honestly would have saved me years of messing around with random golf tips—most of which didn’t really work for me anyway. And I’ve seen the exact same thing recently at one of my golf schools. Nine out of ten of my students were struggling to find the fairway consistently. Most of them were slicing it, and the odd one was hooking it. They were all in the same boat I was in as a kid—trying tip after tip with no real lasting success.

But once I shared with them the concept I’m going to walk you through in this video, everything started to change. As soon as they understood—and I mean really understood—how to strike the ball at the right point in the arc, they naturally began making little tweaks to their setup and swing. For those slicing it, many started hitting a little fade or even straight. And those who were hooking it began straightening their ball flight out immediately.

Now before we dive in, if this is one of the first videos you’ve seen of mine—first off, welcome! I release lessons like this every single week to help you improve your game. And the best bit? You never need to remember a thing—I put everything into a free downloadable practice guide, which you can find in the description below. So if you can give me a few minutes of your time, I really believe this could be a game changer for your driving.

Let’s get started. We’re going to break it down into three steps: the concept, some setup tweaks, and finally, one really simple in-swing change that had a massive impact for every single golfer I worked with.

Step 1: The Concept

Now, here’s the key thing—golf isn’t played in a straight line. Your club doesn’t go straight back and straight through. Because we stand to the side of the ball, your club naturally travels on an arc. As the club goes back, it swings inwards, comes out toward the ball, and then goes back in again. That’s the natural shape of the swing.

So what does this mean for your strike? Well, if you slice the ball, it simply means you’re catching it too late—after the club has already started to swing back inward on the arc. If you hook it, you’re catching it too early—before the club has had a chance to reach the bottom and start moving in. So everything comes down to where in that arc you’re making contact with the golf ball.

Step 2: Setup Tweaks

Once you get this concept, you can start making changes at setup to influence when you strike the ball on that arc. For the slicers out there, we want to help you catch the ball earlier in the arc. So how do we do that?

First, shift your weight slightly forward—about 60% toward your lead side. That helps move your strike point earlier. Then look at the handle position. If it’s too far back, the club’s already heading left. If it’s too far forward, you might block it right. We want it just slightly ahead of the ball, with everything—shoulders, forearms, even your trail arm—lined up to help promote a strike on the outward part of the arc.

Now, quick note on ball position: Yes, with the driver we want to catch the ball on a slight upward motion. But that doesn’t mean putting the weight back or dragging the handle behind. Keep the ball just inside your lead heel, but maintain that forward weight and handle position to still strike it in that sweet spot—just as the club is traveling out, not in.

If you tend to hook the ball, just reverse this slightly. You’re likely catching the ball too early, so you’ll need to make adjustments to delay that strike just a bit. But again, it’s all about staying in that safe zone—between too early and too late.

One final note before we move on: adjusting your setup can change the clubface angle. So if you shift your weight forward and the clubface looks a bit right, just gently close it before you grip. That way, your face and body are working together.

Step 3: The In-Swing Change

Now, let’s talk about the swing itself. I kept it super simple with my students, and I’ll do the same here.

First, stop steering the golf club. Golf isn’t a series of positions—it’s a flowing motion. Your club will swing on an arc naturally, but your body needs to be in a position that allows that to happen effectively. That’s where our setup changes come in.

Then, I gave my students just one swing thought: lead shoulder down, hands in. That’s it. When the lead shoulder works down and your hands work around your body, the club naturally follows a beautiful arc. You’ll know you’re doing it right if, halfway back, your hands are in line with the lower part of your bicep. Most slicers? Their hands go too vertical—up around the neck or shoulders. And when that happens, they come down over the top and across the ball—resulting in a slice.

By getting that shoulder down and the hands more around, you not only fix the path but also generate a ton more speed. It’s like a catapult—you’re creating angular momentum, allowing the club to whip around the body and strike with real energy. That’s why this move doesn’t just straighten out your shot—it adds power too.

So that’s it. Understand the arc, tweak the setup to get the right strike point, then swing with that lead shoulder down and hands around. With those three things, you’re going to see a dramatic improvement in your driving.

