How to improve your driver launch angles
Ricky Gray explains how to get your ball into the air more consistently
Stop putting the ball too far back in your stance, a simple solution to help get that ball airborne.
Making this slight alteration is the first step in helping you increase your driver launch angles. Putting the ball inline with the instep of your front foot will also ensure that you are hitting the ball on the up and getting the upward force required to increase that launch angle.
It’s important that our setup remains relative, so the use of a mirror to check this spine angle is encouraged.
Instead of having our spine being perpendicular to the ground we need to be tilting our spine to about 11 o’clock to achieve the launch angles we need to get the ball airborne.
Recap:
Ball position – instep of our front foot
Body position at setup – titled back at approximately 11 o’clock
Tom Irwin
Tom is a lifetime golfer, now over 30 years playing the game. 2023 marks 10 years in golf publishing and he is still holding down a + handicap at Alwoodley in Leeds. He has played over 600 golf courses, and has been a member of at least four including his first love Louth, in Lincolnshire. Tom likes unbranded clothing, natural fibres, and pencil bags. Seacroft in Lincolnshire is where it starts and ends.
