To Hit Driver Longer & Straighter Simply Do This Before Every Swing

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Transcript Summary-

Most golfers fall into the same frustrating cycle with their driver—they try to hit it longer and lose control, then try to hit it straighter and lose distance. The key is understanding that you don’t need to choose between the two. You can have both distance and control, but only if you approach it the right way.

The first step is recognising that speed isn’t the problem—you already have it. The issue is controlling that speed. Instead of trying to manipulate the clubhead, you need to let it swing freely and use your body to support it. By allowing the wrists to hinge naturally and the trail elbow to fold in, you create a stable, supported position at the top of the backswing. This gives you control without restricting movement.

From there, the focus shifts to the downswing and, more importantly, the timing of the release. When the club is supported properly, it becomes much easier to deliver it on the correct path. The feeling in your hands plays a huge role here, helping guide the club naturally rather than forcing positions.

Timing is everything. Releasing the club too early leads to weak shots and lost distance, while releasing it too late can cause poor strikes and inconsistency. Most golfers tend to release too early, so learning to delay that release slightly can help generate more power without sacrificing control.

Ultimately, it’s about balance. You’re not trying to force positions or hold angles—you’re developing a feel for how the club moves and when it should release. Get that right, and you’ll be able to swing faster, hit it longer, and keep it straight much more consistently.

Full Transcript- Now, if you're anything like me or even the rest of the golfing population, you would love to hit driver longer and at the same time hit driver straight. But every time you try to do that, what generally happens? You lose control of the ball, don't you? Either you hit driver way left or it slices to the right. And then what we all do is is we then what we want control back. We trying to hit driver straight. And when we do, what do we do? What do we sacrifice? We start sacrificing our distance. The distance starts to fall back. And this cycle kind of like goes on and on and on. How do you get both? How do you effortlessly generate distance in your game easily, but at the same time control that? Right? In this golf lesson, I'm waiving this saw around. We'll show you how this works in a second. In this golf video, I'm going to show you how you can start to add more distance to your not just your driver swing, but every club in the bag for that matter, but keep it under control. And there's just two things you need to learn. The first thing is club head speed. And you can, everyone's got speed in the club head, right? And it's pretty easy to generate. If we look at this here, as soon as that club comes back, it has speed to it. Yeah. The problem is right now I don't really have any control over that speed. And if I was to try and hit a golf ball, and you were trying to hit a golf ball like that, I would probably hit it all over the place. So what we then do is we then lose control of the ball. So we then slow that speed down now to increase our chances of hitting it straighter. So, we get control, but we lose speed. And we want both. So, we want to have this club flying beautifully as fast as we can, but under control. So, where do you start? Well, the first thing I want to reiterate throughout this golf video, I want you to consistently be allowing that club head to swing as freely as you possibly can all the time, no matter what. Never try and control it. What we do, however, is we add control with the movement of our body. And this is a really great drill to feel this initially. So, grab a saw. Super simple. Hold yourself out like this. Now, remember, we have a momentum in the head. It's swinging, right? So, we've got to have some control over that. Now, if I set myself up like this, and I simply bend my wrist backwards like this and through, that is staying beautifully square to the arc of the swing. Yeah, I've got control over that head. If I was to kind of open the saw like this, I've thrown the head behind me now. And now the head is taking over me. If I'm here, I'm in control of that head on the way back and on the way through. Very, very important. What I've done now is this. As I swing this head back and I bend my wrist back like this, what do you notice what's happening now to my trail elbow as I do this? Can you see that? That is sitting down. And now look, as I swing the head back, that elbow starts to pivot almost like I'm holding a waiters tray at the top of the swing. I am now supporting that free flowing golf club right to the top of the swing. This is important. This is what's going to give you the first part of getting control over that head so that you can slam that weight straight back down to the golf ball. If I'd have done this, for instance, where I suddenly go this way and the sword moves around, I've thrown the head behind me, I've now lost complete control over it. I'm going to have to make loads of conversations. Yeah. But when I'm here and I've looking after that there, look, and I throw it to the top, I am now fully supporting that entire golf club and that mass and the energy, setting myself up to now throw it beautifully down to the ground. That is the first thing that I want you to put into place. So, what this looks like before we work on the down swing element here is this. Look, you're setting yourself up here and you're just doing a little waggle where you feel that trail hand here. Look, just hinging a little bit and that trail elbow really just squeezing in there. Setting yourself up to swing that club. Look, look at this. Bang. To the top. I can swing it beautifully, freely to the top. And I've still got loads of control. Why? Because I'm supporting that mass. So that is the first thing to do. Get into the habit of understanding that this club here is working with the body beautifully all the way to the top of the swing.

So let's start with that as goal number one. Get it loaded to the top so you can slam it down. Now let's work on the down swing. So, before we get into the fun bit, which is the down swing, let me just announce that at the end of this video, I'd love to give you something that will massively help your golf game. So, stay tuned. Um, so look, what have you got so far? Super simple. You've allowed the club to flow freely, but what you've done is you've loaded it. You've supported the weight. And now what you want to figure out is, well, how do I then use that, throw it down to the golf ball, and basically hit shots like this?

