| tart --> | | | | At worst, you want to catch it on the way up but |
| Two minutes from now I'm going to have an answer | | | | not too much on the way up. |
| for all of you on how high you should be teeing your | | | | Experiment with your tee shots. Play a whole round |
| tee shots so you can improve your swing. The new | | | | of golf where you tee it a lot lower than normal, |
| drivers that have come out in the last 5, 10 years | | | | then the next round a little bit lower than normal. And |
| have what is referred to as a deep face. | | | | then play the third round where you tee it real high. |
| From the bottom to the top it's about two or more | | | | Now, I have a great golf strategy for you. I recently |
| inches. Most players associate all of that space with | | | | played 18 holes on a little bit of an odd golf course. |
| teeing the golf ball high. We even have three-inch | | | | It was a good golf course, but the first nine holes, |
| tees now. | | | | there was out of bounds on the entire left side. |
| So, that isn't true. You don't need that. Some of you | | | | On the back nine there was desert on the entire |
| might, but most of you don't. | | | | right side, the first nine holes, trouble left. |
| So, here's my rule of thumb for how high should you | | | | The golf strategy I used was that on the first 9 |
| tee the driver: If the mistake you make is that you | | | | holes, I teed every golf ball exactly the same height, |
| constantly top the golf ball, that isn't always the | | | | as close to the ground as I possibly could. |
| answer. You could fix your posture and bend over a | | | | The last nine holes, I teed every tee shot as high as |
| little bit and that would fix topping the golf ball. | | | | I possibly could. |
| If you always hit underneath the golf ball, this isn't | | | | On the first nine holes, when I teed it down low, if |
| always the answer, where you tee it down so low. | | | | you tee a golf ball as low as possible to the ground, |
| Maybe you simply need to get your chin up. | | | | it's very difficult to get the club face to cross over |
| So, a great rule of thumb is that the golf ball should | | | | and to hook it. I never hooked one ball out of |
| be slightly higher than the center of the club face. | | | | bounds for the first nine holes. |
| If the golf ball sits much higher than the center of | | | | The last nine holes, trouble right, this is very difficult |
| the face, the swing tip to improve your golf would | | | | to slice from here. The golf club will cross over and |
| have you hitting the golf ball on the upswing. If it | | | | you'll wind up hooking the tee shot way before you'd |
| was teed down close to the ground, and you tried to | | | | slice it. |
| hit the golf ball on the upswing, you might wind up | | | | I missed one fairway on the front nine and I never |
| hitting a little grass behind it. Instead, you would have | | | | missed a fairway on the back nine. |
| to hit this one on a little bit of the downswing, which | | | | The golf strategy to use here is instead of changing |
| is defeating the purpose of the driver. The driver's | | | | your golf swing, change the way you tee it: low for |
| swing is a sweeping swing. And you want to catch | | | | fades of slices and high for draws of hooks. |
| the golf ball at the bottom of the arc. | | | | |