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Full Transcript- When trying to figure out how to hit drivers straight I so wish a golf coach would have told me this when I was a junior golfer it would have saved me years of testing just random golf tips with not a lot of success to be fair and in a recent golf school nine out of 10 students of mine couldn't hit a fairway consistently many of them sliced it as you can imagine and there was occasional person that hooked the golf ball and they were those golfers just like I was when I was a junior golfer testing random golf tips and nothing worked consistently until I shared uh with them this concept I'm about to share with you in this video once he understood really understood how to hit drivers straight they automatically made subtle changes to their setup and their swing naturally to help them get rid of their slice or certainly for many of them reduce it just a little fade and those people that hooked it much much straighter i want to share with you exactly what we did in this video because I just know it could help you too before I do that though look if you're new to the channel one of your first videos of mine please consider subscribing release lessons just like this every single week to try and help you improve your game plus you never have to remember a thing everything we do here I'll put into a free download practice guide in that description box below so if you're willing to give me a few minutes of your time I think this lesson will be a real game changer for you if you take if you want to hit driver straight so it's three steps so the first thing I'm going to share with you the concept that I shared with the students i'm then going to share with you some simple setup tweaks that you can make and then I'll show you just one simple inswing thing that made a massive difference to every single one of them so um let's talk about concepts really really simply right so we want to hit drivers straighter now all you've got to think of is this we don't play golf in a straight line so we don't have the club directly below the butt end so the golf club is not a straight line right it doesn't go straight back and straight through it's always look we play to the side of the ball so it's always works look on an angle right so that basically means as we swing this golf club here the club swings on an arc and as the club look is going down it's heading look where outwards still heading outwards until it gradually works around the corner and now it starts to work inwards right now the key is this if you slice the golf ball all it basically means is your club when it hits the golf ball is heading inwards on this arc right if you hook the golf ball it's heading outwards as it strikes the golf ball right so you're basically mistiming it so if you look at it here look if this is the center of your arc you're catching it too early when you hook the golf ball and you're catching it too late when you slice the golf ball so that's the concept so all we got to do is figure out why and once we do that through some simple changes in setup and in the in the swing everything starts to get so much easier for you now every student in the session had all different faults in their setup and their swing but the same concept applies right so all I did was this for everyone who sliced it I said "Look if you could stop the video for a second grab a golf club i promise you this will be so valuable for you so we now know that if you slice it you're catching the ball look when the club has gone past its lowest point and you're catching it now look here on this side of the arc right so if that's the case what could you do at setup to encourage yourself to strike it or at least feel like you're striking it earlier in the air before it goes around the corner well think about it where would the weight be would it be better to be more forward or more back you can see already can you so pushing the weight a fraction forward maybe 60% favoring this lead side would help to basically catch that ball earlier in the arc what about handle location if the handle is behind here where am I hitting i'm already Look if I move my look at the If I move my handle too far this way where's the club heading already left if we move the handle slightly further forward we're heading it now too far right if we do it too far forward it'll be too that too much that way right so we've got weight handle what else shoulders shoulders forearms look how everything as we try and strike earlier on in this arc look at this everything right arm gets a bit closer to the body look everything starts to move look around this way to catch it earlier once you understand the concept what you will start to find is all of the body motions start to move in the right direction at setup because now we're understanding that we've got to catch that ball more or earlier in the arc versus look watch what happens if we start to reverse this weight goes back handle goes back forearm start to get misaligned right arm moves away from body hey press so now we're going where on this side of the arc you follow one final thing ball position so one thing with a ball with a driver we don't want to catch that ball too much on the way down we want to catch it you know I would say fairly neutral maybe even on the way up if you want to hit a bit further but in doing so that doesn't mean move behind like this right put your weight in your back foot or move the handle behind because again we don't want to be coming left what we're going to do instead is this we're going to have the maybe the ball just inside that lead heel but what we're going to do is that we're still going to position our weight slightly further forward and our handle slightly further forward because this is going to help us look catch that ball if anything slightly as the club is heading outwards

