Help with hitting woods

[King Cobra II]

As my game's continued to evolve its apparent where my strengths and weakness lie. I'm a very good iron and wedge player (full wedges, short game shots I'm still working on) but I can't seem to get into any kind of grove with the driver. I have a pretty steep swing and hit down on the ball with my irons. This produces a high and far ball flight, but with the woods its a disaster. My hybrid also gives me the same problem, a lot the time I just pop it up. Sometimes I'm able to swing the hybrid more around my body then vertically, and this produces a solid draw. I'm looking for some advice on how to get back to hitting the driver well.

[ks8829]

If you pop your ball up in the air with the driver, try to take your backswing brushing the ground for the first foot and not lifting up, check your ball position and ball height on your driver, I have recently placing the top of the ball no higher than the crown of the driver and also placing the ball position 2 ball back of my front heel and I have lowered my ball flight slightly and it might work for you too. Another thing that you might try is at address give your club a slight forward press so that your club shaft is not behind your hands but in front at address and the start of your backswing. Lastly, start your take away with a one piece take away and not with your arms but with your arms and your shoulder as one unit.

In summary:
1) one piece take away
2) slight forward press at address
3) check ball position and 2-3 balls back from the front heel
4) ball height, top of the ball is equal to top of the driver crown

try it and let me know if it helps. :)

[PiKapp23]

I have 2 distinctive swings. My irons swing is steeper, whereas my woods (especially driver) is more 'round'. Essentially, I driver and woods swing is more of a one-plane swing and I have found that works very well for me - drives are fairly long and tend to be straight or with slight draw (whereas irons tend to have a slight fade). Hybrids swing is a bit different than both as it's kind of a combination of the 2 swings. The main thing with driver is to keep my grip and arms soft and take driver back low and slow, always trying to keep the driver head as far away from my body as is possible throughout the swing.

At the end of last year I tried to get all of my clubs on more of a one-plane swing and it just didn't work for me. That was too flat for my irons, but it's the perfect swing for driver and woods.

[ganjagolfer]

stevie should be the one you are hitting, woods is not responsible for those comments

[jambalaya]

The longer the club the further forward in the stance the ball should be, the more upright your posture and of course the further the ball will be away from you. I don't know if anyone agrees but I think a steep swing plane with a driver is a killer.

[flopdarock]

like pikapp23 said... i also have 2 distinct swings... you might wanna just hit the range and blast some balls around with your long clubs trying different things that ppl are suggesting... ball placement... stance... etc etc

[kyldo]

Chances are good that your upper body is moving forward in the downswing to produce a steep angle of attack. This is good for iron shots, but bad for the driver. Focus really hard on keeping your upper body and head behind the ball when you hit your driver and that will promote an ascending strike, which is ideal for the driver. When my driver isn't working I can usually fix it by focusing on staying behind the ball.

[Scott_Tee]

Keep it simple and fundemental, keep your balance, and concentrate on hitting the ball. Work on your tempo, don't try to swing to fast.

[misty_mountainhop]

  ganjagolfer said:

stevie should be the one you are hitting, woods is not responsible for those comments

Very good!

[Goldeneye]

Hi there,

I'm newish to the game, so I am not preaching, but I was at the range a week or so ago for a group lesson. I explained that my irons shots were ok (ish!!), but my driver shots were, let's say, not so good. By miles!! The information I was given was to put my feet further apart. I heard "keep going, keep going", until I felt almost uncomfortable. I took a swing and the ball flew. I am sure this is not the only reason for not hitting properly, but I hope it provides food for thought.

Along with all the other advice above. I'm taking all that on board too.

Thanks to you all.

[King Cobra II]

Thanks for the advice guys, unfortunately I will not be getting a chance to try it out for some time. We got about a foot of snow over the past few days :(