While anyone can hit a pop up drive occasionally, it should happen very rarely. If there is a pattern of these poor drives showing up in your game, changes need to be made to fix the problem and get back on track. All of the instruction below is based on a right handed golfer.
If you play left handed, please reverse the directions as necessary. What Went Wrong? Immediately after skying your driver, you will likely start to think of a long list of possible causes for this bad shot. Did you tee the ball up too high? Maybe you swung too hard?
Perhaps your foot slipped as you were coming down into the ball? In reality, there are a number of potential causes for this frustrating mistake. The first step toward eliminating the pop-up driver from your game is to correctly identify the root cause. You don't want to be changing things in your swing that don't need to be changed in the first place, so placing blame on the correct part of your technique is crucially important.
Only when you are sure you have figured out what is going wrong can you move on to making the fixes required. Following are three common causes of skying the driver off the tee —. There are other potential causes for skying your driver, but the three listed above will apply to almost every golfer who has this problem. It is important that you don't allow yourself to get too frustrated after hitting a pop up or two on the course. This is a problem that can cause some golfers to lose their temper, but you need to remain patient and look for a solution with a level head.
Getting mad won't make the problem any better, so take a deep breath and think through your swing logically until you deciding what it causing the ball to fly straight up into the air.
Correcting Your Tee Height. If you believe that your driver issues are being caused by teeing the ball too high, you should be able to fix this problem pretty quickly and easily. However, isn't necessarily as simple as just pushing your tee farther into the ground, because you don't want to overcorrect and end up teeing the ball too low.
Having the ball too low to the ground on a driver swing is even worse than having it too high, so you need to learn how to strike a perfect balance. Fortunately, with a plan and a little preparation, you can make sure that your ball is teed up at the right height for each and every shot. Use the following process to make sure you are teeing the ball up correctly hole after hole —. When you get back home, use the 'winning' tee as a guide to mark up a bunch of other tees in your bag with a line at the appropriate tee height.
By having tees with a line drawn on them, you will never have to guess how far to push the tee into the ground — just push down until the line matches up with the top of the turf, and you will be all set. This is a simple but effective way to add consistency to your tee height before every swing of the driver. Tightening Up Your Backswing. The great thing about working on tightening up your backswing is that this improvement won't just help you stop skying the driver — it will help your game across the board.
A long backswing is the cause of many problems on the golf course, so finding a way to shorten your overall motion should lead to great results. However, this isn't going to be as easy as just working on your tee height.
In order to shorten your backswing and improve your swing as a whole, you are going to need to put in some serious practice time on the range. Specifically, the reason that it can be so difficult to adjust the length of your swing is that your timing will be affected. Even if you don't realize it currently, the timing of your swing is something that you have gotten used to over the years.
Your body naturally responds to different movements within your golf swing to deliver the club to the ball at precisely the right moment. Even if you aren't a great golfer, you still have plenty of timing mechanisms already built into your swing. As you adjust the length of your backswing, those timing mechanisms are going to be affected. One of the best ways to shorten your backswing effectively is to control the position of your right knee.
During the backswing, the right knee is responsible for maintaining a solid position and keeping your lower body in place. Unfortunately, many amateur golfers allow the right knee to get out of control during the backswing — which frequently leads to a long backswing and poor contact. If you are fighting a long swing, and you are skying your driver as a result, it is a good idea to focus some practice time on how your right knee is working in the swing.
Some golf teachers will instruct students to keep their right knee perfectly in place throughout the backswing, but that is a little extreme for most players. There are several possible causes. The grip is rarely an issue with golfers who are skying the ball. But it's possible that ball position is. Remember with your driver setup that the golf ball is forward in your stance. For a right-hander, the ball position with driver should be level with your left front heel or instep.
If the ball is too far back in your stance with driver, that can be a cause of the dreaded pop-up. You also need to make sure your stance is not too narrow, and that your front shoulder and hip are higher than your rear shoulder and hip.
When hitting driver, you want your head to stay behind the ball at impact, and this setup — your spine tilted away from the target — helps you do that. With irons, you want the clubhead to still be descending when it contacts the ball. That's where the phrase " hit down on the ball " comes from. But with the driver or other wood or hybrid shot with a teed ball , you want to sweep the clubhead into impact. In fact, the driver should be slightly on the upswing when it contacts the teed ball.
Keeping the ball forward in your stance, using a wider stance with with your spine tilted away from the target: these things help you achieve a sweeping approach to the ball. Because if you are hitting lots of skyballs, you are too steep with your driver swing.
You don't want your swing to feel up-and-down with the driver, but around: a wider, fuller arc. Skyballs can happen when your swing is "too much up and not enough around," as instructor Roger Gunn put it. On the downswing, Gunn wrote, "It should feel like the clubhead is swinging more level to the ground and not so much up and down. Sweep into impact with the driver; don't drop the driver head down steeply into impact.
Yes: You need to get the feeling of staying back, of keeping your head behind the ball at impact on drives. McCord suggests finding an upslope and setting up so that your front foot is a little higher than your back foot.
Tee the ball and hit drivers off that upslope. Check out the video below for a few tips on how to stop skying your driver for good…. They key thing to know about skying a driver, or hitting it high on the club-face, is that it means that your angle of attack is too steep and you are hitting down on the golf ball.
The solution is simply to work on your angle of attack into the ball and focusing on a sweeping action to hit up on the golf ball. Dan Whittaker is an elite golf swing and performance coach based at High Legh.
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