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In this concept video, we're going to go over one of my favorite topics, which is power.

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There are two major ways to get power, and in this video, we're going to talk about maximizing

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your current swing.

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The two ways to gain power are either take what clubheads be you're using and maximize

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it, or get the most out of it, or do something different with your body in order to

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create more clubheads speed.

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In this first video, we're going to go over how to maximize what you're currently doing.

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And there's two major factors for maximizing what you're doing.

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One is the path that the clubhead is traveling on when it makes contact with the golf ball,

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and two is where are you hitting this on the clubface, or how solid are you hitting

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it?

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So let's cover the second one first, which is how solid are you hitting it?

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It's important to understand that the sweet spot is really just a small point in the middle

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of the club.

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Now you can't always go off of where the top of the club is if you remember from my

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solid contact video, but you can kind of get a pretty good guess that way, because otherwise

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you have to take apart the club to figure out exactly where the center of the club is,

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and that's a little tricky.

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So let's just assume that it's somewhere in the middle of the where the manufacturers

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have marked it.

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Well, if you were to drift a half out, half inch out onto the toe, you'll lose 10% of

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the yardage, maybe.

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Five to 10% but airing more towards 10%.

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If you go five or half inch in towards the heel, you'll lose about 5%.

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So if you're hitting the ball, 300 yards, and you go out here, you could lose as much

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as 10%, that could be 30 yards, so a 270 yard drive could be the difference between

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hitting its center to hitting it on the toe.

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How are you going to figure out if you're doing that?

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Well, one of the best ways is if you mark the face.

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You can either put a sharpie mark on the back of the golf ball and it'll leave a little

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mark on the face, but that tends to add up on the face over time, or you can get some

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anti-fungal, you know, doctor's shoals, talc spray.

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It's basically, you know, a white powder spray, so then when you spray your club face,

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when you make contact with the golf ball, boom, it'll leave a little impact mark, and

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you can see exactly where you made contact.

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And then you can make little adjustments to adjust for where you're making contact, either

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by changing some of the path, or by adjusting how far away you're standing from the ball,

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changing your grip, you know, simple little things like that.

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So that's the simple one, is we want to make sure we're hitting it in the center of the

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club face.

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The second one is maximizing path.

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So there was a cool study done in 2008 in the golf magazine called Ed 42 yards now.

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Basically, long story short, they took a 95 mile in our clubbed speed.

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If you get your path coming more from the inside, compared to coming from the outside,

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you could gain 42 yards.

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And the reason they can make that claim is because when you come from the inside, you tend

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to launch the ball higher with less spin.

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When you come from the outside, you tend to launch the ball lower with more spin.

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If you don't hit the ball as far as a lot of your playing partners who you feel aren't

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that much more athletic than you, there's a good chance that you're launching the ball

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really low from a path that's too much outside to in.

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So in the drill section, we got lots of different ways that you can identify the path through

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the ball, and then learning to adjust the face to match that path, or for the shot that

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you're trying to hit, will help you maximize your distance and could be as much as

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25% distance increase, maybe more.

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So pay attention to solid contact, pay attention to your path, and that will help you maximize

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what speed you're currently creating with the driver.