What Causes My Golf Drives To Fly Too High (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Causes My Golf Drives To Fly Too High (Video) - by Peter Finch

What causes my golf drives to fly too high? If you’re suffering with tee shots with a driver that fly very high into the air, a ballooning ball flight that seems to stop and then drop down without giving much distance, there are a number of different factors that are at play. The first thing you need to check is the amount of loft on your golf club. If you’re using a driver with too much loft, the ball is going to fly very, very high in the air and have too much back spin. Now, this isn’t normally a problem for most golfers who tend to use a driver with too little loft, but if you are hitting it very, very high, that’s the first place to check.

The second thing you need to check is how you’re actually approaching the ball, your angle of attack. Now, if you’re coming into the ball very, very steep, so you’re striking down on the ball very, very steeply, what can happen is the club can go underneath the ball. It can catch the ball kind of underneath the equator. The ball will hit the top edge and spin and fly up into the sky, also known as a sky chop because it will leave a little bit of a mark along the top line of your golf club. On the opposite end of the scale of that, you could be sitting too much behind the ball, really hitting up and really sweeping it off up into the air which could be causing the ball to go straight up into the sky, but that is less of a common issue. It’s more that strike down and the pop up into the air; the second. The third thing that could actually be happening is your shaft is very, very too whippy for you and that causes a more back spin to be added to the ball, a bit more of that kind of ballooning flight as well. So there are a number of different things that can go on. As far as the club specifications go, get yourself custom fit for a driver and make sure it is correct to your swing speed, your height and your swing type. Technique wise, there are a couple of things you can check. Make sure that that ball is just inside the left heel at address. Make sure that your swing center and head are slightly behind the ball and then try and stay slightly behind the ball as you pick that ball off the top. It does need to be a slightly ascending blow in most cases. You don’t want to be striking down. The -- just try and stay behind the ball, just try and hit it with a slightly ascending swing arch and that should give the best of both worlds. A descent swing arch coming in, a nice clip off the top and hopefully some very good golf shots. So, go through those points, check the ball and that should help stop that ball going too high off the tee. 2014-11-19

What causes my golf drives to fly too high? If you’re suffering with tee shots with a driver that fly very high into the air, a ballooning ball flight that seems to stop and then drop down without giving much distance, there are a number of different factors that are at play. The first thing you need to check is the amount of loft on your golf club. If you’re using a driver with too much loft, the ball is going to fly very, very high in the air and have too much back spin. Now, this isn’t normally a problem for most golfers who tend to use a driver with too little loft, but if you are hitting it very, very high, that’s the first place to check.

The second thing you need to check is how you’re actually approaching the ball, your angle of attack. Now, if you’re coming into the ball very, very steep, so you’re striking down on the ball very, very steeply, what can happen is the club can go underneath the ball. It can catch the ball kind of underneath the equator. The ball will hit the top edge and spin and fly up into the sky, also known as a sky chop because it will leave a little bit of a mark along the top line of your golf club.

On the opposite end of the scale of that, you could be sitting too much behind the ball, really hitting up and really sweeping it off up into the air which could be causing the ball to go straight up into the sky, but that is less of a common issue. It’s more that strike down and the pop up into the air; the second.

The third thing that could actually be happening is your shaft is very, very too whippy for you and that causes a more back spin to be added to the ball, a bit more of that kind of ballooning flight as well. So there are a number of different things that can go on.

As far as the club specifications go, get yourself custom fit for a driver and make sure it is correct to your swing speed, your height and your swing type. Technique wise, there are a couple of things you can check. Make sure that that ball is just inside the left heel at address. Make sure that your swing center and head are slightly behind the ball and then try and stay slightly behind the ball as you pick that ball off the top. It does need to be a slightly ascending blow in most cases. You don’t want to be striking down. The — just try and stay behind the ball, just try and hit it with a slightly ascending swing arch and that should give the best of both worlds. A descent swing arch coming in, a nice clip off the top and hopefully some very good golf shots. So, go through those points, check the ball and that should help stop that ball going too high off the tee.