The Masters is on and you don't have time for instructional videos -- or practice. You're in luck! Martin Hall and Blair O'Neal posted this Night School video just yesterday, and you don't need a club or a trip to the range to improve your driving.
The drill is easy. Park your buttt against a wall and, before you start your "backswing," bump your hips a little towards your target. Note that:
- you do this at setup before you make your backswing, not during your downswing, and
- the move is small. Martin says just two inches. You want just enough to get you swinging upward at impact.
Why does this work? Because in case you set your weight just a bit forward at setup, you'll generally tend to return to that position at impact. But you do not want to hit down with a motive force, and that is why you leave your weight distributed more or less 50-50 among your ft and just bump your hips forward a bit. You'll automatically tilt your backbone simply slightly far from the target to keep your stability, however it'll be sufficient to create all the good stuff you want at effect.
So remember: Just a slight hip bump toward the target at setup, which causes a very slight spine tilt away from the target. That will automatically create the weight shift you want on the downswing, along with the upward strike at your teed-up golf ball. Voila! Longer drives.
And you still get to observe the Masters. Just do the drill all through advertisements!
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