High ball flight

[shewy]

What would cause this in the hybrids and woods,I mean I hit my irons high but at around 170 with a 4i I would expect the driver to go around 220ish, the driver 3 wood and hybrid just seem to spin up in the air.
Going to see the pro this week to see what I'm doing wrong but some suggestions would be nice,I mean I'm on a par with or maybe 1 iron more than my playing partners then 30/40 yards behind them,it's making it pretty hard to score.

 

[guest100718]

Adding loft at impact? I was doing it and have been working on a better impact position using an smash bag.

 

[Khamelion]

Steep angle of attack coming into the ball, try shallowing out your swing.

 

[EIW1219]

What would cause this in the hybrids and woods,I mean I hit my irons high but at around 170 with a 4i I would expect the driver to go around 220ish, the driver 3 wood and hybrid just seem to spin up in the air.
Going to see the pro this week to see what I'm doing wrong but some suggestions would be nice,I mean I'm on a par with or maybe 1 iron more than my playing partners then 30/40 yards behind them,it's making it pretty hard to score.

I would guess your hitting the ball on the up. Do you hit the ground first a lot? and are on your back foot at impact? I Doubt you take a decent divot?
Watch Sergio hit his fairway woods. That will help!!!!
Try to Strike down on the ball more??

Difficult without seeing you play.

 

[EIW1219]

Steep angle of attack coming into the ball, try shallowing out your swing.

That will cause the opposite khamelion with woods

 

[shewy]

Don't take a divot and rarely catch a fat shot

 

[golfdub]

I would guess your hitting the ball on the up. Do you hit the ground first a lot? and are on your back foot at impact? I Doubt you take a decent divot?
Watch Sergio hit his fairway woods. That will help!!!!
Try to Strike down on the ball more??

Difficult without seeing you play.

He wants to hit up with the driver , no?

Are you saying the ball or just getting good contact by it's still going sky high ?

 

[nemicu]

Steep angle of attack coming into the ball, try shallowing out your swing.

Difficult to know for sure without seeing a video, but this would be my first thoughts too. Hitting steep on your irons might be somewhat desirable in producing a shot that checks on landing, but 170 yards with a 4-iron sounds a bit short too. You may also have a tendency to fade or slice the ball too?

 

[Pin-seeker]

I finally gave in last wk & had a lesson. I've never been a fan of lessons but I was really hitting it poor. The pro strengthened my grip & I was hitting it so much better with a lower ball flight.
Hybrids should be hit like an iron & not a wood.
Sure the pro will sort you out.

 

[shewy]

I thought you hit on the up as well,
Contact feels solid but goes sky high

 

[EIW1219]

He wants to hit up with the driver , no?

Are you saying the ball or just getting good contact by it's still going sky high ?

Yes quite right with the driver I was talking about fairway woods. He is obviously hitting too far up.
Swing arc bottoms out too early?

 

[EIW1219]

I thought you hit on the up as well,
Contact feels solid but goes sky high

Only the Driver.
That's error no.1 for amateurs.

 

[Khamelion]

That will cause the opposite khamelion with woods

Not with a driver, ball teed up to high and played to far forward, ball comes off top of face and ball goes high. I know I was doing just that until this weekend, all I did was lower the ball, bring it back more towards the middle of my stance and made my swing more shallow.

 

[EIW1219]

http://youtu.be/DFT1uC4lMDA

 

[the_coach]

Don't take a divot and rarely catch a fat shot

Apart from being over high so you lose distance, on strikes from the ground what's your normal average starting direction & what's the flight pattern of them direction wise.

When you have the ball teed up with the 3 metal (driver, if you use one do you fairly often sky the odd one) what happens then starting direction, flight pattern.

As guest100718 says you're adding extra loft, so just before & through impact the shaft of the club is leaning back slightly with the clubhead getting to the ball before the handle & your hands do.

Could be a few reasons why this is happening, very probably linked all the way back to the set-up at address.

 

[One Planer]

My uneducated guess would be an early release of your hands.

Do you tend to catch our irons heavy?

With wedges, irons, hybrids and even fairway woods to a point hit down.

Driver ideally on the up but level is cool. I believe the tour average is/was a degree or so negative AoA with the driver.

 

[shewy]

So much advice thanks all,will see the pro this week. Don't catch any shots fat, try to hit down with irons and hybrid,try to bottom out the fw and hit up on the driver.
My standard shot is dead straight my bad is left.

 

[the_coach]

Not with a driver, ball teed up to high and played to far forward, ball comes off top of face and ball goes high. I know I was doing just that until this weekend, all I did was lower the ball, bring it back more towards the middle of my stance and made my swing more shallow.

You'd want to be doing the opposite, driver with ball back in your stance your going to be steep into the ball, chops down so they sky. Bringing the ball back steepens a swing it won't shallow it. Feel versus real you weren't exactly doing what you felt you were doing.
The ball for a driver should be off the lead heel forward in the stance, then the lowest point of the arc is few inches before the ball as it should be for solid impact.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Probably best if you just let your pro sort it out. No disrespect to the advice you've been given here,but with the different opinions your probably just going to be more confused.

 

[DAVEYBOY]

I thought you hit on the up as well,
Contact feels solid but goes sky high

Have a look at some of Rory's ball flight cams on You Tube... If they are going higher than that then you may have a problem :thup: