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Using a yoga block or box can help force your upper body back behind the ball. With practice, you can have this position behind the ball but still have your pressure bracing with your lead foot. This combination creates the sweeping motion that helps create the right path for a driver. If you upper body gets too far forward, it makes it virtually impossible to have a flat sweeping angle of attack. Having a steep angle of attack with the driver will create a miss pattern of slices (low or high depending on release) or pulls. To hit long straight drives, get yourself a yoga block and engrain this feel.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Driver, Drill, Intermediate
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This driver drill is lead foot on a yoga block.
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So this is to help you get used to having that access tilt or the tilt of your pelvis
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that we get from doing the bracing and the Jackson 5 movement.
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So I'm going to grab a yoga block and we're going to hit some little 9 to 3 shots
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with our lead foot up on the yoga block. Now you may feel that you have to take a little bit
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wider stance than normal in order to get this feeling. But by putting this foot up,
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my pelvis already is going to have that 10-15 degree tilt that we want to have with the driver.
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So from here, I've got to get used to having this right shoulder a little bit lower just from the
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fact that my pelvis is tilted. So if I'm used to swing all arms, I'm going to tend to hit behind it.
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But if I angle this in line with how I normally have my lead foot turn out,
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I should be able to get to about that 3 o'clock finish. So for a lot of golfers,
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especially if you're very good with wedges and irons and things where you're used to having your
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lead, all your weight and your mass on top of your front foot, this is going to feel very much like
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I'm hanging back. Now if I do this and I end up hitting the ball off to the right, tells me I have
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some club-faced closure issues and I'm not squaring the club in kind of the best way.
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So again, I'm going to get into set-up's a little tricky but once you've got it measured,
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it's not too bad. So now I've got this preset of my axis tilt and now I'm going to do a little 9-3
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just kind of feeling like my upper body is much more behind the golf ball. Now once I've done a few
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of those and I've got kind of this sense of my of kind of the proper tilts and angles that I want to have.
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Now I'm going to take away the yoga block and I'm going to do essentially the same thing
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trying to feel as if my body recreated that sensation of being on the yoga block.
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So if you're struggling with your driver because of axis tilt, this will be a great way for you
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to get a sense of what it's like to have your pelvis and the proper angle and proper position
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for the delivery with driver.
