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• Tips
• Warnings

1 Get good gear. Modern gear and balls are not necessarily made for 7-8 degree loft drivers. All this is in the past. Raising the ball into the air along a good trajectory is the first step in order to send the ball out of the drive as far as possible. A lot of tournament pros use 9 and 10 degree loft golf clubs and send the ball 300 yards or more out of the way. The modern driver's loft for beginners is 11.5 degrees. Plus, you will achieve greater consistency with a club that has a larger loft.

2 Start by placing your foot forward in line with the ball to provide a larger loft as you prepare. When you swing, you should move your weight back. This will give your swing more strength.

3 Correctly wrap your hand around the handle of the club. Even if it seems to you that the tighter you grip the handle and the harder you swing, the better the results will be, but this is completely wrong, and perhaps that is why you are unable to hit the ball at the desired distance. Kel Ripken, a celebrity baseball player who played for the Baltimore Orioles, recently stated in an interview with Golf Channel that the grip strength (on a scale of 1, weakest, to 10, strongest) was 2-4 for the best shots on the ball. ... In the movies, the authorship of this principle is attributed to the great Harry Warden, but in reality the fact that the best players talk about grabbing a club as holding a bird in the hands so as not to crush and at the same time not release it was pointed out by legendary instructor Phil Galvano ... Hands should not be tense. Practice this on the training field and pay attention to your results.

4 Calmly and slowly start the swing down. This will allow you to develop speed so that the club continues to pick up speed even as it hits the ball.

5 Maintain an erect position. Your driver should be parallel to the ground for 20-25 percent of the sweep duration. If the club rises up during the swing, then you will sharply raise the ball and you will not get such a long and boring drive that professionals regularly perform (when the ball takes off like a rocket, it rises slowly and beautifully, and then descends onto the fairway).

6 Keep your dominant arm flexed. Many amateur players have a tendency to throw their arms forward in an attempt to lift the ball into the air, but this makes it unnecessary to acquire good equipment (as discussed above). While swinging down, the dominant hand (left for most players, right for lefties) should be bent at an angle downward toward the ball. This is similar to kicking the ball with the back of your left hand. If you throw up your left hand while swinging down, the contact will not be tight and you will constantly miss with the club. By maintaining the angle, you will launch the ball in a low trajectory that will gradually rise due to the effort you put in.

7 Pick a point on the surface that forms a straight line with your target and, while addressing the ball, extend the club in its direction. When performed correctly, your arms will be in the shape of the letter "V", with your arms extended. If you tend to bend your left arm ahead of time, this will negatively affect the strike distance; hold "V" for as long as possible before bending your arms at the end of the swing and you will find that the ball will fly much further.

8 Complete the swing over the left shoulder (for right-handed players) or over the right shoulder (for left-handed players). Don't try to look up as soon as possible and see where the ball has gone. If you did everything correctly, the ball will fly straight.

Tips

• Swing smoothly, like the blades of a mill, not gusty, and beginners must resist the urge to break their wrists before the club hits the ball, no matter how well that may work in baseball. This provides another opportunity to disrupt your timing.
• While swinging while addressing the ball, you should think about it, mentally repeating, for example, the following words: "Easy and free, easy and free." This will remind you to relax, not swing the club with all your strength and not grab it with a stranglehold.
• If you are a beginner in the game, then work on the training field each step separately. They are all important, but if you try to learn them all at once, you can get frustrated.
• The speed can be increased by bringing the wrists into the working position as early as possible, and when swinging down, keeping the wrists in working condition as long as possible. This is similar to how a light racket kick is done with the wrist in badminton, squash, or tennis.

Warnings

• Do not raise your head during the drive! Otherwise, you will end up with a high hit or crooked ball.
• Don't swing on ball.Your goal is to swing the head of the club along the line your target is on, with the ball on that line.
• Golfers who tend to hit the ball with their hands rather than swinging the ball with their whole body waste significant effort and hence shorten the ball's flight distance.