Not too bad with one hand. So, how am I doing that? How am I hitting it straight yet generating a pretty decent amount of power only with one arm? Well, the first thing I've done, and you've just learned it now, is I've made sure that the club is supported at the top of the back swing. It's in a great spot, supported by the hands and the arm folding like this. Now, what we want to do is learn the feeling. And that's what I have and I want you to learn. So we're going to bring back the saw for a second, okay? Because it's such a great sensation. So the hands really are one of the secret source. You'll see a lot of great players talking about a lot of the feel they feel in their hands. And there's a reason for that. Because look, if I know that my hands are supposed to work like this, then when I get to the top of the back swing, I know that that saw, that flat bit of the saw wants to come down and release the club like this. Would it make any sense for me to come over the top? Just feels weird to do that, right? Because the f it's facing the wrong way. I'm gonna have to do some stuff. Would it make sense to drop it way over here? Well, it's over there. I'm going to have to now whip it around the corner, miss some hook shots. But once I've got this feeling like this and I'm loaded it to the top, it's so easy to naturally come down the correct line because I know what my hands are supposed to be doing. The only thing you have to time is the release then. Right? So what I mean by that is is if I for instance come down on the right line and release it like this, that would be a weak release. might top it, might add too much loft to the driver if I in a sense come this way and I'm release it too late. Now the the face of the driver is going downwards. I might sky it or I might hit it too low. So what we're trying to do is time this release makes sense. And this is about feeling it. You just kind of like most people are too early. So if you're if you're a short hitter, you'll generally be too early. So you need to time this release. And you'll see my see how my body naturally wants to move laterally in order to get the release happening later. I'm not trying to hold these angles. They are happily naturally happening versus if I stay back here, the release happens earlier. So there's no right and wrong with anybody. It's a balance between those two and you got to figure out where you are. For most players who I coach, they are generally releasing too early. So how do you apply this? Well, just grab a saw. First of all, this would be you'll be amazed at how this kind of gives you the feeling of where this club face is and what that club's doing. That you that itself, you'll be amazed at what that does to the whole path of your golf club. But to learn the timing, I often use devices like Hack Motion to give my students a little bit of feedback as to when they're releasing too early or too late. So, let's show you how you can get some timing in this. So, get myself set with driver and I'm going to use hack motion initially here. So, I get myself set up in my dress position, swing to the top,

and you can see here, look, it's going to show me that I've casted the golf club. So, what I've done is I've released that club too early. I want that feedback. So, what I'm going to do now, and what I'll give my students to do is I'll give them a sensation that they've got, imagine that saws in their hand. And what they're going to do is they're gonna imagine that that saw is pointing more downwards through the hitting area as they are swinging backwards and forwards. So let's look at this in action. So get myself set. Swing to the top. And now here, look. And you can see here, look, I get a green. So I'm what I'm picturing. I've got the saw here. I'm not holding the angle. I'm trying to time it all the time. So that club is always flowing beautifully freely, but I'm visualizing the timing of that motion. Just thing just something to watch out for. However, it's very easy if you try to kind of get the saw pointing downwards that you might move your head. Just watch out for that. The head itself doesn't move. This is all control. The feeling is controlled much much more with your hands and your arms here. This would be look here. Look, I show if I'm adding too much loft to the golf club. Watch this.

actually showed it correctly on that one. Let's do one more time. So, I can see I get to the top here and here. If I add loads of loft, you can see here, look, I'm adding the casting exercise to this. But if I get myself set and I imagine now the saw coming much more here. Hey, presto. I've then got everything timed up. So, it's not that you have to think about this too much. You've got the kind of imagine that saw working and you're just trying to imagine okay slightly facing downwards for those of you who struggle with a little bit of distance and maybe in you happen to be slicing it. If you happen to be hooking the golf ball and you tend to have way too much shaffling here and then you're having to flip it, you might need to feel like you're actually adding loft to this golf club through the impact area. If you're adding loft, look here to the impact. That's going to help you release the club a little bit earlier and rather than leave it till last minute and have to flip it. Yeah. So, developing these sensations and maybe getting some feedback from device like Hat Motion are super super valuable. Now, I promise you something that I would give away completely for free. So, to complement this course, I'm uh this kind of video today. I'm giving away a free driver course that's all designed to help you figure out how to hit driver much much straight. I'll link a video I'll link I'll put a link to that course in the top comment below this video. Also, look, if you enjoy um devices like Hackmotion, I'll also leave a link to a discount code below this video. They're one of my partners and I use them in most of my lessons. So, super super cool uh cool device certainly for natural feedback. You don't want to have to think about too many positions. So, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, give it a thumbs up. Maybe share it with one of your friends who's struggling with driver. Go out and buy yourself a saw. get a feel of where that club face is going. And if you, like I say, if you enjoy this video, click this link here to access the course or click in the top comment below this video. Until next week, have a wonderful golfing week.