How Martin Kaymer Mastered His Driver

Alan Shipnuck has performed a piece of writing over at golfing.Com about how Martin Kaymer have become the participant he is. Mostly it talks approximately how he has done in the past, and how that foreshadowed the way he closes out rounds and tournaments now.

But the third paragraph includes an thrilling note approximately how Martin found out to govern one of the clubs that in reality distinguishes him from the rest of the % -- namely, the driver:

Kaymer grew up in Dusseldorf playing the Mettmann Golf Club, which turned into near sufficient to home that he and his older brother, Philip, could every so often experience their bikes to the path. Almost from the start, their father, Horst, forced the men to play from the hints on a 6,seven hundred-backyard direction, and he forbade the use of a tee even if they were wielding drivers. ?He wanted to make it greater challenging for us, so whilst we had been allowed to use tees in tournaments hitting the motive force might appear easy,? Says Martin.

Although this goes against the advice of most instructors and the top players like Jack Nicklaus, who say you should always use a tee if you can, there's a certain logic about it. If your practice is more difficult than what you do in your games, you should find it easier to get the job done during a game. If you can hit a driver off the deck in practice, hitting it off a tee during a match should seem very easy indeed!

While you probably wouldn't want to do it all the time, it might be worthwhile to try hitting a few drivers off the deck when you're at the range.  If you do, just remember to position the ball where you would for a fairway wood -- after all, you want to hit down on the ball to get it up in the air. You don't want to swing up when the ball isn't on a tee!

However, I have to include this disclaimer: Practicing this way is no guarantee that you'll shoot back-to-back 65s like Martin did on Thursday and Friday. I just want to make that clear...