You might want to check to see if you are too close to the golf ball. You want to be about 6″ from teh butt of the golf club to your belt buckle with irons and about 8″ with driver. Check to make sure that you are not too close.
Paul,
cannot hit my driver, I have been studying your tips for several years, but no avail. I can hit a buck of balls perfectly with my irons. With my driver, I try to slow down, each down swing triggers, standing taller, touching my knees, touching my head, My drives go about 200 yards and sound clunky.
Hello John, did you do the roll over drill from the top and get every ball hooking?
Slowing down – this is fine to loosen you up a little and get you potentially going the positions better but this is not going to get you hitting it a long way.
– down swing triggers – you need to choose one for sure but if the release is not working this is not going to get you hitting it longer.
– standing taller – this is good. Just don’t stand up too much. Again though this is not necessarily going to get you hitting longer.
– touching my knees — this is an important position which can also be a trigger but again if the release isn’t working this is not going to do much. It will be how you are powering the swing if you get the release working.
– touching my head – this is great. Can’t do this if you are not crossing your hands over and swinging the club on plane. I doubt you are doing this right though. Most people cheat by faking it at the end of the swing. It needs to be a direct path to the back of the head touching the shaft not the rubber grip. If you are doing it right you would be able to see this swinging towards a mirror. At 3/4 through the club shaft would be perpendicular to your spine (90 degrees to your body) so as it swing around and go right between your ears.
So I have tons and tons of roll over tips on Ignition Golf. You hit the top and roll it. You get every ball hooking. Most people try to hit perfect shots when I want the person hooking it. Driver is longer than irons so it is harder to do. Plus, you want to hit driver hard so that gets the arms moving first and locks the wrists.
Getting it to hook consistently is “half right.” You are releasing it every time and you have the hook spin on the ball. Sure, you are doing it early but at least you are doing it. Too many people try to keep hitting straight shots so they never get it.
You need to get it hooking first. Roll it from the top so the hands cross over and the ball hooks. Every hook you hit you are ecstatic. You are saying to yourself “Half right my release is working.”
Once you can do that then you start adding body to straighten it out. Use your trigger to do that.
Do the roll over daily in practice swing. It’s easier that way plus you will have it right away once you go to the course.
Also, you need to be doing daily practice swings with driver holding the club in the air at knee high listening to the swoosh as you swing it. The goal is to make it swoosh faster by firing the lower body faster. You can hear it. You can’t do this five times though. You need to do this 5 thousand times and get good at it. This take serious effort from the legs and hips. So you need to get good at firing them.
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4 Responses to “Do You Hit Your Irons Good But Your Driver Bad?”
January 19, 2021
HaroldHarshPaul,
For some reason I’m hitting my driver on the heal of the clubface. Not sure what I’m doing wrong, hope you can help!
February 1, 2021
Paul WilsonYou might want to check to see if you are too close to the golf ball. You want to be about 6″ from teh butt of the golf club to your belt buckle with irons and about 8″ with driver. Check to make sure that you are not too close.
July 1, 2025
JohnRobertsonPaul,
cannot hit my driver, I have been studying your tips for several years, but no avail. I can hit a buck of balls perfectly with my irons. With my driver, I try to slow down, each down swing triggers, standing taller, touching my knees, touching my head, My drives go about 200 yards and sound clunky.
July 9, 2025
Paul WilsonHello John, did you do the roll over drill from the top and get every ball hooking?
Slowing down – this is fine to loosen you up a little and get you potentially going the positions better but this is not going to get you hitting it a long way.
– down swing triggers – you need to choose one for sure but if the release is not working this is not going to get you hitting it longer.
– standing taller – this is good. Just don’t stand up too much. Again though this is not necessarily going to get you hitting longer.
– touching my knees — this is an important position which can also be a trigger but again if the release isn’t working this is not going to do much. It will be how you are powering the swing if you get the release working.
– touching my head – this is great. Can’t do this if you are not crossing your hands over and swinging the club on plane. I doubt you are doing this right though. Most people cheat by faking it at the end of the swing. It needs to be a direct path to the back of the head touching the shaft not the rubber grip. If you are doing it right you would be able to see this swinging towards a mirror. At 3/4 through the club shaft would be perpendicular to your spine (90 degrees to your body) so as it swing around and go right between your ears.
So I have tons and tons of roll over tips on Ignition Golf. You hit the top and roll it. You get every ball hooking. Most people try to hit perfect shots when I want the person hooking it. Driver is longer than irons so it is harder to do. Plus, you want to hit driver hard so that gets the arms moving first and locks the wrists.
Getting it to hook consistently is “half right.” You are releasing it every time and you have the hook spin on the ball. Sure, you are doing it early but at least you are doing it. Too many people try to keep hitting straight shots so they never get it.
You need to get it hooking first. Roll it from the top so the hands cross over and the ball hooks. Every hook you hit you are ecstatic. You are saying to yourself “Half right my release is working.”
Once you can do that then you start adding body to straighten it out. Use your trigger to do that.
Do the roll over daily in practice swing. It’s easier that way plus you will have it right away once you go to the course.
Also, you need to be doing daily practice swings with driver holding the club in the air at knee high listening to the swoosh as you swing it. The goal is to make it swoosh faster by firing the lower body faster. You can hear it. You can’t do this five times though. You need to do this 5 thousand times and get good at it. This take serious effort from the legs and hips. So you need to get good at firing them.