The Instant Power Move

Keep your right palm facing the target going back, assuring that the face stays open.

Take your normal grip and open the clubface by about 10 degrees at address. (That figure's not set in stone-feel free to experiment.) Take the club back and keep your right palm generally facing the target throughout the backswing. This keeps the face open, so you can close it, and kill it, coming down.

WRONG Tilting your right palm toward the ground shuts the face.

WRONG Tilting your right hand opens your clubface too much.

Imagine you're hammering a downward tilted nail into the ground.

This is key in the downswing. Never try to scoop it. Instead, deliver a descending blow on the ball, letting the club's loft do the work. Don't worry about being too steep-just try to hit the equator of the ball on the way down. Visualize a long nail running gently downhill and through the ball, and hammer that nail into the ground with the clubface. One exception is your driver-you want to drive that nail on a track parellel to the ground, right at the target.

Hit down on the ball with every club but driver.

This descending blow lets the club's loft do its job.