Do You Struggle With Distance Off The Tee? Try This Quick Fix To Make 2025 Your Biggest Golf Season Yet

As amateur golfers, we all want to be able to hit longer drives. The correlation between distance off the tee and an improvement in your scores on the golf course is well documented, which is why understanding how to generate power is such a key part of learning how to hit a driver.

Amateur golfers are obsessed with how far the average golfer actually hits it, as we love to be able to compare ourselves against our friends, but how many of them actually know how to gain those precious extra yards on the course?

In this article, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach and PGA Pro Paul Foston talks us through a key move in the driver backswing, which has been used my multiple Major Champions, which could drastically improve your ability to hit longer drives...

Quick Fix For Longer Tee Shots In Golf

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Paul Foston

Paul has worked with a number of Tour professionals over the years, and is proud to have successfully coached over 40,000 students. In 2005, he set out to design his own academy with a ‘world class’ coaching infrastructure of technical advancement and a tailor made short game layout to practice every real life challenge experienced on course.

To generate power like the biggest hitters in the world, you need to be swinging at your maximum in terms of weight shift and rotation. The more rotation you can get, the more your upper body and hips will turn. You’ve got to be flexible to resist the hips and turn the shoulders, so don’t worry about the left heel coming off the ground.

When you raise the left heel, especially as you get a bit older, it can help you to rotate your hips for more power and help you fully complete your backswing. Look at Matthew Wolff – who ranks in the top-10 for driving distance on LIV Golf in the 2025 season so far - his left heel is way off the ground. When you then plant it back down to start the downswing, it will allow you to use the ground more to generate power as you drive towards the target.

You might not be going at it flat-out all the time, but in theory, if you’re hitting driver, you’re looking to get it out there as far as possible. If you don’t want to do that, you should switch down a club! But you must stay in balance. You can hit the ball as hard or as soft as you like as long as you’re in balance.