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This study was to find out whether taping can improve the golf drive distance of pro golfers. The study consisted of applying the taping measures to 10 professional golfers and observe its effects, before and after such measure. The taping was applied to the upper body muscles; trapezius, deltoid muscle, pectoral muscle, and on the latissimus dorsi. And also for the lower body muscles; Rectus Femoris Muscle, gastrocnemius, Tibialis Anterior, and on the sartorius. All the data obtained from the measurements made from this study were dealt with the SPSS win 12.0 program. The mean and the standard deviation of the measurement figures of each golfers tested, were calculated. The difference verification of each taping measure made for measurements, were made by the t-test. The level of significance for all statistical analysis was set at p<.05. A basic training that consist of explanation of test methods and the anticipated changes to the drive distance after taping, was given to the golfers undergoing this test. As for the real test procedure, the differences between the driver distance measured, before and after taping were compared and analyzed. Specifically, the 5 measurements were made for 5 drive swings, and after taping, 30 minutes were given for rest, before undergoing another 5 measurements. Results obtained from this study are as the following. First, whole average driver distance of flying increases +7.9 m more than without taping. Second, in case of azimuth, taping makes swing more effective as measuring ±1.3° in error range. Third, in case of launch angle, we can see azimuth 2.17° lower because of increasing swing speed and conceive of rising distance, taping rather than not to do so.