Brad Dalke’s advice to any golfer who is really struggling to hit their driver properly

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Anyone who is a follower of YouTube golf will be aware that Brad Dalke is a dangerous man when he has a driver in his hands.

It is hard to argue with those who believe Brad Dalke is the best golfer on YouTube right now, as long as you discount Bryson DeChambeau, of course.

The Good Good star previously played in both The Masters and the US Open. And he won the most recent Creator Classic.

It was recently revealed earlier this month that he was also part of the winning team at the inaugural Internet Invitational. Dalke was certainly the best player at Big Cedar Lodge.

Brad Dalke explains how he overcame the driver yips

Obviously, YouTube golf is a completely different animal to the professional game. Michael Kim outlined why Dalke was unable to make the PGA Tour before switching career paths.

But one of the 28-year-old’s biggest issues previously was the driver. That does seem remarkable given how impressive he has become with the longest club in the bag.

And speaking on Subpar, he explained how he went about turning his driving into a strength – and shared some advice for amateur golfers looking to gain some confidence.

“It’s honestly crazy. There’s no pinpoint answer, just like when you get into the yips, there’s no pinpoint answer on how it happened. You just kind of get into that bad headspace and you’re in there for a while. I’d say getting out of it, I finally figured out the two or three things in my swing that really made my swing click,” he said.

“I found out that I had to keep width in my arms at the top of the backswing. If I get narrow at the top, I’m not going to hit it very well. I found out that my head moves a lot off the ball sometimes at takeaway and had to keep my head pretty still and over the ball. Those are the two to three things that I need to keep an eye on and I finally worked on those a lot for two or three months on the range.

“Then everything with YouTube and Good Good happened right after that, and I was already on the come-up a little bit. But honestly I give a lot of the credit to YouTube, because it’s a perfect space to be able to work on things and really build confidence without risking too much, if that makes sense.

“I’m not sitting here paying $1500 to go play a mini tour event to go work on stuff and try to build confidence at a tournament because that’s just very hard to do. If you’re not going to a tournament confident, you’re probably not going to play well.

“So YouTube gave me the perfect space to play a lot of golf under enough pressure because there’s a camera, so it can definitely expose you a little bit because there’s still some nerves knowing that a million people are going to watch this video.

“But it’s the perfect playground to be able to work on things and build confidence throughout the whole process. Even when I started with Good Good, I wasn’t hitting my driver anything like I am now.

“It took about six months of really building the confidence, and finally, I just found myself very confident with the driver. It wasn’t like I pinpointed ‘okay, now I’m good, now I’m hitting the driver great’. It was a slow build and all of a sudden I was like, ‘damn, I feel like I can hit every fairway and swing as hard as I want now and I feel great over the ball’.

“For people listening, if you’re struggling with it, I think you have to find, whether it’s going to a lesson or whatever, find the main keys in your swing that give you issues and what you need to do to fix those.

“Grind it on the range, but also go to the course a lot, as much as you can and really work on it as much as you can on the course, because that’s where confidence is built. Even when I had the driver yips, I could go on the range and hit 20 straight drivers in a row and be fine, but then, as soon as I got on the course, it would go everywhere.

“So try to put a little pressure on it by going on the course, seeing a fairway, having to hit a fairway and try to build your confidence through that.”

Brad Dalke suggests whether he would quit YouTube golf for a PGA Tour card to play full field events in 2026

There is a sense of intrigue surrounding how Dalke would perform if he got another shot at playing on the biggest stage.

It would arguably be wise for the PGA Tour to invite Dalke to an event in 2026 given that his stock is so high right now.

And later on in the interview with Subpar, Dalke was asked whether he would turn his back on YouTube golf if he got the opportunity to play in the full field events on the PGA Tour next year.

He was clearly conflicted.

“I’d say if I knew Good Good was in the back pocket, if it went wrong, if I knew Good Good was like, ‘hey, if it doesn’t go right, you could always come back’, then 100 per cent,” he said.

“If not, then I genuinely don’t know. As you know, it’s a risk. There’s so many good players. You have to play well but there’s a lot of luck involved too, playing well at the right times. To win a tournament you have to get a little lucky throughout the week. I genuinely don’t know. If I had to fully give up YouTube full-time, I don’t know if I’d take that risk.”

Given how quickly YouTube golf has grown, it does appear to be a matter of time until a star of the genre is able to force their way to the sport’s top table.

It sounds ridiculous to say right now, but YouTube may become a genuine pathway for some talented players to reach the PGA Tour in the future.