Tee The Ball Up The Right Height With Each Club – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Tee The Ball Up The Right Height With Each Club – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will lead you through the process of teeing the golf ball up to the correct height for the desired golf club, and the golf shot that you would like to hit. Having the ball on an incorrect tee height can greatly and negatively affect the type of golf shot you are aiming to hit, which results in a degree of inconsistency and frustration from a lot of golfers. Hopefully understanding this simple process will be a surefire way to improve your consistency and golf shot.

So one of the questions I get asked quite frequently in my lessons is there a set high I should be tee pegging the ball up for every club in my bag or does it remain a constant height and I just adapt my swing to that height? An interesting point and I think a lot of golfers when they're to go to the driving range in practice probably countered by the set up at the range where there's probably just one rubber tee on the mat, and you know we run a driving range where we teach and we try and make sure there's lots of different tees available to different golfers for this exact reason. There is no one set height so we like golf have the opportunity to practice of probably 2 or 3 different heights and that's really going to be the 3 different clubs that I picked out here so 1st one I got out is the driver. Yeah this is going to be the highest of the 3 tee's Matt. OK Here where I like the half of the ball above the spot of the club so effectively the crown of the club being the top I want to see half the of the ball above it, and if I had all of the ball the ball I feel like too high the club would slide under me, and if I had none have the ball above I think the golfer would struggle to try to strike the base of the ball to get the ball up. OK and in terms of that position that you've gone for there if you're creating this all the time that tee high is it going to hopefully lead to a more consistent strike, and would that have been a factor on the golf ball? Certainly there's a sweet spot in the middle of my club and I want to help that ball hitting that sweet spot as regular as possible and having the tee set at the right height is a massive factor within upholding my support in fact.

Yes if I just stuck the tee peg into random heights even if it's going to hit random heights on the face or either need to change my swing every single time. One swing I'll swing up more one swing down or try and compensate for the tee that can't be good as a golfer. So fixing the height to the tee to consistency and see the consistent height helps me strike consistently on the club face pure. Fantastic so if I were to pop you into your hybrid club now we're going to leave it like that we know now. OK driving range that might be the problem I described at the start of definitely the same tee I now put that in and we can see all of the ball sitting well it will be top of the club in fact I could probably take the club and sort of take the tee out from underneath and the ball drops to your or it might catch the roof of the club and see the ball go sky high no distance forward sky shot, and golf might experience that so we definitely don't use the same size or height see that we might use the same parameters or principle that we have still the half the ball above the top. It's just it's a much narrower club that so much narrower shallower club that I have a lie with tee but the difference is the same it's still half the ball the ball the top of the club with a high we will fight actual aren't going to put you into your final club here one of your irons and for every iron in the bag as you go through this is this going to remain the same. Largely my irons would be a similar sized height maybe my my long iron my 3 4 5 I might have a slightly higher team my wedges is a bit lower but generally speaking if you look and you know how it may most intimate to hit the ball in the ground.

The majority shot we hit the ground best ball this center of mass we've got even lower down on the club face you can see that by the way Matt there from my sweet spot I was down on the base. Therefore I need my ball to be lowered down having a ball high up on the face some golfers might think that's easy to get them beneath but if I hit the top edge of the leading edge that ball's going to sound a bit tinny like high like you're not going to give a great feeling I would definitely pop that keep it down a little bit lower and I probably pop it almost. So it looks like it's going to say you know it doesn't even look like it's even pegged up there it's just just hovering above the cameras might not even see that that on a tee but it's just a slight pick it almost looks like from a good lie on the fairway and that should encourage me then to hit the ball take a bit of circumstance. That one of a nice piece there was that one I probably would be taking a divot with the driver definitely not with a hybrid if I'd taken it give it would be very very shallow but this is what I can take a different accent. So as a rule of thumb for a wood club we're going to have the top line of the club meeting the equator of the golf ball exactly half of all of the top of the club for the for the world and then with the 9 it just hovering above the ground and also trying to still take a divot. Not just sweep off the top of that tee peg direct contact stick so a couple of things you can do there and it even seems like a bit of a simple tip, but one that affects the strike location massively, and if you're not striking it consistently out of the same spot we're going to see a real difference in ball flight. So if you can take a few of those points in trying to see that you're gaining a consistent tee height hopefully it's going to lead to more consistent strikes thus leading to more consistent ball flight and better shots from there on in.

