Solid Impact—to a Tee
MY TAKE ON TEE HEIGHT
This is a marvelous exercise to help you learn how to keep the club level at address and to
optimize where your driver hits the ball on the clubface. The drill will also assist you in learning
how important the tee is in striping shots. It also teaches you how to clip the tip of the tee in
order to hit the ball in the optimum place for greater distance and accuracy.
Line up three tees, placing a ball on the third tee. Using your driver, proceed down the line
and swing, making contact with the tip of the tee closest to you. Move to the second tee and
strike the highest point of that tee. Then, go on to the teed-up ball and sweep the ball right off
the top of the tee without breaking the tee at impact.
Most people hit the ball too high on the clubface with their driver. Since the ball is teed
up higher today with larger clubheads, the tendency is to come in too low at impact and the
resulting mark from the tee ends up in the middle of the clubface. The tee mark should be on
the bottom of the clubface to ensure you hit the ball in the middle of the clubface.
You can also do this drill in your backyard without a ball on the third tee. Simply put tees in
the ground and see if you can hit each one without breaking the pegs. If they shatter, then the
club is hitting the ball too low on the tee. If you clip the top of the tee and the club knocks the
tee out of the ground without breaking it, your clubhead is in the right place at impact. See you
in the short grass.
After going down the row and
knocking out the first two tees without
breaking them, you’re all set. Go
ahead and make the same motion
and send the ball toward your target.
The longer the tee the more you will want
to hover the club over the ball. The danger
comes when you tee the ball higher, but
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