Golf Ball does to high and no distance?
Question by Ozzie: Golf Ball does to high and no distance?
I’m a beginner golfer and really don’t want to take lessons at this time but would like some tips. I have been practicing golf swing with medicus and it seems to have really helped with my tempo and swing plane. I’m making good contact but now I face an odd problem. When I hit the call it usually goes to high and not have any distance. I’m hitting a 5i about 115 yards. It’s nice and straight but extermly high, the thing looks pretty but it’s a 5i, I should be hitting that far with a pw. The same thing happens with my woods, if I hit a 5 wood it may go 100 yards and extermly high. How do I lower my trajectory some and get little more distance. If I could find a way to add about 20 yards to each club I think I would be happy. Could wrist hinge be the problem? I tried different ball positions and tend to make better contact with the ball back in the stance. Oh and also same thing happens weather it’s off the tee or if I just hit off the ground.
Thanks for the advice in advance.
Best answer:
Answer by Jezz M
Tee the ball up so the ball is halfway above the top of the driver and half on the clubface. Soz thats a bit hard to explain but you’ll hopefully understand. Also keep your head still and follow through with your back foot. Give the club time to do a full backswing. Start slow. The smoother the swing the more distance. Hope this helps. Please vote me best answer. I’m a beginner myself and eager to help you.
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October 31st, 2010 at 10:48 am
Move forward one foot width and DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE, aim forward one foot width (keep the ball in the same spot) and see what happens. It is probably your grip.
October 31st, 2010 at 11:07 am
You may be hitting the ball on an upward angle (scooping it up). A good shot with an iron or fairway wood should be struck with a descending blow. Think about pinching the ball against the ground with the club head and “squirting” it forward.
Don’t give up, you’ll figure it out. And if you’re like the rest of us, as soon as you do something else will go wrong. That’s why we love it.
October 31st, 2010 at 11:40 am
you might be hanging back on your follow through. try to finish with about 80-90% of your weight on your front foot in your finish. it could also be your shafts are too whippy, an early release of your wrists (casting), or all three.
October 31st, 2010 at 12:16 pm
I would suggest that the cause of this is almost certainly that you are uncocking your wrists too early - “casting” as described by an earlier response.
If your shots are going straight, as you say, I would most definitely not start playing around with stance or ball position until you are certain that your wrists are behaving the way they should.
The primary purpose the wrists and hands perform in the golf swing are to return the club head to the ball in the correct position. They also play a role in generating more clubhead speed, but this is secondary. If you can’t get the club to the ball in the correct position, more clubhead speed simply means you’re going to go further off line.
There are 2 elements to club head position at impact - alingment in relation to the target line and angle.
The first is far easier to deal with, since the results are immediately visible. Club face open = slice, closed = hook, square = straight. (Yes, before anyone jumps down my throat I know this is a gross generalistion, but it’ll do for now).
The second aspect of club angle is far more subtle and harder to work with - casting is probably one of the most difficult things you’ll ever have to fix.
The key is that your hands MUST be ahead of the clubhead at the point of impact. The only way to acheive this is to maintain the angle in your right wrist through the hitting zone. The best practice I can suggest is:
1) Take your normal stance, with the ball in your usual position.
2) Push your hands forwards at least 4 inches (I usually try to line them up with my left hip).
3) Check the club alignment to the target. The first few times it will probably have closed.
4) Repeat from step 1 until you can get your hands in that forward position and keep the club square to target.
5) Now start hitting balls, concentrating on getting your hands back to that position at impact.
6) You will notice a different feel to the contact, as the club squeezes the ball into the ground. The resulting increase in distance comes from the compression of the ball by the club into the ground.
7) DECIDE THAT THE GAME ISN’T WORTH THE EFFORT AND TAKE UP LAWN BOWLS (JOKE(I THINK)).
I really wish you luck with this, since I have spent most of my golfing ‘career’ fighting this problem.
October 31st, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Your muscles want to return your body to a comfortable position. Your existing muscle memory may be taking over and pushing you up and out of the shot. Your swing is not allowing you to keep your head behind the ball through the impact zone or to maintain your spine angle. You are probably coming up and out of your shot or coming over the top.
You should start developing muscle memory required to keep your head back and maintain your spine angle. Training aids that provide tactile feedback to the head are most useful in developing the muscle memory required to achieve these two unarguable aspects of the golf swing.
October 31st, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Start the backswing by pushing the club back as low to the ground as you can.
On the downswing picture yourself sweeping the ball along the ground as though you were sweeping it with a broom.