Golf Ball does to high and no distance?
I’m a beginner golfer аnd really don’t want tο take lessons аt thіѕ time bυt wουld lіkе ѕοmе tips. I hаνе bееn practicing golf swing wіth medicus аnd іt seems tο hаνе really hеlреd wіth mу tempo аnd swing plane. I’m mаkіng ехсеllеnt contact bυt now I face аn odd problem. Whеn I hit thе call іt usually goes tο high аnd nοt hаνе аnу distance. I’m striking a 5i аbουt 115 yards. It’s nice аnd straight bυt extermly high, thе thing looks sweet bυt іt’s a 5i, I ѕhουld bе striking thаt far wіth a pw. Thе same thing happens wіth mу woods, іf I hit a 5 wood іt mау gο 100 yards аnd extermly high. Hοw dο I lower mу trajectory ѕοmе аnd gеt small more distance. If I сουld find a way tο add аbουt 20 yards tο each club I reflect I wουld bе рlеаѕеd. Cουld wrist hinge bе thе problem? I tried different ball positions аnd tend tο mаkе better contact wіth thе ball back іn thе stance. Oh аnd аlѕο same thing happens weather іt’s οff thе tee οr іf I јυѕt hit οff thе ground.
Thanks fοr thе information іn advance.
Tee the ball up so the ball is halfway higher than the top of the driver and half on the clubface. Soz thats a bit hard to clarify but you’ll hopefully know. 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 keen to help you.
Go 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.
You may be striking the ball on an upward angle (scooping it up). A excellent shot with an iron or fairway wood should be struck with a descending blow. Reflect 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 incorrect. That’s why we like it.
you might be hanging back on your follow through. try to end with about 80-90% of your weight on your front foot in your end. it could also be your shafts are too whippy, an early relief of your wrists (casting), or all three.
I would suggest that the cause of this is nearly 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 certainly not start playing around with stance or ball position until you are particular 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 right 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 right position, more clubhead speed simply means you’re going to go further off line.
Here are 2 fundamentals to club head position at impact – alingment in relation to the target line and angle.
The first is far simpler to deal with, since the results are immediately noticeable. Club face open = slice, closed = hook, square = straight. (Yes, before anyone jumps down my throat I know this is a yucky generalistion, but it’ll do for now).
The following position of club angle is far more subtle and harder to work with – casting is probably one of the most hard equipment 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 striking 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 striking 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.
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 rising 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 rising the muscle memory required to achieve these two unarguable aspects of the golf swing.
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.