Quick Easy Drills To Create Maximum Power In Your Golf Swing

Are you fed up of your playing partners knocking their tee shots past yours? Well don't worry, we can help! Specifically, Top 50 coach Trey Niven, who in this video outlines five easy drills and swing feels that should help you generate more speed and power in your golf swing, resulting in longer drives. Filmed in Hawaii courtesy of adidas golf, these tips should help you get further down the hole and leave you with a shorter iron in your hand, which is a sure-fire way to start shooting lower scores.

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Right, Trey, hello.

Thank you for joining us.

Hello.

Appreciate it.

Good to see you again.

And you, mate.

And Hawaii.

Worst places to be, then.

Clang, pick that one up.

Let's get people hitting the ball a bit further, yeah?

Yeah.

it's, so people are always chasing.

It's probably easy bits that I think we can give people today.

Yeah.

Start with alignment.

Typically, people start off wrong, so they don't get the setup right in terms of how the body's actually aligned, like knees, feet, knees, hips, shoulders, kind of building it from the ground.

I think when I see it often, especially with drivers, that people will be all kind of weird.

Feet will be left- Funky positions yeah, hips will be left, and then the shoulders will be here, and then tilts and everything are all out of sync.

So I think really easy, ball position needs to be, with a driver, depending on what shot shape you're hitting, I like to see pretty neutral shot shape, maybe just inside the left heel as one.

As this happens, what tends to happen with golfers is they move it forward, the shoulders then start to aim left.

Yeah.

So I think as we move the ball forward, be wary and, and aware that the shoulders are gonna move left, so we have to just adjust this slightly.

So right hip back, and maybe just see then the right hip's back, and then we've kinda neutralized everything.

And with that as well, my body's tilting, so I'm then encouraging that angle of attack to go up.

So ball position, and then just being aware of knees, hips, and shoulders to get back to neutral.

It's a few nice easy bits, isn't it- Simple bits that I think people at home can work on that, get the basics right, get your alignment right, swing from the ball, hit it a bit further.

Yeah.

Okay.

Next up, Trey, let's talk about the backswing.

Yeah.

Lengthening it a little bit and helping people hit the ball a bit further because of it.

Yeah.

How are people gonna do that, though?

Yeah, I think it's important to note we're not, generally, golfers aren't full-time players- Yeah, yeah so we're not hitting balls all day, every day.

So I think mobility is one.

If you can work on your mobility with stretches, with a personal coach or whatever, that's really important.

But if we're not gonna do that and we want some help to create a longer backswing, so arm swing, swing length, I think essentially the longer we can get the arms back there, if you want some more yards, we're gonna be able to have more opportunity to create speed on the way down.

Right.

So if you're struggling with your mobility, generally it's coming from kinda hips and thoracic region, so upper body.

Good way to increase the backswing length is, one, I like to just turn this foot out a little bit.

Okay.

Just helps us turn into the right hip.

So that's kinda working in the first early phase of the swing to create this.

I think the next part, really simply, is if we try and stretch all the way up to the top, we get a little bit tight in this kinda left side and left glute here, so maybe just raising this left heel a little bit.

To, to begin with, it might feel like you're a little bit out of control- Yeah and out of sync, but we've seen some great players do this in the past when they've got to kinda senior level, start to l- have a little bit of left heel lift.

And all of a sudden, that's threeing up, freeing up my kind of thoracic, thoracic area- Yeah rib cage to be able to create more turn, so then I can get my arms way up in a backswing to create more speed.

That's a nice easy one, I think, for people at home as well.

Could you sh- could you show us you doing that?

Yeah, should we- Do you wanna whack one for us?

Should we have a go, yeah?

So pretty quick.

Into the, into the middle of nowhere- it seems.

The middle of Hawaii.

So I'm just gonna feel that right foot's out a little bit, starting to that left heel lift to create that momentum and motion.

Bosh.

Sent well into the sky.

How was that?

You can see that.

I might start doing that.

I might start doing that.

Start listening to yourself, mate.

I know.

That left heel one's a really interesting one.

I've not tried that before, so I'll check it out.

But some easy things you can do there, even if you're not a, a really flexible person- I think that's very doable, and something that's gonna get you hitting the ball as far as that.

Okay.

Next up, Trey, we've done alignment, we've done a bit of backswing.

It's come, we're coming back down now.

Yeah.

Let's talk about hand speed.

Mm-hmm.

And, and getting more speed anyway, everyone's trying to chase it.

Yeah.

But I think even not the quickest swingers at home now can up their- Yeah swing speed a bit.

How are they gonna do that?

Yeah, I got some really good drills, actually, one in particular.

A lot of long drivers use this.

Long drive coaches that I've spoke to as well- Yeah have kind of found out that long drivers or the quickest in the world are, are the quickest from P4, right at the top of the backswing, to about P5, so just about left arm parallel from the top in that space with the hands.

Yeah.

So the hand speed's the quickest there, in that f- in that phase.

So it's not to get yankee with the handle to the top.

It's gotta be all the way down to feel that.

Yeah.

So a really good drill, you can split the grip, so left hand or lead hand at the top, trail hand between the grip and the shaft, and you're just gonna start to set it here, there, to the top.

And then what we're trying to do, I'm trying to feel the waggle- yeah at the end of the club there.

So almost trying to You see Rory do this as well with iron, but trying to feel that you're gonna snap the club, like break it at the bottom.

And if you can pull that down quick, you can start to feel that- You can really see that there as well that whip and waggle, can't you?

So And that's just to me feeling that I'm delivering the arms really fast and down.

