hi guys it's Amy if you want to hit your
driver further we want to minimize your
side Spin and Back Spin and create more
Top Spin in order to create more Top
Spin you need to know how to throw
through the d uh through the ball a lot
of you guys don't quite know what it
means to throw through the ball so today
I'm going to be talking about the driver
down
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swing
before we start the lesson I want to
talk about down blow versus up blow or
backspin versus Top Spin um in order to
explain that a little bit better I'm
going to show you the difference between
your iron swing and your driver swing
first so let's talk about the irons
first so iron swing is a down blow swing
because with the iron the ball is you
hit the ball off the ground so when you
start your dcing what happens is you
transfer your weight all at once so
you're about 90% to 100% in your left
leg and then you go into a steep and you
go down blow into it and then you make a
divot when you go into a down blow it
creates backspin so what happens is when
the ball lands instead of running out
it'll stop
quicker for the driver driver is the
only Club in the bag where you teed up
very high so you hit the ball that's up
in the air right this is the only Club
you need to go up low into it so instead
of swinging the same way as the iron and
go transfer your weight all at once you
have to uh do it a little bit
differently your down swing sequence
should be you transfer your weight about
10 to 20% first delay the weight shift
and your weight's going to be more in
the right foot and you're going to go up
low into it and you're going to throw
through and then the waist shift
completes
after so in order for you to understand
the throwing sensation you need to be
able to do two things you need to
understand how to feel the weight of the
club head and secondly you need to
understand how to use your core and use
that as source of power so there's a lot
of things I want to talk about uh on
these two subjects so I'm going to
divide the lesson in two and talk about
it in more detail so today I'm going to
talk about how to feel the weight of the
club head so like I explained earlier um
I do see a lot of amateurs that do swing
the driver same way as irons so a lot of
you guys do transfer your weight all at
once when you're in this position you
can't throw through because in this
position if you throw through what
happens is you're going to hit the
bottom of the te and you're going to end
end up hitting the top of the club right
here you're going to pop it up and push
it right so you get that kind of high
cut High slice if you do that iron down
swing so with the driver when you get
into this position a lot of people
actually know through experience that
you're going to pop it up so you
actually end up holding on for dear life
and just hitting the ball this way
you've seen this through swing a lot
right so when you do this through swing
the only problem is that you're holding
on to it so tight you won't be able to
feel your Club head in order to feel
your Club head um you have to relax your
wrist your elbow and your shoulder joint
like
this and really relax it through so you
feel that weight to the club head but
when I tell someone to relax their
joints a lot of people actually end up
relaxing their fingers so their joints
would be still stiff but they end up
relaxing their fingers like this what
happens is if you relax your grip too
much the club is going to move around in
your hands and throughout the whole golf
swing if the club starts moving in your
hand you're going to get uncomfortable
and grab it harder which is going to put
more tension than what you started with
which is no good right so you have to be
able to know differentiate between
relaxing your grip versus relaxing your
joints so you understand that now let's
go into how to practice to feel the
weight of the club head so the best
practice to really get those joints
loose and feel the weight of the cpet is
making practice wings so we're going to
do two things we're going to go to the
top and completely stop and then we're
going to make this swish sound 3 ft in
front of the golf ball completely
stop swish again
stop swish so this practice is probably
the best practice if you want to gain
more distance on your driver because it
actually helps you to loose loosen up
your arms and feel the weight of the
club head plus it actually strengthens
those muscles that are needed in order
for you to hit it far so you cannot do
enough of these practice wings okay so
uh one important thing though when
you're doing these uh practice Wings is
that in order for you to be able to
swish over here you cannot let your body
get ahead like this so if you hold your
driver this way with your left palm and
you set up with the right hand this
way uh you need to kind of keep your
body still and you need to swish over
here but if your body gets ahead it kind
of goes like this way and then you can't
swish you'll be swishing before the wall
which is no good right you're using all
your energy before the impact is not
good all right so instead of going in
this way you have have to kind of wait
and wait for the club to switch on that
side of the golf ball if you do enough
of that practice swing let's go ahead
and hit the golf
ball when you're hitting the golf ball
if you pay attention more to uh listen
to the swish rather than focusing on
hitting the golf ball it'll help help
you hit it further okay so watch let's
try and swish over
there
okay so the most important part is not
getting Ahad the out of the golf ball
first right um so to help you with that
if you think of it this way might help
you so instead of like using your whole
body to create power if you kind of use
the momentum of the club head making the
biggest C
possible then it's actually going to
relax your body it's going to be easier
on your body but you're going to create
more clus speed and hit it further so
hopefully that thought might help you
with swishing in front of the golf ball
so in order for you to hit the golf ball
further you really want to stay back in
your right foot instead of getting ahead
make a swish 3 feet in front of the golf
ball do all L of those practice things
and in the next lesson I'll be showing
you guys how how to create power with
your core so I hope you're able to
follow along and I will see you guys in
the next
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lesson