From the tee dilemma

[Orikoru]

Haha yeah exactly! Although I've been going into greens with a 6 or 7 iron, it's been nice knowing i actually have a chance of being close, rather than trying to work out what is the best gap in the trees to go for  I played Tenby recently on hit 5 iron, 5 iron, on some par 4s  And at Cottrell park on Thursday, two par 5s were 5 iron, 5 iron, 6 iron, 2 putt!

Good luck to you and I hope we sort ourselves out soon!

Sounds like hell to me - I dread the holes where I actually have to use my 5 iron off the tee! Would rather use my driver any day! :lol:

 

[Ndw7]

often times see the issue for index folks with driver path owes a bunch to set-up as folks tend to feel more comfortable with an 'iron' set-up which has the head position much nearer (laterally) to the ball

folks know the ball position needs to be up in the stance at/or near opposite the lead heel but the head needs to stay some inches back of the ball with the secondary spine tilt aways from target - because they feel more 'comfortable' with the head nearer to the ball they move the upper body & head back up to the ball (this also opens the torso & shoulders to be 'open' to the ball/target line) which tends then to encourage the steep/er AoA with an 'open' face at strike - so the trouble with either balls ways rightfield or/& low pulls & tops leftfield

but given that with driver the ball is up on high tee peg the AoA & path is a tad different from that with an iron the head has to stay at set-up laterally some inches aways from the forwards ball position as the swing motion has to be one that with index players slower swing speeds at worst level but preferably an upwards AoA that is also a tad in to out

folks though who have tee ball issues with driver tend to not be set-up so good plus they want to hurry to get the club head to ball as that 'feels' it would produce swing speed to achieve distance - so that again the need to get the club head to impact as quick as possible leads to the out n'over steep attack

the driver being the longest club in the bag 'needs to take the longest route to the ball' to use that arc width - that's how optimum CHS for the swing motion effort will produce the club head speed where it matters - through the ball

ask for a driver/3 metal off the tee box lesson am sure your pro would be happy to talk through the stuff needed to give you more confidence off of the tee

Hi Coach, Thanks for the reply! I definitely plan on speaking to my coach about this as you've suggested. I'm hoping that maybe it is set up related and relatively easy to fix