This article will help you to hit long and straight drives.
To increase the distance and accuracy of your drives, the most important factors are to have a perfect setup to swing by rotating your body and to keep the muscles in your hands and legs relaxed through out the swing.
Step 1: The Setup
Take your normal setup and make sure that your aim is good with your shoulders parallel to the target.
Lean your upper body slightly to the right behind the ball so that it will be easier to turn your body and shift your weight in the right foot in your back swing for a more powerful position.
You can measure the angle of your upper body by holding a club against you, with one hand on your chest and one on your belt. Lean forward until the club passes between the legs and lean right until the club reaches the inside of the left leg.
Step 2: The swing
It is very important to keep your muscles relaxed as you swing as a relaxed muscle is faster than a tensed one. Start the swing with the simultaneous rotation of your hips and upper body turning them fully as you completed.
To ensure upper body rotation, maintain a triangle shape between your arms until halfway through your backswing. This ensures you swing in a wide arc and the ball travels further. Think about throwing a ball where the throw goes farther with an outstretched arm rather than when the arm is kept close to your body.
At the moment the club strikes the ball your shoulders should be parallel to the target like in the setup so that the club approaches the target in a straight line and meets the ball square on. In this way the motion of your arm and hand accelerates the club head through impact with all the power of the swing focused on the swing in a direct line towards the target, patching it far and straight as possible.
A common mistake with most golfers is with that they complete their backswing before completing their downswing. When this happens, the shoulders are open at impact and the club head hits across the ball from the outside resulting in a drive sliced to the right