It Is Probably Not Your Golf Tee Height (Video) - by Pete Styles
It Is Probably Not Your Golf Tee Height (Video) - by Pete Styles

So, the title of this tip is, It’s Probably Not Your Tpeg Height and I would go as far as to say, it probably is, it probably is the tpeg height. But if it isn’t, this is the tip for you. But the first thing I want you to do is check the height of your tpeg, because there is no point watching the rest of the videos if the tpeg is teed up way, way too high.

So, the first thing is get the ball teed-up line the club up behind it and measure that the middle of the golf ball is leveled to the middle of the golf club. Now if that’s the right height and that’s how you are setting it up, then there is obviously something else going on your swing, but if you have bought particularly long tpegs and you balance this thing up like it’s you know 6 inches above the ground then that’s going to be a problem to your game, so address that bit first. But if it’s not the tpeg height that’s at fault, the next thing could probably be the psychological issues that you have in terms of trying to strike the ball. Now this is a difference between a driver and an iron. Because when we take an iron we very much want to hit down on the golf ball. We spend an awful lot of time talking and teaching about how we should be hitting down on the ball, taking a divot and getting the club to wedge underneath the ball to make the ball go up in the air. But that concept of wedging the club underneath the ball so the balls goes high is exactly the opposite of what we actually want to do with the driver. We desperately don’t want to wedge the club underneath the ball. And actually with a driver we don’t want to hit down on the ball at all, we want to hit the ball with a level arc or even a slightly increasing an ascending arc and definitely not descending. So, if I setup now with this right in the middle of the camera line here, on my standard size tpeg, if I have that ball too far back in my stance and my body weight too far to the left, there is a fair chance that I am going to get that club descending into the ball so I am going to hit down on it here, the club is going to descend down and then I have got the opportunity to get the club under the ball with that leading edge and that’s just going to pop straight up into the air and sky. There is also a chance the club will gouge down into the turf take a big divot, sky the ball in the air. The opposite thing is what we want, we want to play the ball a lot more forward in the stance, set the body weight up slightly more behind the golf ball so we feel like we have got 60% body weight on the rear leg than the club should bottom out before it gets to the ball, starts rising up and hits that ball lifting up as it launches way and it’s going to fly higher and further because my lowest point to my arc is behind it and I am ascending as I hit the golf ball. So, firstly consider the tpeg height, secondly consider the psychological differences between hitting down on an iron and hitting up and through with the driver. And we can improve on that we should stop skying the ball quite so regularly. 2016-05-02

So, the title of this tip is, It’s Probably Not Your Tpeg Height and I would go as far as to say, it probably is, it probably is the tpeg height. But if it isn’t, this is the tip for you. But the first thing I want you to do is check the height of your tpeg, because there is no point watching the rest of the videos if the tpeg is teed up way, way too high.

So, the first thing is get the ball teed-up line the club up behind it and measure that the middle of the golf ball is leveled to the middle of the golf club. Now if that’s the right height and that’s how you are setting it up, then there is obviously something else going on your swing, but if you have bought particularly long tpegs and you balance this thing up like it’s you know 6 inches above the ground then that’s going to be a problem to your game, so address that bit first.

But if it’s not the tpeg height that’s at fault, the next thing could probably be the psychological issues that you have in terms of trying to strike the ball. Now this is a difference between a driver and an iron. Because when we take an iron we very much want to hit down on the golf ball. We spend an awful lot of time talking and teaching about how we should be hitting down on the ball, taking a divot and getting the club to wedge underneath the ball to make the ball go up in the air. But that concept of wedging the club underneath the ball so the balls goes high is exactly the opposite of what we actually want to do with the driver. We desperately don’t want to wedge the club underneath the ball. And actually with a driver we don’t want to hit down on the ball at all, we want to hit the ball with a level arc or even a slightly increasing an ascending arc and definitely not descending.

So, if I setup now with this right in the middle of the camera line here, on my standard size tpeg, if I have that ball too far back in my stance and my body weight too far to the left, there is a fair chance that I am going to get that club descending into the ball so I am going to hit down on it here, the club is going to descend down and then I have got the opportunity to get the club under the ball with that leading edge and that’s just going to pop straight up into the air and sky. There is also a chance the club will gouge down into the turf take a big divot, sky the ball in the air. The opposite thing is what we want, we want to play the ball a lot more forward in the stance, set the body weight up slightly more behind the golf ball so we feel like we have got 60% body weight on the rear leg than the club should bottom out before it gets to the ball, starts rising up and hits that ball lifting up as it launches way and it’s going to fly higher and further because my lowest point to my arc is behind it and I am ascending as I hit the golf ball.

So, firstly consider the tpeg height, secondly consider the psychological differences between hitting down on an iron and hitting up and through with the driver. And we can improve on that we should stop skying the ball quite so regularly.