{"id":790321,"date":"2026-07-10T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:54:12","slug":"lydia-ko-hit-a-perfect-driver-off-the-deck-here-are-the-keys-to-hitting-this-difficult-crowd-pleasing-shot-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790321\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Ko hit a perfect driver off the deck. Here are the keys to hitting this difficult, crowd-pleasing shot \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Stuart Franklin]<\/p>\n<p>The ninth hole at the Evian Resort Golf Club is a par 5. For the longest hitters, it can be reachable. Lydia Ko is not one of the LPGA\u2019s longest hitters, but she still found a way to get there in two shots during the first round of the Amundi Evian Championship. She did so by hitting driver off the deck.<\/p>\n<p>Watch in awe.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lydia Ko goes DOD \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think made that call, Lydia or her new caddie, her husband?! \ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B7Z3RY4toI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/B7Z3RY4toI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LPGA (@LPGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LPGA\/status\/2075218184924180917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting that kind of height on a driver off the deck is spectacular. We\u2019re not guaranteeing you can hit your driver off the deck as well as Ko does here, but there are a few tips you\u2019ll need to know if you\u2019re attempting this shot at home.<\/p>\n<p>Golf Digest Best Teacher in Illinois, Jason Guss, said to set up like you\u2019re hitting a 3-wood. So, the ball is slightly back in your stance compared to how you\u2019d hit your driver teed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep the clubface open a hair, this will help loft it up a bit,\u201d Guss said.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the clubface will keep you from hitting a screamer that only gets about an inch in the air. It helps the ball get into the air and creates better contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust to let it go low, don\u2019t try to help it up,\u201d Guss said.<\/p>\n<p>The instinct is to want to help the ball up into the air, which is understandable when you\u2019re looking down at a driver without a tee. But trying to help it up can result in poor impact position and worse contact. Swing as if loft weren\u2019t an issue and the ball will get up in the air better. Just know, even when you hit it well, it\u2019ll still go pretty low\u2014don\u2019t expect to hit it as high as Ko.<\/p>\n<p>Try these tips, and this crowd-pleasing shot might just find its way into your arsenal, too.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Stuart Franklin] The ninth hole at the Evian Resort Golf Club is a par 5. For the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[204889,4225,64,63,372547,755,36989,66187,30658,85],"class_list":["post-790321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amundi-evian-championship","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-driver-off-the-deck","tag-golf","tag-golf-instruction","tag-instruction","tag-lydia-ko","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}