versus inwards okay simple as that now if you hook the golf ball you just simply reverse it your likelihood is just double check you aren't doing too much of this and what we're trying to get look is in this tight window here if we catch the ball way too early we're likely to be in hook territory if we catch the ball too late we're in slice territory so we're trying to find this kind of safe zone somewhere around here and you play around just with setup to achieve that before we work on step number three and the inswing component which again is unbelievably uh simple just watch out for what the where the club face is so when I'm setting up here look and if you start to kind of move naturally beautifully here into a place which is going to help you catch that ball earlier in the act so the hand the weight's going forward the hands are going slightly f forward the trail arms moving into the body look what that's done to my club face it's possibly got it aiming a bit too far to the right so all we do now is stay in this position just close the face just a little bit i'll square it off a little bit here then grip it and now you've got the all the club face and the body matching beautifully to help you hit that driver straight so let's before do let me hit a shot just showing you this and we'll move on to the inswing so I'm going to show you what happens here if I was to kind of from here look move everything this way watch which this does to the shape of if I really overdo this you'll see an excessive hook there you go that's me really really overcooking it so that's the whole point if we then overcook the other way so let's say now so I caught that you were class too early on in the ark if I overcook it the other way so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to set the handle behind the golf ball i'm going to set everything over here so everything now the weight's going back the shoulders are working open what you're going to start to see now is a very different type of motion i'm now going to be kind of behind the ball coming across the ball and now we create slices right so why my students love this just at setup is is now they have it's like almost like tuning a radio we now know all we're doing is swinging on an arc so when we're setting up to the golf ball I I got them to imagine almost like a wall right there right and we are going to strike that ball right there in doing so what's going to help you strike that ball earlier we said there there there if they over hook cook it and they start to kind of create hooks what do they do they just tune it back a fraction if they overtune it and it goes the other way well they slices so they now have a way look to start tuning their golf swing so so important so moving on to the inswing component again I want to keep this really really simple and that's all I did with the students so ultimately this we've said look we we know the club swings on an arc right the first thing I get all of my students to do is make sure they're not steering this golf club it's not a series of positions it's a free flowing motion when you let this club swing freely it will automatically swing on an arc it's just like you've got to your body's got to be in a certain position in order to when it does swing on the arc you catch that ball in the correct place on that arc right and we've just given you some setup things to help you naturally achieve that let's give you now um an inswing thing so what I for because 90% of the people sliced it in the group all I did was say to this look how can we help you strike that ball at least on this side of the ark how do we help you stop coming on this side of the ark and it was incredibly simple all I said to him is I said "Look get your lead shoulder working down and your hands in." And what this does is look at this here as I'm my lead shoulder works down and in what it does is helps them to swing beautifully on an arc where see my hands are working on an arc around their body now from here what you'll notice is if you take yourself on camera my hands here are splitting the lower part of my my bicep most of the players that sliced it didn't do that what they did is their hands took a straight line upwards and when you've got to about halfway those hands were almost going up through their neck or shoulder line well think of it this way if they're swinging upwards here what they going to do if you got it they're going to swing down and around it's going to be very hard to hit the ball on this side of the arc right so super super simple i didn't tell them anything more than that the other thing that all of them said by doing this they realized how much power it gave them because the thing is this when your lead shoulder works down and your hands work around here you're working the club beautifully on an arc around the body this is creates what's called angular momentum and speed it's almost like it's my catapult effort when you come around you're going to be a to catapult that club look around the corner accelerating that club here versus here not only are you going to chop across it there is not enough energy going into the back of the golf ball so you don't just create big slices you lose a lot of power so super simple get that sensation here get yourself look in position and then just think lead shoulder down hands around so here we go that's all we're doing simple as that

a nice easy one to start the day and you can see here look I've exaggerated just for you swing direction there excessively into out so I've caught that ball now very very early because I've shifted that swing direction excessively over here that's exactly what I wanted to do with every one of my students that sliced it all I would do is if I want to get that closer to zero and perfect well I would tune it i would gradually work it back here and it's as simple as that what you want to do in golf is is we are human beings we are not going to be consistent but you need a way to tune your swing understand this concept and spend the rest of your life simply tuning because that's what we do as professionals so that we find this lovely safe zone in here on a regular basis all right so concept setup shoulder down hands in create the arc of the golf swing here and you'll be well on your way to hitting much much straighter drives i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a thumbs up maybe share it with one of your friends and of course look if you're new to the channel press that subscribe button down here if you're struggling with your ball striking with your irons please check out this video absolute gamecher and has been so ravely reviewed by many of my students.