Power Golf Tips

Here’s a quick tip for power in your golf swing you will be able to apply the very next time you hit the range.

Clubhead speed is one of the keys to longer drives filled with power. There are several mechanical elements in your swing that will encourage higher clubhead speeds in your golf swing. One very simple golf tip is the hinge of your lead elbow at or just after impact.

You can do it first without hitting a ball. I want you to picture your lead elbow bending quickly, and pulling back behind you through your impact. This will not inhibit your extension with your right arm (if you’re right-handed), in fact, it will allow you to extend your right arm even quicker, which also will promote a higher clubhead speed.

Take a look at the picture below. The golfer doing a drill holding onto the upper lead arm, so after impact the elbow can hinge, and not come apart from the body (chicken wing).

Once you feel you’ve got it down without hitting a ball, then do some partial backswings and hit some balls. Feel the power and compression you get on the ball. It’s amazing! This little tip will help you hit very crisp irons that go farther, as well as your driver being longer by many yards.

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There is one BIG killer of clubhead speed. Tension! Tension kills speed, and lack of speed destroys distance. It’s so hard for golfers to accept it, but gripping the club lighter will give you more distance.

I want you to picture swinging a baseball bat. When you swing it, do you feel like you are gripping the bat tightly, or that your arms and hands are tight? I’ll bet not. There is no way you can swing the baseball bat powerfully with tight muscles.

Now, the next time you hit balls, I want you to do something for me. I know this sounds crazy, but I want you to grip the club really tight, flex your muscles hard and make a swing. I can tell you what happens. Your distance and ball contact will be way below normal. In fact, you may lose up to 50 yards or more on your drives.

I want you to quickly realize when tension starts in your hands with your grip, it will go up into your arms, then into your shoulders. You’ve just killed all possibility to hit it long! You have no chance with a “death grip” on the club.

This is the extreme in the sense of tension, but I really want you to get it. To understand that you need freedom in your swing, so that the club acts like a whip through the ball. You will also get great extension in your swing with relaxed hands and arms.

Here’s a great swing tip!

Just before you take your club away, give it a good waggle or two, and really feel the tension disappear from your hands. This will kickstart your swing with no tension, giving you the best chance at hitting your longest drives.

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Watch this YouTube video of JB Holmes, as he tells you his SECRET to more power in his golf drives. It’s amazing to me that he mentions in the video his hands AHEAD at impact with his driver! I’ve never heard of that before, but he is so strong that the whip he creates with the unhingeing of his wrists just past impact creates a massive amount of clubhead speed and distance.

Now I would say this is a bit unconventional, but it works for JB. The majority of the time, you will here that you need to hit the ball with your driver with an ascending (upward) blow to maximize launch angle and distance, but I guess JB does it his OWN WAY!

What you can take away from this is the importance of holding your wrist cock (lag) as long as you can into the downswing. Try to think of holding it atleast to impact, but you will most likely not do that. But that’s the thought you want.

You will also notice, JB and his golf instructor mention the swing sequence coming down, and it’s definitely the big muscles leading the way, with the smaller ones at the end. This part is very conventional, and also states the importance of starting your downswing from the ground up, and not with your hands first.

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Getting extension through the ball is from something you may not realize, but is very important for a power golf swing. When you look at some of the BIG hitters on tour and even the Long Drive Tour, you will see just after impact a full extension of the top arm, with a slight bend of their bottom arm.

Achieving this extension comes from one VERY IMPORTANT aspect of your golf swing. And it’s not from the conscious effort to PHYSICALLY straighten that arm. Wanna know where that extension comes from?

R-E-L-A-X-A-T-I-O-N

I have spent hours in the mirror doing drills for my extension, but did not know that it was a RESULT of relaxed muscles moving the arms and club through very fast, not from the forceful effort of extending the arms.

Wow! What an eye-opener that was!

Here’s another little tip.

To get this relaxed extension through the ball, you must tee the ball more forward in your stance, so you are contacting the ball on the upswing, and fully behind it. If you tee it up 2-3 balls inside your front heel, you have a good chance of moving past the ball, aand not getting the extension in your golf swing we have been talking about.

So make sure when you want to hit it long, you tee it up further, and RELAX your arms and hands, so the club can naturally extend through your golf ball through impact.

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What is all this about the topic of create wrist lag? When you look at some of the longest hitters in golf, wrist lag is a common theme to create maximum clubhead speed and power in golf through impact.  Picture Sergio Garcia, JB Holmes, and even the great Ben Hogan. All solid ball hitters, and quite long in their own right.

Studies have shown that up to 75% of clubhead speed comes from the unhingeing of the wrists just AFTER impact, not before. This is the SECRET to longer golf drives. Holding that angle late into your downswing for a powerful whipping of the clubhead THROUGH the ball, not at it.

The angle between your lower arm (forearm), and shaft of the club through your wrist, is the power angle that creates this enormous speed through the ball. It’s at approximately 90 degrees in the wrist very late into the downswing. One of the biggest swing faults of amateur golfers is releasing this angle too early in the downswing, which will slow down clubhead speed, resulting in shorter distances with all your clubs.

One thing you need to remember is to aggressively rotate your core and upper body through as well so you make sure to square your clubface at the right time to hit a straight shot that stays “in the fairway”.

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Welcome to Power Golf Tips! This site is all about hitting it LONG with proven tips, techniques and methods you’ll be sure to be interested in immediately! Golf tips should be simple, easy to use, and take to the course for quick results. Many tips are not targeted to one objective. Our tips are specific to ONE THING!

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