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School of Golf: Bombing the driver (3:53)
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'School of Golf' host Martin Hall teaches four drills for maximizing your distance off the tee. Watch 'School of Golf' Wednesdays 7PM ET.
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-I'm Martin Hall and you're watching School of Golf Extra
Credit. How to bomb it and to pulverize it? How
to hit it absolutely miles? Four tips so that they
can help you do that. A question I'm often asked
is should I swing a weighted club or should I
swing a light club to increase club head speed? Guess
what my answer is. Yes, you should. I really mean
yes, you should. Well, I see, you should do some
of both. You should probably spend 1/3 of your time
whatever you do with the weighted club. Swing them up
because it's good for strength and it's good for flexibility.
This is my weighted club and you want to proportion
it so you spend 2/3 swinging something that is a
lot lighter than a normal golf. Well, this is a
production thing. You probably have seen it around. Anything light
will do. But, this actually gets you used to moving
really fast. The problem with weighted club is you don't
learn to swing quickly. You do get stronger. You do
get more flexible. But, if you're going to hit it
far, you've got to learn to swing quicker. So, swinging
your weighted club and swinging your light club, very good.
Now, there are three 90's that you need to get
right if you're going to bomb it. There's no doubt
in the show. We talked about how to really use
the body properly. But, I did say the hands, the
wrist and the arms are very important. Let me show
you the three 90's which are absolutely vital if you're
going to kill it off the tee. Number one, you've
got to turn your shoulders 90-degrees or at least 90-degrees.
So, simply put a club across your shoulders and see
to that that it gets to 90. Number two, at
the end of your back swing, you want to make
sure that if you're looking in a mirror, it would
appear that there's a 90-degree angle between the shaft and
the left arm. Not that-- it doesn't actually mean you've
had 90-degrees of wrist cut by the way because you
had about 60 in there or there about as when
you're started. But, it's a 90-degree angle here. And the
last 90 is you're going to make a 90, I
hope, between your right upper arm and your right forearm.
It's almost like you make a box. If you make
those three 90's as you load up your right glut
and you unload those three 90's as you extend your
spine, then maybe you can get it out there. Let's
have a look. And, that wasn't too bad for me.
What have we got here? We've got it out there
at 263. Not too bad for an old one. Okay,
now, there's no pull down and this is a bogey
too. There's no pull down in a good swing. You
should have a pull on the arm but you don't
pull with the arm. The best drill I know for
that. Take your right hand. Put it in front of
your left arm. Go up to the top. Feel how
the body advances the arm in the first start. I
might feel a pull on the arm. I most certainly
I'm not pulling with the arm. A great drill to
do this. My last drill and this is a speed-producing
drill. This is one to do at the end of
a practice session. If you want to hit it farther
or you've got a young junior, young son, grandson who
wanted it farther, have them do this at the end
of the day's practice. Take five balls. I'm going to
use five here. It could even be ten. Hit them
as fast and as furiously as you can with no
regards where they go. Here we go. Okay. Bang! Reset.
Bang! Because, that eventually really helps you produce some speed.
I have no concern here for where the ball goes.
I'm just trying to give it absolutely everything that I've
got. Thanks for joining us on GolfChannel.com for the best
in golf instruction. For more tips like this, tune in
to School of Golf every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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