Golf Tip: Q & A – Low Driver Ball Flight
\nThis is a good golfer that suddenly started hitting everything low….<\/p>\n
Q:\u00a0 I am just emailing you asking about my swing. I’ve been to the dome a few times and my swing feels good. But I am hitting the ball very low. My driver goes no more than 10 feet off the ground but flushed. Same with everything else. I feel that this is due to my sliding. When I slow down my swing and look at it at impact I see that my hand are probably a foot ahead of the club face.<\/p>\n
Any suggestions as to stop sliding and get the club head through first? <\/p>\n
Andy B.<\/p>\n
A: Hi Andy, thanks for the question.<\/p>\n
I have a player on the GCC team that had the same ball flight problem, and on the tee I had him weaken his grip position and it was an insta-fix. Try that first.<\/p>\n
Here are a few thoughts on your problem, try to identify which ones fit. As you can imagine, it’s a bit difficult to solve a problem for a good golfer without seeing the swing, but we’ll give it a shot.<\/p>\n
First we have to define the problem, then we need to solve it. The specific problem seems to be that you are hitting the ball with the face de-lofted, or with a clubhead with too little loft.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that when making corrections, make them in tiny increments at a time testing as you go. Golf is a game of 1\/8 inch (or less) corrections.<\/p>\n
EQUIPMENT<\/p>\n
Some equipment thoughts are: more loft on your driver, or a shaft that has a low to mid kickpoint. Don’t jump on these points as a quick solution, just a consideration.<\/p>\n
Also, it would be worth the investment of a few bucks to go to Golf Galaxy, or anywhere that has a launch monitoring computer, and check your driver launch angle and ball spin rate. Then make sure that your driver loft, shaft flex, and ball characteristics fit your swing speed.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Golf Tip: Q & A – Low Driver Ball Flight This is a good golfer that suddenly started hitting everything low…. Q:\u00a0 I am just emailing you asking about my swing. I’ve been to the dome a few times and my swing feels good. But I am hitting the ball very low. My driver goes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tom-tucker"],"yoast_head":"\n