Possibly The EASIEST WayTo Hit Driver Straight

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In this video, I’m going to show you a really simple drill that I accidentally discovered while working with a student of mine, Paul, who was struggling badly with a slice. Despite trying several different things, we weren’t making much progress until I asked him to try something rather unusual: setting the clubface 45 degrees open at address. Within just a few shots, he started turning his slice into a draw, hitting the fairway consistently and, surprisingly, gaining what looked like an extra 20–30 yards of distance.

The reason this drill worked so well was that it forced Paul to naturally work out how to square the clubface through impact. Rather than trying to close the face with his body or making complicated swing adjustments, his hands and arms started working in the opposite direction to bring the clubface back to square. This completely changed the way he delivered the club, helping him produce a much straighter ball flight with far less effort.

But there was another surprising benefit. Paul had also been lunging his body towards the target during the downswing, something I see a huge number of golfers doing. By using this drill, that movement almost disappeared. I believe many golfers have become too focused on using their bodies for power when, in reality, their hands and arms are one of their biggest sources of speed. Your body should support that movement, helping you stay balanced and deliver the club consistently, rather than trying to generate all the power itself.

If you’re struggling to feel how your hands and arms should work, there are a couple of simple exercises I’d recommend. First, try hitting shots with your feet together. This takes away some of your ability to rely on your body and encourages you to feel the swinging motion of your hands and arms. You can also turn the club upside down, place one foot behind you and make some swings, listening for the whoosh. This helps you develop a better sensation of where the speed and whip in your swing actually comes from.

So, whether you’re someone who struggles with a slice or simply wants to generate more clubhead speed, give this drill a try. Start by opening the clubface 45 degrees and allow your hands and arms to work out how to square it through impact. If you’d like some additional support, download my Swing Coach app, where you can analyse your swing and receive personalised drills. And once you’ve developed that speed with your hands and arms, the next step is learning how to get your body to support it for better consistency and direction.

Full Transcript-So, I'm going to do a lot of things in this golf swing that people have told you that are wrong. But just take a look at this.

