MadAdey
Money List Winner
Just wondering who has made a swing change for this year and is it working? Getting towards 50 now and after a bad car crash a few years ago damaging my back and neck has caused me to lose a lot of driving distance, I've gone from 10 years ago being up around 115MPH to being just over a 100MPH now. I watched videos over the winter of big hitters and what is it that they do and also watching stuff on how to hit it further with the same effort. A lot of coaches are saying that lifting the front heel will help generate more swing speed. Also watching big hitters most of them do this.
So I decided to start lifting my left heel off the ground on the backswing, then doing the driving it down on the downswing to get my body moving faster. Well after 2 months it has finally grooved itself in and is working fantastic. 2 months ago, I was maybe hitting the range net about a quarter of the way up. Well today I was hitting the top half of the net and even cleared it a couple of times. The net is about 50-60 foot high and 230 yards away, this is using limited distance range balls. I have no idea what this is going to translate to in actual distance, but if the ball is about 30 foot higher up the net now then there must some real distance difference.
I only post this as I know people would all love a bit more distance off the tee and I have not actually had to make any changes to my swing really apart from lift me heel up on the backswing and plant it down to get my weight transferring. Yes, it will take a bit of practice as it did feel weird to start with and a lot of bad hits. But if you want more distance then this could be the key for everyone.
So I decided to start lifting my left heel off the ground on the backswing, then doing the driving it down on the downswing to get my body moving faster. Well after 2 months it has finally grooved itself in and is working fantastic. 2 months ago, I was maybe hitting the range net about a quarter of the way up. Well today I was hitting the top half of the net and even cleared it a couple of times. The net is about 50-60 foot high and 230 yards away, this is using limited distance range balls. I have no idea what this is going to translate to in actual distance, but if the ball is about 30 foot higher up the net now then there must some real distance difference.
I only post this as I know people would all love a bit more distance off the tee and I have not actually had to make any changes to my swing really apart from lift me heel up on the backswing and plant it down to get my weight transferring. Yes, it will take a bit of practice as it did feel weird to start with and a lot of bad hits. But if you want more distance then this could be the key for everyone.