Choking down on your driver is also a good method when you need to play a tee shot into the wind. You need to keep spin rate down while playing drives into the breeze, so this is the perfect adjustment to make. Follow kims lead and youll find more fairways and a lot more birdie chances. Choking up vs cutting fittervention episode callaway. Again it sounds like, if your game is pretty good with everything else, the very fact that the only clubs they are making extremely long, compared to the rest of the set, are drivers, that s the problem. It can give you more control and take distance off of the shot if you need to do so. Lpga golfer brooke henderson, known for her aggressive driver swing, usually chokes up on her driver for this reason. Meaning of choke up and choke down in golf liveabout. Gideon explains that if you make a 34 swing, you are going to take some yardage off of the shot, and if you also choke down on the club, you. Simply tilt your spine away from the target until the club head touches the inside of your lead knee. Golf channel academy lead coach john richman shows how to increase your ball speed to gain more distance off the tee.
Go ahead and hold the golf club maintaining this tilt. You jerked the car around, erratically braked, and were, well, bad. We performed a test to find out if gripping it lower made any significant changes. When you are faced with a narrow tee shot on a par four or par five, think about coming down the grip an inch or two to take a little speed off of the shot and add some control. When a shot comes up that requires the best of your accuracy, but you still want to hit your driver, consider choking. Several prominent pros, including anthony kim and sergio garcia, choke up on almost every shot, even with the driver. Talking golf drivers and if you should get them cut down or can you just choke down the grip fro straighter golf shots. How to stop choking under pressure psychology today. Stranger prays for walmart truck driver keeping america in good hands posted on march 18, 2020. To hit a more conservative tee ball, i always choke down on the grip a full two inches no.
Anthony kim shows you how to hit your driver straighter than ever. John richmans choke down for more distance tip golf channel. Spine tilt in golf posture place your driver directly down against the front of your body so that the driver head is between your knees. A golfer might choke down on a driver to increase his control during the swing, hoping to improve accuracy. Driver distance secrets what manufacturers wont tell you duration. Golf writer steve newell recommends golfers try choking up 1. A good club fitter can figure that out and help you do that. Learning how to hit driver well depends on you setting up properly and letting your body just go, no matter your frame. How to be a great driver of the golf ball golf digest. However, if you choke down on the club with less loft, an 8iron say instead of.
One golfer might say to another on the tee, if you choke down on the driver a little bit, youll increase your odds of hitting the fairway. How to hit more fairways with your driver golficity. Or it might be necessary to choke down due to the golfers stance if the ball is above his feet. You can choke up on your driver and fairway woods just like you can your irons, and the results can be equally as impressive. I take great issue with the industrys extreme, and almost complete focus on distance not just with the driver, but with the irons as well. No need to club down how to hit more fairways with your driver. The speed of your swing will be reduced when you choke down, which means your spin rate should be reduced as well. Choke up on the club for better accuracy and contact. Does choking up on the golf club cause you to lose distance. I would choke up on the driver and slowly move back up as you become for confident with the driver. Choking up on your driver may not cost you much, if any, distance, simply because having better control of the club can help you to hit the ball on the clubs sweet spot.