Low driver strikes

[Jmills38]

I have been hitting my driver pretty well lately and hitting a lot more fairways, but my biggest issue is low strikes on the face, no matter how high or low I tee it up I always strike it low, I'm only carrying my driver around 220 which is not very good for me. I know I'm losing valuable yardage because of the low strikes but I cannot find a fix. I'm getting tons of height as well so the low strikes havent really changed my trajectory much. Any ideas on what may be causing it? I'm at a loss honestly I need help!

[Paddy_2_Iron]

Ball tee'd up too far in your stance or you are lifting up during your downswing or maybe standing too far away? Are you arms relaxed? I know when I get muscle's mcgee, I tend to flex and that causes me to hit the club low on the face at times.......

[Jmills38]

@Paddy_2_Iron I tried moving the ball back in my stance to encourage a higher strike and it did help some. Lol I know sometimes I try and get as loose as possible and the swing and flight will look good but literally may move up my club face a quarter of an inch. It could be me lifting right at impact, that would make sense, maybe I can focus on driving up through impact and delay my push up off the ground just a tad bit.

[gentles]

This might help: https://www.adamyounggolf.com/locked-on-golf/

 

What I find helps me is to tape up the top of your driver, go to the range and literally try skying some drives. Just get a feel for what overdoing it feels like and then try calibrate from there. Your brain is very powerful and will subconsciously adjust to when you move the ball around etc...same reason why you can probably hit a wedge decently from almost any ball position.

 

You're literally talking about moving the center of the clubface half an inch lower at impact, be careful about making wholesale technique changes to get that half inch!

 

Hope that helps - the thought that works for me is visualising the bottom of the tee rather than the ball.

[BB28403]

I went thru this. Tried a few things

-set spine angle for woods and driver

- keep hips, knees, shoulders relatively quiet

- hold a left side stretch in your neck throughout the swing (there are videos on this)

- throw a frisbee skip a pebble drill. Pretend throw a frisbee with left arm and pretend skip a pebble with right arm. This gives you the correct sensations of release.

 

Anyway that worked for this exact problem for me.

[Jmills38]

Thanks for the replies, when I get out the range this week I'll try both of these methods and get back to yall with an update.

[Krt22]

Low strikes for me are from too much lateral sway and then too much tilt too early.

[Jmills38]

@Krt22 that could be it too. I do tend to drop and sway off the ball to the right and then drive up and through the ball. I could try toning that down and see if the strikes move up the face

[Barfolomew]

Try hitting it higher on the face...

 

then try hitting toey

then try hitting lower

then the center

then higher and all over..... take command son! I dont care what technique or where you hips are or whatever.... stand on 1 leg and hit and if your determined you can control where on the face you hit the ball.

 

Forget changing 14 things to change 1...... Now it sounds like you need to change 14 things but thats for another day and thread...

[Jmills38]

Its probably something super simple. But thanks for the encouragement? Haha

[wagolfer7]

This is not the whole fix to the problem. It doesn't address any of the issues that are most likely causing the problems. It's a quick-fix that should help you get the ball lower on the face. But I do recommend getting a lesson to address the real issues in your swing.

 

Make sure your hands are positioned at the inside of your left thigh (assuming your right handed) at setup position. It will feel like a forward press, but with the driver you should have the ball positioned off the left heel, this should make your hand position more equal to the ball. This should help so your hands are not so far behind promoting a flip at impact and getting the ball low on the face.

[smashdn]

I make sure I have a loose grip, almost loose to the point the club slips (you need good clean grips and a decent glove) and instead of focusing on the ball or spot on the ball when I swing, I instead focus on where the tee enters the ground. I attempt to hit that spot with the club. It helps me when I start to catch the ball to low on the face. That is my normal miss, the low screamer or the dreaded worm burner. I hope you aren't as afflicted as I am.

[Jmills38]

@smashdn I actually havent had near as many problems with the worm burners or low screamers, everything is relatively high but just seems like it has way to much spin since it's coming off the lower side of the head.

 

@wagolfer7 I am probably going to get with the guy who got me started off right, he got me to where i am today with my golf swing so I'm sure he would see exactly what I'm doing. I just wanted to come on here and get some more opinions other than my own. I'm not sure if I mentioned it above but I do have a tendency to get flat with my swing plane, I really notice that I'm doing it when I hit my irons because I will duck hook the crap out of the ball but it's harder to notice with the woods since they are tee'd up so the heel cant really grab the turf and shut the face down.

[highpro]

A face-on video would help diagnose but if the trajectory is high and you’re still hitting it on the bottom of the club your lead arm is probably breaking down through impact. The breakdown is shortening the radius of the swing and laying the shaft backwards.