2018-12-20

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will lead you through the process of teeing the golf ball up to the correct height for the desired golf club, and the golf shot that you would like to hit. Having the ball on an incorrect tee height can greatly and negatively affect the type of golf shot you are aiming to hit, which results in a degree of inconsistency and frustration from a lot of golfers. Hopefully understanding this simple process will be a surefire way to improve your consistency and golf shot.

So one of the questions I get asked quite frequently in my lessons is there a set high I should be tee pegging the ball up for every club in my bag or does it remain a constant height and I just adapt my swing to that height? An interesting point and I think a lot of golfers when they're to go to the driving range in practice probably countered by the set up at the range where there's probably just one rubber tee on the mat, and you know we run a driving range where we teach and we try and make sure there's lots of different tees available to different golfers for this exact reason. There is no one set height so we like golf have the opportunity to practice of probably 2 or 3 different heights and that's really going to be the 3 different clubs that I picked out here so 1st one I got out is the driver. Yeah this is going to be the highest of the 3 tee's Matt. OK Here where I like the half of the ball above the spot of the club so effectively the crown of the club being the top I want to see half the of the ball above it, and if I had all of the ball the ball I feel like too high the club would slide under me, and if I had none have the ball above I think the golfer would struggle to try to strike the base of the ball to get the ball up. OK and in terms of that position that you've gone for there if you're creating this all the time that tee high is it going to hopefully lead to a more consistent strike, and would that have been a factor on the golf ball? Certainly there's a sweet spot in the middle of my club and I want to help that ball hitting that sweet spot as regular as possible and having the tee set at the right height is a massive factor within upholding my support in fact.

Yes if I just stuck the tee peg into random heights even if it's going to hit random heights on the face or either need to change my swing every single time. One swing I'll swing up more one swing down or try and compensate for the tee that can't be good as a golfer. So fixing the height to the tee to consistency and see the consistent height helps me strike consistently on the club face pure. Fantastic so if I were to pop you into your hybrid club now we're going to leave it like that we know now. OK driving range that might be the problem I described at the start of definitely the same tee I now put that in and we can see all of the ball sitting well it will be top of the club in fact I could probably take the club and sort of take the tee out from underneath and the ball drops to your or it might catch the roof of the club and see the ball go sky high no distance forward sky shot, and golf might experience that so we definitely don't use the same size or height see that we might use the same parameters or principle that we have still the half the ball above the top. It's just it's a much narrower club that so much narrower shallower club that I have a lie with tee but the difference is the same it's still half the ball the ball the top of the club with a high we will fight actual aren't going to put you into your final club here one of your irons and for every iron in the bag as you go through this is this going to remain the same. Largely my irons would be a similar sized height maybe my my long iron my 3 4 5 I might have a slightly higher team my wedges is a bit lower but generally speaking if you look and you know how it may most intimate to hit the ball in the ground.

The majority shot we hit the ground best ball this center of mass we've got even lower down on the club face you can see that by the way Matt there from my sweet spot I was down on the base. Therefore I need my ball to be lowered down having a ball high up on the face some golfers might think that's easy to get them beneath but if I hit the top edge of the leading edge that ball's going to sound a bit tinny like high like you're not going to give a great feeling I would definitely pop that keep it down a little bit lower and I probably pop it almost. So it looks like it's going to say you know it doesn't even look like it's even pegged up there it's just just hovering above the cameras might not even see that that on a tee but it's just a slight pick it almost looks like from a good lie on the fairway and that should encourage me then to hit the ball take a bit of circumstance. That one of a nice piece there was that one I probably would be taking a divot with the driver definitely not with a hybrid if I'd taken it give it would be very very shallow but this is what I can take a different accent. So as a rule of thumb for a wood club we're going to have the top line of the club meeting the equator of the golf ball exactly half of all of the top of the club for the for the world and then with the 9 it just hovering above the ground and also trying to still take a divot. Not just sweep off the top of that tee peg direct contact stick so a couple of things you can do there and it even seems like a bit of a simple tip, but one that affects the strike location massively, and if you're not striking it consistently out of the same spot we're going to see a real difference in ball flight. So if you can take a few of those points in trying to see that you're gaining a consistent tee height hopefully it's going to lead to more consistent strikes thus leading to more consistent ball flight and better shots from there on in.