How to hit driver from fairway

To do this, make sure that your downswing first moves towards the ground, and not directly toward the ball. Once you reach close to the ground level on the downswing, the club should now move towards the ball, but close along the ground. Make sure the direction of your swing is not directly toward the ball. It should first be towards the ground after which you push the club forward towards the ball. To get a straight ball flight that is relative to where you swung, drive the clubface close to the ground towards the ball and swing left a bit so the ball doesn't curve much.

This becomes a square clubface, a hit where there is no curve on the ball. To achieve a proper swing path, you will need to align your body well at the address such that your body does not rotate with the downswing. Allow your hips to thrust more close to the target, and not towards the ball. This is called an early extension.

Lead with your lower body by stabilizing your left foot. Pump the energy up your trunk and turn in the downswing. This way the path goes less toward the target line and more toward you. You have to take these three steps one after the other. For the best hits on the driver, first, work to have a solid contact. Proceed to the second step and finally achieve control of the swing path. Practice these steps for better results with each hit.

Watch the video below to have a visual overview of these easy steps as described above. Hitting a driver proves to be an uphill task for many beginners because of a poor swing shape and golf club flight.

Start at the addressing position with the ball a bit into the middle of the stance than normal. The key thing is to hit the ball with the top of the club face. This hit point helps to make the ball have a topspin and low launch. The topspin is because the ball maintains a brief contact with the clubface upon impact.

Let the swing be more compressing on the ball. This is possible because you hit the ball with the top of the clubface to produce a compressing impact that will cause the ball to launch lower and maintain a low height. We have faced one of the main elephants on the golf course: the difficulty of hitting a driver.

We have learned how to hit a driver in different settings, situations, and desired results. This article shows you how to hit it further, lower, straight all the time, and to achieve a draw or fade. This article would be incomplete if we do not discuss the questions people ask on hitting a driver.

Stay on to learn more and enhance your golf knowledge base. To grip a driver golf club, hold it at the base of the handle with the left hand.

Rotate this hand to a point where you see the knuckles of both the middle and index finger. Place the right hand such that it overlaps the middle and ring fingers of the left hand. Your right index finger and thumb should make a "V" shape that is in line with the middle of your torso. This hand placement reverses if you are a left-hander.

You can choke up on your driver depending on the course and hole you are playing. Consider also whether you are golfing for fun or in a professional tournament. Note that choking up on the driver causes lower yardage for most golfers.

Place the ball off the inside of your left foot to hit a draw with the driver. We're not going to use a tee-peg, we're going to hit it straight from the floor. This is a kind of once-in-a-blue-moon shot. The conditions very rarely come right for this shot. But when it comes right, if you can hit it well, it can be a real good saver for you around the golf course, giving you some extra distance, maybe even a chance of setting up a birdie, and also impressing your mates.

The first thing to consider is we have to have ourselves on a good lie. If the ball is sitting up nicely on a bit of a fluffy turf, then the driver might be worth taking. If there's nothing in the way that will slow down because this ball won't go high, if there's nothing in the way that will slow down and you think you can get the ball up in the air and then scuttling towards the green, then it's worth taking the driver.

If the 3-wood and the hybrid club simply won't give you enough distance, it might be worth taking the driver. Now that you are in good posture and know you need to hit the ground, I want to give you a very specific method to get the club down to the ground. When you make your backswing, your trail elbow should, and does, fold.

So, in order to get your club all the way back to the ground, this elbow needs to straighten down toward the ground, much like a throwing motion. When this trail arm straightens, it helps create full extension in your arms. You can actually practice this without the club. Place a ball in your trail hand and bow forward into your golf posture. From there, straighten the arm and throw the ball down to the ground so it hits the ground in line with the middle of your stance.

This straightening will train your arm to release properly. If you hit your 7- or 5-wood solid and you are confident with them, then consider hitting more of those, rather than trying to force a club you may not be comfortable with. Having a fairway wood with enough loft to help increase launch can improve consistency and confidence. I am a huge fan of a 7-wood for most golfers, other than golfers with really high club head speed.

Loft helps give your fairway woods beautiful launch, which can make them great clubs to approach the green. I also think that because fairway woods are physically longer than most clubs in your bag, they can intimidate many players. Remember that loft is your friend. Use it to your advantage. While your posture should stay the same from club to club, you will be naturally farther from the ball with your fairway woods due to the increased length of the shaft.

Because of this your backswing with your fairway woods will feel like it comes more around your body.