How to Add More Power to Your Golf Swing
from wikiHow The How to Manual That You Can EditTired of hitting the ball with your driver and have it go as far as your five iron? You do not have to settle with drives like that any longer.
Steps
Your hips are the the key to new power. At the top of your
back swing, make your first move a kind of a bump with your hips.
Turn your hips towards the target fully as fast as possible
while holding your shoulders back as long as possible.
Swing golf club back not too far your hands should reach to
about your shoulder
Bring your golf club down and focus on the ball
Keep a light grip tense muscles in your hands and arms kill
swing speed.
Maintain balance throughout swing keeping your weight on the
balls of your feet this will ensure the most solid strike to the ball.
Video
In this video from Sport America, learn how to improve your
golf skills and increase the power of your swing.
Tips
Do stretching exercises after warming up to isolate your
shoulders from your hips i.e., sit on ground and cross your right leg over your
left bent up and twist your upper body to the left. Switch sides.
Read articles about the new X factor.
You may want to take a golf lesson before you try this if
this is all new to you then perhaps you take a lesson or two
Swing through the ball not at it
BE SURE that on the backswing, all your weight is on your
right side for right handed golfers and on the follow through all the weight is
transferred to the left.
On the downswing, lift your right heel and you should feel
your hands whip through the golf ball.
Although many people still prefer to tee the ball low, as it
worked for old drivers. the new drivers, with their lower center of gravity and
bigger heads, need to have the ball teed high to get full length. This meaning
an inch or so, so that you are sweeping it off the ground.
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