It seems that everybody today is in search of distance. You can’t play on the PGA tour if you don’t hit it far enough. However, we need to be searching for distance in the right way. If we go down the wrong path, it might take us a long time when we try to come back on that path to where we were. A lot of good players have gone down the wrong path, and now they’re off the PGA Tour. Philip Francis comes to mind. He won the United States Junior, was ranked the number one junior player in the world, and he was a diligent student of Jim Flick’s. He went to UCLA, decided he needed to hit the ball further, and switched instructors. This led him down the wrong path, and he eventually quit golf due to back problems.
When I was young, it was thought that distance was achieved by having a big arc. Boy were the instructors wrong! I was walking around with my son when he was playing a practice round in a major AJGA event. He was playing with a 17-year-old boy who was about 5 feet six and weighed about 170 pounds. His backswing was only a bit past waist high, but when he hit the ball with the driver, he would actually leave an imprint of the tee on the face of his driver. He broke about three driver heads a month. He was hitting the ball over 400 yards and that was before he had the latest equipment that we have. So was his distance due to a big arc? Definitely not.. The only thing about this kid hitting the ball over 400 yards is that often he was two fairways over! I think we need to look for straight distance. How about Tony Finau? His arc is not so big, but he is one of the longest hitters on the PGA tour.
It was at this point watching this 17 year old that I figured out that it must be the shaft that was creating distance. I didn’t know how it was doing it, but I knew it had to be due to the shaft.. In this video, I’m going to show you how to go down the right path so that you can achieve straight distance. I’ll show you exactly how to make the shaft work for you. Hope you enjoy the video.