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While I am still trying to fix my slice, I am also trying to get a much lower trajectory on my drives. I have tried everything, I cant put the tee too low or I shank it every time, and I have trouble moving the ball back in my stance. So I was wondering if there is something that can make the plane of my swing better.. Any suggestions would be great!!
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In rec.sport.golf While I am still trying to fix my slice, I am also trying to get a much lower trajectory on my drives. I have tried everything, I cant put the tee too low or I shank it every time, and I have trouble moving the ball back in my stance. So I was wondering if there is something that can make the plane of my swing better.. Any suggestions would be great!!
With a driver, the swing plane has very little to do with trajectory. There is something fundamentally wrong with your swing if you slice and can’t hit a low teed ball without shanking. You should be able to pick a ball off of a good lie in the turf with your driver. I also would not advise moving the ball back in your stance for a driver. I’d bet dollars to donuts you have a bad grip and/or a reverse weight shift. Learn to hit it on the screws, straight down the middle, FIRST. If you don’t like the trajectory then, get a driver with less loft.
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While I am still trying to fix my slice, I am also trying to get a much lower trajectory on my drives. I have tried everything, I cant put the tee too low or I shank it every time, and I have trouble moving the ball back in my stance.
Tee height is pretty irrelevant.Don’t move the ball BACK…Move it forward…This, oddly enough, gives LOWER trajectory due to less spin… Good Luck ]]]Z[[[
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Actually I think your slice & high trajectory problem are one in the same. Keep your shoulders a little flatter in your backswing and this will bring the club to more of an insideout swing verses the outside in which causes the slice. It will also keep the clubface on more of a sweep of the ball verses a pickup of the ball.......
While I am still trying to fix my slice, I am also trying to get a much
lower trajectory on my drives. I have tried everything, I cant put the tee too low or I shank it every time, and I have trouble moving the ball back in my stance. Tee height is pretty irrelevant.Don't move the ball BACK...Move it
forward...This, oddly enough, gives LOWER trajectory due to less spin... - Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - Good Luck ]]]Z[[[
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I agree with one of the replies to look at a possible reverse weight shift. Another thing to keep in mind is with your takeaway. If you pick up the club on the takeaway rather than keeping it low going back, you affect your arc and will have a steeper downswing. Take a look at the better players on tour and notice how much emphasis they put on the first couple of feet on their takeaway. The club is kept low and is not rushed. I would not move the club back too much in your stance with the driver. Also, tee up the golf ball where the top of the driver rested is equal to about the midpoint of the ball. Hope this helps.
While I am still trying to fix my slice, I am also trying to get a much
lower trajectory on my drives. I have tried everything, I cant put the tee too low or I shank it every time, and I have trouble moving the ball back in my stance. So I was wondering if there is something that can make the plane of my swing better.. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Any suggestions would be great!!
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Chances are your picking up the driver in your takeaway, rather than keeping it low. This abrupt lifting of the club in the takeaway makes for a narrow arc, and virtually insures that you’ll approach the ball in your downswing at too steep an angle. This results in pop-ups. Remember, maintain full extension of your left arm (if you’re a righty) throughout the swing until after impact. This insures the widest possible arc, and gives you a shallower angle of attack at impact, which will keep the ball on the proper trajectory. Randy http://wwwgolfer.home.mindspring.com RSG Roll Call profile: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/brownr.htm
While I am still trying to fix my slice, I am also trying to get a much
lower trajectory on my drives. I have tried everything, I cant put the tee too low or I shank it every time, and I have trouble moving the ball back in my stance. So I was wondering if there is something that can make the plane of my swing better.. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Any suggestions would be great!!
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If you want to feel the clubhead swinging away from the ball rather than lifting, you can try what Nick Faldo does. He hovers the head of the driver above the ground and starts it away allowing it to move downward toward the ground. Besides extending the clubhead arc, this traces the returning impact path more accurately. Jeff N
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If you want to feel the clubhead swinging away from the ball rather than lifting, you can try what Nick Faldo does. He hovers the head of the driver above the ground and starts it away allowing it to move downward toward the ground. Unfortunately, when he did this in a water hazard this weekend, he grazed the surface of the water on the backswing, incurring a two-stroke penalty.
I hope Nick wasn’t trying to hit his driver out of the water, Ed. They’re hard enough to hit off a tee. Speaking of two-stroke penalties, there was an interesting call in the LPGA tourney that wound up today. One of the players was assessed a penalty for swatting at a bug hovering above her ball in a sand trap. However, a USGA official later reversed the penalty. It raises a question maybe the rules afficianados here can answer. I know insects are considered loose impediments and cannot be moved in a hazard. But how about one hovering in the air? Can you safely shoo it out of the way, as long as it isn’t sitting on your ball or on the sand? — Don Porter Newspaper Reporter & Webmaster Web Page: http://www.datacruz.com/~dporter
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If you want to feel the clubhead swinging away from the ball rather than lifting, you can try what Nick Faldo does. He hovers the head of the driver above the ground and starts it away allowing it to move downward toward the ground.
Unfortunately, when he did this in a water hazard this weekend, he grazed the surface of the water on the backswing, incurring a two-stroke penalty. – Ed.