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Drive for Distance-Club Width Drill

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  • Drew Shurbet

    Quail Run

    www.quailrunsantafe.com  
    505-986-2255

    A golf professional and PGA pro, Drew Shurbet started as a collegiate standout at West Texas A&M. From there, Drew began building an impressive list of accolades and has won competitive golf tournaments at every level of play. He has won thirteen professional titles and holds two course records.Due to his impressive career, Adams Golf made him a member of their professional staff. In addition to the awards and recognition he has earned on the golf course, it is his playing prowess and reputation for being an instructor to the game’s elite that has made him one of the most sought after and well respected golf pros in the west.Drew has been with Quail Run as a golf professional and instructor for the past five years. Prior to that, he was the Director of Instruction at the Santa Fe Country Club. Quail Run golf course is in Santa Fe, NM, among the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and offers its golfers breathtaking views of the surrounding area. This beautiful golf course is a PGA-rated, par 32, nine-hole course with a tight layout. Located within a gated community, Quail Run also provides luxury facilities such as a fitness center, indoor lap pool, spa services and tennis courts.

  • Drive for Distance-Club Width Drill

    PGA golf professional Drew Shurbet demonstrates how to drive for distance like Tiger Woods as well as provides drills for golfers to improve their skill.

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    Drew Shurbet: Hello! I am Drew Shurbet, Head Golf Professional at Quail Run Golf Resort in Santa Fe, New Mexico and today I am going to give you a quick drill on how to maintain the width in your golf swing. Maintaining the width in your golf swing is extremely important for two reasons. Number one, it gives us our width in the golf swing, it gets our arc away from our body so that we can generate power and speed. The other thing it does is it allows us to synchronize our arm swing with our shoulder rotation. The average golfer has a tendency to cover their pectoral muscles with their left arm just folding the club around themselves, giving themselves a false turn. So by doing this and they create slack and the arms become basically loose and it becomes an arm swing. What I am going to do today is I am going to give you a little drill to help keep that width away from your body, so as you turn, you stay at full arm's length. Imagine in a golf swing that your left arm is really a tetherball rope and it is tied to our body. There is no need for us to make that rope shorter because that is going to cover on potential for to create speed and power. So we want that as long as possible and a way to drill this is in the back swing, just make half swings. Try to get you on parallel with the ground, this gives us full width. For bending it all here, we can actually take our right arm and push it away from us to get that full body and that full arc in our golf swing.

    By always dissecting your golf swing, you can break it down and get some more body awareness and increase our timing. So the drill is, just make half swings until we get the club vertical. Get your arm parallel with the ground by pushing inside on and hit the shot through rotation. That width and the width that we are working on this drill is much the same as Tiger Woods' width. He has that incredible long width where that club seems to be at a full long left arm extension away from his body and that allows him to hit those long powerful drives.

    So anyway, I hope this drill helps you. I hope all of these drills have helped you and hopefully someday we can all hit as good as Tiger Woods. Thanks for watching.

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