Tee Height

ext">From the bottom to the top it’sclub face.
about two or more inches. Most players associateIf the golf ball sits much higher than the center of
all of that space with teeing the golf ball high. Wethe face, the swing tip to improve your golf
even have three-inch tees now.would have you hitting the golf ball on the
So, that isn’t true. You don’t needupswing. If it was teed down close to the ground,
that. Some of you might, but most of youand you tried to hit the golf ball on the upswing,
don’t.you might wind up hitting a little grass behind it.
So, here’s my rule of thumb for how highInstead, you would have to hit this one on a little
should you tee the driver: If the mistake youbit of the downswing, which is defeating the
make is that you constantly top the golf ball, thatpurpose of the driver. The driver’s swing is
isn’t always the answer. You could fix youra sweeping swing. And you want to catch the
posture and bend over a little bit and that wouldgolf ball at the bottom of the arc.
fix topping the golf ball.At worst, you want to catch it on the way up
If you always hit underneath the golf ball, thisbut not too much on the way up.
isn’t always the answer, where you tee itExperiment with your tee shots. Play a whole
down so low. Maybe you simply need to get yourround of golf where you tee it a lot lower than
chin up.normal, then the next round a little bit lower than
So, a great rule of thumb is that the golf ballnormal.
should be slightly higher than the center of the