By Kim Jeong-kyoo
To lower your score, you have to drive your ball in the fairway. More important, you need to hit your tee shots farther to make easier approach shots with shorter clubs. With short irons, you will have more chances to hit your ball close to the pin. Just like strength-sapped seniors, players lacking distance are desperate to increase power.
There are diverse different ways that will help you create extra power to send your ball longer. To hit your tee shots longer and straighter, you first need to grip your club properly. You need a grip that will help you rid your game of the weak shots curving from left to right. You need to hit straight shots or draws. To this end, you need to grip your club properly. Your grip influences your clubface angle, deciding your shot shapes.
Where your ball goes depends mostly on your clubface position when your club meets the ball. To hit straight shots off the tee, you need to square your clubface to your swing path.
Toward this end, you'd better use a neutral or a touch strong grip. Make sure two knuckles are visible on your left hand at least. Let your two "Vs" created between each thumb and forefinger of your hands stay parallel. Also, you need to let them point toward your right shoulder.
Critically, you need to place your left thumb properly so your thumb rests underneath your club handle supporting it at the top. When you hinge your left wrist properly, your left thumb will support your club underneath your grip.
Your left thumb position on the grip decides your clubface angle, thus influencing your shot shape. With your left thumb supporting your club underneath your grip, you will naturally hit long, straight shots or beautiful draws. Straight shots or soft draws travel longer than slices or fades.
Incidentally, there are diverse methods for using your arms, legs and body properly to hit your ball far and straight. No one can learn them all during one's life. A shortcut to longer distance is focusing on your clubface position during your swing. That way you can free yourself from complicated swing moves and simplify your swing motion. Having a simple swing, you will repeat it every time you hit a ball. Critically, with a repeating swing, you can better hit your ball to your satisfaction.
To create extra power, you need to get a power grip. To adopt a power grip, stand in front of a life-size mirror. Then, let your arms and hands hang naturally from your shoulders along the side of your body.
Check to see where the palm of your left-hand faces. Your left palm may face toward your hip, with your thumb in front. The back of your left hand will naturally rest at right angles to your target side.
Or, your left hand may hang with your thumb facing more inward toward your body. The palm of your left hand will look at the ground at roughly 45 degrees.
Similarly, your left arm may hang with the back of your left hand facing more outward away from your body.
No matter how your arms are hanging, you need to let the back of your left-hand face toward the sky at least 45 degrees. That way you will have a strong, power grip that promotes straight shots or beautiful draws.
After all, how you grip your club governs how much your hands release, turn and roll through impact. Besides, gripping your club properly will prevent you from collapsing your wrists and over-or under-rotating your club handle.
Swinging a golf club and throwing a ball are similar in how light of a grip you need to use. The lighter you hold your club handle, the freer you will swing your club, better increasing your swing speed.
When you want to hit a long drive, you are apt to put a "death grip" on your club handle. Choking your club creates tension in your hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. Tension deprives you of every chance to increase your swing speed.
To increase your distance off the tee, you need to apply your mind to leaving your hands staying soft and supple. Tense muscles interfere with your ability to increase your swing speed.
Grip your driver firmly with the pinkie and ring fingers of your left hand. You need to hold your club loosely with the other fingers. Granted, you need to hold your club softly with your entire right hand. This allows you to hinge your wrists freely and fully, helping you speed up your clubhead through the impact zone. Also, you will enjoy good control of your club. If you lose control of your club, you will rarely square your clubface when you hit the ball. Failing to control your club, you cannot speed up your club. You will unwittingly slow down your clubhead.
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To lower your score, you have to drive your ball in the fairway. More important, you need to hit your tee shots farther to make easier approach shots with shorter clubs. With short irons, you will have more chances to hit your ball close to the pin. Just like strength-sapped seniors, players lacking distance are desperate to increase power.
There are diverse different ways that will help you create extra power to send your ball longer. To hit your tee shots longer and straighter, you first need to grip your club properly. You need a grip that will help you rid your game of the weak shots curving from left to right. You need to hit straight shots or draws. To this end, you need to grip your club properly. Your grip influences your clubface angle, deciding your shot shapes.
Where your ball goes depends mostly on your clubface position when your club meets the ball. To hit straight shots off the tee, you need to square your clubface to your swing path.
Toward this end, you'd better use a neutral or a touch strong grip. Make sure two knuckles are visible on your left hand at least. Let your two "Vs" created between each thumb and forefinger of your hands stay parallel. Also, you need to let them point toward your right shoulder.
Critically, you need to place your left thumb properly so your thumb rests underneath your club handle supporting it at the top. When you hinge your left wrist properly, your left thumb will support your club underneath your grip.
Your left thumb position on the grip decides your clubface angle, thus influencing your shot shape. With your left thumb supporting your club underneath your grip, you will naturally hit long, straight shots or beautiful draws. Straight shots or soft draws travel longer than slices or fades.
Incidentally, there are diverse methods for using your arms, legs and body properly to hit your ball far and straight. No one can learn them all during one's life. A shortcut to longer distance is focusing on your clubface position during your swing. That way you can free yourself from complicated swing moves and simplify your swing motion. Having a simple swing, you will repeat it every time you hit a ball. Critically, with a repeating swing, you can better hit your ball to your satisfaction.
To create extra power, you need to get a power grip. To adopt a power grip, stand in front of a life-size mirror. Then, let your arms and hands hang naturally from your shoulders along the side of your body.
Check to see where the palm of your left-hand faces. Your left palm may face toward your hip, with your thumb in front. The back of your left hand will naturally rest at right angles to your target side.
Or, your left hand may hang with your thumb facing more inward toward your body. The palm of your left hand will look at the ground at roughly 45 degrees.
Similarly, your left arm may hang with the back of your left hand facing more outward away from your body.
No matter how your arms are hanging, you need to let the back of your left-hand face toward the sky at least 45 degrees. That way you will have a strong, power grip that promotes straight shots or beautiful draws.
After all, how you grip your club governs how much your hands release, turn and roll through impact. Besides, gripping your club properly will prevent you from collapsing your wrists and over-or under-rotating your club handle.
Swinging a golf club and throwing a ball are similar in how light of a grip you need to use. The lighter you hold your club handle, the freer you will swing your club, better increasing your swing speed.
When you want to hit a long drive, you are apt to put a "death grip" on your club handle. Choking your club creates tension in your hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. Tension deprives you of every chance to increase your swing speed.
To increase your distance off the tee, you need to apply your mind to leaving your hands staying soft and supple. Tense muscles interfere with your ability to increase your swing speed.
Grip your driver firmly with the pinkie and ring fingers of your left hand. You need to hold your club loosely with the other fingers. Granted, you need to hold your club softly with your entire right hand. This allows you to hinge your wrists freely and fully, helping you speed up your clubhead through the impact zone. Also, you will enjoy good control of your club. If you lose control of your club, you will rarely square your clubface when you hit the ball. Failing to control your club, you cannot speed up your club. You will unwittingly slow down your clubhead.
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