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Golf Stretching For Long Drives

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:35:56 +0000

Most golfers know that stretching is a must if you want to hit long golf drives. The ability to fully stretch (load) specific golf muscles, so that they unload with maximum swing speed through the golf ball is a key component to longer drives.

One of the most important things to do is make a full shoulder turn. This is an area that most golfers (especially over 50 years of age) are deficient at. Do you struggle to make a bigger golf backswing? If so, you’re not alone. The culprit is tight muscles that get only tighter when you “attempt” to make a complete backswing, and you’re not physically capable of it.

Stretch Your Core

One of the main areas to stretch if you want longer drives, is your core. This is the midsection of your body; and I include the lower back when I discuss stretching for a bigger turn. This is purely a rotational movement, so any stretch you do for this should ONLY be rotational. Does that make sense? Do a straight on stretch will gain you no more turn in your backswing.

When you stretch your core area, you must isolate either your upper body or your lower body to gain the biggest stretch and improvement in rotation. A great example would be sitting in a chair, and reaching around the back of the chair with both hands. Notice because you’re seated, your lower body stays still, as you rotate your upper body back. This is a perfect example of golf stretching that will get you longer drives.

Dynamic Golf Stretching

Another very effective method of stretching for golf is dynamic stretching. This is movement type stretches that are similar to your golf swing, but you take them beyond your normal range of motion, with a little bit of momentum from the movement. A good example of this (see picture above left), is to get in your golf posture, grab a club on the shaft with your hands wide. Now make a backswing with this wide grip of your hands on the shaft. Bring it back down, and swing it back again, but take it farther. So you progressively go further and further back, and eventually when you play, you will be making a much bigger backswing, an increase clubhead speed, and hitting LONGER DRIVES!

Consistency

Like anything else worth achieving in life, you’ve got to stretch consistently and keep it up to see the results you want. There is no short cut. If it were easy, every golfer would be crushing their drives over 270 yards, but we know that’s not the case don’t we? Golf stretching is an excellent way to fix shoulder turn in your golf swing issues.

Stretching for even 10 minutes daily, with specific, golf stretches will result in a big improvement in your ability to make a consistently big shoulder turn, with no effort.

If you want a complete golf stretching guide, I recommend you read more about our Total Golf Stretching ebook.

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How To Fix Shoulder Turn In Golf Swing

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:35:25 +0000

Are you struggling with your shoulder turn in your golf swing. Do you want to fix it once and for all? Making a full shoulder turn in golf is a crucial element to improving golf driving distance quickly. There are some physical requirements to a proper shoulder turn, but most of them can be overcome with a little effort. Nothing in life (and golf) comes easy if it’s worth anything, so realize right now, you’ve got to give your shoulder turn issue some attention to fix it.

Like the older golfer pictured to the left, this is a “false” shoulder turn. It may look like a should turn, but if I were a betting man, this golfer is struggling with distance. He has swayed off the ball, and picked up the club. He has not properly rotated behind the ball with a correct shoulder turn. Does this look like you? If so, we’re going to fix it, and give you another 30 yards on your drives.

One of the first issues if you’re struggling with your backswing, is tension. If you have muscle tension, it will be very difficult to make a proper, bigger golf backswing. This tension can be caused by nerves, or from stiff muscles. Most likely it is muscles that have become tight over the years, that are keeping you from making a complete backswing. All it takes is a simple golf backswing stretch to quickly improve your turn back away from the golf ball.

Another issue is like the picture. Sliding instead of rotating. Your first move away from the ball if you’re a slider is to ROTATE your right shoulder immediately behind you! This will get you turning and not sliding to the right. Once you feel the rotation in your core, you will be able to unwind with a much higher clubhead speed.

Tip:

To help avoid sliding, take a look at the picture to your left of Ben Hogan. I’m working on this myself. See the angle of his right leg? I drew a yellow line outside his right leg. If you slide and do not rotate, the angle from the ground up in your right leg will disappear.

It is nearly impossible to rotate back into a full shoulder turn, when you lose the angle in your right leg. Instead, I want you to picture you are going to turn into right hip socket, while rotating your upper body behind you.

Tip:

Do not pick up your hands when you start your golf swing takeaway! This is huge! I have been a culprit for my entire golfing career, and it has really killed my consistency. Picture that triangle between your shoulders, arms, hands and clubhead. The all move (rotate) back together. When you do it correctly, your hands will naturally (and slowly) come up, but that this is not a voluntary action. It just happens with the proper one piece takeaway.

So in closing, the name of the game in fixing your shoulder turn in your golf swing is ROTATION. And I mean start rotating earlier in your takeaway. If you are a slider, you need to rotate immediately. Hope this article helps.

