The New Driver Technique Making Senior Golfers Hit Longer

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Danny opens by saying he loves coaching senior golfers because so many arrive believing they’ve lost distance simply because they’re getting older. In his experience, that’s rarely the real reason. More often, it’s the techniques they’ve been taught that are limiting them. After spending several days learning from coach Andy Plummer, he’s discovered a simple concept he believes could transform how senior golfers create power—without needing more flexibility or athleticism.

The goal isn’t just to hit the ball further, but to build a swing that creates more speed while staying accurate. Danny explains that to achieve this, golfers need to make a longer backswing to store more energy, return the club consistently to the ball, and then release that energy efficiently. The foundation of all three comes from one simple setup adjustment.

Danny introduces Andy Plummer’s “wrench drill.” Instead of loading weight onto the trail side, golfers begin with slightly more pressure on the lead leg. Using the lead side as the pivot point allows the trail hip to rotate much more freely, instantly creating a bigger, more natural turn. He demonstrates that when weight stays on the back foot, rotation becomes restricted, making golfers think they lack flexibility when, in reality, they’re simply using an inefficient pivot.

To help golfers feel this movement, Danny recommends widening the trail foot slightly and pulling it back a fraction. The lead knee should have a little more flex while the trail leg is slightly straighter, creating an angled setup that encourages rotation around the lead side. From there, he asks golfers to feel their trail pocket moving behind them as they turn, storing energy without swaying off the ball.

He explains that this setup does more than create a bigger backswing. It naturally encourages the club to approach from the inside, helping golfers who slice the ball and allowing the low point of the swing to sit slightly behind the driver. For slower swing speeds, this promotes a positive angle of attack, launching the ball higher and increasing distance with no extra effort.

Once the backswing is working, Danny moves to the second stage—how to release that stored energy. Many golfers instinctively lunge with their chest and shoulders from the top, losing both speed and consistency. Instead, he wants golfers to allow the trail arm to become the main power source. By keeping the body quieter through impact and letting the arm swing naturally around the body, golfers can create a longer, faster arc while maintaining control.

He encourages practising the two movements separately before combining them. First, master the lead-side pivot and bigger turn. Then, add the sensation of allowing the arms to swing through while resisting the urge to spin the body open too early. Although the feeling may seem unusual at first, it helps produce an inside path, an upward strike with the driver, and far more effortless speed.

Danny finishes by reminding viewers that this isn’t about chasing 300-yard drives. For senior golfers, it’s about creating a bigger, freer turn without putting stress on the body, then releasing the club more efficiently to gain meaningful distance while keeping accuracy. He encourages viewers to try the drill, let him know how they get on in the comments, share it with a golfing friend if it helps, and download the free practice guide linked below the video. He also points viewers towards his next lesson on applying the same concepts to iron play.

