What you've been taught
- Hit down on the ball, take a divot
- Hands forward at impact, shaft leaning
- Ball back, weight stacked over the ball
- Narrow stance, level shoulders
- Drag the handle through and "hold it off"
- Aim straight down the middle. Hope.
Inside AMG Fundamentals: The Driver, Shaun and Mike show you how to set up, swing, release, fit, aim, and practice your driver the way it was actually designed to be hit - so you can stop guessing on the tee box and start walking up the fairway.
Sometimes you flush it. Sometimes you peel one into the next county. Sometimes it felt great and ended in somebody's front yard. Then you spend the next 400 yards wondering which version is going to show up next.
Here's the thing nobody says out loud: most of those shots are not because your swing is broken. Driver is the only club in the bag that plays by different rules - and almost nobody is teaching those rules.
Driver is the only full-swing club hit off a tee. You're not taking a divot. You're not leaning the handle forward like a 7-iron. You're not chopping down. And you are not supposed to stand over it with five swing thoughts. Most golfers grip, set up and release it like an iron - and then wonder why the club fights them.
The driver doesn't need more effort. It needs a different operating system.
Setup. Concept. Drill. Strategy. In that order, because that's the order it actually works.
So the face can square without manipulation. The single fix behind most slices nobody traces back to the hands.
Ball position, tee height, posture, spine tilt. The five inches that decide whether you sweep up or chop down.
Merry-go-round body, Ferris-wheel arms. The mental model that stops the chop and unlocks rotation.
Stop dragging the handle through impact. Shake hands with the target - the move that quietly kills the slice.
Stop trying to hit it dead straight. Pick one shape and groove it so you can hit it "drunk and blindfolded."
Know your spread. Aim your worst ball into play. Eliminate the round-killers before you swing.
Shaft, loft, length, head design, ball speed, launch, spin. Where to look when it isn't you.
Range drills and at-home drills you can run without a coach or a launch monitor.
Each lesson is tight and focused. No filler. No 22-minute warm-ups. You can watch the whole thing in an afternoon and start the next range session with a plan.
The roadmap. Why driver plays by different rules and the order we're going to teach it.
Stance width, ball position, tee height, posture, grip pressure - the starting position that makes launch and a solid strike possible.
How to turn with the driver instead of chopping at it. The merry-go-round pivot, mapped to your spine angle.
Arms travel vertically while the body turns. The release: "shake hands with the target." Where your slice actually lives.
Shaft, loft, length, head design. How ball speed, launch and spin combine - and when it actually is the equipment.
Your stock shot. Your shot cone. How to aim around the course so your worst tee ball is still in play.
Lock in a neutral, strong-enough grip so the face can square itself.
Teach your hands to release the club instead of dragging it through impact.
Train the merry-go-round turn so the body leads and the arms don't take over.
Get the arms working up and down on their own plane so the club arrives square at the top.
Tour players average a 60-yard spread with driver. On a good day. The fix isn't more perfection - it's a stock shape and an honest shot cone you aim around the trouble, not over it.
STRATEGY · INSIDE THE TRAINING
Stop trying to hit a perfectly straight drive. Learn the one repeatable shape you can aim, trust, and keep in play under pressure.
MOTION · INSIDE THE TRAINING
Learn why dragging the handle keeps the face open - and how the right release pattern gives the driver a chance to square naturally.
FITTING · INSIDE THE TRAINING
Understand when shaft, loft, length, launch, and spin are quietly turning decent swings into bad results.
"We call it your drunk-and-blindfolded swing. You stand up there, hit your little fade, and it ends up in play. Then you move that cone around the course so your worst ball is never the one that costs you the hole."
Athletic Motion Golf has spent over a decade breaking down how the best players in the world actually move - using a deep video and motion library of tour winners to teach the patterns that hold up under pressure.
This isn't another influencer reel of tips. It's the same setup-concept-drill-strategy sequence they use with serious players, condensed into focused driver training you can finish in an afternoon and use forever.
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Yes - and slicers might benefit most. Most slices live in three places: a weak grip, a setup that promotes hitting down, and a release that drags the handle through impact. We cover all three explicitly. Module 4 (Arm Motion) and Module 8 (Make The Tail Drill) are aimed straight at the release piece.
No. We reference launch-monitor data in the fitting and strategy modules because it's the cleanest way to explain spin, launch and shot cone - but every drill is built to run with nothing but a club, a ball and a tee. We even show you how to pace off your shot cone on a quiet range.
Short on purpose. 10 lessons, each tight and focused, designed to be watched in an afternoon. You'll likely come back to the drill modules before your next range session - that's the point.
No. The whole reason this exists is that tips don't stack. We teach in the actual order the swing is built: Setup → Concept → Drill → Strategy. You don't have to guess which tip to apply when, because they're sequenced.
Module 5 (Club Fitting) walks through shaft, loft, length, head design, ball speed, launch and spin - and shows you how to tell when it's actually the spec, not the swing. By the end you'll know which questions to walk into a fitting with.
Yes. The Grip Drill, Pivot Drill and Arm Elevation Drill are designed for the living-room rug. Make The Tail Drill works at the range, but the rehearsal version runs anywhere you can swing a club safely.
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If driver feels like the club that can save your round or ruin it. If you're tired of "swing easier." If you're ready to stop guessing on the tee - start here. Get the fundamentals right. Build one stock shot. Learn to aim it. Give yourself an honest chance every time you pull driver.
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