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Use A Golf Swing Weight On Your Club For More Power

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:06:31 +0000

One of the quickest ways to increase your power and driving distance is using a golf swing weight. This is very similar to using a weighted donut like the baseball players use when they’re on deck. There’s nothing more golf specific than making a swing with added weight. The option is a weighted golf club, but the kind of swing weight I’m talking about is a fraction of the price and gets you the very same results.

As you can see in the picture, I’ve inserted this cool training aid on the end of my golf driver, right on the shaft. Slid it - Twist it and it’s on in a matter of seconds! Then all I do is swing it. It’s that EASY! I couldn’t wait to get it, and when I did, I liked it so much, I know offer it right in my Power Golf Training Aid Store.

One of the coolest things about it, is it’s so small, I can easily put it in a compartment of my golf bag so I never forget it when I go to the range or before I play. And it’s just enough added weight that it doesn’t weigh down my bag too much. So no matter if you’re walking or carting, you’ll be okay.

Increase Driving Distance

If you want to increase your power and driving distance you need to set up a consistent training routine with your new golf swing weight.

Here’s a routine I would have you do with it.

Full swings 20 times a day for a week.
First 5 swings very slow to loosen up.
Next 5 swings at about 50% speed.
Third 5 swings at full speed but with good technique.
Last 5 with perfect technique in front of a mirror.

Golf Specific Warm Up

This is a great golf aid for warming up. Especially if you’re short on time because you got to the course late for your round. Your golf warm up would be the same as the power routine, but I would not swing it at 100% because this is a warm up to “loosen” your muscles to play.

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How To Cock Wrist In Golf Swing

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:27:04 +0000

One issue in the golf swing most beginner golfers wonder if they are doing it right is how to cock wrist in golf swing. This movement is critical to setting the club in the proper position at the top, and coming into the ball, because if it’s incorrect, your clubface will either be wide open causing a slice, or completely shut causing a massive hook or pull. Both of these shots will most likely cost you strokes as either out of bounds balls off the tee, or drives that go so short, that you will have to lay up instead of reaching a green in regulation.

The correct way to cock your wrist once you have the proper golf grip is to get in your address position, put the club face right behind the ball as if you’re going to make a swing. Now lift the clubhead only off the ground bending both wrists at the same time, straight up. You will reach a point where you can’t go any farther. That is a correct and full wrist cock for your golf swing.

Once you get the right feeling, you can then do golf drills to get your club in the right spot for a consistent golf swing.

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Improve Golf Driving Distance – Creating Wrist Lag Golf Swing

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:40:11 +0000

To quickly improve golf driving distance, there are a few key things that must happen. Most amateur golfers do not retain wrist lag in their golf swing. Creating wrist lag in your golf swing is the secret to hitting long golf drives. They don’t even get a proper wrist cock to load the club coming down into impact. The most common swing fault is “casting” or throwing the club from the top, losing all lag in your wrist, so any wrist cock you did going back is now gone and wasted.

This is not how you want to swing your driver if you want to maximize your driving distance for 18 holes of golf; or should I say 14 holes which is how many holes you might use your golf driver less the par 3’s on your course.

Golf Swing Takeaway – 90 Degree Wrist Cock

On your takeaway and backswing, when your left arm reaches parallel to the ground, you should have close to your full wrist cock (90 degrees), and now all you have to do, is rotate your shoulders to get to the top of your backswing in a perfect position. You are virtually guaranteed of a perfect top of the backswing position if you focus on this swing thought and tip.

Take a look at one of the longest hitters on tour (below). Alvaro Quiros, who is not very big, and is slight of build, but blows it by Tiger Woods. His AVERAGE is 315 yards! Notice the full and completed wrist cock by the time his left arm is at about parallel to the ground. This is how to get power in your golf swing.

Golf Downswing – Retain Wrist Lag

This is where you either come into impact with a lot of clubhead speed, or you lose it all because your threw the club from the top and lost all of your wrist cock way too early. Now all you have left is a “slap of the ball” with your arms, which by the way are now disconnected from your body, making it a weak “arm swing” instead of retaining lag all the way into impact, where at the very last minute you release it which in turn gives you maximum speed through the ball.

You see the big hitters like JB Holmes, Bubba Watson, Tiger Woods, and even Camilo Villegas with a ton of wrist lag very late in the downswing. The most prominent one is of course Sergio Garcia, and the very famous Ben Hogan in his prime.

But again…lets look at the big hitting Alvaro Quiros (below). Look at his hand position nearly to the ball, but more importantly look at how far back his clubhead still is. His clubhead is literally going to whip through the ball at a massively high speed, resulting in his booming golf drives.

A good swing tip (thought) for most amateurs, is to hold your wrist cock as long as humanly possible. It won’t happen, but if you think this, you’ll have a much improved wrist lag, which will compress your golf ball like never before. Your driver will crush that poor golf ball. Resulting in much longer golf drives.

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