What’s more exciting than a load of golf driving tips that are going to give you that extra length off the tee? I don’t know about you but I always love stepping up to the ball with confidence and ripping it 300 yards down the fairway, slap bank in the middle. You feel good, and you’re the last to play the next shot because you’re the closest to the green. Some would say that’s an advantage. It pays to drive it further as long as you keep it accurate!

Golf Driving Tip 1 – A nice firm base!

The driver is the biggest club in the bag and requires a more sweeping action to strike the ball off the tee. In order to give yourself a nice firm steady base to leverage your power you need to have a nice wide stance. Slightly wider than shoulder width is perfectly adequate and will allow you to really get the coil and the weight transfer going without losing your balance!

Gold Driving Tip 2 – Weight Transfer

This is key. If you get this wrong then you can kiss good bye to any chances of hitting a 300 hundred yard drive. With anything, if you want to put maximum force into a ball, you need to leverage the momentum and power of your body. That means throwing your body into the movement!

If you’re right handed, when you bring the club back, try and make sure you really feel your weight over your right leg (reverse this if you are left handed obviously) and then come through onto your front leg. Watch the swing sequences of the pro’s, you’ll see just how they use their weight to get maximum power!

Golf Driving Tip 3 – Massive Shoulder Turn

If you look at the powerhouses in modern golf, the likes of Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Jon Daly and so on, these guys all have a massive shoulder turn and coil themselves up in the backswing. This tension is key for getting as much power into and through the ball as possible. A lot of the professional golfers nowadays turn the shoulders way beyond 90 degrees. Get a full shoulder turn and make use of your power!

Golf Driving Tip 4 – Don’t rush the downswing!

I know you want to hit the ball absolutely miles so that you can carry the bunker at 250 yards down the fairway but rushing into the downswing isn’t going to help you get that extra yardage. The most important thing when trying to hit the ball a long way is technique and timing followed by club head speed. If your arms are swinging too far ahead of your body because you got carried away then you can expect a catastrophic slice, hook or duff shot that barely reaches 200 yards. Get the club to the top of the backswing, put it into the correct plane and then power through like you mean it!

You may have wondered, in a moment of idle reflection about this game, why more people don’t play better golf than they do. It should be a simple game. You are hitting a ball that doesn’t move.

You are swinging clubs that have been designed with a great deal of care, involving time, money, and engineering skill. No one does anything to hinder you, either, or even to distract you.

One reason most of our scores stay high is our mental approach to the game. We are beaten before we start. The golf game has defeated the player for so many generations that the player now has an inferiority complex that would defy the combined skills of Freud, Jung, and Adler. To the man who habitually goes around in 93, the thought of breaking into the 70’s is the height of absurdity.

A complete reorientation is necessary in golf. This has been accomplished in other sports, particularly in track and field. The four-minute mile, the seven-foot high jump, the sixty-foot shot-put are only three examples. It would take a superman, the track experts said, to run a mile in under four minutes. But once Dr. Roger Bannister did it a new plateau was established, onto which many other milers soon proceeded to climb. Back in 1920 Dick Landon won the Olympic high jump with 6 feet 4 inches. At Rome in 1960 a leap of 7 feet 14 inch was good for only third place.

The point here is that mental barriers were broken, as well as those of time and altitude. The normal golfer has a similar mental barrier, and it, too, must be shattered. Once you believe you can improve your golf game, it will all become much easier.

Naturally, Dr. Bannister and the other pioneers in the track and field record-breaking did not set their marks merely by thinking they could. The new marks stemmed from improved training methods and, especially in the field events, from vastly better techniques. This is true in golf.

Here we come very close to golf. Golf is a game of techniques. Training, in the sense of physical conditioning, is relatively not of great importance, unless we are engaged in tournament play. The average man, once he gets out on the course a few times in the spring, finds no physical difficulty in playing an eighteen-hole round. Often he is fresh enough to play eighteen more holes, or nine, anyway.

So get the best advice and practice as much as you can. Your golf game will improve no-end.