Back on April 24 I did an LPGA post called LA Women about the LA Open. On my Twitter account Alfred Mol dropped me a note about Anne Van Dam, one of the rookies on Tour. Since Anne is tied for the lead at the MediHeal after the first round, I thought I'd post this video she did about hitting long drives.
Anne offers two guidelines right here. (I like while players make it easy!)
The first is some thing you've got in all likelihood heard earlier than -- namely, that you want to hit up at the ball when it is on a tee. That manner you have to play the ball a bit in addition ahead for your stance because in case you hit down on the tee shot, you won't get the height and decreased spin you need in order to get distance.
But it's the second tip that may surprise you, and it's actually good advice for any club when you want to get distance. As Anne says, most weekend players try to swing fast from the top of their backswing... but that's wrong. You don't want to try and swing really fast until you're halfway down!
There are some of motives for this. Anne mentions that you will lose all of your velocity in case you try to create it on the top. That takes place due to the fact you may have a tendency to launch all of your wrist cock within the top half of your downswing if you do. Waiting till past due in the swing helps you to preserve that wrist cock longer.
By ready until the bottom half of your swing to consciously accelerate, you also give your self a better risk to get the club on-line and hit the ball in which you need it to move. That's because your frame is already in role at that point, so your legs don't twist your frame round too quickly or too late. You no longer only get greater clubhead speed but you're making higher contact.
A side impact of that is which you're less possibly to arise and hit the ball skinny. When you wait till late inside the swing to hurry up the clubhead, the attempt of getting your wrists to uncock has a tendency to make you flow slightly down towards the ball and "stay down on it" higher.
This is a case of letting the natural physics of the golf swing paintings in your choose, so you do the proper things mechanically. It's a super tip from a participant with four LET wins and a large pressure. You can read a bit extra about her at this submit on the LPGA web site.
Trust me, Alfred is right. You'll need to keep a watch on her, in particular this week.
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