Even though I’m a professional golfer and play this game for a living, male playing partners in pro-ams are always surprised when I launch a drive that flies 20 or 30 yards past their best effort. And the funny thing is, the more those guys then try to ‘muscle’ the ball off the tee, the greater the distance they find themselves behind me in the fairway. A few gentle reminders that brute force is not the name of the game are usually enough to have them hitting their best drives ever by the end of the round. The No. 1 lesson in driving is to allow the quality of your technique to produce the power for you, and in this article I’ll show you how to do exactly that.

Photos: Mark Newcombe