Tips On How To Increase Distance By Controlling The Spin Driver

In this video, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Dan Grieve offers some simple advice for keeping your driver spin rate under control.

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00:00So a good way to maximise distance and improve your accuracy is to try and reduce the spin

00:12on the ball.

00:13Obviously you can have too little spin but generally in my experience golfers have too

00:16much spin with their drivers so they're hitting down on the ball too much which is creating

00:21too much spin and it costs a lot of yardage.

00:25Very important regarding tee height that you tee it nice and high like this, I see a lot

00:29of golfers teeing it down, the lower you tee it that's going to encourage you to hit down

00:35on the ball too much, the angle of attack will be 2, 3, 4, 5 degrees down and that's

00:40what creates excessive spin.

00:42So just by teeing that ball higher, making sure that more or less half of the ball is

00:47above the top edge of the club there, is going to encourage you instinctively to really feel

00:52like you're going to hit up on the ball rather than down on the ball.

00:56And you can see here when you tee it higher the right shoulder starts to sit much lower

01:00giving that nice shoulder tilt.

01:02So a nice simple drill you can do to start hitting up on the ball a little bit more after

01:06you've given yourself the correct tee height of course is use a golf ball box around about

01:11a foot in front of the ball that you're hitting and this is a good indicator because if you're

01:16going to hit down on this you can see how the club will hit down into the ball, maybe

01:21break the tee peg if you're using a wooden one and the club head will extend through

01:25into the box.

01:26If you've got the correct angle of attack of hitting this up say 1, 2, 3 degrees on

01:31the up you can see how I'll strike the ball and go above the box.

01:35So a really simple measure of how your angle of attack is if you haven't got the launch

01:38monitors etc.

01:40So let's set up, let's give that a go and see if I can miss the box.

01:48So a nice tee shot straight down the middle, very little spin on it, it's going to give

01:52me plenty of run and I miss the box.

01:54So simple drill to reduce your spin, hit longer and straighter drives.