Drive your golf ball further off the tee

This is a set of tips that hopefully will help you become a better driver from the tee. All of these tips are vital and if you try to learn them all at once it could cause frustration, so learn them one at a time if you need to. Some of these tips you may already be using, so use the ones that help you finish that great golf swing.

1. Make sure you have proper equipment. A 10 degree driver is very adequate. Most pros have this kind of driver and have great success.

2. Us the proper grip pressure. You can easily practice this at home. Take a full tube of toothpaste (take the cap off too) and gently sqeeze it with your whole hand. You want to sqeeze with enough force that the toothpaste almost comes out. That's about how hard you should grip the club. If you find the club slips out of your hand, then your grips on your club need to be replaced. Someone at the local clubhouse at the golf course can tell you who can do that for you. However, don't take the toothpaste out to the golf course. It won't look cool.

3. Stay flat. Your driving wood should stay along the ground for a least the first 20% of your swing. If your club is lifting up, you will pop the ball up and not get that long boring drive that you see the pros hit regularly (when the ball takes off like a missile and slowly climbs to a beautiful height and tracks down the fairway).

4. Keep the angle on your leading hand. Many amateurs tend to flip the hands forward in an effort to get the ball in the air, but this only retards the effort of having good equipment (as noted in Step 1).

5. During set up, start with your front foot in line with the ball, to give it more loft. In addition, shift your front hip slightly higher than your rear hip, and shift your front shoulder slightly lower than your rear shoulder. When you go for your backswing, you should shift your weight backward. This will give your swing more power.

6. Keep the start of your downswing calm and unhurried. This enables you to build up speed, so that the golf club is still accelerating when it reaches the ball.

7. Finish towards the target. Pick a spot on the ground that lines up with your target and from your address stretch your wood towards it.

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