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Ping purple dot are best suited to golfers between 5'0" to 5'7", with a wrist to floor distance of 31¼" to 32½". Not too much to do with your handicap, more to do with your physicality. http://www.usedping.co.uk/ping_dot_colour.html You might need the lie angles adjusted to suit your height.

Could be that your pivot out races your arms leading you to bringing the club head on an arc inside of the ball rather than more into the back of it. But, without seeing your swing, that has to be pure conjecture.

What follows is an extract from the Wall Street Journal's Golf Journal, written by John Paul Newport :- "I hit my drives 270 yards." Hah! Maybe once, with the wind behind you, on a rock-hard fairway, when the ball bounced off a cart path and a squirrel advanced it an extra 10 yards. On no subject are golfers, especially male golfers, more deluded than on the distance they hit their drives, with the possible exception of their attractiveness to beverage-cart personnel. Here are the brutal facts, accumulated by Dave Pelz over several years of monitoring thousands of players at amateur tournaments. He used the same ShotLink equipment used by the PGA Tour to determine that, in 2011, the world's best players averaged 291 yards off the tee. Male amateurs who play to a 30 handicap average drives of 166 yards; 20-handicappers average 183 yards; 10-handicappers average 214 yards; scratch amateurs average 235 yards. So dream on. Food for thought, eh? Certainly far more believable than the grandiose claims being bandied about this thread.

Read this to find out. http://www.randa.org/en/RandA/News/News/2013/May/Drive-Distance.aspx 'Aint that the truth, from the guys who know.

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Hold the club in your normal grip horizontal to the ground and with your lead arm fully extended, then bend from the hips (not the waist) by pushing you arse back until the club head is resting in a natural fashion on the ground in your address position. Voila.

Seems to me that you are getting there, although with lessons you might get there quicker. However, right now the ball is immaterial and the swing is paramount. You have recognised a weakness we all have in wanting to crush it and you will be able to do this more often if, as you say, you are focussed on tempo. That is not slowing the swing right down as the club head needs to be moving fast at impact and the faster the better if you want distance. Slowing down should be a focus of the back swing and transition; neither of which benefit from speed but do gain assistance from smoothness and control. So try to start your down swing slowly but from parallel to the ground going down, through to parallel going up, cram on all you have got. Funny thing is that the faster you (we all) start down the slower you (we all) will tend to be through impact and you (we all) will tend to destroy the control sought after, and associated with, a smooth transition. You might benefit from holding your driver upside down and making some practise swings where you try to hear the swoosh of the club shaft as late as possible and certainly not before your impact position.

Never, ever, alter your approach to the game to accommodate a poor swing. Focus only on improving your swing, forget your scores - right now they are irrelevant, and your game will show you the benefits in due course.

Front right, 4 tees of assorted size, two balls (golf), pitch repairer and ball marker. Front left, loose change and handkerchief. Back pocket, scorecard.

Its the ideal way to focus on your own golf game and not suffer the distractions of socialising when you really should be golfing. However, bunting the ball around with friends is fun. Depends on what you want to do on the day. Its your choice.

The previous two posters have nailed it.

Not easy to say without seeing you in action but a best guesstimate would be that you are flipping the club head towards the ball. Try to keep the wrist position you adopt at address throughout the entire shot and play, theoretically as if you were, hitting a ball sitting immediately in front (on the target side) of the ball in play.

Perhaps we should all take a step back and ponder on the differences of "hinging and unhinging" through impact - totally destructive, and "bowing", a la Dustin's left hand, and "cupping", the opposite to bowing of the left hand, both seen often but without disastrous consequences at the top of the back swing - where nothing gets hit. The right hand at the top of the back swing has to cup, assume the waiter's tray carrying position, but that starts almost from take away and flattens out the cupping which is present in the left wrist at address. The waiter position of the right hand should be held to some degree, depending on the club being used, through the impact interval to ensure that the club head does not precede the club shaft, and hands holding it, at the moment of truth.