Full Transcript- So, I love coaching senior golfers. Part of the reason for that is is most of them come to me thinking that they're losing distance because of their age. And it's never their age, it's what they're being taught. And in this video, I want to share with you something that well, basically, I've just spent three days with a world-class coach called Andy Plameumber. And he shared with me something that I think it's going to be a breakthrough for senior golfers. It is unbelievably simple. It's going to help you naturally hit the ball longer, you know, and you're going to be amazed. If you're going to be at swing longer despite what you might think about your flexibility, it's incredible. I can't wait to share it with you. Before I do though, look, if you're new to the channel, some of your first lessons of mine, please consider subscribing. I release videos just like this one every single week to try and help you improve your game. Plus, you never have to remember a thing. Everything I do here, I'll put into a free download practice guide that I'll pin to the top comment below this video. Or simply just scan the QR code right here. I think you can tell I'm a bit excited. So, I know there's millions of videos out there telling you how to hit the driver longer, and I'm sure you've probably tried a few and and they don't really work, or if they do, they you start spraying it everywhere. This video will form the foundation for you, not just to add distance, but maintain that accuracy. It really, really will. So, what have we got to try to achieve together today? Well, you know, despite what your flexibility is like, I promise you, I'm going to help you swing longer, but more importantly, keep the control. We've got to help you swing a little bit longer so we can store more energy. That's the very first thing. Once you've got more energy stored in the back swing, you've got to be able to deliver that on the correct line for accuracy. But you've got to also find a way to deliver it with speed. That needs to be the kind of the goal in this session. Now, I spent three days with Andy Plamer, lovely guy and even better golf coach, and he shared with me a fantastic, fantastic drill called the wrench drill. And ultimately, all it is is this. He says, "If you set up with your driver with more weight on this lead side, we're going to use the lead side here as your pivot point, you will instantly be able to swing the ball longer. And I'm going to prove it to you. If you can do this right now, if you can just kind of stand up and I want you to put weight on your trail leg, my right leg, and I want you to see how much you can actually turn with your weight on your on your back leg." And this is where most people are at the top of their back swing. I can't move my leg. If I can't move, if I can barely get a turn, how am I supposed to swing and complete my turn? And people think that by doing that, it's the lack of flexibility. And it's really not. If I simply now just start to position as an exercise 60 70% of my weight now on my lead side, and I imagine this almost like a wrench here, we're going to turn the body this way. Suddenly [snorts] now it's so much easier for me to turn my my trail hip here and with my trail hip I can naturally make look a much much bigger turn. But here's the other thing. Look at this here. Look, if I'm going to use this side as like a wrench, put my weight here and I use this as a wrench. Not only does it make the turn much easier and therefore me to swing much longer, look at how simple the motion will be. I could just turn back and I'm almost back to where I started with. So, I'm able to create a repeatable action. Compare this to this. If I'm over here, not only have I lost power because I can't turn, I've now got to find my way all the way back in a quarter of a second. That becomes really difficult. So, there's two stages to this and it's unbelievably simple to set up. I want you to set up with drive in your normal position. Ball just off your off your lead heel. And the then what I want you to do is this. I want you to spread that right foot out a little bit. And even, by the way, push it slightly behind you. So, what you get here at the start is this. I want you to set up with a little bit more flex in your lead foot and slightly more extended in your in your trail uh trail leg. You can see I've got like a my knee line is almost pointing to the right hand side. So, we're presetting to start with a better place a better place for you to pivot around that lead leg. And look at how easy it is for me to work and pivot around my body and increase the length of my swing. So that is the very first stage. We get offset here. A little bit more flex in that lead. Slightly extended with the trail leg ball in the in the same place. From this position, all I want you to do is imagine this. Imagine there's a line in the middle of your back right here. And what we're going to do is is we're going to pivot and we're going to get the pocket look really moving towards where the middle of that back was this way. Can you see that? That's going to help you make a naturally longer turn and give you all this stored energy. We'll tell you how to release it in a second, but you now you store the energy, but you've got it under control. It will be huge. So, let's start with that first before we move on to stage two. get the sensation of pivoting your body correctly to naturally extend your swing as opposed to where most people are. They can't complete the club's gone up too high from from their right leg. They're they're lunging at the golf ball. They're chopping at the golf ball. No consistency, no power. More importantly, look, no arc slinging that club through impact. So, let's have a look at this in action.

flex in the in the leading leg to straighten the right leg just a little bit. So, we create this angle. And I'm basically presetting the wrench here to help me pivot backwards and forwards.

Now, we should expect to see a shot that starts off slightly to the right, look, and draws back. And you can see my swing circle is a positive number. That means I'm swinging slightly to the right of target. Little bit too much, but that's what that's the expect. I was expecting that. Why? Because I've set this up for anyone who slices the golf ball. This is incredible. It sets the arc naturally coming from over here, which by the way means that we can hit the low point of the swing is slightly behind the golf ball. And we know for slower swing speed, senior golfers, if we can get a swing that swings slightly more up on that golf ball, because of that, you increase your distance naturally without any extra effort whatsoever. So that is step number one. Practice the wrench drill. Practice that pivot. It's kind of like counterintuitive. Do you feel if you put your weight forward, will I chop down on it? No, you will not. It actually is a great way of shallowing off that club to hit up on the ball. But that's only the first stage. The problem is is for many of my students who come to me struggling to gain distance, you'll see it, and you might be exactly the same. Often what's happening is is they are lunging at the golf ball. They're using their torso. opening up their bodies and they're lunging at the golf ball. But watch this. You've now got to a place where you've stored energy. Okay? So, you've got that pivot. You got that beautiful pivot on the way around. How do you release that energy? How do you get it going through the shot? Well, when you've stored it like this, the problem now is this. Habits are not easy to break. So, what my students will do is this.

