Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about topping the golf ball. What happens when you get your driver and you get the roller ball bobbles along the ground and rolls goes about 100 yards if you're lucky. What happens when you top the ball is it you're working so hard to hit up on the golf ball and when you do that your weight has to hang back that moves the low point of the club backwards and that means you hit up on the golf ball.

Anytime you hit up on the golf ball you could take the top of it if you're not careful put overspin on it and it tends to role on the ground. So the way to stop topping the golf ball is to put another tee out in front of your original golf ball and you want to hit both tees as you come through. When you do that it is going to look something like that so make sure you stay down and through it not help the ball here and you will stop topping.