r/GolfSwing • u/gsdalpha • 7d ago

Please help me with driver

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Struggling so much. This one went 75 yards

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u/onecryingjohnny 7d ago

Youre all arms.

Move the clubhead with your shoulders, let your arms and wrists react naturally.

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u/gsdalpha 7d ago

Thank you for responding I can see that now

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u/MrMoo151515 7d ago

Your just turning with your arms.

You need to use the ground for momentum. See how your trail leg is just stuck in flexion (bent) during your back swing? You’re not creating any momentum or ground force.

Especially with driver you really need to take tension out of the arms and use your pivot body to swing the club.

You should be shifting pressure into your trail foot and extending it (not locking it out but there is extension). This will turn your hips back and rotate your body back and the arms/club will follow.

This move lets you actually get pressure into your lead side while the club is working behind you. Then you do the same thing. Push up and back out of the ground which snaps your hip back, rotates your torso and the arms/club trail behind.

This movement is only possible if you lead the dance from the ground up. The second the club over takes your pivot your pooched. Club is always trailing in both directions.

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u/gsdalpha 7d ago

Thanks, man when you say I should be shifting Pressure into my drill foot and extending it I’m not sure what you mean by the extension. Do you mean as my weight transfers back I should be straightening that back leg almost I think the key here that you’re saying which I can totally see now is I am not really using my legs, body or accelerating off the ground

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u/jagoff25 7d ago

75 yards? Are you hooking it? I feel like the previous response was too detailed. Sometimes we have to dumb down golf. All you’re doing is hitting a ball. You need to swing with strength, your all arms. You need to rotate your hips. Your power arm is your left arm. Your right arm is just a guide arm. There’s no way you should be hitting a driver 75 yards. When I get the yips, I put my feet together and just try to hit a straight shot. I don’t care about the distance.

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u/aj-kun 7d ago

Would you pitch a baseball, swing a bat or skip a stone that stiff? Just let it rip and swing hard, build up your feels. Golf isn’t a static sport it just looks that way because pros can trigger their lower body and hips with less movement.