00:03one of the biggest problems that people tend to have when they are trying to hit
00:07the ball further with their driver is that they're not setting up to it
00:10properly when it comes to setting up to the ball with the driver it's really
00:13important the ball is positioned opposite the inside of your front heel
00:17the reason for that is we want to collect the ball on the way through to
00:21that finish so with an iron we are up and over the ball we're going to hit down
00:25on it with the driver we want to be settled behind the ball because we want
00:29to be sweeping it or collecting it off the tee so making sure that your zippers
00:33or your buttons on your top aren't straight up and over and your spine
00:37isn't straight up we want to ever so slightly settle that behind the ball so
00:41this just means settling a little bit of weight gently onto this back foot here
00:47so it drops your back shoulder a little bit away this arm stays very relaxed it's
00:51a good idea just to swing it back on the club and from there you'll be able to
00:55swing right the way through to that photo finish that's so important when you're
00:59trying to get a bit of distance and get that ball soaring down the fairways so
01:04with getting yourself into this really decent setup position we want to make
01:08sure that we've got that weight gently settled on the back foot so you've every
01:13single T area on the course you've got a nice little upslope even bit a shallow
01:17one so you can stand on that and give yourself that feeling of being able to
01:21settle onto that upslope so just set up on an upslope set up where the ball would
01:26normally be and just wiggle yourself and settle that weight gently onto this
01:30foot so the shoulders end up perpendicular to the slope what you can then do
01:34when you come on to the actual T area is you can stand there set up to your
01:38ball and just settle again and almost reignite that feeling that you had on
01:43the slope on the tee probably one of the biggest faults that I see is lack of
01:48body rotation and lack of wind up in the backswing when it comes to the driver the
01:52swing it seems to be powered solely by the arms going up and down usually this is
01:57down to poor posture people are just sat like this at a dress rather than in an
02:01athletic position being an athletic position means that we can rotate and
02:06wind our body up and turn our back to the target when you're not in that
02:10position your body can't turn because you're not in balance if you're not in
02:14balance you'd probably end up falling over so as a result our arms go straight
02:18up and straight down the ball ends up carved down the fairway it feels a lot
02:22of effort yet the distance just isn't there so making sure at the top of the
02:27swing that you can feel a turn so you're turning that left shoulder under your
02:32chin that lovely rotation and that will give you a lot more power it'll
02:37generate a lot more speed off the cover face
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