skying drives

[colint]

Any tips to stop this ? I drove really well yesterday but started skying drives after 9 holes. This has happened a few times. My tee height has half the ball above the clubface, which I think is OK. It's easily solved by lowering the tee height, but this costs me quite a bit of distance

 

[bobmac]

Do you take divots sometimes?

 

[colint]

Sometimes, the tee will also be smashed into the ground

 

[Smiffy]

Coming in too steep


Shallow out your swing and sweep it away

 

[bobmac]

In my experience, if your taking a divot, the chances are you have a steep angle of attack into the ball and a slight fade/slice/pull.
To help this, try moving the ball forward in your stance an inch or two and make a flatter approach into impact. (Imagine the flight of an plane coming into land)
This should help you sweep the ball off the tee and help cure that skied shot

HTH

 

[slugger]

(Imagine the flight of an plane coming into land)

does that mean for my wedges, i should imagine a helicopter landing?

and for my putter, a snow plough clearing a dusting of snow off the A9?

and when you punch me in the face... should i imagine an angry 5 year old squashing a snail?

 

[colint]

Cheers Bob, I'll give it a try

 

[Smiffy]

Cheers Bob, I'll give it a try

I said it too...

Just because I'm a knob and not an expert, doesn't mean I haven't got feelings you know

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

Just turn on your right leg and hey presto youll stop skying it

 

[bobmac]

Cheers Bob, I'll give it a try

I said it too...

Just because I'm a knob and not an expert, doesn't mean I haven't got feelings you know

Who said you're not an expert knob?

 

[colint]

Sorry, I'll try again..

Thanks Bob and Smiffy.

If it doesn't help, then you're a knob Smiffy

 

[bobmac]

Sorry, I'll try again..

Thanks Bob and Smiffy.

If it doesn't help, then you're a knob Smiffy

If it doesn't help (it will) and you want do blame someone (you wont), blame Smiffy. I just copied him

 

[JustOne]

Just turn on your right leg and hey presto youll stop skying it

How do you know he had his right leg switched off?

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

Just turn on your right leg and hey presto youll stop skying it

How do you know he had his right leg switched off?

Well a skied drive is caused by having too much weight on your leading leg (left if right handed) so i presumed it would help him

 

[viscount17]

Just turn on your right leg and hey presto youll stop skying it

How do you know he had his right leg switched off?

Well a skied drive is caused by having too much weight on your leading leg (left if right handed) so i presumed it would help him

well I believe you. it was what was doing it for me. I'd been told (by a 'pro') to load the left side - so I did to the exclusion of almost everything else - I got skies, a 9 deg launch angle off an 11.5 deg driver, pile drivers into the tee - all because the shoulders were set up completely wrong as a result

 

[bobmac]

Sorry Owen, but a skied drive is caused by a steep angle of attack, out to in swing and an above plane swing.

 

[viscount17]

Sorry Owen, but a skied drive is caused by a steep angle of attack, out to in swing and an above plane swing.

I was skying off the top edge, which was from an excessively steep angle of attack. what made it worse was I thought it came from 'scooping' so was 'correcting' for the wrong thing.