Need to Quiet Hands with Driver

@PatD & @howard.f.ward - I just responded as follows to another member in a separate though somewhat similar post. It could be applicable here as well to some extent:

"Just be sure that the hands, wrists, and arms are devoid of any tension. This does not mean a loose and potentially faulty grip. You can have a sound yet tension-free attachment to the club that allows the hands, wrists, and arms to properly respond to the body motions.

Think, for example, of the act of splitting wood with an axe. You've certainly got to maintain a good grip on the axe handle so it doesn't become an airborne weapon, but there's still plenty of suppleness to facilitate the wrist hinge and lag needed to produce an accurate and powerful strike that is entrusted to the full body motion!"

Same. 3 steps forward, 2 steps backward. It is a grind but the progress keeps me at it. When I regress I start second guessing myself but I think golf requires more precision than most sports. Slightly askew club face or unconscious body movement and the ball is in the water or woods.

I have been there. My slicing was mostly me not realizing that the more I swung out to in, the greater the slice. Swinging out to in with driver is especially bad regards slicing. Swinging more around body, not up, cures that. Otherwise check your grip at apex of backswing, may need to point back of lead hand more toward the ground. Also keep light and use shoulder/upper arm muscles to swing club, not hands and don’t tense forearms. The hard part is building the muscle memory so you do all this without thinking about it. Slow reps at range is only way I know. Damn game requires lots of practice for those of us who didn’t start young.

@danny & @johnpfistnerjr - You've both recently commented on woes and subsequent successes with the driver. Any thoughts or suggestions?

@PatD, as I've said on various occasions, we need to "give up control to gain control." One of the more difficult things to do is sufficiently deactivate our hands so they don't throw our swing off kilter. They certainly have their place in the swing, but premature manipulation with the hands is certain to adversely affect consistency and power at the least, and make a total wreck of things at the worst. My recommendation would be to apply the Lesson 2.8 Drill to your driver. It is a very body-driven swing that - once mastered - will produce plenty of power. This will relinquish control of the swing to the body motions (assuming your connections are properly maintained). Once you have this down, you will then come to learn at what point in the downswing Ben Hogan said he wished that he had three right (trail) hands!

Combine 2.8 with the Tee Drill below from the S&T book for added effectiveness!