Best Club for Golf Distance

Frustrated, tired of torturing yourself over your driving distance? Day after day spent on the driving range trying every technique you've gathered from friends and off the Internet and still you're coming up shy of the mark you want to achieve?

I was like this at one point. In fact, I almost got to the point that I wanted to lay down my clubs for good. I tried every technique I could find and even went so far as to buy an entirely new set of clubs hoping that the ones I had were the issue.

But as you can probably guess, the clubs weren't my issue. I spent mad amounts of money on new drivers searching for the right one that would magically cure my distance dilemma and come up with only a credit card bill for some ridiculously priced magic club that had virtually no effect on my game.

Now, I don't mean to say that different clubs can't help, but before you go out and drop a car payment to find one, I would recommend making absolutely sure that it isn't something that can be fixed a little cheaper.

Some clubs can give you an advantage, but remember, "for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction." For example, A longer club increases the club head speed of your swing because there is more radius giving more centrifugal force. However, one too long can make it impossible to adjust your stance accordingly. This causes problems with balance and leverage, especially if you aren't the tallest person in the world.

Nine times out of ten there is something that can be adjusted in your swing, grip or stance that can do the trick. One of the most common tips I hear is widening your arch. A wider arch generally can achieve exactly what you're going for in buying a longer club.

Or maybe there's an issue with your stature such as dropping your shoulder. Dropping the shoulder as you down swing loosens the tension in the pendulum causing you to lose momentum like stopping a yo-yo in mid swing. If your string catches slack, the yo-yo falls.

For me, the issue was in the wrist. I had a problem on the down swing of allowing my wrist to lose it's 90 degree angle to the club. The wrist should be left coiled up all the way to the point of contact for two reasons in particular. Holding that 90 degree angle decreases sway in the club, keeping it on course and secondly, as you swing through the point of contact, you uncoil the wrist making a slingshot like action on the ball giving it just that little extra push.