Easy swings = 260 yard drives

[Walther]

In the last few weeks, my fade off the tee has straightened out and I've gained considerable yardage. I have to say I'm a very happy camper.

The biggest change for me was thinking about my release through the ball. Now if I want to hit something straight I'll release and finish lower. For a fade I'll end with a high finish.

Now I'm hitting the ball easy and getting over 250 yards. I shot my lowest score of the year (84) this weekend.

I'm lucky in that I have videos of the last two years of my swing when I started playing the game. It's quite fun to go back and see how bad it looked before:

Latest Video:
http://www2.truman.edu/~whowd/golf/driver.mov


Old Videos:

[Billiam]

Very nice... glad to see you are doing better with your drives, they can always be a pain

[Finnstang]

Congrats on smoothing out your swing.

In the latest video, it looks like you are bent over a little too far and it seems like your left foot should stay more planted.

[Dent]

It works, I do the same thing. I have a regular shaft in need of a stiff, so I only swing my driver in the 80 MPH Range and it really gets the ball straight, and I can still hit it pretty far.

[$2 Nassau]

The temptation to kill it (or try to anyway) is always there for me as well.