How to Consistently Hit Long Golf Drives

The tee is where any golf hole starts. If you’re having problems driving the ball, then you’re opening every single hole scrambling. You might salvage your par with A great chip could well make par, but you could well be going for birdies if your drive had found the fairway.

For nearly all golfers, being consistent with the driver and hitting long golf drives are far from being impossible. Being consistent off the tee is a lot easier than most players recognize.

With the modern multi-layer golf ball and Titanium driver, long drives come from hitting the ball on a high launch angle and getting the best angle of descent. It isn’t about low carrying drives anymore. Long drives come from high high trajectories, with most of the distance being carry.

Sure, with their remarkable swing speeds and clean striking, pros still manage to launch the ball high, even when using low lofted drivers. For most club players however, using a higher lofted driver will amplify both length and precision. Most average players would For the majority of club golfers, a driver with a loft of between 11 to 14 degrees will give the best results.

Fitting the right shaft is vital when it comes to long drives and consistent golf. The shaft plays a crucial part in all the clubs in your set, but the effects of playing the wrong shaft in your driver are magnified.

The majority of golfers now play graphite shafts in their drivers. Sadly, a large percentage of golfers use driver shafts that are too boardy for their swings. That probably accounts in part for the most common miss amongst club golfers, the slice. Play a shaft that is overly stiff and you’ll almost certainly hit a slice.

In part, that has to do with the generally held belief that graphite shafts are too whippy, too soft. That might have been true 10 years ago, but new graphite shaft fiber patterns have given us outstanding models with very consistent playing characteristics.

A medium torque, light-weight driver shaft would give the best results for most golfers. Lighter shafts increase your swing speed and you’ll be able to load a medium torque shaft better during your swing, delivering the most energy into your drives. Longer drives come from higher energy.

The inflexibility of the shaft’s tip will also affect the launch angles. Your launch angles will suffer if you use a shaft which is overly tip-stiff. Long golf drives start with the launch conditions. Remember, we’re after soaring flights not low stingers.

To consistently hit long golf drives you have to pick a driver / shaft combo to fit your game. You want your driver to help your game, not amplify any swing faults.

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