They use their body to try and hit the shot. Compare that to this where we've got the wrench drill here. Watch my arm.

How much of my body am I using at the moment on the way through?

See the difference? Huge, isn't it? So, what I want you to get a a realization is this. Most of the time, why you can't store enough energy in the back swing isn't just because you're not pivoting, but watch my arm here. If I put my arm up here, my arm has the ability, look, to stay in this position. Not much power, but it can also do this. Can you see that? I've got all this mobility available to me which extends the length of the swing but it also look provides an extra energy source versus this. Yeah. So how can we naturally implement that in the golf swing? Well the first thing to realize look is when you're set up to driver you're setting up the wrench drill. You've got it all set up here. Realize that your arm, look, and I don't mean this, your arm's not kind of flying around. My arm is in this position like I'm giving blood here. And look, my arm can now move around my body. And it can do this. Can you see this? So, get a sensation of your arm working backwards and forwards around your body.

And you can see here, look, am I turning through? No. I'm getting a sensation of turning my body back here. And now watch this

versus this. So I'm actually sensing that my body is actually fairly closed as I'm coming through and I'm allow my arm to swing back to where it came from. That is going to be the extra power source that you need. So I do recommend doing these in stages. Get the wrench. For a lot of people, that's going to be very simple, but at the same time, it's going to take a little bit of thought. So, don't rush into this. Really get a sense of that right pocket working around. Get set those knees angles. And when you're making a swing, the temptation here, cuz people used to it will be to very quickly pivot this way. Your job here is to almost imagine everything staying quite almost aiming to the right of target and allowing those arms, look, to swing. That will be maybe the sensation that you're after because the temptation and habits will get you going this way. Okay. So, let's combine those two things together. But like I say, I would work on them separate to start with. And then this is amazing, right? So, get yourself set. Get that wrench working here. Look at one. Left knee's going forward, straightening [snorts] back. And then from here, I'm going to imagine that staying to the right. And then I'm going to power this up going through. Oh, trap man. I wish you'd would keep turning off like that. Okay, let's have a look at this. So, set it up. Exaggeration. We'd expect a shot that starts slightly more to the right side with a draw because of this setup to start with. And away we go.

All right, Presto. What do we see? A swing circle that's slightly to the right of target. bottom low point behind the uh the golf ball. Hits me up on the ball and we'll think we'll take 300 yards. So, super super simple, isn't it? But I'm not expecting anyone to be getting up 300 yards. If you're a senior golfer, it's not about that. What it is is about is about making sure that you're making a big enough turn, but you're doing it naturally. You're not putting stress on your body. It feels incredibly hard to make a turn when your weight's here. That's the first thing. and your shoulders like this and you're not letting that shoulder look at the extra space we've got there. Now we can travel further. Then we just learn to get the arm working much much more across that body like this. And that gives you the extra bit of zing. That's the foundation for you generating power. But more importantly because we've got the wrench and not moving all over the place for you to get keep the control as you're doing it. So do me a favor. Go and give this a go and let me know in the comments how you get on. And if it works, I'm sure it will. Share it with one of your friends. Don't keep it to yourself. You might be asking if how you know how does this work with the iron shots. Check this video out right here. Look, if you're new to the channel, press that subscribe button somewhere on this page down here. And I'll also put a free download practice plan. Just scan the QR code somewhere on this page so you can kind of you don't have to remember a thing. It's all in there. But until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.