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How to Drive it Straighter - Co-tip: Farmers Insurance Open (2:32)
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Being a good all-around driver is key, especially at Torrey Pines. Michael Breed, host of ‘The Golf Fix’ shares a drill for driving it straighter while Martin Hall, host of ‘School of Golf’ helps with your distance off the tee.
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-This week the PGA Tour goes to Torrey Pines for
the Farmers Insurance Open. Our first time of the year,
we're taking this outside to give this tip because we're
talking about driving and at Torrey Pines, you've got to
drive this ball straight, both the north and the south
courses where 2 of the most challenging courses on the
PGA Tour last year to find the fairway. You've got
to drive it straight. So, quick tip, in order to
drive it straight, you've got to make sure that club
face is square, very simple drill. What you're gonna do
is you're gonna take a tee and you're gonna place
the tee right behind the ball that's perpendicular to the
target line. What I want you to imagine is when
you bring this club back to impact that that club
face is exactly parallel to that that tee. So, you're
gonna be imagining what that face looks like and what
that tee looks like and all I want you to
do is when you come back to this, I want
that club face to look just like the tee, and
when you do that what you're gonna find is that
golf ball is gonna go very, very straight. You'll find
plenty of fairways and you lower your score. Alright Martin,
we're outside, but I know you're inside, what have you
got. -Thanks Michael. As important to driving accuracy at Torrey
Pines is driving distance like 2011 champion Bubba Watson led
the field. Now, we all want to figure out a
bit far, and there're a couple of things you can
do. One is got to go faster. There's no doubt
about it. So, good thing to do is just turn
the club upside down, swish it back and forth, and
see if you can increase the pitch of that swish.
This should be low level. This should be high level.
You've got to make it go faster. So, doing that
some training would be good. Mechanically, there is no question
if you hit off the ball. You're going to hit
it far down the drive and now you hit down.
Now, that's mainly a set thing. To get yourself setup,
get yourself tilted little bit behind it, have the feeling
that you're almost giving that ball so that a right-handed
upper cut. So, get behind it, set behind it, tee
it high to let it fly, hit up with some
speed. You might not quite be Bubba Watson, but you
should get a bit more than you've been getting. Thanks
for joining us on golfchannel.com for the best in golf
instruction. The drills Mike and I have shared is sure
to make you on the pros at the Farmers Insurance
Open better at driving the golf ball.
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