That has gone 270 yards. And if you take a look at that goal swing, you will see that I barely move my feet. I barely use my body. And all I've really done is swung my hands and arms. So, in this video, I want to show you something that I really accidentally discovered this week with a student of mine, Paul. Paul was slicing the ball really badly with driver, and he said, "That's all I want to work on today, Danny. I'm just can't hit the fair with my driver." So, I we tried a couple of things, not quite working, and I gave him this drill, which he felt was a bit bizarre, but it worked in with one ball. He started to change his slice. Now, he initially turned into a bit of a hook, but then after two or three balls, he started to hit the fairway one after the other. But here was the surprising thing. He gained, we didn't measure this, by the way, but it just looked like he'd gained at least this 20, 30 plus yards, but that wasn't our goal. We just want to hit it straight, but the drill gave him extra yards. So, Paul, this is for the video that I'm releasing. Sorry. Tell me, you could have got the good side. I could have got the good side. So tell me what's been um how has that silly little thing with the club face where I got you to open it. What's it been like? It's actually been revolutionary. In what way? It's taken the stress out of the setup. Y it's made me feel more relaxed, more confident and more receptive to what's going on. And what's happened to the shots? Um it's light and day really. In what way? Light and day. Well, I've turned a massive slice into a draw and you get straight shots. Sometimes a hook. Sometimes perfect. Yeah. Yeah. So overdoing it sometimes. Yeah. Brilliant. Awesome. So whether you are a slicer or just want to gain a few yards, I just had to really share it with you. So let's start with like the hitting it straight. Um first of all, so Paul being a slicer of the golf ball, what does that really mean? It means that the face is open. It's wide open through the impact area here and cutting across the line of the golf ball. But here's the bizarre thing. What I got him to do was kind of like very very bizarre but worked. See, if you're a slicer, what's tending to happen is your face is opening up through the impact area a little bit. He's coming across the line of the golf ball. So, he had been trying to stop that by closing his face a lot. But the problem is if your face is closed often what tends to happen through through this is your body doesn't like that and it starts to work in the opposite direction. I wanted to do reverse that. I wanted his club face to naturally start to do what? Close through the impact area or square up through the impact area. So here's what we did and it was really really bizarre. So, all I got him to do was set the club face up 45 degrees open pointing to the right hand side. And he looks at me and goes, "Huh?" Well, here's my hypothesis. And it worked. I said, "Look, if you got to figure out now, Paul, how to square that club face up." So, what did he do? Well, I didn't tell him to do this. his body and his more his hands and arms started to work in such a way to square that club face up. So suddenly now as opposed to opening up his body and his arms working in this direction, his arms started to work in the opposing direction. And basically the first shot you hit was a bit of a hook. So 45 degrees open. I've got to find a wear, look to square that club face up. And there you go. We've got a draw. Even though that face is wide open, my body starts to work. Oh, well, I'm now forcing myself naturally to train the club face to work in this direction through the impact area. Worked like magic. Now, he started off, he didn't hit like that. He hit a few hooks. Ya did it. Brilliant. He just didn't get the ball moving that way. But after two, three, four balls, that hook turned into a little draw. But we got an added bonus from this. This was unexpected. But from my app, swing the swing coach app, we know that there's 196, probably more now, but 196,000 swings of golfers not hitting it far enough because they do this. They lunge their bodies forward. I don't know why uh they do it. I think sometimes it's a case of that could be a a power source. Maybe it could be a way of trying to straighten up the face. I don't really know. We're not sure yet. But Paul was doing that. But this drill immediately eliminated it. And I was surprised. So I looked back and I I kept thinking, what has he done differently? Well, here's the difference. When his face was wide open, his body possibly realized that the only way to square that face up was using his hands and his arms like this. Now, good players use their hands and arms in a Bunstance. They are your number one power source. And what I'm seeing in the game of golf is they've been taken out. They've been told that you should not use them, but they are your number one power source. So, when I hit a shot, I'm just showing you here. Look, and I take my body out of the equation like this. And all I do is use my hands and my arms. We don't know where the ball's going to necessarily go straight, but look at that. 267 yards down the middle of that fairway with only my hands and my arms. And people who slice a golf ball, who struggle with distance, it's more of a heave with their body. The body doesn't have the power. It's a support mechanism. Your body's only objective is to support your hands and your arms. The body helps you become more accurate. Yes. But the speed comes from your hands and your arms. So you need to learn to feel that. Now this drill and was just enough. We didn't do anything else. This drill got both of those things very naturally. But you might not be a slicer. So you need to start to develop sensations to get those hands and arms working. Now, they're different things. One of my favorite exercises is putting the feet together. So, you take the body out of the equation. You're you're basically now forming, look, you're having to use more of the hands and the abs. If you use your body, you will lose your balance. So, this is a wonderful exercise here. And people I've seen use this on a golf course. Use stand with your feet together here. Make some swings and train the sensation of using those hands and arms.

So the feet together just learning to swing. Look those hands and arms and that I take that on a golf course. Yeah. And it proves that you don't need the body necessarily to be doing this. Now my body's working reasonably hard to kind of stabilize this and resist this. It is working by the way. But the power source is definitely in your hands and around. You got to start working them. So having the feet together is just a brilliant way to kind of sense that and you'll lose your balance if um if you just use your just use your body. Other ways you know we have to create some noise with both hands by turning the club upside down. Put the foot behind here again. Why? Because it's stopping you turning so much. I'm more Look at this. Look when my foot's back here. I'm forced to look resist here, break here, not use my body so much and use my hands and arms. So, you're training look the speed with those hands and arms. It's so so important. Now, you don't have to hit it hard, but realizing that these are important. They're often being vilified. They're often been told that you should be taking them out of your game and use your body. That information has come from tour players who've already got it and they try to use their body to balance it out. So start using those hands and arms. Get a feeling of where that noise comes from, that whip comes from or I like to call catapult. But definitely try this drill if you happen to be a slicer. Open that club face and just train that kind of sensation of it squaring up through the impact area. Now, if you'd love some support with this, just download my uh swing coach app. I'll put a QR code here. or pin it to the top comment below this video. It will look at your swing and support you. You can try it 14 days completely for free. It will lit analyze your golf swing and if you're doing this, it will give you drills just like this. Now, once you've got that clown of club zipping through the impact area like this and you start to use those hands and hands and your power starting to go up, but you want obviously a bit maybe some more direction, you need your body to support that. If that's the case, check this video out right here. It will give you a very simple way to train your body to support that high speed from the hands and the arms. Like I said, I really hope this helps. I I just love sharing it with Paul. It is surprised me and hopefully it will surprise you when you next go and practice. If you enjoyed the video, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with one of your friends who needs a little bit of help. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.