Most people go out, and they slice it.

So I'm getting down.

And that's sort of training your brain a little bit, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

To, to keep the speed up there- Yeah which is so interesting, I think.

Yeah.

And you can see the waggle there.

You can see it, can't you?

So something you can try there.

So you can go try at home.

Really good drill.

Careful, don't snap it though.

It's not gonna snap the head, right?

You can go Definitely not.

If you're too quick, if you're doing it right, you might snap it, but hopefully no broken driver shafts.

Give it a go though.

It's gonna help you hit the ball a lot further.

Typically, for me, I see this in beginner golfers a lot, s- especially beginner golfers, they grip it way too tight.

I'm a, I'm a strangler, Trey.

You, you'll, whatever.

I wanna bomb it, so I wanna hold the club really hard.

I don't know what it is.

People just think it needs to go far- so they grip it tight and grip it hard.

But that is counterintuitive, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

Yeah.

I think as soon as you start to relax the grip, you can allow the release to happen, so you allow the club to get past the hands, and then the speed increases.

When people squeeze hold of the grip and d- don't release the golf club, so they yank their arms up, and it looks like it's From this camera angle, you'll see the club head in frame, and you'll see my arms starting to get out the left side of my shoulder.

So as soon as I start to relax this and just make some short and easy swings and just build up, you can see the flow- of that golf club.

No hanging on through here.

You're seeing the passive release and the club head releasing.

Straight away there, I can feel- Not much effort, but a very- Big speed quick, quick swing.

So I think that is point one, and then I think the next one for me is just finishing the, finishing the swing.

Getting right through it.

A lot of people, yeah, they just hol- hold on, and they kind of like, that's old Seve follow through.

I think I like the feel for people to release it, and actually to increase chances of hitting draw or a straighter shot for you slicers, is relaxing the hands, releasing it, and then feeling like the club is scratching your back- on the way through, and that's just freeing everything up on the way through.

Go on then, give us a nice languid- Yeah big swing down there again.

Hit it to the distance.

Lazy swing.

Hit the other one nicely, but real lazy.

Cool.

Softest hands I've got, without letting go.

Beautiful again.

You see how much speed you build up, and that to you- is a soft, languid, easy one.

Yeah, it feels- The speed comes anyway, doesn't it?

Soft and easy, yeah.

Great tips there.

Right, lastly then, Trey, for helping people hit the ball a bit further, bit of a mental one.

We was chatting about it off-camera- Yeah really interesting one about playing with your shot shape, right?

Yeah.

How is that actually gonna help people in the long run out on the course?

Yeah, I think it's like, what is your body, like, built to do- Right and move?

So a lot of golfers, they fight things that are natural to them.

So typically I see people move the ball left to right, they come for a lesson, and they don't wanna do it, and they want consistency.

I'm like, "The most consistent part about your game is the ball flight- that you hit left to right, so let's not get rid of it.

Let's just harness it."

Nice.

So typically here, we've got bit of wind off the left.

Most golfers carry on with that shot shape.

Okay.

Just aim a bit further left, play with it, get it riding the wind, and then the yards are gonna come out of that.

So I mean, let's have a go.

Have a little fade, mate.

Yeah.

So it's off the left at the minute.

Yeah, wind slightly off the left.

You're just gonna wanna sort of go with it.

Yeah, so maybe aiming towards the white flag, big tree.

Yeah.

Moving it onto the blue- Lovely flag if I can.

I'm just gonna aim everything out there, and just see it and feel it.

Play with the shape that is natural.

And that is- Bit of a bigger cut, but- Bit bigger than you'd like, but still- But with the shape like you said, you're going with what your body feels that.

Yeah.

For the serial slicers watching, is that still gonna work as well when you need to- I think- You don't wanna be fully chopping it yeah, I don't think you, you don't, you don't wanna be chopping it completely- Yeah for people who are, like, renowned slicers, but the whole point about getting people better at golf is to reduce the bad shot.

Yeah.

So if a slicer came to me, I'm not instantly trying to get rid of it.

I'm trying to see how we can curve it less, 'cause as soon as the path and the face is separated, the more that kind of dispersion between the two are- Yeah the bigger that is gonna curve, which means a less distance we're likely to have.

So if we can square face and path up a little bit for your slicers, it's gonna make it go a little bit further.

And for the drawers and the- Yeah the hookers out there- Yeah same thing, right?

Yeah, so- Go with it.

Aim it a bit further right.

Yeah, this one's- Probably be easier in this wind for this one, really.

Yeah, if you're a, if you're a right-to-left player, wind off the left, it's a weird one 'cause you feel like sometimes you get in here and hit it right.

What I like to do is almost picture what do I need to do aggressively to hit a neutral shot- Right and that typically is just a normal swing, but my natural shot is right to left.

So here, I just feel like I'm gonna aim straight, hit normal shot, should give me my neutral ball flight.

Let's see one.

Let's have a go.

Let's see one.

So blue flag.

Aiming at it, to be honest.

It should just counteract each other.

Yeah.

Oh.

Oh.

And that's dead straight, yeah?

That's quite pleasant.

That was all right.

That was quite pleasant to watch in here.

Sweet.

But there you go.

I really like that one.

I think one I've not heard really before, that mental side of it.

Play with your shape- Yeah and embrace what your body's asking you to do.

100%.

I guess there's something for that.

Yeah, yeah.

Brilliant.

Well, five awesome tips there from Trey.

Thank you, mate, on how to hit the ball a little bit further this year.

Take it to the range with you, take it to the practice area, really easy things to work on, and let us know if you start hitting the ball a little further.

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