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Flatter swing will probably solve this. You mention you don't tee it high, so you shouldn't be hitting it high. The thing is that the higher you tee it, the more likely you are to hit it on the way up and the lower you ball flight will be. The lower the ball is tee'd, the more you will hit it on the way down and the higher it will go. Hitting down on the ball will create a lot of backspin and launch it way into the air. I know because I do exactly the same thing myself. You can also try to not rest the club on the ground at adress. Let it hover behind the ball, take a long, shallow backswing and come down the same path.

Many pros tee it very low (fi. Tiger), but he sweeps the ball perfectly and I believe he is carrying a 7.5º driver, which makes a difference. I've seen a few tests online on length and tee height. The results showed that the higher you tee it, the longer the drive will be. It is natural to tee it lower to want a lower ball flight, but if you don't hit the ball at the bottom or the way up, the effect will be oposite.


Wow. I thought it was the opposite. I will have to try this as I hit my driver very high even with it set to 8.5 degrees. But then again I don't actually know exactly how high it should go.


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I drive the ball about 240 -275 but sometimes I will hit it way too high and can't snap a good line drive to save my life . Trying to tee it lower but that sometimes does not help, any advice out there?

YEAH!(on the video). I am gonna to suggest your hips are not turning, and your leg muscles arent helping that problem, even if your feet are in a more or less correct place. I will tell you the advice you would get from a video here would be worth a few hundred in lessons, so try to make it a good one where the camera angles are square, and use some practice sticks laid out to help further to see your target line. The gurus-that-be will set you up with some basics to get you under way.

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I'd start looking at the shaft flex - a stiffer flex will usually bring the ball flight down some.

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Negative AoA is a big reason lots of golfers hit popups.

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I find that when I am skying my driver, my ball position has moved back on me.  If i make sure to keep the ball forward in my stance, than I will bottom out at the ball or just before the ball.  If I have the ball to far back I have a negative AoA like others have said.

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Negative AoA is a big reason lots of golfers hit popups.

to the OP, for me personally it is caused by letting my upper body get ahead of the lower (and the ball) at impact - thus creating the steep or negative AOA.

this used to plague me also and i have improved it by teeing it up off the front toe, bump my hips left an inch so you point your shirt buttons towards the ball to create some tilt and finally set the club back 3 inches from the ball at address to encourage me (to trick my simple brain!) to have my low point just behind the ball on the downswing.

note the angle of the shirt buttons.

Hope this feel helps you too.

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