Ultimate Guides: Driving

There are days where you can’t miss the fairway, and then there are days where you feel like you’ll never find the short grass again. This can be incredibly frustrating, SO try to identify the patterns of your misses: Are you hitting a big slice? Are you snap-hooking everything? In this video, Anders Mattson shows you how to identify and fix common faults.

Before you can bomb one down the fairway with the driver, you first need to understand that the driver swing is completely different from any other. Start with the setup: Getting all your different moving parts in the right position before you even take the club back is one of the biggest keys to good driving. The swing will flow from there. In this video, Anders Mattson shares his tips on setting up and making a strong, upward strike at impact.

Even the biggest hitters know when it’s time to dial it back a bit and get one in the fairway. A shorter, more controlled drive that leaves you with a good angle to the green is always better than a crooked bomb that makes your second shot a tough challenge. In this video, Anders Mattson explains how it’s ok to sacrifice distance to hit more playable drives.

Once you’ve mastered your tempo and can hit controlled drives, adding distance can come through careful strategy. You have to know where power comes from and how to boost it effectively. Anders Mattson’s tips focus on ball-striking efficiency and getting more out of the speed you generate.

There are days where you can’t miss the fairway, and then there are days where you feel like you’ll never find the short grass again. This can be incredibly frustrating, SO try to identify the patterns of your misses: Are you hitting a big slice? Are you snap-hooking everything? In this video, Anders Mattson shows you how to identify and fix common faults.