Hit Long Tee Shots like Dustin Johnson & Rory McIlroy by combining their golf swing

What would you get if you combined Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy? You’d get a swing built for speed. And with these simple tips from the Director of Teaching Quality, Pratick Nuber, and adding the 2020 Masters Champion, Dustin Johnson’s backswing, and the 4X Major champ Rory McIlroy follow-through can really add some distance to your own game. 

Johnson creates his power by changing his knee flex to help create more turn in the backswing, while McIlroy straightens his knee during the follow-through and bends himself backward to help generate power. 

By slowly implementing these swing changes into your own swing, you’ll start to see an increase in distance off of the tee in no time.

Busting a ‘slice fixing’ myth to help with your swing

If you’re someone who’s struggled with a slice over the years, you’ve probably tried numerous different solutions. But sometimes those ‘fixes’ don’t actually work and unfortunately, are swing fix myths. After measuring hundreds of swings, we’ve nailed down what can really help any golfer correct their slice. Golf Digest Best Young Teacher in America and Director of Teaching Quality, Brad Skupaka explains what can cause a slice and how you can properly fix it. 

Golf is hard and slices are one of the factors that make this sport so difficult. So when someone finds an ‘end-all-be-all’ fix their slice, that doesn’t mean it works across the board. And the one we’re talking about today is when golfers try to open up their hips in the downswing too early. This can actually encourage a more out-to-in path, which we all know can make a slice worse. Opening up your hips pushes your hands out which leads to the undesirable swing path.

So instead, the best golfers in the world keep their hips closed to the target almost all the way from the top of the backswing to impact.Skupaka recommends when first trying to implement this into your swing, that the more closed your hips are to the target in the downswing the better. 

The best way to think about this is if you imagine your tailbone is aimed at the target longer. That’s really just trying to encourage your hips to stay closed or aimed towards the right for a longer period of time.

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Improve your Contact with these training aids

One of the most important aspects of the game is being able to make solid contact. However, for most golfers, being able to create that ball before turf interaction consistently is actually a common issue. So to help with that- Golf Digest Best Young Teacher in America and Center Manager, Nathan Morris, shares a couple of drills you can do to help you make constant solid contact. 

The first thing you’ll need is a couple of head cover or items you can use as a obstacle and a towel. The point of the two head covers is to create a literal path on the ground you’ll want to swing on that encourages an in-to-out swing path. And then the towel is placed a couple of inches behind the ball to help move the low point of the swing forward. 

If you struggle making solid contact, using these simple training aids you probably already have in your bag, you can start to see an improvement in ball first contact in no time.